A few more highlights from the sessions I saw: The new taxonomy services in SharePoint 2010 look superb. The ability to be able to centrally define terms for use by the end users, along with allowing both open (i.e. read-write to the end user) and closed (i.e. read-only to the end user) term stores looks very promising …

A few highlights from today’s talks: With SharePoint 2010, we no longer have a Shared Service Provider (SSP), instead we now have service application instead. All of the applications benefit from an internal load balancing scheme (fault tolerant round robin load balancing), meaning that as long as you start a service …

I’m attending the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas – it’s been an interesting first day with some notable announcements: A public beta of SharePoint 2010 will be available in November, with RTM in H1 2010. The new version of SharePoint Designer for SharePoint 2010 will be a free download. Microsoft …

On my SharePoint 2007 W2K8 development VM, I noticed that "Open with Windows Explorer" wasn't working. Aha, I thought, I'll just go and start the WebClient service, which is what you did on W2K3. Turns out you need to add the "Desktop Experience" feature to add the WebClient service. Hey ho.

One of the questions I’ve been asked a few times recently is along the lines of “I’d like to see all of my outstanding tasks shown to me in one place, how can I do this?” This in particular seems to be something that applies to tasks as SharePoint stores tasks assigned to you in the site in which they’ve been assigned …

I've been working on deploying SharePoint MasterPages and PageLayouts as a feature. There are a lot of good posts out there on how to do this. Everything went ok, the feature deployed and activated fine, the page was approved and I could specify the masterpage to be used. I checked to see how the site looked and all …

I’ve recently been looking at PerformancePoint again. During the setup of my initial PerformancePoint test server, I hit an issue when looking at the Dashboard Designer: The error occurs after loading the Dashboard Designer and following the instructions onscreen to ‘refresh to load dashboards’. When I hit the refresh …

One of the SharePoint farms we’ve built recently runs on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. As usual, the installation is a least privileged account setup, with individual accounts running the various services and app pools. The farm is also patched to the latest level. We’ve experienced one or two issues with …

Today has been interesting. Rik and I started the day doing the sightseeing we had time for. The Gaudi cathedral had been particularly recommended, so with limited time at our disposal, that’s what we decided to see. We arrived at the gate just as it opened, and were in within a few minutes. The cathedral is very, very …

One of the new features introduced with the recent SharePoint Infrastructure Update are the Enterprise Search Features that were shipped with Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express, that were not included in the original release of SharePoint 2007. This includes some Search core platform performance updates, …