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Network World article - SharePoint taking business by storm
27 March 08 09:57 PM
There is a good article about SharePoint on Network World. Here are some of the more interesting quotes: "Microsoft's SharePoint Server is on a billion dollar juggernaut to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools Read More...
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Interesting article on SharePoint adoption
11 January 08 09:57 PM
There is an interesting article on cmswire about SharePoint adoption and applications. Choice quotes include: "The number of organizations that employ SharePoint for mission-critical applications is less than 20 percent, a figure expected to double over Read More...
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Access 2007 tips and tricks from the team
18 December 07 08:14 PM
Months ago I posted a three part tips and tricks series on Access 2007 on my personal blog . I recently got feedback that the series should be posted on the Access team blog--makes sense as this blog gets about 3 million more hits a month than my personal Read More...
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Interesting presentations about Access 2007
10 December 07 09:44 PM
Our friends in the UK Access User Group always put on a great national Seminar. It looks like the sessions this year were packed with helpful content and insight from developers. I found the following decks interesting: Working with Access 2007 and SharePoint Read More...
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Integrating Access Contacts with SharePoint and Outlook
28 August 07 05:10 PM
There was a question on our post about getting Access to recognize tables as specific WSS table templates around what else you need to do to get the new Add From Outlook feature to work on a custom contacts table. This feature uses the same mechanism Read More...
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Set SharePoint List Template for Access Table
16 August 07 07:32 PM
There was an interesting question in one of the other posts that I thought I'd answer here to reach the broader audience: Doug said : If I export Northwind 2007 to WSS 3.0, the tables, like Customer, that contain 'Contact' type information get exported Read More...
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SharePoint Apps Offline and Intro to SharePoint Designer
13 October 06 11:17 AM
In the last post, I described how you can publish an Access database to SharePoint. This time, we'll look at taking that database back offline, making data changes while disconnected, and re-synching. I'll also briefly discuss updating the thin client Read More...
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Publish to SharePoint
18 September 06 05:18 PM
In the last post, I gave a quick overview of SharePoint, SharePoint lists, and how Access works on SharePoint. In this version, I'll show what happens when you move an Access database to SharePoint. Publish to SharePoint Access has had a feature to "Upsize Read More...
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Windows SharePoint Services Overview
24 August 06 04:42 PM
Up to this point, I've discussed building traditional Access client-side databases and run through some of the new tools and techniques that are available. This represents a very important part of the work done in Access 2007, but it is only one part. Read More...
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New, More Complete Access Overview
27 July 06 12:21 PM
Way back in October, I posted an overview of Access. We've finally got a complete customer-ready overview for the product that will be going up on the Access site at http://www.microsoft.com/access . If you'd like a printable version of this paper, it Read More...
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Creating Schema
14 March 06 03:16 PM
One of the most basic tasks in Access is creating somewhere to put data - designing schema. My goal for today was to run through the basic schema creation tools, and to leave the new "complex data" schema creation for next time, but in looking at the Read More...
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Tracking Application Overview
06 February 06 10:48 AM
Access 12 and Windows SharePoint Services v.3 will enable out of the box “tracking applications” that can span the client and server or can run standalone on the client. A “tracking app” is a small data application that adds database functionality to Read More...
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Access's Commitment to Developers
30 November 05 10:01 AM
There has been a series of questions on the Access blog and in the newsgroups about Access’s future as a tool for developers. Although it is WAY too early to nail down what we will do in the future, I can share a bit about how we think of Access going Read More...
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Overview of Access 12
07 November 05 10:43 AM
I've had a series of posts talking about the guts of Access 12, but haven't really talked about the gestalt of the product yet. It’s time to fix that. There are 3 key goals for Access 12. First, dramatically expand the number of people who are successful Read More...
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