7/1/2009So 7 readers, does anyone have the time? I often answer SharePoint questions via email, and got a great question today that I thought was worth providing here are Sharing The Point. This user had a SharePoint application with users in the United States and in the United Kingdom. However, they were having a hard time determining the timestamps on their documents based on their different time zones (and to make it worse 12hr vs. 24 hr). No worries!
Background
Every application should have a Time Zone configured for Default Time Zone for sites existing in that site collection. This is set in the Web Application General Settings in Central Administration.
My Settings
By default, users’ settings will follow the regional settings configured for the web application (and subsequent sites). But they don’t have to. Users can change their regional settings under Welcome Menu > My Settings. 
On the User Information page, the user (Ricky Hatton in our case) should then select My Regional Settings. 
Uncheck the box for: Always follow web settings. Then the user can select which time zone they are and select the Ok button.  Results To show the result, we have Dan Lewis (umm, that’s me) in the GMT-05:00 Eastern Time Zone. And we have Ricky Hatton (he’s a Boxer) in the GMT Greenwich Mean Time zone. 24 Hour Twist Well that’s just rocking, but what if Ricky was a peculiar fellow, and kept track of time in the 24 hr format (aka: Military Time)? No worries, Ricky can select his preferred Time Format in regional settings as well. 
And then his date time stamps will display in 24 hr format. 
So there you have it, the time in SharePoint. Speaking of time, it was about time I actually got around to writing a blog post. Sorry 7 readers, I’ve been one busy fellow lately but I’m back at the keyboard now. Here’s to a great summer! 6/23/2009
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update: updated post date of this post so those that attended SharePoint Saturday Charlotte can reference it
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I’m a big fan of SharePoint user groups. You don’t always have to go to a conference/code camp/sharepoint saturday to attend some great sessions on SharePoint.
I’m also a fan of the Carolinas – North and South. I was born in Raleigh NC, grew up in Charlotte NC, stationed at Camp Lejeune NC, vacationed to beaches in SC, and I’ve vacationed to mountains in NC. I can date back the history of my family to Eastern NC, where they fought in the Revolutionary War. I have roots here, and well – it’s a fantastic place to work and live. The Carolina’s also have a big stake in SharePoint. Military branches, the Financial industry, Medical Research, to name a few. Through-out the Carolinas you are more than likely in an area that has a SharePoint User Group. So next time you are up for some ‘free’ education and networking with SharePoint peers, head out to a user group near you. Asheville, NC (Western NC)
The Western North Carolina SharePoint User Group is based in Asheville, NC and hopes to provide a wealth of knowledge and resources to SharePoint Developers, Users, and Administrators in the region. Bi-Monthly meetings will feature guest speakers and presenters who are prominent members of the SharePoint community. The mission of each meeting is to provide useful information to SharePoint users and professionals. Come out and enjoy! http://www.wncsug.com/ Charleston, SC
The Charleston SharePoint User Group is a group designed for those interested in SharePoint technologies. Membership is free. We plan to host monthly meetings with industry leading speakers. Please join the group for notice of meeting times and location. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50989546219 Charlotte, NC (Charlotte Area)
The Charlotte SharePoint User Group meets every other month. The group provides a venue for SharePoint developers, users, administrators, and business stake holders to gather in discussion about Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). The meetings consist of presentations from knowledgeable resources within the SharePoint community, and popular product vendors that support SharePoint. After each meeting is a networking mixer providing everyone with the opporunity to meet other SharePoint users in the Charlotte area. http://sharepoint.casug.org/
Fayetteville, NC (Sandhills region)
This SPUG is for the SharePoint community in the Sandhills region of North Carolina. What is the Sandhills? We are located in many counties, Moore, Cumberland, Hoke, Harnett, Robeson, and Bladen. Sandhills SharePoint User Group meets monthly, the third Thursday of each month. http://www.sharepointgroups.org/sites/SSPUG/default.aspx Raleigh, NC (Triangle)
Welcome to the Triangle SharePoint User Group. Formed in 2008 our mission is to provide an outlet for developers, IT, and business users who are interested in learning, sharing, and growing their knowledge in Microsoft SharePoint. Our goal is to bring together local, regional, and national speakers to share their knowledge of SharePoint and foster the SharePoint community in the greater Raleigh Durham area. We cover the entire spectrum of SharePoint topics. We meet on the 1st Tuesday of each month. Attendance is free and informal. All interest levels and experience levels are welcome! http://www.trispug.com Winston Salem, NC (Triad)
The group meets on the second Wednesday of every month at 3:00 p.m. at a sponsored location. If you have any questions then read through their FAQ. http://www.triadsharepoint.org/Pages/About.aspx
If you have a SharePoint User Group in the Carolinas that isn’t listed here, please let me know so I can update this list. If you are thinking of starting a SharePoint User Group, feel free to reach out and I can give some general direction on getting one started.
