Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference 2011 is back in Singapore on 8-9th November

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Oct 242011
 

If you’re an IT professional, developer or a regular business user, then the Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference 2011 is the place to be.

Organized by the SharePoint MVP community, this two day event will cover a wide range of the latest and most relevant SharePoint topics for businesses today. You’ll get to:

  • Tap into the experience and best practices of some of the best global SharePoint experts, MVPs and community representatives
  • Discover the productivity and business benefits other customers have experienced with SharePoint
  • Connect with the vibrant SharePoint community in Singapore
Details:
Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore
November 8th & 9th 2011

Register Here

Conference Price: $450.00
Early Bird Price: $350.00
(For the first 250 Registrants)
Group Discount: 20%
(A Group is 5 or more people)

Community {Technology} Update 2011

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May 242011
 

The 8th iteration of CTU is back – It’s the time of the year User Group of Singapore come together and put up a full day technical sharing event for the community. Organized by the community for the community, we have sessions that suits IT Professionals, Developers and Database Administrators. A full day of contents has been arranged for you to help get you up to date with the latest technologies in the Microsoft stack. If you are someone who like hands on more than anything, you are welcome to sign up for our Hands-on Lab on the actual day itself! Don’t miss this chance and start registering today!!!

Date: 25th June 2011
Time: 0900 – 1730 hrs
Venue: Microsoft Singapore, One Marina Boulevard
Registration Fees: $12 (Early-birds), $20 (Walk-ins)

Why you should attend this event:

  • To learn about the latest changes in .NET, Microsoft virtualization technologies, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Exchange, and new upcoming System Center product
  • To participate in Hands-on-Lab: Topic that address printer driver deployment via GPO

Who should attend this event:

  • IT Professionals
  • Developers
  • Database Administrators
  • Essentially you, as you’re one of our user group members!

For instruction to register to this event, go to www.sgdotnet.org/events/CTU2011/Pages/Registration.aspx.

To find out more about the event, go to www.sgdotnet.org/events/CTU2011/Pages/default.aspx

P.S.
I’ll be talking about the new C# 5.0 – Async keyword, so if you’re interested do come and drop by.

Encounter SharePoint 2010 Workshop in Singapore

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Apr 012011
 

Attend the “Encounter SharePoint® 2010″ workshop and discover how to streamline your business processes and drive productivity. At the event, you will experience hands-on sessions for the latest features of Microsoft SharePoint® 2010. Learn how this new Microsoft collaboration solution can:

  • Improve productivity by gaining more operational insights with centralized administration and new management capabilities to control your SharePoint farms
  • Scale unified infrastructures for better control over IT resources, improve performance of large lists, and protect server farm availability
  • Enable flexible deployments with quick-and-easy installation and configuration to maintain more governance control, centralize SharePoint management and run custom codes

Transform the way you collaborate with Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Register here for 7th April 2011. (Full)
Register here for 21st April 2011.

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SharePoint 2010 Easy Setup Script for Developer Workstation

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Oct 282010
 

This script would have helped all the presenters of the SEA SharePoint Conference a few days ago before the conference when all of us were setting up our developer machines for SharePoint 2010. Anyway, download it if you are developing for SharePoint. It really simplifies the process.

The SharePoint 2010 Easy Setup Script is a new set of pre-packaged tools that help developers easily get started with SharePoint 2010 development by automating the provisioning of a developer workstation using Windows 7, SharePoint & associated tools.

Written in Windows PowerShell these scripts will install and configure all the pre-requisites & products to get you up and running with SharePoint development.

Additionally the script will download evaluation copies of the products it installs (or use fully licensed product bits you supply), install them either locally or in a user supplied Windows 7 VHD & set that VHD up for duel boot using the Windows 7 VHD native boot feature. It also allows you to configure what products are installed via a configuration file, so you can add or remove products.

All the source is included for your use. If a particular aspect of the setup isn’t right for your requirements then you have the ability to change it. A good example of this might be to configure the SharePoint installation to fit your organizations standard deployment.

Out of the box it will help you install:

  • SharePoint Server 2010 + pre-requisites (Standalone)
  • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition
  • Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio
  • Expression Studio 4 Ultimate
  • Open XML SDK
  • Visual Studio SDK
  • Visual Studio SharePoint Power Tools
  • Office 2010 Professional Plus
  • SharePoint Designer 2010
  • Visio 2010

Download here: SharePoint 2010 Easy Setup Script

Things I’ve Learnt When Skinning and Customizing a SharePoint 2010 Site Presentation

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Oct 272010
 
Things I’ve learnt when skinning and customizing a SharePoint 2010 Site

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Description:

Many customers always want to brand, re-skin and customize their SharePoint site into something unique and different from what comes out of the box. I’ve done quite a few of these, and have learnt a few gotchas, tricks and tips that I’d like to share my experience with you when you start skinning your own SharePoint 2010 site.

