ThirdM again, is proud to host SharePoint Saturday Boston on April 9, 2011. Registration is now open, click here to register: http://spsboston.eventbrite.com/
SharePoint Saturday Boston, April 9, 2011
March 17th, 2011SharePoint Saturday Boston - April 9, 2011
February 10th, 2011ThirdM is proud to host the 4th SharePoint Saturday Boston. SPS Boston will be held on Saturday, April 9th at Microsoft in Waltham, Massachusetts. We hope to see you at this free event.
Want to speak at SharePoint Saturday Boston? Download the call for speakers form using the following link http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston/default.aspx and follow instructions. Speaker submissions are due on March 5th.
SharePoint Saturday Hartford
February 10th, 2011ThirdM helped co-host the first SharePoint Saturday Hartford on January 29, 2011. The sold out event was a huge success featuring industry expert speakers from not only Connecticut, but also Chicago, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Thirty sessions, three tracks, and lots of community spirit.
SharePoint Saturday Boston 3: September 25, 2010
September 24th, 2010Tomorrow will be the 3rd SharePoint Saturday Boston event. ThirdM’s Talbott Crowell and Pradeepa Siva along with Geoff Varosky of Grace-Hunt have been organizing this event to a record number of registered attendees. So far we have over 400 people registred to attend tomorrow. With over 30 speakers covering a range of SharePoint topics, this free event is a goldmine opportunity for SharePoint professionals to learn more about this exciting and booming technology.
Talbott will be opening the event and also giving a talk on Automating SharePoint with PowerShell. So join us for this exciting free event. For more information visit:
ThirdM proud Sponsor of Boston Area SharePoint User Group
May 11th, 2010The BASPUG (Boston Area SharePoint User Group) launches tomorrow:
We have over 120 registered, so if you plan on going and haven’t done so already, register now. Food, prizes, and a great speaker: Chris Bortlik of Microsoft, who was one of the top rated speakers at SharePoint Saturday Boston in March. So join us. Here is more info:
INAUGURAL MEETING
We will be holding our first meeting on May 12th, 2010, from 6pm – 8pm EST at the Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center. Our speaker will be Chris Bortlik of Microsoft, presenting “Introducing SharePoint 2010”. Our first meeting will also coincide with the official launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Watch the live launch event during the day, and come and see SharePoint 2010 in action at night!
A little bit about Chris…
Chris Bortlik works at Microsoft as a SharePoint technology specialist. He works with Enterprise customers and partners in the Northeast in a pre-sales technical role. Chris speaks frequently at Microsoft events (including the SharePoint Conference) and is a contributing author of the upcoming “Essential SharePoint 2010″ book. He also publishes a blog on TechNet at: http://blogs.technet.com/cbortlik/ Prior to joining Microsoft in 2008, Chris was a customer for 14 years working in technical IT architect, development and management roles – primarily leading .NET and SharePoint related projects.
SharePoint Saturday Boston: February 27, 2010
February 6th, 2010Once again, ThirdM will be hosting SharePoint Saturday Boston at the Microsoft office on Jones Road in Waltham, MA. You must register to attend because we have limited space. We already have 152 people registered, so if you are interested in attending please register at:
https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=145192
SharePoint Saturday has been held in almost 40 cities world wide. If you or your company are interested in sponsoring or hosting the event in your area contact us. To learn more about SharePoint Saturday visit the main web site at:
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org
This event coming up on Februay 27th, 2010 is going to be fantastic. We have 30 speakers (some local and some from all over the country flying in) to speak about SharePoint 2010 and MOSS 2007 topics in three different tracks: End User, Developer, and Administrator. Architects may be interested in all three. To learn more about the speakers and sessions SharePoint Saturday event in Boston, visit:
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston
Look forward to seeing you there!
Talbott Crowell
Parallel Programming with F# Talk
December 6th, 2009Monday, Dec 7th, 2010 at 6:30 PM at Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center located at 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, Talbott Crowell will be speaking on Parallel Programming with F# to the F# User Group. All are welcome to join. We have free pizza and welcome participation. Bring your laptops.
SharePoint 2010 Beta available on MSDN and Technet
November 17th, 2009ThirdM is very excited about this release of SharePoint. We believe this will be the version that makes the custom development story much more compelling on SharePoint. Read about Talbott Crowell (ThirdM’s Chief Architect) and his experience with the beta on his blog at http://bit.ly/2UfWrU
Intro to F# - Waltham, MA on Nov 5
November 4th, 2009Talbott Crowell, Chief Software Architect of ThirdM and co-founder of the New England F# User Group http://fsug.org will be giving an Introduction to F# talk at the Microsoft office at 201 Jones Rd, Waltham, MA on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:15 PM. This is a presentation at the monthly New England Visual Basic Professionals user group. For more info please see http://www.nevb.com/
Difference between WSS and MOSS
April 24th, 2009When we describe SharePoint to our customers, we often need to describe the difference between WSS and MOSS. Here are the highlights.
SharePoint = WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 (or both)
WSS = Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
MOSS = Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007
The previous version of SharePoint was WSS 2.0 + SPS 2003 (SharePoint Portal Server), but we will be talking about WSS 3 and MOSS 2007 here.
WSS is part of Windows Server, specifically Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. It is not automatically installed. You must first install IIS (Internet Information Server) and ASP.NET 2.0, plus .NET 3.0. These components are found either on your Windows Server media (CD/DVD) or through Windows Update. The important thing to understand is WSS is part of your Windows Server license.
MOSS is a separate product. MOSS requires either a MOSS Standard or MOSS Enterprise license. These both install from the same media, just require a different activation key. MOSS builds on top of WSS and adds additional components such as enhanced search, My Sites, Business Data Connector, Excel Services, and other features.
WSS and MOSS offer many of the same collaboration features:
- Site provisioning
- Document management (check in/check out)
- Discussions
- Wikis, Blogs, RSS Feeds
- Basic workflow
- Custom lists
MOSS builds upon WSS and adds:
- Additional workflows
- Web content management (web publishing features)
- Records management
- Auditing
- Additional search such as people search
- My Sites (each user has their own personal site with public and private areas)
- Enterprise features such as Excel Services and BDC
Both WSS and MOSS use SQL Server to store content and configuration. If you don’t explicitly install or configure SharePoint to use a specific SQL Server instance, the stand alone installation will create something called Windows Internal Database (which is a variant of SQL Server Express). This special version of SQL Server should be avoided for most business installations of SharePoint. But you can use Windows Internal Database for development, demo, or trial instances of SharePoint.
For more information about the differences here are some more descriptions:
- Microsoft Office Online: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Edition Comparison
- Craig Bailey on Microsoft: CLARITY: SharePoint - WSS versus MOSS
- SharePoint for End Users: Differences between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007