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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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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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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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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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.
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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