OK - so I took over the blog a bit recently, what with my Sharepoint ramblings followed by my "Live from..." series.

Right... so whats been keeping me away from the blogging (no boos and hisses in the background thank you!!):

1. Replacing a load of switches:
Our core switches were all upgraded to Netgear GSM7212 - to provision our fibre. Next level out from this, we have just finished putting in GSM 7248/24 dependant on capacity. Why these? Well...

Ok... picture the scene...

You have a nice existing RIS setup - which deals with all your machines quite nicely. If course - it has to run on Server 03. You then go and update your DCs to Server 2008.

Problem - you notice that some of your image builds stop joining the domain. Cue pulling your hair out time! Have you changed anything in the images etc....

No... the problem as I eventually found out is you Server 2008 DCs. So long as they are the only...

Sharepoint 2010

Videos are available at sharepoint.microsoft.com

Cross browser support
No page refreshes
Custom ribbon appears as in Office 2007 apps
No page refreshes on updates of pages (eg moving to edit a page)
Multiple checkin and check out
In line popups for information editing (eg changing/rename files/folders)

Q and A Session with the Panel

1. Any lessons learnt of the lifecycle of developing with Sharepoint

- Get the taxonomy right, the layout of your site etc... (Twynham School Guys)

2. Can you move an exisiting Site Collection to be part of a new collection

- Shouldnt be a problem. If was a subsite, more complicated, but still possible.

3. Developing Webparts...any guide, or lots of publisher write them. If they dont meet your...

Sharepoint Outside the Box
Twynham School
www.twynhamschool.com

Main website and background
Went through all the revisions of Sharepoint Team Services >> MOSS.

Simple to upload content and make changes, for any user with access. Uploading content to document library, or making an announcement. Passing control back to the users.

Data/MIS Web parts

Demonstration for the MIS Webparts developed at Twynham. More information...