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    November 18

    SharePoint Shop Talk Thursday 11/19, 12:30PM to 1:30 PM

    SharePoint Shop Talk continues with our 14th session tomorrow at 12:30PM EDT.

    This is a free ranging and open Q&A session free to everyone that wants to attend.  Dial in and ask questions or start a discussion on a topic of your choosing.

    This week we’re definitely going to talk about:

    • Best practices around search scopes, crawling content, schedules, etc.
    • Data view web part and “current user” difficulties (DVWP is a weekly favorite).
    • Someone wants to talk about “Why pay thousands for a marketing list” from a Shop Talk newcomer, “185165@video.wokr13.com”.  This one should be interesting.  Very interesting.

    I’ll also be performing a SharePoint magic trick you won’t want to miss!

    If you have any questions, fire them off to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com, leave a comment or buzz me on twitter (@pagalvin).

    Register here: https://www323.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=dlnf750v8cqsstzx

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    November 11

    SharePoint Shop Talk Tomorrow (11/12) from 12:30PM to 1:3PM EDT

    The next SharePoint Shop Talk takes place tomorrow at 12:30 PM EDT.

    This is a free event to anyone that has a telephone.  A panel of SharePoint pro’s take questions and do their best to provide useful guidance and advice.  We regularly hijack audience members and make them answer questions and try to have a good time.

    Send your questions or topics to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com.

    Register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=sx9p9r6prwxp5mk9

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    November 04

    SharePoint Shop Talk for Thursday 11/05/09 @ 12:30PM EDT

    The next edition of SharePoint Shop Talk takes place Thursday, 11/05/09 at 12:30 PM EDT.

    Register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=gr5l4q66rv3f4xwj

    SharePoint Shop Talk is an open phone line, open Q&A to talk about all things SharePoint.

    If you have questions or topics that you’d like the panel to discuss, send them by email to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com or twitter them to me (pagalvin).

    I’m badly rushed for time this week, so I’ll leave it at that.  I usually like to preview some of the already-emailed questions.  This week, you’ll have to dial in to hear about it :)

    We hope to see you on line.

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    October 27

    SharePoint Shop Talk Thursday 10/29 at 12:30 PM EDT

    The next SharePoint Shop Talk takes place this Thursday at 12:30PM EDT.

    We’ve taken two weeks off (due to SharePoint Conference last week) and as a result, we have a number of questions in queue, not to mention all kinds of cool stuff to talk about regarding SharePoint 2010.  All of the panel members attended SPC, so bring your SP 2010 questions to the call or email them to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com.

    Aside from a good part of the call set aside to talk about some SP 2010 goodness, we’ll also discuss:

    • Why SharePoint shows different navigation options under site settings (this varies based on features and site configuration)
    • Modifying versions.aspx – problems, difficulties doing so (I”m not surprised :) ).
    • Embedding RSS feeds into a site when the source is authenticated.
    • Using stsadm to manage logging.

    Register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=p663256djrrflfdw

    As usual, send any questions or discussion topics to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com, email me directly or twitter to @pagalvin.

    We hope to see you there!

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    October 20

    SharePoint Conference 2009 – Get Your Real Time Raw Data From Twitter

    I expect that nearly everyone knows this anyway, but I thought I’d toss out a quick note that there’s a tremendous amount of very interesting information available via twitter.  The hash tag #SPC09 seems to be the most popular.  Like always, there’s a lot of silliness and “in” jokes, but if you can get past that, check it out.  I do my best to respond to comments or questions directed to me and I know that a lot of others do as well, so it’s not just a one-way flow of information.

    New sessions start in just under two hours and continue up until about 3pm EDT this Thursday.  It will start to pick up then.

