I’m not a gadgety type of person and I don’t get excited about tools for their own sake. But I am excited about the new SharePoint 2010, because it looks like it is really going to make my work more effective, efficient and pleasant. It will all...

That’s a question I’ve heard on average 2 or 3 times a day since I started working with SharePoint 2010 (and I’m not exaggerating, because I ask that exact same question to myself J). On first glance you’d say not that much actually, and the f...

Notes from the SharePoint Conference 2009 session "Introduction to Service Applications and Topology". This is my personal interpretation of what has been said during the presentation. Don't shoot me if I interpreted something wrong:-)In S...

Some quick notes I took about things I found interesting from the two keynote speeches of the SharePoint Conference 2009. Steve Ballmer keynote SharePoint 2010 Beta release: November 2009 SharePoint 2010: RTM in First half 2010 Visual St...

Note: this blog post is based on experiences with the SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview version. SharePoint 2010 now extends the object model to the client. A remote object model proxy is available for C# development (including Silverlight) and a...

After the keynote I went to the following overview sessions: Enterprise Search Overview, ECM for the Masses & Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010. The first one showed some improvements of the search capabilities in SharePoint Search, wh...

In the good old days of SharePoint 2003 and 2007 it was possible to save a site as a template. These sites were saved as .stp files, I assume this acronym stands for SiteTemPlate, a non-documented closed format that did not allow for modificat...

Note: this post is only relevant for people running the SharePoint 2010 Technology Preview. When I create a new site based on the Publishing Portal template you get a .../Pages/Default.aspx page with an error on it. The error seems to be genera...

After a single machine SharePoint 2010 install using the built in SQL Server Express my machine became really sloooooooow. After checking the processes it became clear that SQL server was eating memory. This is the default behavior of SQL Server. ...

Finally! We are allowed to talk about all the cool new stuff that SharePoint 2010 will bring us! The first thing I would like to do is show some of the new features in SharePoint Search 2010. Reason for this is that there are a couple of very c...