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SharePoint Best Practices Conference, “Best Practices,” and the Elephant in the Room

I was lucky to attend and present at last week’s SharePoint Best Practices conference. I’m still new to the whole speaking "thing" and, frankly, I was a bit nervous for the first half while I sweated out waiting to speak myself. …

Exploring the 40 Application Templates – Employee Benefits

Template Name: EmployeeBenefits.stp Description: This template is used to enable employees to locate and sign-up for benefits offered by their employer. Business Area: Human Resources

New Blogger on the Block

My EMC colleague, Erik Swenson, has been persuaded to jump in the fray, stand up and be counted He blogs about about a wide variety of SharePoint branding topics at http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/. Some of his recent posts include interesting stuf…

SharePoint Dashboards Online Seminar

My online friend, Mark Miller over and End User SharePoint (www.endusersharepoint.com) is running a free one hour seminar targeted, like he always does, at the SharePoint End User community. It takes place at 1pm EDT. Details are here: http://www.e…

Sunday Morning Funny: “Dad, He Doesn’t Even Know You”

We northern New Jersey Galvin’s are big fans of the political satire t.v. program, The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart. I don’t like to get political in my blogging, so all I’ll say on that is that without the Daily Show, I may we…

SharePoint Designer Workflow, Event Receivers and “Update List Item” versus “Set Field in Current Item”

We have a set of SharePoint designer workflows that "communicate" with an event receiver on the list via changes to site column values. For example, if a site column "SetDuedate" is set to true by the workflow, the event receiver dete…

Emailing Daily Task Reminders // Looping in SharePoint Designer Workflow

I wrote up a detailed article a few weeks ago describing how to create a SharePoint Designer workflow that sends a task reminder email on a daily basis. It’s been published at the new SharePoint Magazine site. More generally, the article show…

My Latest “In Defense of SharePoint Designer” Article is Available

Mark Miller over at End User SharePoint has posted my latest article about using SharePoint Designer to create great workflow solutions up on his site. Check it out. In this article, I talk about the design process and, in greater detail, how to set …

How Do You Describe Your SharePoint Job?

How often does this happen to you? I’m sitting at my laptop, reading blogs, responding to forum postings, 2 copies of visual studio open and VPN’d out to another server with its own visual studio + 15 browser windows (a typical day) and s…

SharePoint Performance — Quick (But Unusual) Tip

We’ve been working in a user acceptance testing (UAT) environment which, as compared to development, is dead slow. It’s a complicated environment using FBA, SQL 2008, SSRS and extended web applications accessible over the internet using htt…