    Check out the twitter feed here: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23spc09

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    October 08

    SharePoint Shop Talk Recap for 10-08-2009

    Today’s SharePoint Shop Talk covered its usual wide range of topics:

    • We discussed the issues around opening up parts of a SharePoint site collection to your trading partners.  It’s not the most complicated thing in the world, but when you start talking about out loud, you realize there are a lot of small individual things that need to be done to do this correctly.  You have to consider the firewall, licensing (your intranet SharePoint license may not be, and probably won’t be, sufficient), SharePoint configuration (AAM, extending web applications to zones that probably have HTTPS enabled), etc.  If anyone has a checklist of what to do and the sequence, I’d love to see it in comments.  This question wins the “Most Discussed Question” aware of the year (so far).
    • I got to ask a question about the image library functionality that generates those thumb nail images.  I speculated that an event receiver on the image library is generating the thumb nail.  I’m probably way off base, but it does seem like there’s an entirely separate image on the web server for the thumb nail itself.  Vamshi, a SharePoint Shop Talk regular, points out this blog entry: http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/picture-libraries-take-advantage-of-web-friendly-formats/.  That’s a pretty interesting post about images in SharePoint if you’re interested in it.
    • We discussed custom edit forms (that you create via SPD) and the fact that you lose the attachment functionality when you do that.  Laura Rogers has blogged on that subject here: http://sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura/archive/2009/09/10/fix-for-the-custom-form-attachments-issue.aspx

    This week, we introduced a new feature where we spent about 10 minutes demonstrating an interesting tip/trick in a SharePoint environment.  This week, we showed how to added a content editor web part (and actually any web part) to a newitem.aspx page.  In this case, the objective was to show some extensive online help for that newitem.aspx page.  This is also one of the usual starting points for integrating jQuery into your environment.  Next week, we do plan to show a jQuery tip/trick.  We hope to see you there. 

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    October 07

    SharePoint Shop Talk 10/08/08 at 12:30 PM EDT

    We’re hosting our next weekly SharePoint Shop Talk session tomorrow at 12:30 PM EDT.

    This is an open Q&A and general kibitzing session on all topics SharePoint related. 

    You can read various recaps of prior sessions here to get a sense of what we do on these calls here: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=cat%3dPublic%2520Speaking

    Registration is up and ready right here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=0z40kg9nb0t0842f

    Twitter your questions to me, @pagalvin.

    Email them to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com or just show up on the line and ask them out loud. 

    We hope to see you then!

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    October 04

    SharePoint Shop Talk Recap for Thursday 10/01/09

    I’ve noticed that people seem to be waiting until the last minute to register for SharePoint Shop Talk sessions.  Last Thursday, at about 11:45AM, we had nine people register, which is a very small number.  However, at one point, we had 18 or 20 people signed in, so at least nine people signed up for it 45 minutes or less before the call.  I’m not complaining, just observing.

    We had a full schedule of questions and discussion topics and couldn’t get to all of them.  As usual, we’ll pick up where we left off this coming Thursday.

    Here’s the recap:

    • Vamshi asked about building a WSS environment that has SP1 and not SP2.  You can download that configuration here:

      http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en.  And someone else suggested looking here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb400747.aspx.

    • We had a (welcome) surprise return visitor.  A few weeks previous, Blue had asked us a question that left everyone on the call a little sad because we couldn’t help.  His problem and solution are really fairly complicated, but it boils down to creating a data view web part with a range of filtered dates (not just one single filtered date, which is easier).  He may write up a blog entry on this and if does, I’ll link to it.  In the course of the discussion, he referred everyone to these two links:
    • Looping in SharePoint designer – can it be done?  The answer is “yes” in some narrow cirumstances.  However, to do it, you need to do some tricky stuff that is hard to conceptualize, hard to implement, hard to debug … it’s just plain hard.  The panel’s consensus – don’t do this if you can help it.  If you need looping, create custom actions or drop down into visual studio.  Of course, if you’re using SPD, you prob can’t easily drop down into VS, but it is what is is, sadly.
    • Speaking of sad, Nancy wins the “Make the Panel Sad” award by (futilely) asking about drag and drop from a data view web part.  The scenario is very interesting and if anyone has a clever solution, please let me know.  Here’s the problem: she has a DVWP that is doing some necessary filtering on a document library that returns back dozens or more documents.  This works great.  However, her users need to take those documents and burn them to CD.  This is doable using a windows explorer type view, but how to do it from DVWP?  We couldn’t think of a good answer.  Can you?
    • Laura Rogers, followed by Lori Gowan of www.endusersharepoint.com fame (and elsewhere) made us aware of the fact that attachments to InfoPath forms can be submitted via a web service to an image library in SharePoint.  Out of the box!  That is a very interesting fact with some very interesting implications.

