Ben Walters InfoPath MVP

Using InfoPath 2010 Today

Ben Walters — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:44:59 GMT

Well this has taken a lot longer than I would have liked to get this recording up on the web. Here it is, my session that I presented at the MOSSIG September meeting enjoy. Unfortunately the original recording I made on the night didn’t come out as well...(read more)

SharePoint Saturday Melbourne! 14th November

Ben Walters — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:45:38 GMT

It’s now officially official, SharePoint Saturday Melbourne is locked in and scheduled for November 14th the site is now live and we are accepting Speaker Submissions so head on over to http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/melbourne and start getting those...(read more)

InfoPath 2010 Picture Button Control

Ben Walters — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:55:55 GMT

Wow I can’t believe its been nearly a month since my last InfoPath 2010 video, it’s amazing how time sneaks past you when your not looking. In this video I take a look at one of the new controls in InfoPath 2010 the Picture button control. This new control...(read more)

As the dust settles from SharePoint Saturday Sydney

Ben Walters — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:29:53 GMT

The very first international SharePoint Saturday is now complete and so far all feedback has been very positive. First I’d like to say a big thankyou to all the speakers that made the effort to put their sessions together, and an even bigger thankyou...(read more)

A lap around InfoPath 2010 Part 1

Ben Walters — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:03:05 GMT

With the release of the Office 2010 Client Applications earlier this week I thought it would be good to put together a couple of videos highlighting some of the new features of InfoPath 2010 Client interface, the following video takes you through some...(read more)

SharePoint Saturday Sydney Registrations now open

Ben Walters — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:11:16 GMT

Registrations for SharePoint Saturday Sydney are now open, so if you are planning to attend I recommend you head over now and follow the “Click to Attend” link Also don’t forget if you have any session ideas you can also forward them through using the...(read more)

ANNOUNCING SharePoint Saturday Sydney!

Ben Walters — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:01:00 GMT

It’s official SharePoint Saturday will be happening on the 8th of August at the Microsoft office in North Ryde. For those of you who don’t know SharePoint Saturday is the tech community craze that’s been sweeping the U.S. (and more recently the world...(read more)

Get SharePoint host headers working locally in Windows 2008 R2

Ben Walters — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:09:52 GMT

So as we all know by now I recently rebuilt my machine with Windows 2008 R2. My main reason for doing this is so I could have a fully functional SharePoint development environment that runs locally without the need for virtual machines. Plus I now have...(read more)

Get your wireless working in Win 2008 R2

Ben Walters — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:13:19 GMT

This evening I began rebuilding my laptop with Windows 2008 R2, while the install went swimmingly I did run into an issue once my machine was up and running, I couldn’t connect to my wireless network. The now the obvious issue would be that the drivers...(read more)

Where did my files go?

Ben Walters — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:32:38 GMT

I’ve been running windows 7 for a while now on both my home and work PC’s and all in all I’ve been pretty impressed. However, today I found one feature/bug that I can see will cause no end of pain. Today I decided to download the R2 of Windows 2008, so...(read more)

Games missing from XBLA that I wish were there

Ben Walters — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:03:31 GMT

Tonight a friend and I headed out to see the new Star Trek film at Hoyts in Melbourne. While we waited for the film to start we got to talking/reminiscing about some of the games we spent our youth playing. Some where between our recount of Grim Fandango...(read more)

SharePoint Timer Service issues when upgrading to SP2

Ben Walters — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:35:22 GMT

Last week I had my first official deployment of SharePoint SP2 in the field. While most of the install succeeded with out any issues I did run into a problem while I was attempting to run the configuration wizard. The error I received indicated that the...(read more)

Create Form based on an existing Schema

Ben Walters — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:39:31 GMT

Ok so this is the last of my video posts for today. This video shows how you can design a new InfoPath form based of an existing schema file....(read more)

Accessing Active Directory from an InfoPath Form

Ben Walters — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:44:43 GMT

The embedded video below highlights how to load user details from Active Directory into your InfoPath form. The solution highlighted uses the LDAP Webservice found on codeplex to make the LDAP connection. The best thing about this approach is that the...(read more)

How to calculate the number of days between 2 dates in InfoPath

Ben Walters — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:13:27 GMT

Recently while helping some people via the Newsgroups I’ve found it easier to build a video of how to solve a problem rather than type pages and pages of instructions. In addition to giving a big call out to Camtasia studio as an editing platform and...(read more)

Office SP2 to release next week

Ben Walters — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:11:01 GMT

Officially the second service pack for the Office suite will release next week, and while I’m sure there are a whole swag of features, additions and security improvements that will not be immediately visible to the naked eye. There are a couple of things...(read more)

SharePoint 503 Service Unavailable Error

Ben Walters — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:31:11 GMT

For the last couple of days I’ve been doing some work on a SharePoint event handler which was progressing at a good rate until I started getting a “503 Service unavailable” error after deploying an update. After some searching it turned out that when...(read more)

SharePoint Designer at no extra cost

Ben Walters — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:14:02 GMT

Wow where does the time go I just had a look and my last post was on the 27 of Jan lot has happened since then and lots to tell but this is a quick post before I head back out in to the fray. I got news the other day that SharePoint Designer that Application...(read more)

IE8 Gets Release Candidate

Ben Walters — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:10:22 GMT

Got the notification this morning that IE8 has officially gone RC1, if you’re running the Partner preview this will not automatically update so you’ll need to head on over to the Internet Explorer Beta Website to download the latest copy....(read more)

New PerformancePoint user group on the horizon

Ben Walters — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:30:20 GMT

Yesterday I received an email from an old colleague of mine Adrian Downes, letting me know that there is a new User group starting up in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide dedicated to all things PerformancePoint, while a launch date for the Australian PerformancePoint...(read more)