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I’ve been doing non-waterfall development for the past 10 years of my career in one form or another, and though Agile/SCRUM/XP practices are almost assumed at this point, I still see many organizations that need help with making it work. The agile transformation usually starts with a well-intentioned individual in a middle management or lead…
This is a question that’s come up multiple times with folks I’ve worked with, and is something I consider best practice. The last time someone asked me about this, I figured I’d just blog it up with screenshots and send him the URL. So Daniel, this post is for you…. For years Project has…
There are times when you connect to a secondary data source in InfoPath and would like to automatically populate a repeating table based off the source. This can be done whether it is through a database or SharePoint data connection. First step would be to create a secondary data connection in InfoPath. Once you have…
I’ve thought for several years now about writing a book about real world experience versus classic management methodology and it looks like there are two new ones coming out that will be great to read before taking that step. The first one is Getting Results the Agile Way, a book being written by J.D. Meier,…
Better late than never seems to be my mantra these days. I have been working on presentations and posts for the many new features of SharePoint 2010. I am excited that I’ll be speaking at the SharePointPro Summit March 16-19, 2010 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. I am covering the following IP Pro Sessions:…
Just when I thought I could not possibly squeeze another session into my schedule my friend George DeMet called and asked to join him on a panel at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin. Our panel will be Saturday March 13th at 12:30. The topic is “Bringing it All Back Home: CMS Communities” We’re going…
One of the top reasons to try Exchange Server 2010 is “Simplified Compliance.” I have previously reviewed Online Archiving in Exchange 2010, but this article will take a first look at the Multi-Mailbox search feature. Multi-Mailbox search is one of many features that are new in 2010 that were not previously available with Exchange 2007,…
There’ve been a number of good blog posts/articles in the last week or two on the basics of scheduling and project planning. I haven’t had the time to capture each and every one of them, but I thought it was worth collecting some of the best ones in a short list here. If you’re in…
I am back in San Antonio Thursday March 4th speaking at Innotech San Antonio. I’ll be presenting Developing Social Applications with SharePoint 2010. This lecture focuses on the developer interfaces for the Social Computing API and Web services for SharePoint 2010. Social Computing with SharePoint involves creating people aware applications that take advantage of User…
Outlook Web App (Formerly Outlook Web Access) enables the integration of OWA and Instant Messaging, utilizing Office Communications Server (OCS) R2. This requires manual configuration on the Client Access Server and the OCS Front-end. This is documented in Technet here. Step 1: Download and Install the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Service Provider…