February 6th, 2010
Once 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
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December 6th, 2009
Monday, 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.
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November 17th, 2009
ThirdM 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
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November 4th, 2009
Talbott 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/
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April 24th, 2009
When 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:
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March 26th, 2009
F# User Group is now online at http://fsug.org. Michael de la Maza, Rick Minerich, and Talbott Crowell are the group leads. Headquartered in New England, this user group aims at offering global community learning and networking around F#.
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January 27th, 2009
ThirdM will be one of the sponsors at SharePoint Saturday Boston on March 14, 2008. Talbott Crowell will be speaking at the event as well. If you are interested in attending or speaking check out http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston.
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January 23rd, 2009
Talbott Crowell will be speaking tomorrow at New England Data Camp 1.0 tomorrow on. Here is the synopsis:
Automating SQL Server Database Creation for SharePoint
In this session, Talbott will discuss the use of the SharePoint API for provisioning content databases in SQL Server to store documents. There are several scenarios that you will want to control and manage the database creation when building specialized applications using SharePoint. Topics include planning and estimating size requirements plus strategies around partitioning data into content databases. Attendees include SQL Server DBA’s supporting SharePoint installations and applications.
When: Saturday, January 24 at 11:15 AM to 12:30 PM
Where: Microsoft Waltham Office, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA
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January 21st, 2009
Tomorrow, Talbott Crowell will be speaking with Chris Bowen on F# at the sold-out MSDN Developer Conference in Boston.
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December 14th, 2008
Talbott Crowell, ThirdM’s Chief Software Architect, will be speaking at SharePoint Saturday, New York, on Feb 21, 2009 at the Microsoft office in New York City.
Watch for updates.
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