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Microsoft MVP Profile
Spencer Harbar
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Certification(s): MCM, MCTS, MCSD.NET, MCSD, MCSE, MCAD, APM
Region: EMEA
Spencer is an enterprise architect who helps organisations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
With over fifteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe’s largest organisations to succeed with SharePoint.
Spencer delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling and the implementation of highly available Windows Server System based hosting platforms. He is also pretty handy with single-pixel GIFs.
Selected clients include Barclays Bank, ScottishPower, Microsoft, The Royal Bank of Scotland, BP, Unilever, HBOS, Scottish Enterprise, British Airways, The BBC, Centrica, NHS, Clifford Chance, SCVO, The Automobile Association, Ballie Gifford, British Sky Broadcasting and BASF.
Spencer is also a strong community advocate, as a board member of the International SharePoint Professionals Association, supporting and speaking at the UK SharePoint User Group and helping others through his blog, forums.
Spencer is also an instructor for Combined Knowledge, EMEA’s premier SharePoint training provider.
Spencer is also a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 and a Certified Master Instructor.
Additional Competencies:
Commerce Server, Identity Lifecycle Manager, Windows Home Server
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Community Solution Articles
Publications
| • | MCMS ASP.NET 2 AdRotator 01/03/2006This article provides a sample MCMS ASP.NET 2.0 AdRotator, which uses the Resource Item's Display Name for the Ad Alt text, and it's Description for the Navigation URL. |
| • | Floating Console for MCMS 2002 MCMSfaq.com, 03/15/2004A couple of guys from Plural produced an article and sample of a Floating Console for MCMS 2001 which was published on MSDN, and this is simply adapted from that using their JavaScript along with the new MCMS 2002 console ASCX. |
| • | www.harbar.net Personal blog which also features non WCM/MCMS technology rants. |
| • | FAQ Placeholder MCMSfaq.com, 03/28/2005This placeholder control extends the XmlPlaceholder and allows business users to contribute a FAQ list which is presented as DHTML. In Presentation Mode, users can expand and collapse each FAQ item. In Authoring Mode, users can add, edit and delete items. The underlying data is stored as XML using a standard XmlPlaceholderDefinition.
This sample provides expanded coverage of the FAQ Placeholder Control which shipped as part of the OTGWeb Sample site. In addition the sample has been decoupled from the OTGWeb site and can be easily deployed within your MCMS applications. The following diagrams show the Placeholder in action. |
| • | Rational Guide to installing MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 MCMSfaq.com, 12/05/2005This article provides a step by step installation for MCMS SP2, including the developer tools for Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, development gotchas and upgrading the WoodgroveNet sample site. |
| • | www.mcmsfaq.com This site is dedicated to the Microsoft Content Management Server development community.
Here you will find news, technical articles, documentation and samples related to Microsoft's enterprise content management solution. |
| • | Extended Attachment Placeholder for MCMS 2002 MCMSfaq.com, 03/21/2004The SingleAttachmentPlaceholder Control that ships with MCMS 2002 is a great way to include links to binary files on your site. However the Presentation Mode rendering of the control, especially when using the MustUseGeneratedIcon property leaves much to be desired. This control avoids the cost of dynamic rendering of icons, allows for full transparency in icons, more precise rendering control and the addition of a target attribute to open the link in a different frame or new window. |
| • | telerik r.a.d Menu wrapper for MCMS 2002 MCMSfaq.com, 07/11/2004Recently, Microsoft and Telerik announced the availability of the r.a.d. Editor MCMS Edition. This extended version of the r.a.d Editor Web Control provides a replacement for MCMS's out of the box HtmlPlaceholder, offering a rich content editing experience, integration with MCMS Resource Galleries all without the requirement for client side ActiveX. In addition to the r.a.d Editor control, Telerik offer a suite of superb Web Controls for ASP.NET development which are also ideal for use with MCMS. This sample is a simple wrapper for the r.a.d Menu control which includes a number of additional MCMS specific design time properties. |
| • | Multi-site Development with Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 on Windows XP Professional MCMSfaq.com, 08/07/2004In many scenarios, Windows XP Professional is the ideal environment for developing Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS) solutions. However when it comes to supporting multiple MCMS sites, for example if you are an ISV or consultant developing sites for different clients, MCMS on Windows XP has some limitations This article presents an approach to multi-site MCMS development on Windows XP Professional which avoids these limitations and provides an easy way to switch between MCMS 'instances'. |
| • | Using ASP.NET Master Pages in your MCMS Applications MCMSfaq.com, 12/05/2005With the recent release of Service Pack 2 for MCMS, it is now possible to take advantage of many ASP.NET 2.0 features within your MCMS applications. One the best new features introduced with ASP.NET 2.0 is Master Pages, which allow developers to enforce common layout and behaviour across pages within an application. Whilst at first pass many Master Pages concepts are similar to those of MCMS, there are a number of benefits to be gained by taking advantage of Master Pages within MCMS applications.
This article provides an overview of the benefits of using Master Pages and a step by step guide for implementing them in your MCMS applications. |
| • | Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Si Wrox, 06/02/2008* The first book to focus on SharePoint Server as a robust platform for Web content
* Written by two SharePoint MVPs, this book walks developers through creating a Web content management platform on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007
* Begins with an overview of the various features of MOSS, Web Content Management (WCM) fundamentals, and the services available on the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) platform
* Examines each aspect of a typical development project using the sample site throughout, which demonstrates key points, design elements, and development approaches
* Addresses SharePoint site columns, content types, master pages, and page layouts; creating a minimal SharePoint site definition; and creating WSS solution packages with Visual Studio
* Also covers field types and field controls, customizing the SharePoint authoring environment, and authentication and authorization |
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