6/3/2009If you are one of the 7 readers of this blog, then you have seen a post or two from me in reference to stsadm and some tips to it: Shortcuts, command history, posters, etc… Well snap! The SharePoint Server TechCenter just published another fantastic tool (in Silverlight) for us stsadm challenged people. So, what can you do with it? - You can search for a command, and as you do it will filter out commands that don’t match your search term
- You can filter commands by Operations / Properties
- You can also filter commands by UI/SP1/SP2/ALL
- Click on a header to Hide/Show that column
- And the best part of all (the reason you would use this tool), you can click on a command name to get a description of the command, with a link directly to additional content for the command on TechNet.
 Big thanks to the team for providing this to us! It rocks, so go check it out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/cc948709.aspx 5/31/2009I’m posting this here to help spread the word for the SharePoint Saturday Charlotte team (although I told them I only have 7 readers, they insisted anyway). I won’t be speaking at it, but it sounds like a great event.
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Registration Is Almost Full! Dear SharePointer, The SharePoint Saturday Charlotte event is open for registration, but has a limited amount of spots still open. Do not wait to register! SharePoint Saturday Charlotte is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of topics focused on Microsoft SharePoint technologies. SharePoint Saturday Charlotte is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint! - Full day of SharePoint Sessions covering all areas of SharePoint
- Learn from the MVPs, Authors, Community Leaders, and Professionals
- Begin your day with breakfast
- Lunch will be provided during the middle of the day
- SharePoint Giveaways at the end (books, etc…)
- Great Zune Giveaway
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Event Details When is SharePoint Saturday Charlotte?
June 20th, 2009, Saturday Where will SharePoint Saturday Charlotte be held?
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| 5/29/2009Warning to my 7 readers: this post is more of a rant than informational. You know, sometimes things just aren’t worth arguing. I’ve never really understood why people actually go to protests, or for that matter why people even bother putting a sticker on the back of their car representing their view on an issue (presidential, religious, etc…). And you Apple folks that have that white apple sticker on your car window – seriously, what’s wrong with you? I’ll be the first to claim I’m a Microsoft fan, but you will never see a ‘Windows’ sticker on my car. I’m off track here, back to the SharePoint haters. So, there really are a lot of people out there that don’t like SharePoint. I’ve been saving “sharepoint hate” tweets from Twitter for the last couple of weeks, just ones that I thought that were funny. I was saving them for a blog post, but I think I’ll go ahead and put them up now. Why? Because this week Google announced Google Wave, which everyone is proclaiming or hinting will be a threat to SharePoint. Don’t get me wrong, Google Wave looks neat. Looks cool. Looks fun to play with. But as an Enterprise Information Management System with all of the other bells and whistles (Business Intelligence, Workflow, Search, etc…) seriously? The same was said with the likes of other open source products out there like Alfresco. Oh – and remember when Google Sites came out? Ya, it was the ‘WSS Killer’ as well. Until a true software company actually puts R&D (and 9 yrs of product development) into a competitive system, SharePoint will always be the ECM giant that it is. There’s a reason folks that last year, half of the top 10 intranets were running on SharePoint. And Google Wave… I personally can’t wait until the wave comes and makes its splash, and then turns into a silent ripple. So there, I guess in essence I just put a ‘sticker’ on my blog. But really – you already knew my stance right? And now for some funny tweets. Hopefully Microsoft has addressed some of the ‘challenges’ that people face with SharePoint with SharePoint Server 2010, and there will be less haters. In most cases that I have personally seen, users don’t like SharePoint because they don’t know how to do something in it. Well, I don’t like video games when I suck at them and I find that somewhat comparative to people who hate SharePoint. So SharePointers out there, educate your users how to use SharePoint, then maybe they won’t hate your guts, or SharePoint for that matter. ;) - Morning! While you're at the Microsoft Campus, can you find the SharePoint people and open up the ammobox on them please?
