At the SharePoint Conference 2011 Microsoft released a new Visio add-in for visualising the status of SharePoint 2010 farms.  The solution directly benefits those managing SharePoint 2010 installations and demonstrates the power of Visio Service as part of an effective SharePoint deployment. ...

On the 22nd October I attended and presented at the SharePoint Saturday Melbourne event.   It was great to catch-up with all the guys from the SharePoint community and attend some great sessions. I presented with Shyam Narayan on Optimizing SharePoint Internet sites.   During the...

Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 Products is Now Available for Download Service Pack 1 includes stability, performance, and security enhancements that are a direct result of your feedback. IMPORTANT NOTE It is strongly recommended to install the June 2011 Cumulative Update immediately after the installation...

Microsoft has just launched a new End User focused website iusesharepoint.com . This new website is dedicated to driving SharePoint adoption by delivering a rich set of experiences and content to engage and educate business users.  The three main goals of this site are to: Inspire and educate business...

Announced at TechEd North America on Monday, SP1 for Office and SharePoint 2010 is being scheduled for release at the end of June 2011.   This release will include updates across the client suites and server products.  Check out the list of improvements and new features on; The SharePoint...

This week saw the Hilton Hotel in Sydney become a mecca for SharePoint fans from across the globe with the Australian SharePoint Conference 2011.   There were over 500 attendees and close to 80 exhibitors.   With four different tracks on offer from Business, Technical IT Pro, Technical...

A new community project that has been under development for nearly a year and went live last night. This is a great example of a public facing SharePoint 2010 web site where they have leveraged a lot of the Platform. They will continue to grow this and showcase SharePoint 2010.  This website provides...

Tomorrow night the various SharePoint user groups around Australia and New Zealand are coming together for a combined Launch Party for the newly released Office, SharePoint, Project, and Visio 2010 products.   I will be hosting the all up live meeting from Melbourne’s event which will be at...

The SharePoint and Office 2010 RTM virtual machines which contain the All Up SharePoint demo scenarios have been released.   You can download them from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9728417 .

What is The ShareCast?  There are lots of resources for SharePoint 2010 ranging from Blogs, Twitter feeds, Announcements, Technical papers, what The ShareCast is planning to provide is a bringing together of all of these resources into short videos so that you do not have to hunt for them.

Over night the team have released the SharePoint, Office, Visio and Project 2010 RTM installers onto MSDN. If you have an MSDN subscription you will now be able to download them and start using them within you Development and Testing environments. Please remember that MSDN does not cover you for production...

Fantastic new, a short time ago, Microsoft officially released Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 to manufacturing! Important Dates and Product Availability Information! Recently and almost daily I have been asked about when the software will be availabile for download, it...

I am very excited about the new HTC HD2 Windows Phone that is launching in January.  It has a massive 4.3” capacitive touch screen and will be running Windows Phone 6.5.  It will also allow me to run Office Mobile 2010 Beta and the new SharePoint Mobile client. The SharePoint Mobile client...

Exciting news, overnight Microsoft released the Beta 2 components for SharePoint Server 2010 to MSDN.   If you have an MSDN subscription you can download them now http://www.msdn.com/ .   If you do not have a subscription, the Beta 2 components will be released publicly soon.

“In September 2008, Microsoft along with EMC and IBM announced the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS), a jointly developed specification designed to facilitate interoperability between Enterprise Content Management repositories from different vendors.  At that time, the draft...

Have you registered to attend the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas coming up in October? SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the first time Microsoft will publically share all of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer. There are almost 250 sessions planned, and over 80% of them will be brand new 2010 content...

Today the SharePoint team announced that SharePoint 2010 has reached the Technical Preview engineering milestone.   What is SharePoint 2010? SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you to connect & empower people through an integrated...