Say you just need to share a presentation with a colleague or two.  Say you want to just fire up a slide show and share it.  Well, that's where the PowerPoint Broadcast Service comes in, and it's part of Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2010.  If you've followed my instructions to install Office Web Apps from my previous post, you're just a couple clicks away.  The first thing you need is a Broadcast site collection.  This site collection acts as a target host that'll allow others that can access your site collection to see your presentation.  Think a real quick-and-dirty slide show to a few folks.  So, what do we need to do?

Well, first off we need to create a new site collection.  Fire up Central Administration and create a new site collection, and then select the Enterprise tab, and pick PowerPoint Broadcast Site.

Fill in all the other information as normal and off you go.  At the end, you now have a Broadcast site collection.

Next, open up in PowerPoint 2010 a deck you want to share.  Once opened, select the Slide Show tab, and you'll see the Broadcast Slide Show option (see below).  Click that.

You'll then see the Broadcast Slide Show information window appear with the requisite license agreeement, a quick description of the service, and buttons to change the service to use, start the service, or cancel.  Since this is our first time click <Change Broadcast Service>.

Select Add a new service as this is the first time we're using it...

Now, enter the URL of the site collection that we first created.  Click <Add> when done.

After adding it, it appears in the list of services to choose.  Click it and then click <Start Broadcast>.

You'll then be displayed a link to send out to your colleagues.  Copy paste that into your email, IM, etc. to share, and then click <Start Slide Show>.

Now, your view will be the normal PowerPoint Slide Show view, but those you shared the link with will see it in their browser.  Simple, eh?

Enjoy! - M

Hey folks, fresh off of some much needed vaca and back in the swing of things.  And, on that note, I'll be speaking at the SharePoint Saturday - Philly event on November 7th.  This is a great opportunity for those that are looking to get into SharePoint, as well as be the place to be for all things SharePoint Server 2010 (well, after the SP Conference that is).  It's 8 hours (including breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack) of all SharePoint goodness, including...

- Lots of SharePoint 2010 discussions!
- 8 hours
- Information Architect, Developer and Administration tracks
- 250 seats with tables (laptops welcome)
- Free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack  
- Raffles and prizes at 5:00
- Easy parking
- After hours party at the Shanachie pub in Ambler (network with speakers and attendees)

My talk will be entitled Web Content Management with SharePoint Server 2010 and it's from 10-11.  Check out the list of Speakers and Sessions.

Registration's wide open, and word has it it's already half full.  So have at it folks!

- M

I had the honor to present a topic for the SharePoint track at this past Saturday's Philly.NET Code Camp (version 2009.1) on SharePoint Event Receivers.  I was blown away (yet again) by the amount of people that came out on a gorgeous day (75+F) to stay inside and learn all things tech.  500+ people, 60 tracks/speakers, and just a ton of cool stuff.  And best of all...FREE!!  Thanks for all that came out to this and those that sat in on my talk.  If you attended you truly got to experience just how passionate we all are for the tech we work and play with.

The Event Receivers chat was done at an overiew level, with information culled from all over.  A real good blog entry on the topic (as well as a slick Event Receivers "plug in" for SharePoint) is at Brian Wilson's blog.

Here's the slides/code I used during my track. CodeCamp2009.1.zip (525.62 kb)

Again, thanks for all that showed on 4/18.  Now go out an enjoy the weather! - M

As the munged title kinda states, this posting relates to an event that has already happened. So much fer real-time, eh?

I was able to present a more "code heavy" presentation of my talk on Features and Solutions at the Philly.NET Code Camp on Saturday, October 11th. I gotta say, what a cool event. Hundreds of folks showed up, early on a Saturday, and stayed til the evening, listening to tracks from 51 speakers that ranged all across the .NET space. It was one of the coolest things I ever did, meeting with peers, speaking on topics we all are interested in.

I'm tidying up the source code that I used for my talk and will upload in the very near future.

Oh and to any and all that showed up for my talk...thanks! - M

*** UPDATE ***
As promised, here's the code and presentation slides...CodeCamp20081011.zip (842.53 kb)

As luck would have it I'm giving a small presentation on Microsoft's SharePoint Features and Solutions Framework to the Philly Office Geeks User Group during their monthly meeting on the evening of September 9th. When complete I'll see if I can post the contents of the slide deck here as well as on the Group's site.

** UPDATE **
With the site move I'm now able to have the presentation available here...SolFeat.ppt (1.16 mb)