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Monday, March 24, 2008 6:34 PM

Several very useful open source add-ons and tools for SharePoint recently released

When CodePlex, which is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site, launched almost 2 years ago, the SharePoint product group was one of its earliest promoters and adopters, and the Community Kit for SharePoint for which I was the founding contributor
Posted by sptblog | 11 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:26 AM

Announcing the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0 (CKS:EBE) final release!

I'm incredibly proud and pleased to announce that after 9 months of work (all volunteers!) and 2 very well received/tested beta versions, the final release of the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0 is now available on the CKS project
Posted by sptblog | 7 Comments
Monday, November 05, 2007 7:03 AM

Announcing SharePointPedia -- community driven content recommendations and requests!

Background Some of you might recall that I used to post monthly or bi-monthly "Recommended Reading" lists on this blog, but I stopped doing so back in March because I simply could not keep up with all of the useful content that so many people were publishing
Posted by sptblog | 22 Comments
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:19 AM

Microsoft Powers Up Web 2.0 With Innovative Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Partners

Okay, the press release has just been posted, so please take a quick look at it first. Essentially, we've announced two very significant product releases from NewsGator and Atlassian as follows: NewsGator Social Sites (on SharePoint) Atlassian SharePoint
Posted by sptblog | 7 Comments
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:57 AM

Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition reaches feature complete Beta 2 status!

When the Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 pre-release was announced almost 4 months ago, the Enhanced Blog Edition stood out due to its innovative XSLT driven Modular Theme Framework (MTF), which enabled EBE themes to be easily packaged up and simply
Posted by sptblog | 5 Comments
Monday, October 15, 2007 2:29 PM

Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

Ever since the Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK was announced a couple of months ago, many people have asked when there would be a solution for WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 to authenticate Windows Live ID users. Well, it didn't take long for Keith Bunge
Posted by sptblog | 25 Comments
Sunday, October 14, 2007 4:45 AM

Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Virtual Earth Maps on SharePoint

Microsoft's Virtual Earth technology powers the maps on Live Search and many other web-based applications, but many people have wondered how to get VE maps to work on SharePoint. Several months ago, the SharePoint Designer team blogged about a way to
Posted by sptblog | 19 Comments
Saturday, October 13, 2007 8:41 AM

Announcing the Community Kit for SharePoint: Internet/Extranet Edition Forms-Based Authentication solution!

As many of you know, one of the best new features in WSS 3.0 (and consequently MOSS 2007) is the way it leverage's ASP.NET 2.0 to support for forms-based authentication or FBA along with the ability to support multiple authentication providers. Steve
Posted by sptblog | 31 Comments
Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:29 AM

Announcing the CKS: World Clock and Weather web part

In February, we published a KB article about the discontinuation of the MSNBC web parts in the online Web Part gallery. Of these web parts, the one that displayed weather information was one of the most popular. Bamboo Solutions , a SharePoint ISV partner
Posted by sptblog | 16 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 5:00 PM

Anonymous Comment Feature for SharePoint Blog - now available on CodePlex

Quite a few SharePoint customers have asked about how to implement blogs internally within their companies as an open, direct, and efficient communication channel for executives to get feedback from employees. One often requested feature that SharePoint
Posted by sptblog | 19 Comments
Monday, June 18, 2007 5:00 PM

Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 Pre-Release announcement

About 3 months ago, I pre-announced the kick-off of the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0 effort, and fairly quickly, over 20 volunteers signed up to help. After just 2 months of work (mostly on nights and weekends), the CKS team has accomplished
Posted by sptblog | 34 Comments
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:47 PM

Windows Live Writer Beta 2 (with SharePoint 2007 support!) now available

The Windows Live Writer team just announced the availability of Beta 2 of their excellent offline blog writing tool, which now has support for the blog functionality in WSS 3.0 and consequently MOSS 2007. I’ve been using a pre-Beta 2 build of the tool
Posted by sptblog | 8 Comments
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:09 AM

"ChatterBox" persistent chat session for SharePoint

Have you ever wanted to have a persistent chat session right on your SharePoint team or collaboration site? It can be much easier and quicker for typing a message than SharePoint’s built-in Discussion Board. The ChatterBox web part provides an example
Posted by sptblog | 50 Comments
Monday, May 14, 2007 11:44 PM

Understanding the SharePoint calendar and how to export it to iCal format

Introduction One of the challenges of accessing SharePoint calendars via the object model is that there are so many different types of events – normal events, all-day events, recurring events, recurrence exceptions, and deleted instances – and they all
Posted by LLiu | 51 Comments
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:29 PM

Localized versions of the CKS: User Group Edition and sneak peak of the CKS: Enhanced Blog Edition now available

As mentioned previously , the Community Kit for SharePoint is one of the top 3 community oriented initiatives sponsored* by the SharePoint product group. (The other two are the SharePoint Community Portal and the SharePointPedia, the latter of which will
Posted by sptblog | 5 Comments
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