    That’s pretty much it.  I probably missed something, but hopefully you get the gist of it.

    Even though I know you won’t actually sign up until noon, Thursday, here’s the registration link for the next session, Thursday 10/08 from 12:30 to 1:30 PM EDT: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=0z40kg9nb0t0842f

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    September 30

    SharePoint Shop Talk Thursday 10/01 @ 12:30 PM EDT (tomorrow!)

    SharePoint Shop Talk registration is up and ready for tomorrow.

    We have a few questions teed up that address some management issues (dev/test/prod and syncing up service packs), email notifications (how to select people to email based on metadata of a document) and some discussion around using InfoPath forms services in an FBA environment.

    As always, if you want to talk about a topic:

    You can read about past SharePoint Shop Talks on my blog here: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=cat%3dPublic%2520Speaking

    Register for the session here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=h6hm9ptg8zt7302t

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    September 25

    SharePoint Shop Talk Recap (09/24/09 edition)

    We finished our 8th SharePoint Shop Talk open Q&A session yesterday.  During that session, we covered the following topics:

    • How to send out a highly formatted email from a workflow created using SharePoint Designer.
    • Where to find information on the differences between SharePoint 2010 and especially Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (the free version of SharePoint). 
    • We discussed jQuery maintenance and management.  More specifically, “where should the jQuery go?”  We had a great discussion around this topic and one interesting new ideas (to me) is the idea of a content delivery network.   This bing search pulls up a lot of interesting data on the subject: http://www.bing.com/search?q=microsoft+content+delivery+network&FORM=DLSDF7&pc=MDDS&src=IE-SearchBox
    • Someone mentioned that parts (or maybe even all) of the up-coming mega conference in Las Vegas in October will be broadcast over the internets.  Check out this site for more information: http://www.week3.org/Events/default.aspx
    • We talked about RSS.  That discussion covered a lot of ground.  There’s a CodePlex project that does better RSS than what you get out of the box and www.endusersharepoint.com has some good articles up by Laura Rogers on how to use DVWP to build really good RSS sessions.

    That about covers it.  People seem to be getting a lot of help from these so we’ll keep them going.

    In a burst of efficiency, I’ve already set up next week’s SharePoint Shop Talk session.  You can register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=h6hm9ptg8zt7302t

    If you want to participate, fire off an email to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com, hit me up on twitter (@pagalvin) or leave a comment here.

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    September 23

    SharePoint Shop Talk Thursday 09/24 @ 12:30 PM EDT

    Registration is up and ready for tomorrow’s SharePoint Shop Talk at 12:30 PM.

    During these conference calls, a panel of experienced SharePoint pro’s take your questions via email, via live meeting or directly over the phone.  We do our best to provide independent expert advice on all topics related to SharePoint.

    Email your questions to “questions@sharepointshoptalk.com”, twitter them to me, leave a comment here or just show up on the call and ask.

    We also welcome and seek insight from audience members.

    You can read some recaps on previous SharePoint Shop Talk sessions on my blog.

    This week we already know we’ll be addressing questions relating to workflow (a constant favorite) and search to name a few.

