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Date: Jul 14, 2010 1:46 PM
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JULY 14, 2010
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IN THE COMMUNITY 
A group of women working with SharePoint have come together under the "Women in SharePoint" banner, focusing on outreach to others working in the space and on mentoring. Karuana Gatimu, treasurer of the newly formed organization (its www.womeninsharepoi
nt.org website is still under construction) , said part of the mission is to show that women aren't simply designers or trainers. "There are developers and architects, women in roles that have been seen as traditionally male." Meanwhile, they're working with men on the mentoring side to gain the benefit of their knowledge and experience. After an earlier effort "went down in flames," as Gatimu described it, such "smart, talented women" as chairman Becky Isserman (mosslover on Twitter), vice chair Kathryn Birstein (kbirstein), communications director Cathy Dew and secretary Lori Gowin picked up the ball and are running with it. The group is focusing on outreach, Gatimu said, because "there are so many areas of SharePoint to become proficient in, and we want to put out an image of professionalism and be positive role models. We [women] need to stick together."
The group can be reached via e-mail at womeninsharepoint@
live.com , or followed on Twitter at @womeninsp.— David
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»CHOSE FROM 80+ SHAREPOINT CLASSES!MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0 SP1 at End of Life BY KATIE SERIGNESE
Nearing the end its life cycle, Service Pack 1 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 was retired yesterday. Upgrades must be made to Service Pack 2, which is a requirement for the August 2010 Cumulative Update.
Before downloading and installing the updates, Microsoft suggests downloading the white paper "Understanding Updates for SharePoint Products and Technologies," which includes articles for deploying software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007.
Installations of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack and SharePoint Server 2007 Language Pack are optional. To aid with updating, deployment road maps are also available.
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Nintex, a provider of software that extends Microsoft SharePoint, introduced on Monday Nintex Workflow 2010, its third-generation SharePoint workflow product. The new release adds a drag-and-drop workflow designer among other new features.
Users can extend Nintex Workflow 2010 by creating User Defined Actions with the drag-and-drop workflow designer. This feature enables users to export workflows to Visual Studio, and to package and share workflow segments within other workflows.
Adding to the Microsoft SharePoint document management and collaboration platform, Nintex Workflow also enables users to automate business processes, such as integration across external applications and data sources, and connects to other systems including Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Exchange Server.
Nintex Workflow 2007 customers with software assurance agreements can upgrade at no charge. Videos and a free 30-day trial are also available.
Tell 'em to attend the iPhone/iPad Developer Conference held in San Diego on Sept. 27-29. More than 45 classes and workshops are available to choose from for iPhone/iPad developers, marketers and enterprise developers. The technical program and speakers are now posted! Register by July 30 and save $450 off the full price.
After doing some poking around, The Linker has surmised that PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 seems to be on a lot of people's minds as of late, mostly on how to approach the task automation framework. So, she has taken it upon herself to find some links to help you all out with this process and be a little less overwhelmed. Enjoy!
PowerShell and SharePoint automation examples...
Forum: SharePoint and PowerShell..
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Educational and community site for PowerShell..
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Random YouTube entry: Heroes in a half shell
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SHAREPOINTERSBranding Tips for Working with The Ribbon BY RANDY DRISGILL
If you weren't already used to using the Fluid User Interface, otherwise known as the Ribbon, in Microsoft Office, you might as well get used to it. Microsoft is putting the Ribbon everywhere; even MS Paint has the Ribbon these days. Accordingly, one of the biggest additions to the user experience in SharePoint 2010 is the addition of the Ribbon to the top of the page.
The main point of the Ribbon is to bring menus to your fingertips quicker by showing items contextually based on what you are currently working on in SharePoint. The default out-of-the-box Ribbon experience "sticks" the Ribbon to the top of the browser window using something loosely referred to as the Ribbon Positioning System. This is a handy feature because if you have a really long page that has a lot of scrolling, the Ribbon and the page editing experience will always be in the same location in the browser for easy usage.
Because the system uses JavaScript to control page scrolling instead of letting the browser control scrolling as it normally does, there are some interesting ramifications for SharePoint branding.
Controlling Page WidthBecause the out-of-the-box master pages in SharePoint 2010 all stretch to 100% of the browser width, the Ribbon Positioning System actually sets the width of the page with JavaScript based on the size of the browser window. If you are trying to make a fixed-width SharePoint master page, you need to add an extra CSS class called s4-nosetwidth to the s4-workspace <div>. To make the change, simply replace:
<div ID="s4-workspace">
With:
<div ID="s4-workspace" class="s4-nosetwidth">Turning Off the Ribbon Positioning SystemThere are times when you need to create a branded SharePoint master page that uses a significant amount of custom layout and it may be required to turn off the Ribbon Positioning System. This is most often necessary when you are working with complex CSS to position elements—for example, if you wanted to stick a footer to the bottom of the page at all times.
In cases like this, the Ribbon Positioning System can behave in unexpected ways and the page scrolling could become erratic. The easiest way to solve this (besides changing your design) is to turn off the Ribbon Positioning System in your master page. Here are the steps for doing that:
- Remove or override the CSS that hides the body overflow. You can override this with CSS in the master page body like this:
<style type="text/css">
body.v4master { overflow:auto; }
</style>
Or you can add that same CSS to a custom stylesheet loaded after CoreV4.css.
- Remove scroll="no" from the <body> tag
- Remove ID="s4-workspace" from the <div> tag that surrounds the main page content.
Note, alternatively you could just remove the actual <div> tag and its corresponding </div>.
Randy Drisgill is an MVP for SharePoint Server and a consultant with SharePoint911.
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