Working the Spaces, Sharing the Point

There are three storage mechanisms SharePoint Workspace uses to store data on your local computer. Lists, InfoPath forms, schema, and views are stored in SharePoint Workspace itself, BCS data has its own storage mechanism, and your SharePoint documents...

Problems with checking out or checking in documents (or discarding a checkout) in a SharePoint workspace document library may result from one of the following circumstances: · You may have lost connectivity with the SharePoint server. To test your connectivity...

When you create a SharePoint workspace, you download list and library content from a SharePoint site to your computer. This content is then automatically synchronized with the site whenever you’re on your network. This means updates you make in your local...

With SharePoint Workspace 2010, you can access file data housed in SharePoint Workspace through Windows Explorer and certain Office applications. This is true for both SharePoint workspaces and Groove workspaces, though Groove workspaces must be 2010...

SharePoint Workspace users may quickly notice the near omnipresence of the Microsoft Office Upload Center icon in their Windows notification area: The Microsoft Office Upload Center (msosync.exe) manages synchronization between your SharePoint workspaces...

SharePoint 2010 lets you configure security settings for individual documents or an entire library of documents so that you can protect confidential or personal content by limiting access to a specific group of users. You can further protect documents...

For those of you who are new to SharePoint Workspace – welcome and thank you for exploring the product. You can comfortably proceed on to other parts of the web without reading the rest of this blog entry. However, for those of you keen on a little history...

In securing your SharePoint Workspace environment, it’s important to understand the encryption story. The table below summarizes built-in data encryption in SPW 2010: Workspace type Is file* data encrypted on-disk? Is non-file data encrypted on disk?...

A while ago we announced on this blog that we’re changing the name of our product in the next major version of Office to be Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 . This name change signals the start of a new chapter for Microsoft’s collaboration client...

This article presents an overview of how you can work with document libraries in SharePoint Workspace. What Does the Documents Tool Do? The SharePoint workspace documents tool allows you to create content and collaborate on documents anywhere you take...

This post describes the content types you can synchronize in a SharePoint workspace, and also describes lists that you cannot yet synchronize using SharePoint Workspace 2010. You can synchronize most lists and libraries in a SharePoint workspace, although...

As you use SharePoint Workspace, you receive a variety of notifiers, called “alerts”. Alerts notify you about: · New messages or invitations. · Unread information in a workspace, a workspace tool, or a tool item. · Status information, such as whether...

SharePoint Workspace gives you the freedom to work with SharePoint content from any location, even when you’re not on your network. But with this freedom comes the potential for edit conflicts if the same item is edited on the server while you edit it...

Are you thinking about deploying SharePoint Workspace in your organization but you’re holding off because you don’t want to give SharePoint users access to peer networking workspaces? If so, you can achieve both objectives by configuring a...

Perhaps you’re already enjoying the flexibility of using a SharePoint My Site. You can compartmentalize content as Personal (content available only to you), Collaborative (content available to you and specific team members), and Shared (content available...

In SharePoint Workspace, you can create Groove workspaces to be shared among invited members. Groove workspaces can include a variety of productivity tools. To see the list of tools that ship with SharePoint Workspace, look in the Tools group, and on...

Over time, you may accumulate a large number of workspaces and contacts. All of your workspaces and contacts are listed in the SharePoint Workspace Launchbar. Here are some different ways you can organize your workspaces and contacts. Opening the SharePoint...

SharePoint Workspace 2010 provides a Groove Web Services API that is compatible with the API in Groove 2007. The Groove Web Services API allows you to develop an application that can access data in Groove workspaces and tools. Your application runs in...

If you have SharePoint Workspace 2010 and French is your primary language, help is on the way:  Fabrice Barbin has published a book on SPW 2010 in French, available here . 

You've seen how SharePoint Lists are tightly integrated into SharePoint Workspace, and thanks to the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) team, SharePoint Workspace will also present you with all of your external list data, using the same familiar interface...

If you have a Windows Workflow Foundation workflow running on your SharePoint site, you can use SharePoint Workspace to take it offline and continue doing work. Every time you sync with the SharePoint server, your actions will correctly trigger any workflows...

This latest video from the BCS team dovetails nicely with Andrew Harris’ recent post on External Lists in SharePoint Workspace .

Louise Snow on the Ribbon: As mentioned in an earlier post on this blog, we’ve implemented the Ribbon and Backstage View in Office SharePoint Workspace 2010. You will see the Ribbon in all your newly created 2010 workspaces, as well as workspaces created...

Yung Chou has put together a couple of nice posts on SharePoint Workspace, pointing out some of the differences between SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Groove 2007.  Here is Part 1 and here is Part II .

Joe Levine offers suggestions for importing data in a custom Forms tool: Groove users developing custom Forms tools may commonly want to seed the tool with existing data. In some cases, your main objective for rolling out the custom tool may be to share...