With the onset of SharePoint Designer 2010, there are quite a few new out of box actions and conditions that can be leveraged in SharePoint Designer workflows. Check the list below to see what's new:  Out of Box Actions List for SharePoint Designer ...[Read more]

A great new feature that comes with SharePoint 2010 is the ability to leverage Visio diagrams to show business data and/or workflow statuses. As you may have heard, you can create a SharePoint Workflow from within Visio 2010, and thereafter import t ...[Read more]

It is often stated that you ought to use Active Directory(AD) groups as much as possible, if not always. However, any seasoned SharePoint administrator will know that it is impossible to always use AD groups, and there often develops a blurry line b ...[Read more]

What's in this post: How to build a Event Handler in SharePoint 2010 from scratch How to leverage a custom error page when canceling an event  Example leveraged: This walkthrough builds an event handler that executes when a site is being deleted in ...[Read more]

It's only been two days, and there's already a wealth of SharePoint 2010 info out in the community. I've been trying to keep up – but it's HARD. Just tonight I've read through 40+ posts from my favorite SharePoint bloggers, all of which were posted ...[Read more]

With SharePoint 2010, there is now a new host of event handlers that Developers can leverage to interject custom code into their sites when end users perform various actions. To be precise, there are 12 new event handlers available. Notice the chart ...[Read more]

What is the developer dashboard you may say? Well – the developer dashboard in SharePoint gives developers the ability to monitor how well their code base is performing – on a page by page basis. For instance – when enabled, at the bottom of every p ...[Read more]

Have a bunch of Visio diagrams floating around your IT department, showing network configurations and/or server configuration? Well – now is the time to bring those Visio diagrams to LIFE!  With SharePoint 2010 Visio Graphic Services, you can tie y ...[Read more]

My blog has been a little quiet lately… actually, I've been biting my tongue because I'm feverishly ramping up on SharePoint 2010 and can't publically post stuff yet (for 6 more days!). "Investigation" outside of my 9 to 5 makes for slow ...[Read more]