The SharePoint Guys
The blog of the SharePoint Guys from Microsoft Consulting Services, UK.
Luke Bailey
Luke Bailey is a recent graduate from the University of York with an MEng in Electronic Engineering....
Date: 08/16/2013
Scripted Installation of SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps Server – From the Field (Part 4)
This is fourth post in the scripted installation of SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps Server blog...
Date: 08/06/2013
Scripted Installation of SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps Server – From the Field (Part 3)
This is third post in the Scripted Installation of SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps Server blog...
Date: 05/23/2013
Uploading Files Using the REST API and Client Side Techniques
Over the past few months I have, on several occasions, been asked how to upload a file to SharePoint...
Date: 04/20/2013
SharePoint 2013 Development (Apps versus Solutions)
SharePoint 2013 is a strong development platform for building solutions and apps addressing...
Date: 03/25/2013
Scripted Installation of SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps Server – From the Field (Part 2)
This is the second post in the Scripted Installation of SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps Server...
Date: 03/18/2013
Manipulating list items in SharePoint Hosted Apps using the REST API
In this post I will describe how to use the REST API to manipulate list items from within a...
Date: 02/22/2013
James Glading
James Glading is an Associate Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services. A recent graduate from...
Date: 02/06/2013
SharePoint 2013 Ports, Proxies and Protocols - An Overview of Farm Communications
In locked down environments, understanding communications paths of a server product is essential....
Date: 01/21/2013
Managing Different Styles of Development Team (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second part that looks at different styles of SharePoint development teams. The premise...
Date: 01/07/2013
Scripted Installation of SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps Server – From the Field (Part 1)
This is the first in a series of posts where I will talk about my involvement in the TAP (Technology...
Date: 12/07/2012
SharePoint Saturday 2012
I'm pleased to announce that Microsoft Consulting Services UK are presenting 2 sessions at...
Date: 11/28/2012
Paul Grimley
Paul is a Senior Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services, UK. After working with a Microsoft...
Date: 11/28/2012
Managing Different Styles of Development Teams
Within Microsoft Services, Solution Architects cover the full range of activities from pre-sales...
Date: 11/12/2012
Automating Site Mailboxes in SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013
One of the completely new features to ship with SharePoint and Exchange 2013 is the new Site...
Date: 10/19/2012
SharePoint 2013 Technical Preview Development Environment - Dependencies, Versions, Downloads
I have worked with various incarnations of pre-release software installed on development machines....
Date: 10/05/2012
Marek Samaj
Marek is a Senior Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK. He enjoys working with...
Date: 09/06/2012
Phased rollout of SharePoint 2013 Preview
Many customers are keen to evaluate and understand the technology impact of new product versions. In...
Date: 09/06/2012
On Gardens and Governance (4th post)
This is the last in a series of posts that uses the analogy that looking after SharePoint in your...
Date: 05/10/2012
The experiences of a new starter at Microsoft Services
My career life has always been focused on Microsoft products and services. Working for a Microsoft...
Date: 05/03/2012
How to create a site provisioning capability within SharePoint’s Sandbox constraints
This article offers a design for providing a controlled mechanism for SharePoint sub-site creation...
Date: 02/22/2012
James Kemp Moving on...
After working as a SharePoint Consultant within Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) for a number of...
Date: 01/16/2012
Content Organizer: iCustomRouter Pending State Issue
The Content Organizer in SharePoint 2010 is a Feature that enables the routing of content to defined...
Date: 12/02/2011
SharePoint Server 2010 - 10 Steps to Disaster Recovery
This article aims to help anyone creating a Disaster Recovery (DR) design/strategy for SharePoint...
Date: 08/31/2011
On Gardens and Governance (3rd post)
This is the third in a series of posts that plays around with the idea that looking after SharePoint...
Date: 08/01/2011
Multi-Tenanted SharePoint 2010 Platforms
Since the emergence of the cloud, more specifically ‘Software as a Service’ or SAAS,...
Date: 07/22/2011
Talking Office 365 Podcast - The business case for the Social Features of SharePoint
The latest episode of Talking Office 365 podcast has an interview with Rob Finney from the MCS UK...
Date: 06/07/2011
SharePoint Workspace 2010 – Offline Working Capabilities
This blog article aims to: Highlight some of the Offline Working functionality provided by Microsoft...
Date: 05/31/2011
On Gardens and Governance (2nd post)
This is the second in a series of posts that plays around with the idea that looking after...
Date: 04/28/2011
Custom Search Control Not Being Displayed in Meeting Workspace
Objective: Include an additional search control adjacent to the standard search box on a Meeting...
Date: 04/14/2011
Quick Tip: Provisioning a List View to a Web Part Page
Following on from my recent post (Provisioning Web Parts to a Page), I had a question asking how to...
Date: 04/12/2011
Phillip Marsh
Phillip is a Solutions Architect at Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK.
Date: 04/11/2011
Wayne Filin-Matthews
With more than 19 years of experience in the IT industry. In 2007, I joined Microsoft on the...
Date: 04/10/2011
Deploying Files to the Root of a SharePoint Web Application
I’ve recently been working on a project where a Silverlight App sitting on a separate url calls...
Date: 04/08/2011
Jason Heyes
Jason is a Solutions Architect at Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK.
Date: 04/07/2011
How To Remove "Use My Local Drafts Folder" Checkbox
Lots of customers I work with establish a requirement that files must be 'checked out' from...
Date: 04/06/2011
Quick Tip: Provisioning Web Parts to a Page
When deploying a page to SharePoint through a Modules feature, there are several options adding web...
Date: 04/04/2011
On Gardens and Governance
Just as a garden needs continual maintenance in order to maintain its appearance, so also SharePoint...
Date: 03/15/2011
Callum Shillan
Callum has over 25 years' experience in the IT industry. Most of this has been involved in the...
Date: 03/15/2011
SharePoint 2010 - Infrastructure Sizing - Lessons Learned on Search
If you've ever worked with a client that has tens of thousands of users and millions of files to...
Date: 03/04/2011
Christopher Walker
Whilst SharePoint gives us daily challenges and keeps us employed, clients do get excited about it...
Date: 03/04/2011
Jay Goodison
I have recently joined Microsoft Consulting Services as a senior consultant having spent the past 10...
Date: 03/03/2011
Updated Permissions Spreadsheet for SharePoint 2010
Permissions within SharePoint provide a great way of controlling access to SharePoint sites and...
Date: 10/20/2010
Office Communicator integration (Presence) in a custom webpart for SharePoint 2010
I recently spent a while trying to integrate the Office Communicator presence pawn into a custom web...
Date: 05/06/2010
Introducing Site Directory for SharePoint 2010
Those of you that have spent some time looking at SharePoint 2010, may have noticed that the Site...
Date: 04/05/2010
SharePoint 2010 – NEW Social Computing Features
This blog post aims to provide an overview of some of the Social Computing Features available in...
Date: 01/11/2010
Configuring Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Search in SharePoint 2010
One of the feature in SharePoint 2010 which has received one of the bigger facelifts is Business...
Date: 12/18/2009
Installing SharePoint 2010 on a single machine
When SharePoint 2007 was in beta, I wrote a blog article about how to install it on a single...
Date: 11/17/2009
SharePoint Server 2007 For Worldwide Health and Beyond...
Recently, James Kemp and James Daniel, both contributors of this blog, showcased freely available...
Date: 10/27/2009