- F****** SHAREPOINT. OPEN, YOU MOTHERF*****!!!! If I could find the person that invented Sharepoint, I would destroy them.
- sharepoint : misery distilled into software
- super proprietary low latency trading link platforms ;-) sharepoint I associate with slow and baroque document storage
- SharePoint = Table hell. -sigh-
- I hate sharepoint. It's worthless in :not(IE)
- One comment from a friend relating #SharePoint to Cust sol.: think of it like selling your soul to the devil in trade for one install disk
- today i am going to remove @#sharepoint from every online profile i have. i dont EVER want to work as a sharepoint dev again. <sp>
- sharepoint's bringing back tables to the masses and bringing head injuries to designers.
- more f****** sharepoint work
- I'd just like to take a minute to mention how absolutely TERRIBLE the MS Sharepoint Online service is. If you are considering it, don't.
- hates you SharePoint! You can suck my a**!
- If you don't hate #sharepoint at least once a day then you're not using it enough :-)
- developing a deep and abiding hatred for SharePoint
- I hate Sharepoint and I don't care who knows it.
Yes, this was a Friday night, I’m bored, let’s write a random blog post moment…. 5/15/2009My presentation from SharePoint Saturday DC, sorry it took so long to get this posted. DC was a complete blast and a great SharePoint event. Dux Sy did a fantastic job of coordinating it. My session had about 40-50 people in it. The problem with a large group is that it is almost near impossible to please everyone. There are so many different skill sets and what type of presentation people want to see. Overall, the feedback was good, but I think the next time I do this presentation there will be less slides, and more demo. 
5/12/2009
Good-bye Mr. 32-bit – you aren’t big enough for this school yard…
I have been telling clients for the past year that any future hardware they purchase (in relation to SharePoint) should be 64-bit. Why? Because the vNext was going to only be 64-bit; this has been documented in different places but now it’s official.
What I didn’t see coming was that Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) was going to be required, but now that I actually think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Running a 2010 server product on a 2003 server would be silly. - SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.
- SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
- SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.
Get all of the details from the SharePoint Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/07/announcing-sharepoint-server-2010-preliminary-system-requirements.aspx 5/7/2009Just because laughter is the best way to get through the day… If you aren’t on twitter, SCUM = SharePoint Community Union Members. 
5/5/2009Dear 7 readers, I’m on vacation this week. I probably should have taken a vacation from Twitter and SharePoint all together as well, but I didn’t (shame on me). This is the very first post that I’m going to write that is more from “Dan” than about SharePoint. Guess I’m Sharing Dan, instead of Sharing the Point. So, there’s your warning, feel free to close the browser window now if you don’t want to know a little something about who I am. Let me say this first. 1) I hate politics. 2) With social media comes real human emotion Joel Oleson has recently posted an idea about a new SharePoint Community group, SharePoint Knights. There has been a great deal of chatter about it on Twitter and Blogs. Some positive, some negative. You can pretty much decipher that for the most part, MVP’s are bashing the idea, while non-MVP’s think the program may be useful. However, it’s the way people are saying things that are just upsetting to me. I’ve lost respect for people today. It’s sad. I’m a Taurus (yesterday was my Birthday), and a little stubborn. Okay, not a little, a lot stubborn. I think I’m sad because I know that once you lose my respect, you have a pretty darn slim chance of gaining it back. And I really respected these individuals and looked up to them as professionals, and participants in the technical community. Off track for a second…
Want to hear something scary? I don’t go to church. I’m a Christian, and I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and savior. But I refuse to go to church due to politics. I once was very involved with the Church, but I got burned on the politics. The politics, for me, defeated my reasons for going to Church. I lost respect for the Church and what it stood for. In fact, I could write a book about this – but I guess deep down I blame Church Politics for the death of my brother.
