Jim Jackson

I found this a week or so ago, lost it and then found it again. At only 29 minutes, its an ideal starter for a develper with my background to create, deploy and activate a feature for a site or site collection. Well spoken and concise with a lot of bits and pieces described in just enough detail to get you working.

I started looking into this guy a week or so ago and have been very impressed with the volume of training info he is either responsible for or finds. I haven't gotten too deeply into any of it yet but it seems pretty well targeted for what I'm doing these days.

*sigh*

In my current position, it always helps to take a small step back and do something else for a little while. I'm working on a simple problem involving building a reporting services report (SSRS) from a SharePoint task list. It will involve building the report against a dataset that was created programmatically. I've looked and can find no secure way of reporting directly against a list of data within the current user's context. Once complete I'll post how I did it. That's not the problem.

So this is an inappropriate venue for this but its been on my mind a lot since my trip to China to adopt my second daughter.

Here is the book that was recommended to me. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion. Its very well written when compared to some of the books I've read recently (see my old blog). It also has a companion CD with the complete searchable PDF which is also nice. It does, however, read like an administrators book. This is good for when you want to accomplish something but bad when you want to just read it for knowledge.

Some observations about SharePoint and MOSS after working to master it for 2 1/2 weeks. By the way, I have as yet, not mastered it.

Joel Oleson, on the SharePoint Team Blog has posted a sample deployment plan for a MOSS installation. Looks pretty comprehensive.