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Not at all. The problem here is the way you think about your projects. If you are consistently talking about “implementing SharePoint” you are going in the wrong direction. If you are talking about implementing any platform, you are setting up for failure. Many of the problems we run into with SharePoint and other platforms arise from focusing on the technologies.

You have now connected a SharePoint filter to a single workbook that contains multiple worksheets with multiple pivot tables and are driving all of the pivot table filters with one single filter from the SharePoint Dashboard.

Todd Bleeker gave an extended presentation at Best Practices Conference this week on “Best Practices for Developing SharePoint Web Parts”. I slapped together a quick down and dirty web cam recording with UStream, embedded below.
Todd was kind enough to send me the entire slidedeck along with the resources from his presentation. Crank up the recording [...]

We see lots of blogs and articles about SharePoint Governance, and they are all very lengthy and probably applicable to most organizations. But, what I’ve seen is the average SharePoint administrator is the Exchange Admin, firewall admin, and sometimes the accountant!

Peter Serzo will be speaking at the Best Practices Conference in Washington, D.C. at the end of August. He sent me a little recorded parable that I thought you might find of interest.

Peter Serzo (MCSD .Net, MCP, MCTS) brings a fresh perspective to each of his engagements and the clients he represents. Each session [...]

FAST ESP is an enterprise search engine that provides an extensive content processing and indexing functionalities. FAST search for SharePoint is going to deliver high end search capabilities to enterprises. The ease of use of SharePoint Server with FAST Search high-end filtering and navigation features creates a new enterprise search, collaboration, and publishing solution.

I have been working on a project with Ayman El-Hattab from Egypt SharePoint User Group over the past month. He has put together a series of screencasts, in Arabic, regarding SharePoint Content Types.