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With over 1,200 attendees SPTechCon was a fairly good-sized conference. Yet it still had a personable feel to it, and I would definitely recommend this conference to anyone wanting to further their career in SharePoint.

The new year is here, so it seems appropriate to publish some kind of "10 things" list. This year I'll share ten things you can do that can help you stand out in the SharePoint global community.

SharePoint-Community.net is an up-and-coming SharePoint community and networking site.  Since the public launch about 3 weeks ago there are now over 200 member…

Session #SPC208 at #SPC11 - Tuesday, October 3 @9:00 am - presented by John Rymer, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst

It ended up being a game time decision for my first session at #SPC11.  I literally made the decision as to which session I would attend as I was walking back to the  Convention Center after taking a break after the Keynote. 

Session #SPC248 at #SPC11 - Tuesday, October 4 @ 1:45 pm - presented by Susan Hanley  

This is a session at #SPC11 that I wasn't able to attend live at the conference, and I'm just now finally finding the time to catch the recorded presentation.  This session is very interesting to me because my company recently launched a dealer Extranet in SharePoint 2010...

We recently rolled out SharePoint 2010 to our users. One thing we've repeatedly been asked for by our users are tips and best practices on how they can make their team sites look the best they can while still being user-friendly.

Recently we installed some security updates to our SharePoint servers, only to find out later that we were having issues caused by our incorrect application of those updates.

Reflecting over her use of SharePoint over the years, Wendy shares her top ten reasons why she loves working with it.

Although I'm relatively new to the SharePoint Community, I'm not new to SharePoint development, so I feel I'm qualified to add my two cents to the ongoing debates regarding what constitutes a SharePoint developer, and the different roles that are needed.

Now that I'm seeing more and more public internet facing websites and blogs that are built in SharePoint 2010, I'm seeing more and more really bad SharePoint sites.

There are times when you may need the absolute URL to a SharePoint artifact, but all you have is the relative URL. Turns out it's really easy to derive the absolute URL from any relative URL in SharePoint.

"I Didn't Know You Could Do That With SharePoint" is the name of a class I teach to our SharePoint power users at my company. The goal is to demonstrate some advanced solutions that they can implement on their team sites without having to write any code.

This may be common knowledge to some, but this one had me perplexed for two days. Turns out that updating a quota template does not apply the template changes to any existing site collections that are already using it.

I was dragging a bit after a later dinner last night, so I thought, what better way to wake up than to attend Todd Klindt and Shane Young’s session first thing on Tuesday morning. I was sure there’d be plenty of laughs and good-natured bantering.

In this session SharePoint MVP Jeremy Thake presented an overview of SharePoint development in SharePoint Online, how it differs from on premises development, and migrating SharePoint applications to the cloud.

In this session Ruven Gotz demonstrated proven tools that will help you ensure there is an agreement on the goals and scope of your SharePoint projects, and how to efficiently design your taxonomies and page layouts.

In this session Christian Buckley teaches us the importance of metadata as the drivers of social computing within the enterprise, the connection between social and search, and how a solid governance strategy can increase user productivity.

 I want to do a quick shout out to the SHARE Conference in Atlanta! They will be back in the beautiful Marriott Marquis hotel again this year on April 10-12.…

It is a best practice to always use a consistent port number when creating SharePoint Central Administration sites.  This is so that no matter which server or…

This was originally posted on sharepointwendy.com.   
Many people complain about the usability and lack of user-friendliness of SharePoint, so I thought I'd exa…

Did you know that you could direct the Search Box web part to any page you wish, and it doesn't have to be a standard SharePoint search results page?

I'm very excited to be one of nine great authors contributing to a new book on jQuery, JavaScript, and the SharePoint interface (we haven't chosen a title for the book yet). The idea is that these solutions should be so simple to implement that even your dog could do it.

I just came across this awesome PowerShell tool - Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Command Builder (thanks to a blog post by Brandon Atkinson). Check...