With the release date of SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 closing in, I wonder what’s next for Microsoft. They’re probably already planning on the next release; the one that comes after 2010, may be 2014 or something like that :-) I say that because if you ... [Read More]

There are glimmers of good news to be found in the newly published SANS report on The Top Cyber Security Risks which is an exhaustive survey of attack data collected from the intrusion prevention systems of over 6000 organizations. But the report ... [Read More]

We all know that the question of how and what should be customized in regards to My Sites in SharePoint often comes up in the branding and customization conversation. I recently had one of those and thought would share my thoughts with you and expan ... [Read More]

During the past couple weeks, I had the opportunity to work with a client that was interested in putting together an eye-catching web site that would be purely informational in nature.  Knowing that Silverlight 3 has a new project template for nav ... [Read More]

With the upcoming release of Microsoft Windows 7 many enterprises are re-evaluating the state of their legacy desktop applications, both custom developed and purchased from third-parties, and are finding that migrating those applications to Window ... [Read More]

Value converters are a simple object implementing the IValueConverter interface that are used to take in a value and based on that value, derive another value.  Typically, value converters are used for display logic.  For example, we may create a ... [Read More]

Hello and welcome to our blog. My name is Johnny Harbieh and I lead our Portals and Collaboration Practice here in the Twin Cities. I am currently working with my peers across the nation to help build and support our key Microsoft Service offering ... [Read More]

I was recently tasked with creating a demonstration for a company that involved creating a video player to place into a SharePoint Web Part.  The end result turned out to be very nice and was based upon the Silverlight SharePoint Blueprint proje ... [Read More]

I was recently brought into a SharePoint project to help fix some bugs and generally be there as an extra resource while the team prepared for various “go live” dates.  One issue we were having was a failure to post form data to another web site f ... [Read More]

Introduction: Hello and welcome to the Analysts International Microsoft Practice Blog! I am Jay Lendl, a member of AIC’s Microsoft National Practice.  I have been with Analysts for about six months.  I am excited to launch this blog and look fo ... [Read More]