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Microsoft 2011 WPC Award Winners & Finalists #in #SharePoint #SP2010 #PS2010 #MSProject #Project Server
Just a quick blog to list all the winners and finalists of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards for 2011.
Unfortunately my entry didn’t place in the Project and Portfolio Management area, maybe next year.
For now, take a scan through the companies, future employers perhaps 
More blog updates soon, including examples on Office 365 done (the working examples are done, just need to write about them)
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Microsoft-Announces-2011-prnews-3488435555.html?x=0&.v=1
About the awards: http://www.digitalwpc.com/awards#fbid=xQVAZ-mZXra
Award Event Dates: 10th – 14th July 2011
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Alliance ISV Industry Partner of the Year
Alliance Partner of the Year —Advanced Infrastructure
Alliance Partner of the Year — Application Platform
Alliance Partner of the Year — Innovation
Application Integration Partner of the Year
Application Lifecycle Management Partner of the Year
Authorized Distributor Partner of the Year
BizSpark Partner of the Year
Business Intelligence Partner of the Year
Communications Sector Partner of the Year
Content Management Partner of the Year
Data Platform Partner of the Year
Desktop Partner of the Year
Digital Marketing Partner of the Year
Exceptional Sales Management Partner of the Year
Hosting Partner of the Year
Identify and Security Partner of the Year
Innovative Customer Advocacy Partner of the Year
ISV/Software Industry Partner of the Year
ISV/Software Line of Business Partner of the Year
Learning Competency Innovation Partner of the Year
Learning Competency Marketing Acceleration Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics Cloud Business Excellence Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Solution of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics Distribution Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics ERP ISV Solution of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics ERP Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics Financial Services Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace Solution Excellence Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics Professional Services Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics Public Sector Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics Retail Partner of the Year
Mid-Market Solution Provider Partner of the Year
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Mobility Business-to-Business Application Partner of the Year
Mobility Business-to-Consumer Application Partner of the Year
Mobility Partner of the Year
OEM Hardware Reseller Partner of the Year
OEM Hardware System Building Partner of the Year
Online Services Commercial Partner of the Year
Online Services Solution Partner of the Year
Outstanding Sales Operations Partner of the Year
Portals and Collaboration Partner of the Year
Private Cloud Partner of the Year
Project and Portfolio Management Partner of the Year
Public Sector, Education Partner of the Year
Public Sector, Government Partner of the Year
Public Sector, Health Partner of the Year
Public Sector, Public Safety and National Security Partner of the Year
Sales Specialist of the Year
Search Partner of the Year
Server Platform Partner of the Year
Small Business Specialist Partner of the Year
Software Asset Management Innovation Partner of the Year
Software Asset Management Marketing Acceleration Partner of the Year
Software Development Partner of the Year
Sustainability Partner of the Year
Systems Management Partner of the Year
Technical and High Performance Computing Innovation Partner of the Year
Unified Communication Innovation Partner of the Year
Unified Communications Market Acceleration Partner of the Year
Virtualization Partner of the Year
Visio Partner of the Year
Volume Licensing Partner of the Year
Web Development Partner of the Year
Windows Azure Platform ISV Partner of the Year
Windows Azure Platform SI Partner of the Year
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Office 365 Home – What is this about???
You may have noticed the Office 365 Home link in the top menu and wondered what it is about. While Office 365 has been in beta, I have been setting up an example / showcase site that will allow me to demonstrate some of the functions and custom solutions talked about on this very blog.
I may move the entire blog over at some point, but for now please take a look around and see what you think. I will be posting examples and linking to them in my posts, so stay tuned!
My experience of installing #SP2010 & #PS2010 SP1 + June 2011 CU #in #msproject
So I have been working on a client solution for over a year now, lots of customisations and a global solution, implementing SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010.
It has been quite the journey of initially not needing to support FireFox in Project Server 2010 (not available in its RTM guise) but after various meetings and discussions it was deemed half way through the project that FireFox was a requirement.
This lead to all sorts concerns for the project, but luckily I was able to be part of the Service Pack 1 beta programme with my client as a tester.
It just so happens that one of the new features of Service Pack 1 allows for Task and Timesheet entry in FireFox and all other SharePoint 2010 supported browsers.
So last week came the day of Service Pack 1 being finally released alongside June 2011 Cumulative update. (Which is just as well, as we have another client with fixes in June 2011 CU)
Then all the blog posts in the community started talking about the best way to install the updates and I guess this post is just another one of those. I suppose the difference here is that I can confirm that with these steps, it works on, on a system that has been heavily customised (in accordance with best practice) and upgraded without issues.
Feature Set:
SharePoint 2010
Project Server 2010
Office Web Apps
Update level before the upgrade: April 2011 Cumulative Update
Installation steps taken:
Binary install of:
SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1
SharePoint Server & Project Server 2010 SP1
Office Web Apps SP1
Run the product wizard configuration
Restart the server
Binary install of:
SharePoint Foundation 2010 – June 2011 CU
SharePoint Server & Project Server 2010 – June 2011 CU
Office Web Apps – June 2011 CU
Run the product wizard configuration
This is probably a very long winded way of doing it, as a fair amount of advice on the internet suggests you don’t need to install the SharePoint Foundation files for Cumulative Updates, but just in case I went for the full cycle and it worked without a hitch.
