Alpesh Nakar – SharePoint Consultant's Blog

Joel Oleson has authored SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating book and is offering 45 day online access to this book for anyone and everyone!

That’s very generous of Joel and I would like to thank him for this!

I have just signed up online and now have access to this book.  Read more... (184 words, estimated 44 secs reading time)

Now that SharePoint 2010 Beta and Office 2010 Beta is available to download from MSDN, TechNet and Connect website, points to note (for self reference) from Jie Li’s Blog post.  Read more... (450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

1. This beta is not supported and you CANNOT upgrade the installation to RTM when it’s released. This Beta should only be used for evaluation purpose.
2. Windows Server 2008 R2 requires a hotfix which is not yet released to have the service applications running so I don’t recommend to use that now. Web Server Editions are not supported.

A bit late this week sharing SP love, but made it ….

1. Just released this week on MSDN Administrator’s Guide of Topics to Consider before Deployment
2. Recalculating Usage Statistics via STSADM or PowerShell
3. How to connect your OneNote notebook to SharePoint, thanks to ferringer for the tip
4. Creating Mashups In SharePoint – MashPoint is the new, FREE platform from Bamboo® that enables integration of external data sources in MOSS or Windows SharePoint Services.
5. How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives

Another round of SP links for 2009.   Read more... (112 words, 1 image, estimated 27 secs reading time)

1. This is really cool. I use Mindjet MindManager and I must give this a go Dynamic MindManager Map Generated from SharePoint List Data
2. SharePoint blog hosted on just SharePoint can do with this trick : How-To: Aggregate Blog comments using the Content Query WebPart
3. SharePoint rocks! No doubt. Well this year’s report from the Nielsen Norman Group has identified that 5/10 best intranets are built on SharePoint!. Details in the report
4. This one’s for my toolkit: SharePoint Extranet Hardening Planning Tool Thanks to JD Wade

I had disappeared for most of last year. Not this year… Kick of year 2009 with some SharePoint love to share …

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1. Not only will you appreciate Gary Lapointe’s STSADM commands extensions, but also the first batch of his 11 PowerShell Cmdlets for SharePoint
2. Very interesting workaround by Paul Galvin – A Web Proxy Server Tried to Stop Me From Installing Windows Workflow Foundation, But I Defeated It
3. Check out these SharePoint Server 2007 Courses (free) on Microsoft Office Training web site.
4. Using an alternate CSS on your SharePoint sites