Oct2

SharePoint Pod Show - Bill English and David Mann

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Brett was at the SharePoint Best Practise conference a couple of weeks ago and managed to grab interviews with Bill English and David Mann. Have a listen to the podcast here:

http://www.sharepointpodshow.com/archive/2008/09/30/moss-enterprise-search-and-sharepoint-workflow-episode-7.aspx

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Oct1

Creating Web Services for the BDC

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We've had a number of support questions about how to build web services, or why other web services won't work well with the business data catalog. Check out the support page put together:

http://support.lighteningtools.com/default.asp?W56

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Sep30

Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint

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It was back in May that I first posted the screen cast for the Silverlight SharePoint Forums so you can tell we've been working on this idea for some time (since around January).

We decided to take a step back from Silverlight for the time being as we had no idea when the Silverlight 2.0 bits would be released. Plus the extra requirements of a client side install and extra web.config edits - we thought we'd wait to see how the enterprise adopts to the Silverlight thing!

So we've gone the web part/html route. We are using asp.net 3.5 due to some of the improvements with the ListView control over DataGrids. This does require a few edits to the web.config but we have shipped a seperate feature with the forums that takes care of this for you (based off the great work published on CodePlex).

The Lightning Storm Forums are using SharePoint Lists for storage, this means it is all nicely integrated and will work fine with various authentication options within SharePoint. For more info, screenshots and screencasts check out the page on the Lightning Tools web site...

http://www.lightningtools.com/lightning-storm-forums-for-sharepoint/default.aspx

And of course there's a trial version you can download.

We're capturing feedback/ideas and comments on the forum on our Connect site:

http://connect.lightningtools.com/default.aspx

If you'd like to be involved in the development process send us an email at support@lightningtools.com with the username you have registered on www.lightningtools.com

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Sep29

Technorati Blog Claim

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Sep29

October 16th SUGUK meeting

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The full session abstracts have now been posted up for the meeting on October 16th. The titles are:

Session1 : Web Content Management in MOSS, real life case study – Riaz Ahmed

Session 2 : Best practices/lessons learnt: building MOSS Content Management sites – Chris O’Brien

Full more info and to sign up visit the following forum post:

http://suguk.org/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=13880

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Sep25

Announcing the Lightning Jump Web Part

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We've got a new web part out today, the Lightning Jump Web Part! The idea is, people always need to get to areas within SharePoint such as HR or Expenses, but they don't want to have to navigate through a complex menu structure to find it. Sure Best Bets for Search work, but that's still a two step process of Searching->Navigating. The Lightning Jump web part makes this a one step process by allowing users to enter a keyword, pressing enter, and navigating them off to the Url.

Keywords can be defined, managed, and are security trimmed. The textbox for entering keywords also have nice ajax type ahead functionality.

Check out the screen cast of the web part working here:

http://support.lightningtools.com/lightningjump.wmv

And find out more info about it on the Lightning Tools site:

http://www.lightningtools.com/lightning-jump-web-part/default.aspx

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Sep22

New golf clubs and the Ryder Cup

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The Ryder Cup weekend is over and after the excitement of Friday and Saturday, Sunday was a real disappointment. I think the European team should really be proud of the way they played - it just happened that on Sunday the Americans were a lot better. What is interesting though is the two we expected great things - Harrington and Garcia - really were disappointing. Ian Poulter (who my mum absolutely loves), who I thought shouldn't have been picked, was amazing. Big thumbs up to you Ian and I openly admit I was wrong! :-) I don't think Nick Faldo should come in for any blame either. It was really close all the way and a couple of putts going in could have made all the difference. Others who deserve a mention also were Graham McDowell, Robert Karlsson and Justin Rose. All young guys who will be out for revenge in a couple of years!

In terms of my golf I'm still playing lots and practicing hard! I've upgraded my clubs now to a Ping G10 driver, and Cleveland irons, wedges and hybrids. The hybrids are the most amazing revelation, gone are my 3 and 4 irons and in have come the 3 and 4 hybrids. I now love par 3 holes and hitting out of the rough isn't such an issue! Unfortunately the golf competition season has all but finished at Theale golf club, but I'll keep playing in the monthly and midweek comps at Sandford Springs. I'll update you at the end of September with my stats!

I'll keep the golf practicing up so I can make the Ryder Cup team in 2 years to do some American bashing! :-)

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Sep19

The BDC Survey Results

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Many thanks to everyone who has taken the time to complete the Big BDC Survey! I’ve posted the results up on the Lightning Tools blog with a few thoughts from me on what people entered.

Click here to see the results.

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Sep15

Does the world need SharePoint Live Chat

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One of the ideas we’ve been floating around Lightning Tools for a little while has been a Live Chat type solution for SharePoint. It would be similar to how the Facebook Chat works:

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All browser based, see what pages your colleagues are looking at etc etc…

Obviously Live Communication Server/Messenger accomplishes this, but would having it all built into the browser be a good idea? Would this be something you could see your organization or customers wanting or using?

Feel free to leave a comment here or ping me an email to nick@lightningtools.com if you like this idea!

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Sep15

SharePoint Pod Show with Robert Bogue – part 1

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The latest edition of the SharePoint Pod Show is up. Rob gets to chat to another Rob, Robert Bogue, on SharePoint Governance, engagement and Taxonomy. When Rob F spoke to Rob B we ended up with so much good material we decided to break it down into two shows, the second of which will be up later this week. Catch the first part here:

http://www.sharepointpodshow.com/archive/2008/09/08/sharepoint-governance-engagement-and-taxonomy-part-1-----episode.aspx

Also we’ve posted an interview with Patrick Tisseghem, many thanks to Michael Greth for allowing us to use this:

http://www.sharepointpodshow.com/archive/2008/09/08/interview-with-patrick-tisseghem----episode-5.aspx

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