Working the Spaces, Sharing the Point

The development team blog of SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Groove 2007

Good news for French users of SharePoint Workspace 2010

If you have SharePoint Workspace 2010 and French is your primary language, help is on the way: ...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 02/15/2011

Overview of list types you can synchronize in a SharePoint workspace

This post describes the content types you can synchronize in a SharePoint workspace, and also...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 11/30/2010

Creating custom Lists in Groove workspaces

In SharePoint Workspace, you can create Groove workspaces to be shared among invited members. Groove...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 11/11/2010

Synchronizing calculated fields in a SharePoint workspace

A SharePoint list may undergo design changes over time as an organization identifies new...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 10/26/2010

Troubleshooting checkin/checkout problems in a SharePoint workspace

Problems with checking out or checking in documents (or discarding a checkout) in a SharePoint...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 09/30/2010

Understanding alerts and unread indicators

As you use SharePoint Workspace, you receive a variety of notifiers, called “alerts”. Alerts notify...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 08/31/2010

Securing SharePoint documents that you take offline

SharePoint 2010 lets you configure security settings for individual documents or an entire library...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 08/25/2010

How SharePoint Workspace works with the Microsoft Office Upload Center

SharePoint Workspace users may quickly notice the near omnipresence of the Microsoft Office Upload...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 08/19/2010

Using your My Site in SharePoint Workspace

Perhaps you’re already enjoying the flexibility of using a SharePoint My Site. You can...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 08/10/2010

Groove Web Services API available in SharePoint Workspace 2010

SharePoint Workspace 2010 provides a Groove Web Services API that is compatible with the API in...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 08/06/2010

Organizing your workspaces and contacts in SharePoint Workspace

Over time, you may accumulate a large number of workspaces and contacts. All of your workspaces and...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 07/22/2010

Deploying SharePoint Workspace 2010 without peer networking

Are you thinking about deploying SharePoint Workspace in your organization but you’re holding...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 07/07/2010

SharePoint Workspace moves to NERD!

The SharePoint Workspace team is moving this week to NERD, Microsoft’s New England Research and...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 06/23/2010

Resolving edit conflicts in a SharePoint workspace

SharePoint Workspace gives you the freedom to work with SharePoint content from any location, even...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 06/21/2010

SharePoint Workspace 2010 Deployment Info

Need deployment info on SharePoint Workspace 2010?  Mena Paton has written a white paper on...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 06/16/2010

Surfacing SharePoint Workspace data through Windows Explorer and Office applications

With SharePoint Workspace 2010, you can access file data housed in SharePoint Workspace through...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 06/08/2010

Buzz about NERD growth in Cambridge

When the SharePoint Workspace team moves to Cambridge, we’ll have lots of company. Yesterday...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 05/26/2010

Ways to create a SharePoint Workspace

When you create a SharePoint workspace, you download list and library content from a SharePoint site...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 05/25/2010

The SPW Team is shipping down to Cambridge!

The SharePoint Workspace team is getting ready to move to the Microsoft NERD (New England Research...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 04/06/2010

Yung Chou blogs SPW

Yung Chou has put together a couple of nice posts on SharePoint Workspace, pointing out some of the...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 04/01/2010

SharePoint Workspace and the Office Document Cache

There are three storage mechanisms SharePoint Workspace uses to store data on your local computer....

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 03/12/2010

SharePoint Workspace and Document Libraries

This article presents an overview of how you can work with document libraries in SharePoint...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 03/05/2010

Encryption in SharePoint Workspace 2010

In securing your SharePoint Workspace environment, it’s important to understand the encryption...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 02/24/2010

Anand and Drew introducing SPW at SharePoint User Group event

Anand Kulkarni and Drew Harris will be offering An Introduction to SharePoint Workspace at the...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 02/19/2010

SharePoint Workspace and Single Sign-on

For those of you who are new to SharePoint Workspace – welcome and thank you for exploring the...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 02/18/2010

Workflows with SharePoint Workspace

If you have a Windows Workflow Foundation workflow running on your SharePoint site, you can use...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 02/17/2010

SPW: Workspaces Defined

SharePoint Workspace offers users the ability to collaborate with or without a central server. When...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 02/03/2010

In Boston next week? Check the Best of SharePoint Conference on Monday

If you missed the conference in Las Vegas, you can still get the highlights from the reprise being...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 01/25/2010

Unverified publisher when taking external lists offline?

The BCS team has a nice blog post on dealing with “Publisher cannot be verified” when taking...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 01/25/2010

Searching in SharePoint Workspace SharePoint Workspace 2010 brings your workspace data closer to you...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 01/19/2010

Put some eyeballs on the new Office Blog

If you haven’t seen it already, or even if you have, the new Office Blog is up and running. It’s got...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 01/08/2010

BCS Video on External Data in SharePoint Workspace 2010

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

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 12/14/2009

External Lists in SharePoint Workspace

You've seen how SharePoint Lists are tightly integrated into SharePoint Workspace, and thanks to the...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 12/10/2009

Download the beta for the Groove Web Services SDK for SharePoint Workspace 2010

The Groove Web Services SDK for SharePoint Workspace 2010 provides documentation, WSDL definition...

Author: ken_moore Date: 11/19/2009

Introducing SharePoint Workspace 2010 Beta

We are excited to announce the release of the Microsoft Office 2010 public beta! Check out the...

Author: ken_moore Date: 11/18/2009

Christian Bellofatto on SharePoint Workspace Lists

So if you’ve had a chance to check out the intro to SPW, you already know that by using SharePoint...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 11/16/2009

InfoWorld on SharePoint Workspace

In case you missed it, there was a nice write-up on SharePoint Workspace by J. Peter Bruzzese in...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 11/09/2009

The Ribbon and Backstage View in SharePoint Workspace 2010

Louise Snow on the Ribbon: As mentioned in an earlier post on this blog, we’ve implemented the...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 10/28/2009

Maura and Nithya on SharePoint Workspace at the SharePoint Conference

Are you at the SharePoint Conference? Lucky you! If you’ve got space in your agenda, Maura...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 10/21/2009

Paul Cannon gets the word out to SharePoint Workspace noobs in this video

Paul Cannon, product manager for SharePoint Workspace, offers a nice little intro to SPW in this...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 10/15/2009

Syncing to a SharePoint Site with Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010

SharePoint Workspace functions as a desktop client application for the SharePoint 2010 server. It...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 10/08/2009

Coming attractions on SharePoint Workspace

It’s time to talk about the new stuff, and give you a sneak peek at what to expect in SharePoint...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 09/02/2009

Lift a glass to Groove 3.1

Groove 3.1 is going away. Of course that’s not strictly true: if you have it, you can still use it....

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 08/13/2009

Groove 2007 SDK updated for SP2

The Groove 2007 SDK has been updated for SP2. The SDK and the revised Groove Web Services...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 07/23/2009

SharePoint Workspace in the Technical Beta program

We’re pleased to announce that the SharePoint Workspace (Groove) team is taking nominations to...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 06/29/2009

Importing Excel data into a custom Groove Forms tool

Joe Levine offers suggestions for importing data in a custom Forms tool: Groove users developing...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 06/09/2009

Brand spankin’ new blog

As we’ve recently announced that Groove will be changing its name to SharePoint Workspace, this...

Author: Jim McCoy Date: 05/20/2009