Okay, back on track now… SharePoint Knights
I think it’s a good idea and has lots of potential. I see nothing wrong with there being another recognition system out there for community involvement other than the MVP program. I think the neat part about the Knights, is that it appears to be community driven and for the community. Its definitely going to evolve, as do all programs. Joel tweeted that he thought of me as a SharePoint Knight. And well, ummm, thanks! That is humbling.
SharePoint MVP Program
I don’t know ditty squat about the MVP program except this: 1.) Information that is provided on this site: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ and 2.) I’m not an MVP.
I have been told that I’ve been nominated before. And well, ummm, thanks! I found it cool to have been nominated. Mainly because the majority of the SharePoint Professionals that I look up to, are MVP’s. So the fact that I was even nominated (someone thought I was worthy to be looked up to, this was my perception) was very humbling. Community Recognition Community recognition should be encouraged: Regardless of Knight / MVP / MVP & Knight / None of the Above 
Do you use the TechNet forums? It has a star based recognition system for how many answers you provide. The TechNet forums aren’t part of the MVP program specifically (that I know of). Yet, it also calls out the Answerers that are MVP, so there are MVP’s out there using the TechNet forums. So, there already is a recognition system out there that people participate in, MVP’s and Non-MVP’s.  According to Joel’s post, it looks like ‘Galleons’ (Knight Points) will be also awarded for forum answers. To me, it seems like SharePoint Knights will be a recognition system, for MVP’s and Non-MVP’s, for recognition through-out the community. I think recognition systems are great. I don’t care if you are a Knight. I don’t care if you are a MVP. I don’t care if you are MVP and Knight. I don’t care if you are none of those! Regardless of your “Awards” and “Titles”, please do contribute to the community. What I hate seeing is the community being political within the community. My community future: I use to be active on the TechNet forums, but became less active as I became more active on Twitter. I found Twitter to be more social engaging for me, and I tend to be a chatter box so it fit me well. Not now. As of this moment, I have a serious bad taste for twitter, because it invoked emotions in me that I don’t care to feel. I felt discontent, and disappointment. Because I was able to ‘engage’ socially with people, I also had to see sides of people that I didn’t like. I guess it’s a personal flaw of my own, that I can’t filter out these things. I still will be on Twitter, but probably not as much as I use to be. I’m going to put the majority of my time and efforts elsewhere. I plan to continue blogging. Nothing beats the rewarding feeling of having someone post a thankful comment on your blog. Knowing that my post helped them figure something out is just great. I plan to continue being active at SharePoint Saturdays within driving distance of Charlotte. Nothing beats the rewarding feeling of networking with other SharePointers. They are fantastic events where I get to share, and learn. Plus some good times with good people. I plan to continue being active in User Groups. Users groups are great times as well, where you can catch a good presentation, give a presentation to help others, and facilitate a learning environment for the people in your backyard. I plan to re-engage on the TechNet forums. I miss helping out on the forums, and it’s time I get back to basics – Helping. So many times forums have helped me, I love giving back to the source that bailed me out more than once. Community Awards MVP Award, Knighthood, TechNet Stars, Technorati Blog Ranking, # of Followers on Twitter, etc…: Hopefully none of those matter to you so much that you lose sight of what community is truly about. It’s about giving to the community. Give in whatever way you want, but don’t bash the ways of others. Don’t make it political, for politics will surely be the demise of any community efforts. “Well done is better than well said” –Benjamin Franklin Vacation I’m going to answer a couple of needed work emails, and then I’m disconnecting from the world. It’s time to really take a break. I’m sure I’ll be doing a lot of self-reflecting and thinking, hopefully next week I’ll return with an energized level and a positive outlook. Right now, I just don’t have it. Keep it real, meat and potatoes for life. - Dan 5/2/2009Just because I’m feeling a little spunky today… enjoy. 
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