Moved again: to TomResing.com
Tom Resing October 29th, 2010
I’m now blogging on a SharePoint 2010 Foundation Site hosted at http://tomresing.com/blog
Moving to MicroLink Blogs
Tom Resing June 16th, 2008
My employer MicroLink, LLC is now hosting blogs using the Community Kit for SharePoint : Enhanced Blog Edition.
I’ve been dying to host my blog on SharePoint so I’m moving this blog to Tom Resing’s SharePoint Blog at MicroLink.
To tell the truth, I’ve already made a few new blog posts over at the new site and just got around to announcing this here. But please feel free to check out my new focus on SharePoint Designer.
Notes from Heather Solomon at SASUG
Tom Resing May 1st, 2008
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The San Antonio SharePoint Users Group (SASUG) hosted Heather Solomon at this month’s meeting. If you haven’t seen Heather in person, she’s a SharePoint branding expert and excellent speaker. There are some excellent resources on her website, as well.
I’m posting highlights from my sparse notes. SASUG attendees, please add comments with your notes, to fill in the holes.
Outlook 2007 makes SharePoint 2007 easy
Tom Resing April 17th, 2008
   Did you know that Microsoft’s 2007 versions of Outlook and SharePoint have some great new connections when working with calendars? If not, you might take a minute to read through View and update a SharePoint calendar on MS Office Online.
   The SharePoint connection to Outlook goes way beyond the Calendar. Did you know that you can read and post to Discussion Groups from Outlook? Even if you’ve never created Tasks in Outlook, you might consider it now. With the new versions only of these products, you can edit SharePoint Task lists in Outlook. Contacts work in a similar way and also synchronize with your SharePoint server Tasks.
   Have you ever needed to edit a Word doc you stored in SharePoint on a plane? If you had connected your Document Library to Outlook before the flight, you could.
  For more on how to take advantage of these features and others, including Picture Libaries, check out SharePoint and Outlook articles on Office Online or these resources from other sources:
- Outlook as a SharePoint client, online and offline, February 24th, 2008, Todd Klindt’s Blog
- SharePoint and Outlook – The Perfect Link, September 28, 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog
akismet in, reCaptcha out
Tom Resing March 29th, 2008
My little flirtation with reCaptcha is done for the time being. I found 20 spam comments this morning after my blog was rescusitated by the helpful Webhost4life staff. I’m trying out a new comment spam blocker. This one doesn’t require you to read blurry words and doesn’t solve hard computer tasks for the common good through your effort. Hopefully, it will block comment spam though.
Other SharePoint Conference 2008 Blogs
Tom Resing March 6th, 2008
While watching Dustin Miller’s SharePoint Designer session this morning, I found quite a few other bloggers from Dustin’s SharePoint Blogs site.
- Matt McDermott’s blog already has links from one of his sessions, look for more from him on his other two sessions. I learned about the Theasaurus at his search presentation.Â
- Terry Stein apparently has left Seattle early, but blogged highlights from the sessions he attended during the first three days.
- The official conference site has some technorati and flickr searches for SPC2008
- Michael Gannotti has detailed info on the Community Kit updates I mentioned earlier
- MikeC has a one paragraph summary including Greg LeMond thoughts
- Robin’s blog at ZevenSeas has a lot of blog posts on sessions at the conference.
Seen more blogs on the conference? Let me know.
Tuesday highlights from Seattle
Tom Resing March 4th, 2008
Some highlights from Seattle:
- Microsoft GEAR Up offers a downloadable BUZZ kit for SharePoint adoption with Training Resources
- I liked their suggestion that the “power of 5″ works for SharePoint Adoption. If you roll out to 200 people, 5 loud proponents within the business may be all you need to kickstart adoption.
- FAST provides a .Net API and web parts they demoed in SharePoint. They were highlighting “zero keyword search” and faceted search.
- The Community Kit for SharePoint team announces the immenent release of Enhanced Wiki Edition Beta 3 this summer
- In addition, an updated version of Beta 2 will be posted soon. Beta 2 includes enhanced markup in addtion to discussion and table of contents
Search Server Keynote Demo
Tom Resing March 3rd, 2008
One demo today was the Contoso Rocks site with intranet and public website components. Some key elements:
- Federated Search in Search Server Express
- Right hand pane results on the same keywords were returned from Live Search and Symantec Enterprise Vault
- Free intranet and internet search
- Intranet search looked like WSS v3 plus Search
- Public site search was provided by the CodePlex webparts reference in the previous post
- FAST integration
- FAST engineers have already started integrating with SharePoint
- sold as the leading Enterprise Search with some really cool demos
Live from Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2008
Tom Resing March 3rd, 2008
I’m blogging live from Microsoft’s 2008 SharePoint Conference in Seattle. Bill Gates just finished delivering his keynote. During the keynote, there were a number of interesting announcements including the following:
- Hosted SharePoint and Exchange now available in beta
- Search Server Express available for download today
- Search Community Toolkit added to CodePlex today
How much HD is necessary?
Tom Resing February 3rd, 2008
No, this isn’t related to SharePoint, but it’s a topic of the day. Do I need HDTV and if so, how much?
To baseline my goal, I’m happy with my 35″ standard definition CRT tube TV. I’m estimating a 37″ widescreen would be the equivalent because of the diagonal measurements.
So say I’ve decided on a size. What about the whole 1080p versus 1080i versus 780p decision? Wikipedia has something to say on the 1080p matter. Even better the wiki pointed me to an article titled 1080p Does Matter. Nice article with great charts on viewing distance and in depth criticisms and responses in the comments section. If this guys right, 1080p matters. If you’re sitting 10 feet away from your 80″ screen.
Unless I find better info, I see a nice 37″, high contrast ratio, 780p widescreen in my future.
(TV photo by Eduardo GarcÃa on Flickr)
