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'Tis the season for hardcore SharePoint. I'll be doing a presentation for the Toronto .NET User Group with the understated title: Secret Strategies of Successful SharePoint Projects. This is a two-part session on designing knowledge management solutions and then implementing them in SharePoint. We'll discuss taxonomy design, infrastructure design, ...

Joel posted a teaser this morning, here's a little more to look forward to - the December meeting of the Toronto SharePoint User Group will be SharePoint for Lunch on Friday, December 12 from 11:50am to 1:30pm at a (still undisclosed) downtown restaurant. Our featured guest is none other than Joel Oleson, SharePoint mentor to many, ex-employee of ...

Our next Toronto SharePoint Usergroup Meeting will take place next Wednesday, November 19, 2008. This month’s speaker,  Sean Hopen (New Toronto Group), will give a tour of the development process with Silverlight and an overview of developing web parts for use in SharePoint. There will be a discussion of the benefits of using Silverlight in ...

Today we confirmed that Saturday, January 24th is the date of the 2nd Annual Toronto SharePoint Camp! For a second year, I'd like to thank Manulife Financial Corporation for generously providing the facilities that not only make this event possible, but also keep it free to all attendees. TorontoSharePoint.com will be updated soon with ...

Paragraph 1: ''Successful deployment of SharePoint is no different than any other corporate strategy or project, only the moving pieces change. The goals remain consistency, scalability, and success by whatever measures you choose.'' Paragraph 2: contains the collective wisdom of every ''Best Practices for Product X'' article, presentation ...

Our next Toronto SharePoint User Group meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 22, 2008.  This month’s speaker Jeffrey Wolff, Technical Director, Infonic, will discuss the benefits of deploying a distributed SharePoint environment, factors to consider when planning your environment, and possible problems distributed organizations faces ...

Members received an update last week, I just wanted to mention here that summer's over and meetings start back up tonight, Wednesday, September 28! Topic: Jignesh Shaw, Applications Development Manager at Cyberplex Inc. will be doing a presentation on InfoPath 2007 forms development for Forms Server in MOSS 2007 - including tips, tricks and best ...

This summarizes the hard limits and recommended guidance for Groups, Access Control Lists (ACLs) and securable objects in SharePoint 2007. Unique list-item permissions per list: 600 to 1000. When you assign unique permissions to list items in a given list, when the critical point is exceeded the error is displayed: ''Operation is not valid due ...

In the last 24 hours there's been a lot of conversation about Chrome. When Safari was released for Windows, why was so little written about Safari's SharePoint compatibility? I used Opera for years,  but why never a post about Opera and SharePoint (summary: it stinks, even drop-down menus fail to render)? What's the big deal about Chrome? Web ...

Today I downloaded and installed the just-released Google Chrome browser, ran it through some preliminary tests with SharePoint 2007 and so far, acceptable but missing a few key things. Chrome supports NTLM authentication, uploads (though not multiple uploads), renders all the usual menus correctly, and generally does a good job of rendering ...