Sessão NetPonto – DevOps: PowerShell DSC

No passado sábado decorreu a 10ª reunião no Porto da Comunidade NetPonto. Coube-me a honra que apresentar uma sessão relacionada com a utilização de powershell DSC no procesos de DevOps. Sala cheia de Malta motivada e interessada, nas instalações da DevScope com uma lindíssima vista sobre o Porto.

Now Available: BK’s Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine + Hands-on-Labs & Demo Scripts

Brian Keller has just published his new dev VM. This virtual machine replaces the previous Visual Studio 2013 ALM virtual machine which was based on Preview bits. This is a publicly downloadable set of content, so you may feel free to share this with your customers, partners, etc. It’s designed to be both a tool …

TF30063: You are not authorized to access …

When working with more than one account, you frequently get an error trying to connect to a TFS server. This happens both in the on premises or int the TFSPREVIEW.COM service. The most painful process, suggests you clear all your ached credentials, but this is a real pain, and you'll have to do it every …

A day in the field: my usual tools and the new goodies

A day in the field is not complete without your set of tools. Here is a revised list of my current and future tools (just in doubt if things that make you grin can be called tools...).

DEV 11 Beta products and Ranger projects

On 29th of February, for the 1st time in our history, the Visual Studio ALM Rangers sim-shipped a dozen projects to Codeplex in conjunction with Dev11 beta. These projects deliver technical readiness content to the Microsoft field and external MVPs who leverage this content in their customer engagements. If a project includes features or tools, the source code is included in the download to support customization. See more details on our Rangers blog.

1st SharepointPT Day (Portugal)

(this post is in Portuguese as it refers to a local event) A comunidate portuguesa de utilizadores de Sharepoint (www.sharepointpt.org), está a organizar um mega-evento (www.sharepointptday.org) com a participação de alguns dos nomes mais conhecidos na área. No próximo dia 29/9 estarão presentes no auditório da Microsoft (Tagus Park, Oeiras) o Joel Olson (www.sharepointjoel.com) e, …

patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance

The P&P team is dedicating some time to create guidance into sharepoint development. IMHO this is a most valuable input as it has been for so many other areas, from patterns to factories. The final output will be published on MSDN, but in the meantime you can take a peek into the current version at …

WSS 3.0 SP1 and MOSS 2007 SP1 RTW’ed today

It is with a big smile that I received this communication today. If you are reading this, than you probably work with either WSS or MOSS and therefore will have a similar feeling. This SP provides over 600 bug fixes accross the complete Office Server platform and you can find it here  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx. Encouragement is being …

New Articles on MSDN: Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007

Two new great articles were deployed yesterday on MSDN: Title: Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) URL: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb954662.aspx Author: Microsoft Corporation Editor: becka Title: Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) URL: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb954661.aspx Author: Microsoft Editor: Becka Hope they help …

Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 Pre-Release

OK, this one is important... 5 min is all I got 🙂  In another BIG community contribution, the CKS (Community Kit for Sharepoint) Team  is lounching the Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 Pre-Release . This CKS 2.0 Pre-Release contains the following: Enhanced Blog Edition Beta 1 Enhanced Wiki Edition Alpha ChatterBox AJAX Beta Tag Cloud A lot …