MarC on May 13th, 2011

Recently I read, like a lot of you, about the new beta exam 77-886. But unfortunately for all Dutch SharePoint users there are no test centers on the list.
So I have send an email to the Beta Coordinator about this and asking her if any centers in the Netherlands will participate.
I received this answer:
Thank you [...]

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MarC on April 15th, 2011

During BPCUK I have taken pictures of all speakers of the sessions I attended. Also some pictures of London and the stands. For more pictures go to the photo album on my facebook page.

Steve Smith and “The Queen”

Rick Taylor

Mike FitzMaurice

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MarC on April 13th, 2011

Started today with Agnes Molnar’s session about document sets. Not so much a deep dive as I hoped. Sawn some nice things but nothing spectacular. 
Continued with Michael Noel about Planning extranet environments with SharePoint 2010. A lot of info about FIM and UAG architecture. Tip: use UAG instead of SharePoint authentication. Interesting session. 
Third session of the [...]

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MarC on April 12th, 2011

Yesterday evening we had SharePint in The Old Star near the Conference Center. A lot of visitors and a lot of beer!
I started today with Rick Taylor about Identity Management. Tip: when to use FIM (Forefront Identity Management) which is not working with a lot of SharePoint products or SharePoint FIM, which is, but is not [...]

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MarC on April 11th, 2011

An exciting first day at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London.
Today I followed sessions of Brad Smith, Laura Rogers, Gary Lapointe, Darvish Shadravan and Stuart Cochrane & Mark Stokes.
Laura Rogers was nice (her session also ). Good info about DVWP, XSLT and conditional formatting.
Gary did a very good session I think. I learned a [...]

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MarC on April 10th, 2011

Today I’m flying to London with some of my Mavention colleagues to visit the SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011. I think it will be an exciting 3 days full of SharePoint 2010. During the conference I shall try to update you through my blog.
You can also follow us at twitter: Marcel van der Lem (@marcelvanderlem), [...]

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Context
Let me first tell you what the background is. I’m working at a client where they want a web application with multiple site collections each in it’s own database. Also each site collection has a managed path (explicit inclusion), some site collection names have special characters and each site collection must have an ID in [...]

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MarC on December 28th, 2010

My other post about preparation for the 70-667 SP2010 exam got very positive reactions so in this post you will find a list of the resources I used to prepare for the second exam.
What you will need, according to my opinion is:

Off course a lot of experience with SharePoint and Windows Infrastructure deployments (I have 10+ years Windows experience [...]

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MarC on December 28th, 2010

Today I passed the SharePoint 2010 exam 70-668 with 838 points. And now I have become MCITP SharePoint Adminstrator 2010. In my next post you will find the resources I used for preparation.

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The October 2010 Cumulative Updates have been republished for SharePoint Server 2010 resolving the issues described in this blog post.
Updates for:
SharePoint Foundation 2010
SharePoint Server 2010
Project Server 2010
Find more information at the source.

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