Just finished my presentation about some tips and advice on skinning and customizing a SharePoint 2010 site for SEA SharePoint Conference.

SouthEast Asia SharePoint Conference

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Jul 262010
 

SharePoint Conference is coming to SouthEast Asia, and it’s happening right here in Singapore. Here are the details:

Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference
Tuesday October 26 2010 – Wednesday October 27, 2010
Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore
**** Early Bird Discount for first 275 Registrations***

Running over two days, delegates will be able to visit exhibition and information booths, attend workshops, learn from motivational customer case studies and partake in educational seminars.  There is something for everyone from end users, administrators and developers to managers and CIOs. Become part of the SharePoint community, connect at the conference and enjoy on-going benefits, resources and idea sharing after the event.

Audience and Technologies
The SharePoint Conference is intended for a wide audience and has content to cover roles such as:

  • Business Roles like End Users, Business Champions, Power Users and Business Managers
  • Information Architects, Record and Information Managers, IT Managers, CIO and Decision Makers
  • Technical Roles including Developers, IT Pro, Systems Administration and DBA’s

Microsoft Technologies covered during the conference include:

  • SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Server 2010
  • SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
  • Integration with other Microsoft Products including Office, InfoPath, Excel, Access and Visio
  • Integration with 3rd Party products enhancing SharePoint functionality​

Best of Local and International Speakers and Experts
We have an exciting line up of regional and international speakers to help make this a great conference. Over the coming weeks we will highlight some of the world renowned SharePoint experts who are coming to Singapore to share their knowledge.

Pre and Post Conference Workshops
Take advantage of the additional training opportunities on Monday October 25th and Thursday October 28th, with intensive half day workshops with hands on labs – 12 in total to mix and match to suit your needs. These cover Business and Technical Content by top international experts. These include:

  • SharePoint Governance
  • Planning and Managing SharePoint Projects
  • Spicing up your Site: SharePoint Designer
  • Improving Business Processes with Workflow (InfoPath and SharePoint Designer)
  • Upgrade to SharePoint 2010
  • Business Intelligence in 2010
  • Improving Document Management
  • Power User 2010
  • SharePoint 2010 Overview
  • SharePoint Development

Full details at Get to the Point Workshops. These workshops are HIGHLY recommended. Note that workshop costs are additional to conference registration and places are limited.

Accommodation
Accommodation should be booked directly with the hotel. Full details on accommodation rates are available on the Conference Website. There are a number of other hotel and motel options in the area.

Registrations Available Now
Group Registrations for 5 or more participants are available and will receive a 20% discount
Early Bird Registrations of $SGD300.00 will apply to the first 275 delegates who register.
Regular Registration fee is $SGD400.00

Register

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Resources

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Jun 022010
 

It’s tough to find all the resources you need to get started with SharePoint 2010, so I’m going to try to aggregate most of them on this post.

Getting Started:

Software:

Upgrading:

Development:

Training:

If you have any more links to add here, feel free to comment and I’ll add it in.

Elevating Privileges in SharePoint

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Jan 062009
 

Here’s a good tip for elevating privileges in SharePoint.

http://blogs.devhorizon.com/blogs/reza_on_blogging/archive/2007/07/12/484.aspx

For those who doesn’t want to click on that link (like myself when I searching for this post again), here’s the code.

//Don’t dispose the following two objects. Sharepoint will take care of their disposal when page is completely rendered.
SPWeb  webInUserContext = SPContext.Current.Web;
SPSite SiteInUserContext = SPContext.Current.Site;
Guid webGuid = webInUserContext.ID;
Guid siteGuid = SiteInUserContext.ID;

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
                {
                    // get the site in impersonated context
                    using (SPSite site = new SPSite(siteGuid))
                    {

                        // get the web in the impersonated context
                        SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(webGuid);
                       // Do your work here  

                     web.Dispose();
                    }

               });

There we go. I used this piece of code to access the SPFile of a document within SharePoint. SPFile requires elevated privileges, and can’t be access with just your normal privileges.

My code works now, and I’m happy. :)

Where is my Check-In in SharePoint Designer?

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Dec 312008
 

sharepointdesigner-checkin

If you notice, the master page file in SharePoint Designer is checked out (from the check symbol at the side). It’s supposed to show me “Check In” and “Undo Check Out” and all that. Where is it?

It is under your “Edit” toolbar, “Check In”.

image

So when it doesn’t display, you know where to go.

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