IWKID Blog Posts http://www.iwkid.com/blog RSS feed for Raymond Mitchell's blog posts. Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:54:18 Custom RSS via Data Form Web Part 60 IWKID Blog Posts http://www.iwkid.com/blog/_layouts/images/homepage.gif http://www.iwkid.com/blog Guest posts this month http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=98

This month I had the opportunity to be a guest blogger on two sites:

Hey, Scripting Guy! BLOG - http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy

and

SHAREPOINTERS (SPTechWeb) - http://www.sptechweb.com/content/sharepointers.aspx

 

For @ScriptingGuys I wrote about using PowerShell to inventory SharePoint environments – things like how many Lists/Web Parts do I have and things like that.  I also posted a few scripts out in the Script Center.  You can find the post here:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/12/15/use-powershell-to-inventory-and-update-sharepoint-environments.aspx

 

For @SPTechCon I wrote about the Web Part Gallery, some basics and a few tricks.  You can find the post here:  http://www.sptechweb.com/The_SharePoint_Web_Part_Gallery/By_By_Raymond_Mitchell/36220

 

Both were fun posts to write and were good reminders that I should be blogging here more often too! :-)

]]> Raymond Mitchell Check This Out!; SharePoint 2010; PowerShell Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:54:18 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=98 SharePoint Saturday–Twin Cities Recap http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=97

This past weekend I presented at #SPSTC, this time branded “ScarePoint Saturday.”

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The event was a WONDERFUL success with 500 registered and roughly 400 attendees!  We had a great group of volunteers, speakers, and vendors and it was another awesome display of the fantastic SharePoint Community we have here in the upper-Midwest.

We were shy on submitted Infrastructure topics so I had two sessions back to back:

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  • SharePoint and PowerShell – (PowerPoint) I’ve given this talk before but it is always fun to talk PowerShell with a new group.  This was largely a basics session to talk about how to get started with PowerShell.  I focus on how PowerShell is .NET at the command line and how to leverage that to harness the power of the SharePoint object model.
  • ScaryPoint – (PowerPoint) this was a brand new talk playing off the event’s theme.  I spent a good portion of the presentation reviewing the steps to configure Kerberos on my demo environment and then walking through the steps.  I warned the class ahead of time that this was a “high risk” demo (not just because it discussed Kerberos but also because I was running a crazy demo environment of 4 virtual machines hosted on my laptop of only 8GB of RAM) but it worked out AWESOME.  Once I had Kerberos configured I showed off an External List connecting to a SQL server using the logged on user’s credentials – pretty sweet!  I wrapped up the talk with a discussion of IIS (and why not to touch it), the web.config (and why not to touch it), and Alternate Access Mappings.  I think the content is really good stuff but I think I need a new way to frame it up – let me know if you have any thoughts or how you’d like to see a similar talk structured!

 

After my sessions I unfortunately had to depart early so I missed the rest of the event but I did hear that it went very well and I can definitely see how it would have!  Below are some more pictures from the day.  If you missed this event, keep an eye on the main SharePoint Saturday site for updates on our next event in the spring where we’ll do it all again!

 

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Welcome sign at Normandale Community College

 

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Sarah Haase kicking off the #SPSTC

 

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Room filling up for the kick-off announcement

 

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Part of the vendor area (during sessions)

 

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Wes and I showed up bright and early.  Well... early :-)

]]> Raymond Mitchell Events; Check This Out! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:23:22 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=97 Office 365 – how I got started http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=96

I’ve been using Office 365 since the beta was released.  As soon as the service went live, I signed up for a P1 plan and migrated my iwkid.com email over to the account.  Aside from a few hiccups with my Live ID (vs. my Microsoft Online ID), I have been absolutely THRILLED with the new service.  Stay tuned to posts tagged with “Office 365 Grid” for more information about how I use Office 365 and some lessons I’ve learned along the way!

