Well folks, it's that time again!  SharePoint Saturday rolls into Philadelphia (the Fort Washington area to be specific) for a Saturday full of SharePoint stuff.  Come on out and join SharePoint architects, administrators, developers, and other professionals who work with SharePoint for this SharePoint Saturday event on May 8th, 2010.  The day will be filled with educational and informative SharePoint 2010 sessions and provide you with an excellent opportunity to network with Microsoft MVPs and other SharePoint professionals in Philadelphia area.

SharePoint Saturday is FREE and is open to the public!  Click here to register cause it'll fill up fast!

Date: May 8th, 2010
Time: 8:00am - 5:00 pm
Location: DeVry University Campus, 1140 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, PA 19034

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So register, come on out, mingle with folk of like mind, and just have an all around great day of SharePoint sessions! - M

Well, a lot of information from a keynote and a couple tracks, so much so my head's going to explode.  But check out what I believe is going to be big news...

1. SharePoint 2010 Public Beta: November! (11/1 or 11/30, who knows, I'm hoping earlier)
2. Development on Windows 7 (or Vista...64-bit client needed but no longer do you need a local server for development!)
3. RBS: Remote Blob Storage: Basically allowing you to store content in a place other than SQL.  This is huge for media streaming
4. Access Services! Note just putting your .MDB up but converting forms and all of the other assets to SP ones...the possibilities of this one are pretty huge, given how prevalent Access is used is many enterprises

More details/info to come as the conference goes on!

- 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

Woo hoo!  I'll be there for this excellent conference in Vegas from October 19 - 23.  This is the premier conference for all things SharePoint (and Office dev as well) and will be all about the upcoming 2010 version of SharePoint.

This is the conference to be at, due to all of the information coming out, so if you can, I'd make every attempt to attend (register here).  I'll also attempt to do a daily blog from the conference to share as much info as possible to the masses.

Look for the good stuff in the coming weeks..it'll be awesome! - M

MS recently posted here that SP2 has a bug that incorrectly activates the Product Expiration Date within MOSS.  Basically this means that 180 days after applying SP2 SharePoint will expire, as if it was a Trial Installation.  They're working on a resolution to this fix and hope to have it out PDQ.

They've posted a manual workaround here but this link appears to be "broken" for now, but should be up within 48 hours.

Note the affected products: SharePoint Server 2007, Project Server 2007, Form Server 2007, Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express.

Stay tuned as more info comes out...

- M

Hot off the presses at the MS SharePoint Team Blog is the preliminary requirements for SharePoint 2010.  As most of you probably have known, MS has been saying for a while that, going forward, 64-bit is the path and 32-bit is going the way of the dodo.  On top of that, you will also need to either be running 64-bit SQL Server 2005 or 2008.

More and more tidbits of information are coming to light...stay tuned...

-M

As reported on the SharePoint Team Blog, SP2 will be out on April 28th.  Plan all your patch windows accordigly, as well as spin up your new virtuals with it.  I'll be playing with it to see if updating the instructions for the clonable environment change. - M

Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 due to ship April 28th

Just caught this today...check it out!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42&goback=.hom

I came across this in my wanderings, and found it in the SharePoint Server TechCenter.  This CHM file, available for download here, is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 technical library.  Head on over to the SharePoint Server TechCenter for the latest information.

- M

I've been seeing lots of questions around this on the boards, and when I do I refer them to Chris Hernandez' awesome post (see below) on taking MOSS from a standalone setup to a farm one.  The steps apply for both WSS and MOSS, just for WSS you don't have the Shared Services stuff.  In a nutshell...

1. Set up your target environment farm (remember, Advanced/Complete!)
2. Use your SQL tools to backup the databases on the source server, and restore them to the target one
3. Use the STSADM Command Line utility to attach the restored databases to the relevant areas

Even though his post is from '07, it's still valid, and has helped out a lot.  Check out his detailed steps in the link below...enjoy! - M

Migrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) from Standalone to Farm Install