Interesting post over at The Obvious on Enterprise 2.0 . The “Enterprise 2.0″ concept takes so many different forms, but this post implies the use of lightweight collaboration tools (web-based of course) that can be managed (mostly) by the end users....

My interest in this new approach to enterprise software begain a while back. Harry Pierson and I talked over a year about about the convergence of Enterprise and Web 2.0 . Since I work with customers that are focused on solving problems based on these...

Office Business Applications: Building Composite Applications Using the Microsoft Platform

The SharePoint team has created a SharePoint Products and Technologies Community Portal that runs on SharePoint. The site aggregates many of the key Office Servers blogs and resources that are important to SharePoint developers and implementers. Like...

The MSDN and TechNet blogging infrastructure is based on Community Server (based on the old .Text code base). This has served the Microsoft blogging community well, but now that SharePoint supports blogs I know that a lot of people have been curious to...

Project 2007 Team Blog : "The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as MS SQL, registry...

Dion Hinchcliffe really captures the key driver for this new paradigm for software in the enterprise in a recent article. (Hint: it isn't about doing cool, new things to emulate the leading technology companies) He writes, "The motivations for mashups...

This morning I ran across a Wikipedia entry while reading Lessons Learned From Social Software Implementations by Mike Stopforth. In Wikipedia, Enterprise social software is defined as "social and networked modifications to company intranets and other...

One of the hallmarks of newer Web applications include AJAX-driven features that more seamlessly refresh data in the browser without requiring the use to click a link or refresh the page. Daniel Larson has released a SharePoint AJAX toolkit to integrate...

To get an understanding of the trends for Enterprise software convering with trends on the Web, take a look at Dion's blog- Enterprise Web 2.0 . I first ran across Dion at Mix06 last year . While many enterprise software development companies (e.g. Microsoft...

One of the benefits of the SharePoint My Site is that a user can personalize the site to include data that is important for them to share with colleagues and other people in the organization. One of the challenges with a My Site though is that a "one...

SharePoint Team Blog: How to use ADFS to turn MOSS 2007 into a claims aware application

People that are looking at MOSS and extending SharePoint to support social networking within their enterprise often look to the SharePoint My Site and people search within MOSS and compare it to Knowledge Network. So how do you really compare the two...

As part of my interest and work related to enterprise software development and the Web 2.0 momentum of the last couple of years I'm focused on MOSS 2007. SharePoint to me seems like the ultimate in Enterprise/Web 2.0 convergence. The ability to connect...

John Westworth has posted about the Office Business Applications and Developer Portal and also talks a bit about LOBi, a set of services designed to make Office a better platform for business application integration. When it comes to LOBi , there are...

I've decided to start posting to this blog again with a new focus. I've been blogging for a while here , and I don't plan to change that. However I am interested in doing some more Microsoft-centric blogging on enterprise software architectures and the...

I have a new job . Ok, you've got me. I'm still with Microsoft. But, this is a new beginning and as a result I'm going to consolidate down to one blog for good. Unfortunately, this blog will be a casualty of that process. I'm also needing to blog a...

Well I'm not going either unfortunately. But I will be glued to some of the webcasts next week and scouring the new content. Make sure you check it out here .

Soma Somasegar : " At Visual Studio 2005 launch, we will continue supporting TFS Beta 3 with the rest of Visual Studio 2005. Further, all data within TFS Beta 3 will migrate seamlessly and in-place to the final version of TFS. We will ship TFS in the...

Here are a few interesting updates that I've been tracking recently: - Steve Rider describes the process for working on start.com- sounds 20 percent-ish to me. If you're not using start.com, go there now . - The DataWorks blog has a good introductory...

He's the poor soul that doesn't get to go to this year's PDC . What a bummer .

I'm doing a webcast for MSDN on 6/22 on the topic of selecting T-SQL or SqlClr features for your data access applications. If you get a chance, check it out . Also, some other presentations and projects that I'm involved with are listed here .

If you're in the St. Louis area next week, be sure to check out the VS2005 DevCon . I'll be there for hallway chats and for any SQL Server 2005 discussions. Hope to see you there.

After a lot of thinking, I've decided to stop my day to day blogging on MSDN blogs. I love what Microsoft is doing here, but I think my day to day job right now is not producing very much blog-worthy material. As a result, I'm not shutting down this blog...

Scalability Experts, an excellent SQL Server partner for Microsoft, is maintaining a weblog on SQL Server 2005 .