    Register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=dv3m7cl30sxkq2n1

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    September 15

    SharePoint Shop Talk this Thursday 09/17/09 12:30 PM EDT to 1:30 PM EDT

    The next SharePoint Shop Talk takes place this Thursday, 09/17 at 12:30PM EDT.

    What is SharePoint Shop Talk?  It’s a one hour conference call where a panel of SharePoint pro’s answer questions.  Send your questions to “questions@sharepointshoptalk.com”, leave a comment on my blog here or just ask them out loud on the call.  The panel tries to offer several different approaches to solving the underlying problem behind the question and just generally provide unbiased expert advice.

    This week we continue with the same panel, including myself, my two Arcovis partners Harry Jones and Natalya Voskresenskaya and Laura Rogers of SharePoint911.

    Briefly recapping last week – we had more questions than we could answer, so this week, we’ll start off with those.  We had 34 registrants and I think 25 people actually joined the call.  We covered a wide variety of subjects that I would say were 75% end user oriented, including:

    • Strategies for rolling up content from sub-sites to top level sites inside and across site collections.
    • The impact of customizing editform.aspx using SharePoint Designer.
    • Dealing with the famous “collect data from a user” SharePoint Designer workflow action.
    • Using jQuery to solve some common user interface problems.
    • Time zone questions (for a geographically distributed environment)

    We covered several other items as well, but the details escaped me.

    I promised to do follow up with a live meeting to dig into one of the questions and still need to do that. 

    Register for this week’s session here: https://www323.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=bhj8dbrswhv1hv8r

    This week, we’re going to talk about at least:

    • Strategies for managing and getting at version history for documents
    • Suitability and ideas around using SharePoint as a front end that allows your customers to view some financial data.
    • Workflow questions (as usual).

    We’ll see and hear you there!

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    September 12

    SharePoint Saturday New York

    I’ve uploaded my presentation for the New York SharePoint Saturday here: http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePoint/Follow%20the%20Yellow%20Brick%20Road%20to%20SharePoint%20Mastery.pptx

    It’s not terribly useful if you don’t go to the presentation, but I do hope to add a lot of notes between now and Tampa, when I present it again.  That would give it more legs and context and be more generally useful.

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    September 08

    SharePoint Shop Talk Thursday, 09/10/09 at 12:30PM EDT

    SharePoint Shop Talk continues this Thursday at 12:30 PM EDT to 1:30PM EDT.  This will be our 5th call I believe.  SharePoint Shop Talk works like this:

    • A panel of SharePoint Experts answer questions.  This week the panel includes Laura Rogers, Natalya Voskresenskaya, Harry Jones and me.
    • Any SharePoint question is fair game. 
    • Send or ask questions:
      • By email: info@arcovis.com
      • Twitter directly to @pagalvin
      • Leave a comment on this blog
      • Write the question down on the back of a piece of poster board, one side of which is covered with $20 bills and mailed to my home address (leave a comment and I will be in touch with you directly).
      • Lastly, dial into the call and just ask it out loud.

    This week we have a few questions around SharePoint workflow.  Two sample questions:

    • “How do I deploy a SharePoint Designer workflow from development to test?”
    • “Does SharePoint Designer workflow work well with InfoPath?  How I can share information between an InfoPath form and a SharePoint Designer workflow?”

    This week’s SharePoint Shop Talk registration is up.  Click here to register.  We hope to hear you there!

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    September 02

    SharePoint Shop Talk Thursday, 09/03 at 12:30 PM EDT

    We resume SharePoint Shop Talk tomorrow at 12:30 PM EDT.  As usual, if there are any topics or questions you’d like the panel to address, please email them to info@arcovis.com.

    This week we are drawing a few questions from the www.endusersharepoint.com Stump The Panel forums:

    • “I understand that a parent site and a child site cannot communicate. For instance, I would like to either push data from a list in a child site to a list in a parent site or have the parent site pull data from child site. Is there a way to design a workflow to accomplish having data sent for pulled from lists in a parent/child site relationship?”
    • “On my newform.aspx for my main list, I have a lookup column that points to the title column in my employee list.