Please watch out of user profile errors while it is upgrading the database during its service startup process, this can be misleading but is not actually a problem.
Let me know in the comments how you got on also.
Kind Regards
Giles
Microsoft Project Server 2010–Service Pack 1 released #in #SP2010 #SharePoint #MSProject #ProjectServer
And here is the SharePoint and Project Server 2010 Download and Detail Links.
Details:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460047
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26636
FireFox compatibility for Tasks and Timesheet entry – woo hoo!
I have a client desperate for this, so shall be testing tomorrow.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010–Service Pack 1 released #in #SP2010 #SharePoint
Finally!!!
Details Here (Live soon I expect): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460045
Download Here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26623
Happy downloading.
Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 released #in #SharePoint #SP2010 #MSProject #MSOffice #ProjectServer #PS2010
Quite a day for Microsoft today. Office 365 has been released!!! (This blog may be moving to Office 365 soon – you can see a preview here: http://ghamson.sharepoint.com)
It is expected that the SharePoint and Project Server 2010 updates will be released in a matter of minutes / hours.
And of course the Microsoft Office 2010 client suite service pack has just been released!
Download Links:
32-bit: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26622
64-bit: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26617
I will post again with SharePoint 2010 / Project Server 2010 Service Pack details as soon as possible.
Content Query Web Part–Debug XSLT Template #in #SP2010 #SharePoint
Something I always forget and scramble around to find:
<xsl:template name="Debug" match="Row[@Style=’Debug’]" mode="itemstyle">
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
Property Name: <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
Value: <xsl:value-of select="." /> <br/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Original blog post is here:
http://kharlesp.blogspot.com/2008/07/getting-all-values-to-debug-xsl-in.html
I will be posting more stuff on the blog soon. Things are a bit manic at the moment 
Auto height plain text box issue fixed in InfoPath / Form Services 2010 #in #SharePoint #SP2010
A quick post to say that the InfoPath / Form Service 2010 issue I was having at one of my clients has now been fixed and is included as part of the SharePoint 2010 – April 2011 Cumulative Update.
My description of the issue can be found here: https://ghamson.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/form-services-infopath-2010-bug-found-in-multi-line-plain-text-boxes/
Microsoft KB Articles
- InfoPath Hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516485
- Project Server 2010 – April 2011 CU: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2512801
- SharePoint Server 2010 – April 2011 CU: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516485
- SharePoint Foundation 2010 – April 2011 CU: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2512804
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Microsoft support and product teams in working with us to detail the issue and come to a resolution. We are testing the go live environment with April CU 2011 as I write this and the fix will dramatically improve the UI for the custom forms that we have developed.
Minimising JavaScript files for production #in #SharePoint #SP2010 #ProjectServer #PS2010
As per my previous post, in my current project we are starting to migrate the whole solution to live.
The project I am working on is a global solution with locations in UK, USA, India, China + others. As a result of this, like many global projects, we suffer from the available connections.
This is potentially very minor in helping, but as part of the production process we are minimising the JavaScript files.
To do this, I have used the Yahoo compressor which is a java applet where you can pass in the file and output the minimised version.
Download Link: http://yuilibrary.com/downloads/#yuicompressor
How To Documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/#using
Example Command Line: java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.6.jar –nomunge –preserve-semi –disable-optimizations <input file> -o <output file>
Useful JavaScript Function – Default parameters within your JavaScript functions #in #SharePoint #SP2010 #PS2010 #ProjectServer
So it has been a while since I have posted anything on the blog.
As I am sure many of you can relate, there comes a time in all projects when you have to concentrate solely on them to ensure that all factors play out as expected. One of those times would be go live time.
The project I have been working on for the last year is about to go into trial with its first division, so it has been heads down to ensure that all bug fixes and business intelligence data is correct.
As of today, we are officially at a code freeze and we are clearing down the databases to rid them of test data ready for migration to the Production environment and the final integration testing process.
As a result, we can commence blogging again, of which I have a few topics stored up.
First up is…
Default parameters in a JavaScript function
Project Scenario: I created a generic function to contact the User Profile service and set some default global variables when the page loads for the current logged in user.
This had to be extended to cope with me passing a different AD User Name (SAMAccountName) and return the details in a JavaScript object.
So the basic mechanism was there already.
- I was passing the current user as a variable
- User Profile Service was already being queried
- Set the global variables for the current user
I wanted to extend this to take any user, but not upset the other functions that relied on the global variables I was setting in the function.
So essentially I added a setGlobal flag parameter and provided a default to the function so that existing code could work (surrounded by the newly created flag of course) and then implemented what I needed to.
This allowed my existing code to continue to function without issue, but also allowed me to reuse my User Profile functionalities for another purpose.
Examples:
The original idea came from the following blog post:
In my code, I implemented the first method. In future however I shall certainly use the second approach.
SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans 
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