]]> Raymond Mitchell Office 365 Grid Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:09:00 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=96 PowerShell Script to download SPC11 Videos http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=95

I saw that Anders had a post about how to download the SPC11 videos using PowerShell and had to laugh a little.  I had just finished writing one and started my downloads.  So, just for fun, here is yet another PowerShell script to download the SPC11 videos:

*updated to include all 4 days*

 

[void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.VisualBasic')

function download($filePath)
{

    $url = $filePath
    $local = ("c:\SPC11\" + $filePath.Replace("http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/", ""));
    $object = New-Object Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices.Network
    $object.DownloadFile($url, $local, '', '', $true, 500, $true, 'DoNothing')
}

#Monday
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC216.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC340.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC102.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC2991.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC214.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC240.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC367.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC2994.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC249.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC263.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC253.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC256.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC274.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC285.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC202.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC225.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC345.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC228.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC350.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC104.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC229.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC387.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC2992.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC410.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC376.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC258.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC265.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC273.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC201.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC311.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC209.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC403.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC335.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC406.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC226.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC358.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC359.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC245.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC246.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC107.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC262.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC286.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC221.wmv.zip"

#Tuesday
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC200.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC330.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC346.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC347.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC351.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC239.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC242.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC371.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC252.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC109.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC254.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC255.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC382.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC208.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC266.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC271.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3995.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC224.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC310.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC223.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC276.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC298.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC244.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC366.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC212.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC264.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC108.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC391.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC280.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3992.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC269.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC289.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC292.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC215.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC219.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC338.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC343.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC234.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC352.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC103.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC357.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC248.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC390.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC284.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC398.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC288.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC251.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC306.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC307.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC204.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC322.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC206.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3981.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC207.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC2993.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC348.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC409.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC243.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC368.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC375.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC383.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC388.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC275.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC281.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3996.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC293.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC314.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC213.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC331.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC401.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC220.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC222.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC336.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC238.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3982.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC397.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC260.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC261.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC279.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC291.wmv.zip"


#Wednesday
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC400.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC203.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC315.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC342.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC257.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC259.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC299.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC365.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC373.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC377.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC272.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC389.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC250.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC278.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC290.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC304.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC305.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC319.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC287.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC316.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC321.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC296.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC356.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC374.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC386.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC270.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC392.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC414.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3991.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3999.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC309.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC328.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC333.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC339.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC341.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC407.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC349.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC237.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC355.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC360.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC354.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC379.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC101.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC396.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC282.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC410r.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC301.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC308.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC313.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC205.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC318.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC210.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC230.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC233.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC295.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC236.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC268.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC369.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC380.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC384.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC412.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC266r.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC241.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC312.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC326.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC329.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC217.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC218.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC402.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC404.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC337.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC408.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC232.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC235.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC378.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC385.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3997.wmv.zip"


#Thursday
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC300.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC302.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC344.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC320.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC362.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC324.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC325.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC327.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC332.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC334.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC227.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC277.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC283.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC413.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC216r.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC294.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3983.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3998.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC267.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC247.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC361.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC363.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC364.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC370.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC393.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC394.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC395.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3993.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC297.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC303.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC211.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC353.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC381.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC2995.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC372.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC323.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC411.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC399.wmv.zip"
download "http://cdn.tri-digital.com/spc/videos/SPC3994.wmv.zip"

 

 

Special shout out to the folks at PowerShell.com for helping with the download + progress bar:

http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2008/12/02/downloads-with-progress-bar.aspx

Like Anders says in his post, I also have only minimally tested so let me know if there are any issues and above all else: Use at your own risk Smile

]]> Raymond Mitchell PowerShell; Events; Check This Out! Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:31:42 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=95 SharePoint Conference 2011 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=94

Next week will be one of the biggest events in SharePointdom: the Microsoft SharePoint Conference.  It will be a week of great networking, learning, free stuff, and general shenanigans.  There are several sessions I’m really looking forward to (and not just to heckle @toddklindt and @mrackley).  Also, I’m really looking forward to seeing (and in many cases, meeting for the first time) many of the folks I tweet with all year long as well as meeting some of my new coworkers at SharePoint911 in person.

