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Ryan Miller's Blog. Owner of My Local Broadband LLC (www.mylocalbroadband.com) |
7/28/2010Just a reminder that Microsoft is still releases updates for SP 2007. No really. I have a feeling there are a lot of farms out there that have nothing beyond SP2 installed.
Although SP2 was released on 7/29/2009, it contains only the cumulative updates through February, 2009. There have been multiple Cumulative Updates since then, the latest being June 2010. I haven't found a solid list of all of them, but you can check technet for a link to the most recent: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx
I mention it because my prod environment was recently down for an afternoon with a weird bug that it turns out was fixed back in the April 2009 CU. In looking at the CU, I found it also fixed a Content Query Web Part bug related to target audiencing that I remembered creating a work around for oh so many years ago. 7/9/2010 SharePoint Saturday is about a month away here in Columbus. It should be worth your while. There should be a LOT of SP2010 information at the event. I know I put in a couple 2010 topics for consideration and I expect many others dis as well.
If you'd like to speak, you have about a day left to get your topic in for review.
SharePoint Saturday Site: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/columbus/default.aspx
Registration has also begun. There are 147 seats left as of this posting.
Registration: http://spscolumbus.eventbrite.com/
7/6/2010Woo Hooo! CodePlex servers are being upgraded to TFS 2010. Should be very exciting. Here's the email I just got from them:
CodePlex Project Contributors,
**The information in this e-mail applies to project coordinators and developers that are using TFS with the Team Explorer client. If you are using Mercurial or a Subversion client, then nothing will change for you**
During the upcoming weeks we will be migrating all of the CodePlex TFS projects onto our new TFS 2010 servers. This upgrade will allow us to support new TFS features and provide increased server performance and reliability. The move will happen on a server by server basis, so expect each TFS server (TFS01 to TFS10) to be down for a few hours as data is migrated. Updates on when each server will be offline and an estimate on when they will be back online will be posted on our system outage page: http://codeplex.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=System%20Outage%20Report.
As part of this migration, the URL of your TFS server will change and this will require you to update your projects source control bindings. After your project has moved, instructions on how to connect with Team Explorer to the new TFS server can be found on the source control tab of your project under "Source Control Setup". For detailed instructions on updating your source control bindings see: http://codeplex.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Updating%20Your%20TFS%20Source%20Control%20Bindings. Additionally, if you connect to your project using Visual Studio Team Explorer 2005, you will need to install the 2005 forward compatibility pack: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22215e4c-af6f-4e2f-96df-20e94d762689. If you connect using Team Explorer 2008, you will need to install the 2008 forward compatibility pack: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf13ea45-d17b-4edc-8e6c-6c5b208ec54d.
Finally, the TFS 2010 upgrade process checks two build templates files into your project under \BuildProcessTemplates. These templates can be removed safely as we currently do not support TF build.
Thanks,
The CodePlex Team
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5/4/2010I'm getting ready to install Office 2010 RTM on my working laptop – not on a VM. Since, for the time being, the majority of my support work is done on MOSS, I had to be sure I would still be able to run SharePoint Designer 2007 alongside the 2010 version. And, if you're wondering, yes according to the SharePoint Team Blog, it can be done.
From: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2009/11/02/sharepoint-designer-2010-new-shell-tour.aspx
A Few Limitations to Call Out | Early on in development we made a tough choice. Not supporting backwards compatibility with SharePoint v3 and earlier. This means that SPD 2010 will only work with SharePoint 2010. Although this was hard, it allowed us to build better, farther and test deeper. I almost think of SPD 2010 as a new product, a new toolset for SharePoint 2010. This of course means that we are supporting side-by-side installation of SPD 2007 and 2010. There is one important thing to keep in mind when setting up side-by-side. Stick to the same flavor of clients (x64 and x86). SPD 2007 only came in x86, so only use x86 SPD 2010 when installing side-by-side. This is for all Microsoft Office apps as well. So don't install 64-bit SPD with 32-bit Office. |
Post install: thumbs up! Both Office 2010 Professional Plus and SharePoint Designer 2010 installed without issues.
I did first uninstall Office 2007, but left SharePoint Designer 2007 in place. I had seen a blog post stating that you needed to change the default install path if you wanted to run Office 2007 side-by-side with Office 2010. I wondered if that was the case with SPD, but decided to roll the dice and leave the default path in place. Post install, both versions of SPD are installed and running without conflict. 5/3/2010Keep an eye on MSDN and Technet today. According to Mary-Jo Foley, the RTM bits of SQL Server 2008 R2 should be online today.
This is the final part of the SharePoint 2010 tri-vector: SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2.
The bits weren't there this morning when I looked, but assuming they come online today, I'll be building a some brand new developer VMs tonight(and tomorrow, and Wednesday.)
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