Hey all, Been busy working, working and working. I am moving most of the content here to my new blog, hosted by www.PlanetMagpie.com: www.thesharepointinsider.com Please come take a look. We are hosting this on Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0) with the CKS:EBE solution deployed. Lots of good stuff. Best wishes, Will Pritchard SharePoint Developer ......

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Been out of touch for a bit.  Had a move back to the Bay Area (California).  I will be consulting part time for a local company here on SharePoint Technologies and otherwise taking a small break from the full time stuff.  I will be settling back into my blogging routine in the next few weeks.  Glad to be back with the living!

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The SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog announced today that SharePoint has passed the $800 Million mark for the previous fiscal year and is the fastest growing Microsoft server product in Micro$oft's history. Congrats to the Blue Monster ......

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Well the doohickey seems not to like my photo. However I did manage to Southparkify myself. Pretty schweet. (No Photo Required) ......

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Today is the 8th Annual Sysadmin day. The event occurs the last Friday of every July. Be sure to tell yours you love them ......

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Nigel Pendse has renamed his OLAP Survey to the BI Survey. Major players in BI, including Microsoft rely on the data in this survey to analyze consumer needs. From the invitation: We would very much welcome your participation in The BI Survey. This is the largest independent survey of business intelligence/OLAP users worldwide. The Survey will obtain ......

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Thanks to Chris Webb for the tip off. Rumored PPS Release Date ......

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This series of posts was brought to my attention by Ben Tamblyn and outlines a very practical understanding of PerformancePoint Planning. A series of four articles, Adrian Downes has taken the time to shed some light on not only the features of PPS Planning, but the business models that drive them. Good stuff. Setting the stage (Budgeting 101) Configuring ......

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Saw this over at Ben Tamblyn's place today: How 'e' are you? is a new research project that's being run by a good friend of mine Tim Elkington that aims to track how people are using the internet. The site includes an e-test that calculates a user's e-score (0 - 100), places them in an e-group and then suggests sites that they might be interested in ......

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Using BDC to query our company's SharePoint profiles database ( SharedServices1_DB in our environment ) I was able to create a pretty snappy employee lookup. The data is contained in two tables, the first is the UserProfile_Full table, which contains the Basic Profile Information. The second is the UserProfileValue table. The two are linked by the RecordID ......

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