Monthly Archives: January 2010

Trying Out Visio Services in SharePoint

Task lists in SharePoint 2010 have a button on the List tab in the ribbon’s Connect & Export section, called Create Visio Diagram.  Thought I’d try this out, and see what I could mock up using this, so I created several tasks in a list, and clicked the button.  It’s the one on the right of “Sync to SharePoint Workspace”,

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Social Connector in Outlook 2010

This blog post is about the Social Connector in Outlook 2010 Beta, as it works with SharePoint 2010 Beta and Exchange 2010 Beta.  I just wanted to quickly share with you a couple of discoveries of mine as I play with these products. Environment: SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 are installed on one server, which is also the domain controller

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SharePoint Basics – Compressing Image Files

Before I got my gig as a consultant, and I worked a regular day job down in the trenches as a SharePoint Administrator at a large company, one of the things I did every day was look at SharePoint site quotas.  We had many site collections, so I was able to closely keep tabs on their sizes. Users frequently upload

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Laura’s 2010 Update

2010 update… 2010 the year, as opposed to the version of SharePoint. This year is going to be great, and I’m looking forward to going to some SharePoint events and also learn more and more about SharePoint 2010.  Here’s a little update on some stuff I have coming up.  There’s a list of Speaking Engagements on my blog, on the

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