Slides Posted - Advanced SharePoint Document Management with Multi-file Documents, SharePoint Saturday, Boston

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Update: Check out my post on why we would want to consider multi-file document management for SharePoint. The post shows how SharePoint's single-file document management approach greatly limits your its capabilities in terms of version history, workflow, security, and other areas. View the post here:

http://thingsthatshouldbeeasy.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-good-is-sharepoint-as-document.html

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It was great speaking at SharePoint Saturday Boston. My presentation on Advanced SharePoint Document Management with Multi-file Documents is now available.

Save 25% on SharePoint Best Practices Conference Registration

Get 25% off of the registration fee for the SharePoint Best Practices Conference, in May 2013! How? Just take this survey. You will get instructions on redeeming the offer upon survey completion. The SharePoint Best Practices Conference focuses not just on what you can do with SharePoint, but on what you should do. If you want practical advice on choosing amongst the many approaches to implementing SharePoint, this is the conference for you. Check out past sessions to get a glimpse of what you can expect this year.

How to: Get Started Making Awesome Web Pages

So you want to try your hand at making web pages that actually look good, feel snazzy, and are a pleasure for people to use, but you’re not a web developer, or even a web designer? How do you get started?

This is meant to be a quick, short post to help someone new to web page creation get started. I would suggest learning some HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript (different from Java) with jQuery. That will allow you to create really nice web pages and sites very quickly. HTML5 is the next step in the evolution of HTML specification, however most people also group together lots of related technologies like CSS3 when they think of HTML5.

Call to Action - "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" by Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

 

Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA (now with Google) did an amazing TED presentation with the theme, “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”. For those who don’t know, DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA’s mission is to prevent technological surprise to the US, and also to create technological surprise for its enemies. DARPA pioneered world-changing innovations like the Internet and GPS, and is working one new ones like self-driving vehicles, advanced prosthetic arms to help amputees, and exoskeletons to help the disabled and elderly walk again.

How To: Install DoD Root Certificates on Windows / Cannot Access DCO

If you try to access DCO and are getting a “...problem with this website” error, it means that the DoD certificates have not been installed correctly.

Internet Explorer will not prompt you to download the certificates. You will need to download them from this site before attempting to access DCO:
http://dodpki.c3pki.chamb.disa.mil/rootca.html

You must browse the site using IE or the site will not let you download the certificate files. The instructions on the site are cumbersome. These are a bit easier to follow: