Every SharePoint group has a setting to prevent users, who are not members of the group, to see who actually is a member. This setting works great when you use a browser to access the group. The setting can be configured on the property page of every SharePoint group. As you can see, you’ll get a message telling you that you may not see the members of that particular group.

Like many other blogs running SharePoint, my blog uses the EBE to add more functionality to the default SharePoint blog. And since I am one of the developers of the EBE 3.0, I’m glad that we announce the release of the next release. Version 3 brings along many new features and improvements of already implemented features. New Features *Ability to theme wiki pages *Ability to export post to PDF

SharePoint 2013: If you want to install the prerequisites for SharePoint 2013, see here: Installing SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites Without an Internet Connection SharePoint 2010: Don’t leave if you read “Powershell” and think “Oh my. Why does it take Powershell to do this?”. Powershell is easy to use and a great tool for this task. This post is about installing all required components that are needed for a SharePoint 2010 installation (Hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Server 2010)).

Did you know that the latest SSRS have a build-in support for SharePoint lists as DataSource? So if you need arguments to update to SQL 2008 R2, this is one 🙂

Did you know you can fetch an item by its UniqueId even if it is in the recycle bin? You can even update its data while it is already recycled. I wonder if there is a scenario, where you would want to modify an already recycled ListItem…

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on SharePoint 2010 products and technologies. You can grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f The download contains the SDK for SPF and SPS. No need to download two separate files anymore. The SharePoint Developer Center can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx

The BCS Team (Business Connectivity Services) wrote an blog post about using complex formatting and custom field types within your BCS model. Obviously this post was the source for the SDK article. The example shows that you can use a custom field type to render data from external data sources this way: <TypeDescriptor TypeName="Customer.Address" Name="CustomerAddress" DefaultDisplayName="Customer Address"> <Properties> <Property Name="SPCustomFieldType" Type="Customer.Address">Customer Address</Property> </Properties> </TypeDescriptor> Well, to help you map this example to your data, I’ll write some more about the SPCustomFieldType property of the BCS model.

Mit einer Stammbesetzung haben wir den Launch vielen anderen SharePoint UserGroups aus dem ganzen Land gefeiert. Zusätzlich zum Launch haben wir unser einjähriges Bestehen gefeiert. die Veröffentlichung von SharePoint 2010 liefert einiges an neuem Stoff, den wir auf den nächsten Treffen besprechen werden. Ich freue mich drauf.

Yesterday MS has released the language packs to the public. What is a language pack? Language packs enable site owners and site collection administrators to create SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Word breakers and stemmers enable you to efficiently and effectively search across content on SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft has published a new version of the Contoso VM for evaluating SharePoint 2010. Grab it here: 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) Take a close look at the Instructions on the download page. Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Microsoft Office Web Applications Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Microsoft Project Server 2010 Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Microsoft Visio 2010 Microsoft Project 2010 Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

The RSS Feed Product Index offers a feed with new KB articles for many products. SharePoint relevant feeds are: Access Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Forefront Security for SharePoint SharePoint Administration Toolkit 3.0 SharePoint Designer 2007 SharePoint Portal Server 2001 Ok. I think this one can be skipped SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Still out there? Let’s migrate… SharePoint Server 2007 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SharePoint Server 2010 Some SQL feeds:

Looking through the SPModule Powershell Script, I found an interesting comment in the script: Write-Verbose “You didn’t provide a PID Key, looks like I’ll have to give you a trial key.” switch ($PhysicalSKU) { “OfficeServer” { $CurrentConfigXml.Configuration.PIDKEY.Value = “BR68M-F6WK6-W6BVB-GXQGB-W67BG” ; Write-Verbose “Using a SharePoint Standard Trial PID Key. You can upgrade to Enterprise trial from Central Admin if you want to.”; break} “ProjectServer” { $CurrentConfigXml.Configuration.PIDKEY.Value = “9B4JM-6R6F8-2CMGW-T3T7W-6TYJW” ; Write-Verbose “Using a Project Server Trial PID Key.

If you are running your own SharePoint infrastructure, you should take a look at a Security Advisory: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/983438.mspx Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to run arbitrary script that could result in elevation of privilege within the SharePoint site, as opposed to elevation of privilege within the workstation or server environment.

SP 2010 does not bring a SiteDirectory template. Microsoft Consulting Services UK have released a CodePlex version of a SiteDirectory for SharePoint 2010: http://spsitedirectory2010.codeplex.com/ What is the Purpose of the Site Directory for SharePoint 2010? SharePoint 2007 used to have a type of Site Called Site Directory which provided a directory of all sites that had been created. In SharePoint 2010, this feature has been dropped. This solution has been developed to fill the gap in SharePoint 2010.

Now you will think “Why not?”. Some time ago I read a blog post which said “If you are asking yourself if you want to install Office 2010 as 64bit version, you should install the x86 version”. Why that? The reason is, that if you are asking yourself you worry about incompatibility with over software. And you are right! If you install x64, all add-ins you use have to be x64 as well.