Category Archive: Training

Jun 13

SharePoint Conference 2014 has been announced!

And we’re heading back to Vegas again, but not the the Mandalay Bay, this time Microsoft are using the Venetian Conference Centre. Regular followers and friends will know that the Venetian is where Billie and I headed off to after the conference last year to stay for #ShareWedding and to celebrate 20 years of Wedded …

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Sep 28

Critical path training comes to Pluralsight.com

I recently tried out a trial subscription to the online training provider www.pluralsight.com as I was hoping to brush up my HTML 5 and CSS 3 skills. The courses are delivered as online streamed video, with some basic pre and post course testing, coursework and notes for those on the extended subscription. The extended subscription …

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Oct 26

Studying hard for 70-573 this week..

I’m taking the first of the SharePoint 2010 dev exams on Thursday of this week. I’ve been a little slow of the mark with the study for these as I’ve not really had the opportunity to do much SharePoint 2010 development work just yet. Luckily, it looks like my SP2007 skills won’t let me down …

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Oct 01

Creating a Sales Dashboard using the DataViewWebpart & XSL

So not too long ago, a client of mine decided that they wanted some nice charts on their WSS based intranet. You see the problem straight away.. No Moss, so no access to the KPI webparts, so it was time to drop to the old faithful, the Data View Web part to solve this problem… …

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Oct 18

MCTS: Moss 2007 Configuration & Administration

I suddenly realised the other day that I had a Prometric voucher that was due to expire. So, I decided to bite the bullet and take 70-630, The MCTS exam for configuration MOSS 2007. This exam goes in much greater depth than the WSS version, with a heavy focus on Forms, Excel, Business Data Catalogue …

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Feb 24

Home again.

Well the journey home wasn’t too bad, although I had to dive off the M1 at junction 10 due to the traffic backing up from the M25. Apparently 44 miles of queuing traffic trying to get round from Leatherhead to the M1 was to blame! I cut along the A1081 and through St Albans which …

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