      In the employee list, there is another column that is a checkbox named 'active'.

      What I would like to happen is on the newform of the main list, when they click on the dropdown it only displays the records from the employee list that are marked active.

      Is there a way to filter the dropdown on the mainlist's newform.aspx so it only displays the ones marked active?”

    • “I know this is simple but, for the life of me I can't get it to work! We have a discussion board that we built a date field into call expiration. I would like to automatically have expired items delete after their expiration date. If you could send me a screen shot of the workflow it would be much appreciated. Basically if expired = today then delete current item “
    • “I am trying to set up a sign-up list for a blood drive, wherein once a time slot is chosen, it is no longer available. Is there a way to do this, besides just making an Excel-type spreadsheet be the sign-up? “

    And if we have time:

    • How many SharePoint experts does it take to change a light bulb?

    In addition, we answer questions directly from email and we’re open to questions any time on the call itself.

    Register here: https://www323.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=0dc4shjthnl6d0mm

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    August 24

    Cloud Computing, Emphasizing SharePoint

    In lieu of a SharePoint Shop Talk session this Thursday, my partners and I at Arcovis are teaming up with Cloud Strategies and Integrated Systems and Services Group to give what I hope will be an interesting presentation on Microsoft’s online services, focusing on the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).  Arcovis actually uses BPOS for its internal SharePoint portal so we have some hands on experience and the kind of experience borne of daily use.  In fact, the demo itself is running in our very own BPOS environment.

    You can read all the gory sales details here but the main points are:

  • The Cloud Computing Value Proposition: When to Consider Moving to the Cloud
  • Microsoft's Online Services: Business Productivity Online Suite Overview
  • SharePoint™ Online Spotlight
  • Live Demonstration: Empowering your Business using SharePoint Online
  • How to Get Started with Cloud Computing


    I’ll be giving the live demo and I think it should be interesting in its own right, divorced of the whole cloud / online thing.  I’m going to describe a very common business process, the famous New Hire / On-boarding process.  I’ll demonstrate a solution that uses SharePoint to implement that process.  The demo will include notifications, a dashboard and just generally cool visibility to what’s going on with new hires.

    I’ve personally implemented this solution for three separate companies, so I know it’s a pretty common process that people like to automate using SharePoint.   With luck, Arcovis will be using this ourselves soon enough :)

    So, if you’ve had any interest in cloud computing from a very practical SharePoint point of view, this webinar is just what you need to do this Thursday :)

    Register here: https://www323.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=1dcgz55vlpm0psn3

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  • August 21

    SharePoint Talk Shop Recap

    We held our 3rd SharePoint Shop Talk session yesterday.  Twenty-five folk braved the overly aggressive registration screen (we’re working on that!) to sign up and dial into the call. 

    The topics varied widely although they were a bit more end user and light admin focused this time.  We spent a lot of time discussing the age old question, “how do I secure a view”.  There was some SharePoint Designer in there, a bit of content deployment, version of web parts on publishing pages (there really isn’t any versioning for web parts), best practices for setting up security (answer = “it depends” and keep in mind Joris’ post here: http://jopx.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharepoint-and-2000-principal-limit.html) and analytics (which led to promoting Todd Klindt’s post here about LogParser and SharePoint: http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=85). 

    A pattern seems to be forming with these calls.  A question is emailed in or asked during the Q&A and the bottom line answer is “it depends.”  The panel discusses various angles to the question, we may stray off onto the odd tangent or two, but in the end, we’ve had a pretty thorough discussion of that topic.  My goal with these sessions is that question asker walks away from the call with more options to solve her problem than she had before she joined the call.  I think it’s safe to say that that’s happening (in fact, she may have too many options in some cases).

