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The Future of Groove and SharePoint
Some hints from Ray Ozzie this week on the future overlap between Groove and SharePoint: "You asked if Groove is the future UI of SharePoint. I might ask the same thing, is SharePoint the future UI of Groove " Microsoft will increase the connections between Read More...
Better Intranet Navigation: Statistically Improbable Phrases
On Amazon.com today, I noticed a feature that David Weinberger mentions in his book, but I don't think is yet available on Amazon's UK site. Books for which they have electronic access to the text have been scanned and effectively auto-tagged. These tags Read More...
SharePoint Designer Workflow Tips
I spent some time this week creating workflows in SharePoint Designer. I have done SharePoint workflows in Visual Studio before, but this was my first time using Designer. I was surprised at how powerful it is, and yet also confused at several points Read More...
Last Piece in the Jigsaw
I guess I am a little behind the times as this went live a week or so back, but I thought it was still worth calling out that the RTW build of WSS 3.0 Extensions for Visual Studio 2005 is now live. Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WSS 3.0 This is the Read More...
SharePoint: The Operating System
For a while now I have been using an operating system analogy when explaining SharePoint to complete newbies: As Vista is our client OS, and Windows Server our data centre OS, you can think of SharePoint as the OS for your intranet. That's how fundamental Read More...
Calling Web Services From InfoPath Web Forms
Today I needed to get an InfoPath Forms Services web-form to make a call out to a web service. I was non-too pleased to get a cryptic error message from SharePoint when I tried to do this first-off. SharePoint claimed it had written details of the error Read More...
Arsenal's Office & SharePoint 2007 Deployment
It's been frustrating not being able to write about some of the great projects I have been working on over the past year, but with the launch of 2007 Office system last Thursday I can finally start to talk about some of the work I have been doing. One Read More...
Office and SharePoint Training Material
The number 1 question I get asked at the moment: What training resources are available? Here's a quick summary: www.microsoft.com/learning/office2007 TechNet MSDN Office Developer Center MSDN SharePoint Developer Portal http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint Read More...
WSS 3.0 is here!
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 RTM is now published and available for your downloading pleasure. As I write it is ranked the #14433 most popular download. I wonder where it will be by the end of the week? But the URLs you ask...here they are: Windows Read More...
Free SharePoint Training
For a limited time these self-paced online learning courses are available free of charge: WSS v3 Development: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/5045.asp WSS v3 Infrastructure: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/3369.asp Read More...
Knowledge Network for SharePoint 2007
Announced yesterday at the CEO Summit, Knowledge Network is a free download for Office SharePoint Server 2007. This starts to answer a question I have had from customers many times over the past few years who want to better way to find experts within Read More...
OfficeLive
This is one to keep an eye on. www.officelive.com Aimed at the small business market this is the Information Worker group's first foray into online services and will be based sqaurely around SharePoint v3. Keep an eye on the OfficeLive site to see how Read More...
SharePoint in Education / Academia
I had mail from someone at a college yesterday asking about use of SharePoint in education sector. It ocurred to me that we have set of SharePoint customizations available as a fully supported product that not a lot of people know about. Class Server Read More...
Just how important is SharePoint to Microsoft?
In this morning's keynote session Steven Sinofsky told how BillG has personally taken the role of Lead PM on the Windows SharePoint Services v3 User Experience team. If you are in any doubt about how strategically important this product is to Microsoft, Read More...
Adding a context menu to a SharePoint custom web part
Jessica and I were chatting on Tuesday about the possibility of reusing the SharePoint context menu infrastructure in a custom web part. The basic idea was to take the context menu customization concepts explained here, and extend this so that any table rendered from a custom web part could make use of the context menu infrastructure in ows.js to display its own custom menu using the same familiar styles to the end user. Read More...
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