Tom Rizzo's SharePoint Blog

If folks are at Teched, stop by and say hello. I'm doing 2 exciting sessions: SharePoint Server 2007 Overview and Roadmap and Records Management and Compliance in SharePoint 2007. We're not doing SharePoint 2010 sessions at the show except for my roadmap...

We just announced Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. You can read the post I put on the SharePoint Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx Enjoy!

By now, you've seen all the news about SharePoint Designer being free. I wanted to give a little color commentary on how it all came to happen and the lead-up to announcing the news. About 6 months ago, the SharePoint leadership team got together to talk...

I haven't updated my blog in a long time since we've been heads down meeting with customers, partners and working to get ready for the next release of SharePoint. One interesting blog post I wanted to point out has some interesting ideas about getting...

We're out at the PDC and you may have seen the SharePoint team blog post we did on the new Azure platform and how it relates to SharePoint. Besides making some interesting announcements at PDC, we've been meeting a ton with customers and partners. One...

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The SharePoint team will be descending on both of these so you won't want to miss either one. I'll be in DC next week if anyone wants to connect at SharePoint Best Practices and then in Vegas in November for Connections. I'm planning to do 5 sessions...

In case you haven't heard, we released our infrastructure update for SharePoint! The infrastructure update is a mixture of a roll-up of fixes with some next features such as the federation and new administration for search. We're recommending everyone...

Just in case you missed it, we announced a little while back the new SharePoint Deployment Planning Services offering. For the FAQ on SDPS, check out http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/prodinfo/features/sdps_faq.mspx Since one of the hardest things...

First, thank you to everyone who came to my full day of SharePoint presentations at Connections in Orlando. For the folks who sat through every presentation, it was a long day with the same bad jokes J Hopefully folks got a lot of good info on what you...

It's been a while since I posted but with the craziness of the SharePoint Conference and just the tremendous growth of the business, there has been a lot going on. For those of you at the conference, thank you for attending! It was amazing to see all...

For those of you wondering if the website is wrong – http://www.mssharepointconference.com – it isn't! We sold out the conference last week with 5 weeks to go. Over 3000 people will descend on Seattle for 4 solid days of SharePoint goodness. We're bummed...

Thanks to all the folks who attended my sessions at SharePoint connections. As promised, I'm posting the slides here for folks to download. If anyone has any questions on the content, just let me know. If I get some extra time, I'll post the code samples...

For those of you who know me, you know I love the technology AND the business side of SharePoint. So, when we discovered that some of our licensing was hampering your deployment architectures, we immediately got to work remedying the situation. For those...

Yes, I haven't been slacking off taking the summer to relax which is why I haven't posted to my blog. Instead, we're heads-down working with customers, partners and our own field to sell and deploy MOSS 2007 and get ready for the next release. There were...

I wanted to make sure everyone knows that our B2TR expires May 15 th . If you have not upgraded your servers to RTM, make sure you do that now. We had a spike in calls to support when Beta 2 expired a few months back and we want to avoid that pain for...

We announced today the ability for Dynamics customers to buy SharePoint and have tight integration between their Dynamics environment and SharePoint. Check out the press release - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/mar07/03-12Day1DynamicsOfficePR...

As you may be wondering based on my lack of postings whether I'm still around. Well, yes I am! We've been swamped in the SharePoint team due to the amount of interest that customers and partners have shown for our product. Thank you, thank you, thank...

Many folks have been asking for the Master Page that I use in my demos. Here it is with the images that you need. There is a file called internal.master for the master page and then a folder called internal and then a folder called images under it. You...

Just in case you didn't know, we released the RTM bits both to the SharePoint server site ( http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT102104951033&Origin=HH102081821033&CTT=5 ) and also to the Microsoft Volume Licensing site. So...

[Edited since I realized that one of my comments came out the wrong way :)] Yes, it's true, the 2007 Office system is golden! Now, you may be wondering how you get it. Well, it's going to take a little bit but you should see the bits appearing on the...

Yes, you probably have heard that we've release Beta 2 TR. In fact, my team is working hard to get information out on how to best upgrade to the tech refresh build. There are lots of enhancements in B2TR. Since I've been working recently working with...

Yes, I know, I haven’t called, I haven’t written, I’m a slacker! I was just playing with the new blog entry capabilities in Word on this post. There has been a lot happening over the past few weeks that have been taking a serious amount of time. A lot...

If you haven't seen it yet, we launched a new Business Process Management site at http://www.microsoft.com/bpm Even though the site promptly redirects you to a BizTalk site, we're just hosting the site using the BizTalk's team web resources. The SharePoint...

Being one of the original folks working on WinFS (demoing it at PDC 03, writing the first whitepaper and column on it) and being the "frontman" for WinFS, they looped me in on the news even though I left the database group six months ago to move over...