    Next week, my colleagues and I at Arcovis are jointly presenting a webinar with two of our partners, Integrated Systems and Services Group and Cloud Strategies about Microsoft Online services.  I think it’s going to be very informative.  Our role (Arcovis) is to present a short demo on how to build a real world solution using Microsoft on line.  We’re going to demonstrate a human resources application to manage the on-boarding process for new hires.  If you’ve wondered about MS Online, check this webinar out. 

    This webinar probably means that we won’t be holding a Shop Talk session next week, but keep tuned :)  If we do have it, it won’t be on Thursday.

    Once again, my thanks goes to the panel: Harry Jones, Natalya Voskresenskaya and Laura Rogers.  Thanks, guys!

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    August 19

    SharePoint Shop Talk (Open Q&A) This Thursday, 08/20/09 at 12:30PM EDT

    We are holding our 3rd SharePoint Shop Talk session tomorrow, 08/20 from 12:30 to 1:30 PM EDT.

    You can read about last week’s session here: SharePoint Shop Talk Thoughts and Reactions

    Bring your questions or email them in advance to info@arcovis.com.

    Register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=xnddgb0b7zh5w9xs

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    August 14

    SharePoint Shop Talk Thoughts and Reactions

    We held our second “SharePoint Shop Talk” session yesterday and it was a lot of fun.  We had fewer attendees this time (mainly because our partner, ISSG, didn’t send out a big email invite to their customer base).  On the other hand, we had probably more than twice as many questions to answer.  We had so many, in fact, that we couldn’t get to all of them, so now we have a little bit of a head start on questions for next week’s Shop Talk session.  The questions and our responses touched on data view web parts, setting user region specific information programmatically, SharePoint designer workflows, crazy infrastructure question about Kerberos (that was probably a plant by Bob Fox) and jQuery.  Sadly, no banjo jokes, however.  Sigh…

    We’ve registered the site, www.sharepointshoptalk.com and we want start using that to do all the usual things, like announce the schedule of calls, put up the recordings of the sessions and the questions/answers themselves.  (don’t bother clicking the link as there isn’t any content there as yet).

    On yesterday’s call, we had the original expert panel which included my Arcovis partners (Natalya Voskresenskaya and Harry Jones).  We added Laura Rogers of EUSP.com (and elsewhere) fame.  To top it all off, SharePoint MVP Bil Simser joined the call and we roped him into the discussion.  Bil even dusted off an old blog entry and updated it in response to one of the questions. 

    If you’re interesting in participating as an “official” panel member, fire off an email to info@arcovis.com and let us know (I promise that that email address now works!) or DM me, Natalya or Harry via Twitter.

    Thanks Bil and Laura!

    That’s a lot of SharePoint firepower on the line ready to answer your questions as best we can. 

    I’ll be posting details for the next SharePoint Talk Shop session on my blog and twitter. 

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    August 11

    SharePoint Shop Talk Open Q&A Session Thursday 08/13 @ 12:30 PM EDT

    Arcovis will be hosting our second “SharePoint Shop Talk” session this Thursday at 12:30 PM EDT.  Show up with your SharePoint questions and we’ll do our best to entertain you with banjo jokes, smart but harmless put-downs of our fellow panelists and maybe even answer a question or two.  This week’s “official” panel includes yours truly, my Arcovis partners (Natalya Voskresenskaya and Harry Jones) and Laura Rodgers (of twitter & EndUserSharePoint fame).  Bob fox threatened to join too, but I don’t take that too seriously.  Last time, we had a great level of audience participation which blurred the line between panelists and attendees and I expect the same will happen Thursday.

    This event is co-sponsored by Integrated Systems and Services Group (www.issgroup.net).

    Please register here: https://www323.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=9xrzxfs9x34sb0sm

    If you have questions that you’d like us to take, just dial into the call and ask it.  If you want us to think about it first, send us an email or leave a comment here.

    See you then!

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