Following the recent acquisition of Lookout Software, Lookout for Outlook has been made available as a free, unsupported download . For the uninitiated Lookout is a super-fast search tool for searching across emails, contacts, calendar items and documents...

Apart from the usual round of fixes this update includes lots of new functionality for the newest two members of the Office family: OneNote and InfoPath. To get SP1 installed go to the Office Update web site click check for Updates. New features...

Unlike the PIAs for Office XP, the PIAs for Office 2003 ship in-the-box, and are not available as a separate download. To ensure they get installed by the Office installer during setup you need to make sure that the .NET Framework 1.1 is already installed...

Been a little quiet for a while, as I have been on vacation and away at the annual MS field training event in Atlanta (think TechEd with double the number of attendees!!)   While I was away I came across this free InfoPath Blog Editor for .Text, and...

Introduction Drop-down menus in Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enable actions that relate to a specific document in a document library to be viewed and invoked. This article shows how these document context menus can...

I was asked recently about when it would be appropriate to use InfoPath vs. Smart Documents. It's an interesting question as there is quite a degree of overlap between these technologies, so here are my rules of thumb for choosing between them... Consider...

Well TechEd Europe was fun wasn't it? I have just uploaded the decks for the two sessions I presented: BPR313 - Building Smart Documents For Information Handling Productivity , and BPR314 - Delivering Rich Information via Research Services . Many thanks...

So, TechEd is almost over for another year, and yesterday afternoon I finally got to deliver the first of my two sessions. I was delighted with the positive feedback and interest in Smart Document solutions. I'll be responding to a number of the questions...

The buzz has really grown about Information Bridge Framework over the course of the week in Amsterdam. It's a real shame we didn't get just a little mention of this new product in the keynote on Tues, especially as it reached RTM on Weds. However if you...