If you’ll be at the conference, be sure to say hello!  I’ll be the guy walking around with @iwkid on my hat :-)  Also, on Tuesday at 4:30 pm I’ll be joining 5 of the 7 authors from SharePoint Six-in-One for a book signing at the K2 booth (#101).

If you’re not at the conference but want feel like you are, be sure to follow #SPC11, @SPConf and the speakers twitter.com/iwkid/spc11-speakers.  If you’re interested to know who is speaking, I’ve created a SharePoint list here: http://www.iwkid.com/Lists/SPC11 Speakers

]]> Raymond Mitchell Events Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:30:00 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=94 <SharePoint911> http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=93

Like I said in my last post, I had decided to pursue a new adventure.  I’m very happy to say SharePoint911 is part of that new adventure!  This week I joined their Business Services team with the likes of Jennifer Mason, Chris Caravajal, and Laura Rodgers.  Since we all work remote I’m looking forward to meeting most of my new teammates in person next week at the SharePoint Conference!

 

911

]]> Raymond Mitchell Me Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:00:00 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=93 </Avtex> http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=92

After an 8 year run at the same company I took the big dive this month and decided to pursue a new adventure.  I started at Inetium in December of 2003, the first hire of what would become their Information Worker practice.  I loved the energy of the young company, the ideas that Eric Raarup put into my head about the practice’s future, and the great people that would become my coworkers, mentors, and friends.

During my 8 years we went through many transitions, growing from a 30ish person shop, being purchased by the Pohlad family in 2006, and merging with Avtex at the start of this year.  As much as Inetium/Avtex changed during my time there, I believe I changed even more.  I was given excellent opportunities to work with some of the best of the best in the Twin Cities, a huge variety of projects and technologies to work with, and the opportunity help launch, speak at, and later coordinate one the most successful SharePoint User Groups in the nation.  Without those opportunities I would not be where I am today.

I wish them well and if the Engage Event is any indication, I look forward to the numerous future successes of Avtex.

 

 

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]]> Raymond Mitchell Me Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:30:00 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=92 The One Thing You Need to Know About SharePoint 2010 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=90

While down in St. Louis for their SharePoint Saturday event I was interviewed by Axceler’s Christian Buckley for his “The One Thing” series:

 

The One Thing You Need to Know About SharePoint 2010

 

Keep in mind my response was after a late night following a 10 hour drive ;)  That said, I absolutely stand behind my “one thing” – SharePoint Foundation 2010 is an extremely powerful platform – even more so than Windows SharePoint Services (2007) was.  Functionality that used to require the biggest and baddest of licenses now comes standard with the no additional cost version of the product.  Specifically, Business Connectivity Services is now available in SharePoint Foundation.  When combined with SharePoint Designer 2010, it really is amazing what Microsoft is giving away for free!

]]> Raymond Mitchell SharePoint 2010; Check This Out! Wed, 04 May 2011 21:09:46 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=90 Using the SharePoint 2010 Dialog Framework on a Wiki Page using SharePoint Designer http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=89

In my last post I showed what code was required to create a new dialog window using the Dialog Framework.  In this post we’ll tackle how to add a dialog to a SharePoint 2010 Wiki Page using SharePoint Designer.

 

  1. First let’s create a new page in the browser (because we can and that’s cool):
    Site Actions --> New Page
  2. Next open SharePoint Designer:
    Site Actions --> Edit in SPD
  3. Browse to your new page (in this case, in the Site Pages library – the file called Test.aspx).  Click on the file and choose to edit the page:
    Open page
  4. Switch to Code View by using the View tab on the Ribbon:
    Code View
  5. Your Code View should come up with most of the text highlighted.  This is because the page is not in Advanced Mode.  You actually won’t be able to edit any of the code until you click “Advanced Mode” in the Editing tab group on the Home Tab of the Ribbon:
    Advanced Mode
  6. Once you’re in Advanced Mode, find the Content tag for PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead.  Any HTML or controls that are placed here will be added to the page’s HTML header.  This is the preferred location for common JavaScript and CSS references:
    PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead
  7. Add the script that contains your wrapper function along with <script></script> tags to specify that you are adding JavaScript:
    JavaScript
  8. This, unfortunately is where it gets weird.  Any attempt to insert an anchor tag that calls JavaScript into the page content of a Wiki page will fail.  This makes me sad… but all is not lost.  Our crazy workaround is to add a Content Editor Web Part to the Wiki page’s content.  From the Insert Tab on the Ribbon, select the Content Editor Web Part from the Web Part dropdown:
    CEWP
  9. Once your Content Editor is in place, add your link text (“Test Link” below), highlight it and choose Hyperlink from the Links tab group of the Insert tab on the Ribbon:
    Link
  10. You can now enter a JavaScript url into the Hyperlink's address field:
    Link Dialog
  11. Save your page and preview in the browser – your new dialog link should look something like this:
    Dialog Preview
  12. More than likely you’ll want to prevent the title of your Content Editor Web Part from displaying.  To do that, right-click on the web part and select Web Part Properties (not just properties).  This will bring up the Web Part properties.  In the Appearance section, change the Chrome Type to None (this will hide the title bar of the Web Part):
    CEWP Properties

Now we have our custom link on our Wiki Page that pops open in a configurable dialog!  This certainly isn’t the only thing you can do with the Dialog Framework – look for more posts in the future and definitely leave a comment if there’s something specific you want to see!

]]> Raymond Mitchell SharePoint 2010; UI Extensions Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:54:18 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=89 Creating simple dialogs using the SharePoint 2010 Dialog Framework http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=88

In my last post I introduced the Dialog Framework – now let’s look at the details of how to create your own dialogs using JavaScript.

New dialogs can be created using the SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog method (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff410058.aspx).  The method takes in an options parameter which gives the details for what the dialog should display, such as the URL and the Title for the dialog.

The easiest way to get started using the Dialog Framework is to create a wrapper function for creating your dialogs.  In example 1.1, I’m taking a parameter for the URL and one for the Title.

Example 1.1:

function OpenIwkidDialog(url, title)
{
    var options = SP.UI.$create_DialogOptions(); 
    options.url = url;
    options.title = title;
    SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options); 
}

 

The SP.UI$create_DialogOptions function is creating our Options variable.  Once created, we are setting the url and title properties to the values passed into our function.  To call our function, we’ll create a new hyperlink to call our wrapper function as shown in example 1.2.

Example 1.2:

<a href="javascript:OpenIwkidDialog('/SitePages/Dialogs/speakingView.aspx?SpeakingID=52', 'Event: SharePoint UI Extensions');"> Open Event </a>

 

Here you can see we’re creating our hyperlink with a javascript: url which tells the browser to execute JavaScript instead of going to a specific location.  We then pass in the url to the page we want to load and the title that should be used for our dialog.  The resulting dialog looks like this:

Dialog Sample

 

Sometimes you don’t need all the extra plumbing to pass parameters in for Url and Title – I’ve found that it is still usually easier to wrap your call in a JavaScript function as shown in example 2.1:

Example 2.1:

function OpenMyWebPage() {
    var options = {
    url: "SPSLA-SimpleDialog.aspx?isDlg=1",
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    };
    SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);
}

 

Note the alternate syntax here for creating your options variable.  Instead of using a function to create the Options variable and then setting its properties, here we create the object and configure properties in a single command.  Also note that we’re configuring some additional parameters in (width & height).  As you can see in example 2.2, we still call our wrapper function the same way,  only this time without parameters.

Example 2.2:

<a href="javascript:OpenMyWebPage();">Open Dialog </a>

 

Now you should have a good idea of what code is needed to create your own dialogs.  In my next post I’ll show the steps needed to add this code to a Wiki Page using SharePoint Designer.

]]> Raymond Mitchell SharePoint 2010; UI Extensions Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:41:50 http://www.iwkid.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=88