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Office & Sharepoint Pro Blogs
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I have to admit, until a recent vendor briefing, I was unfamiliar with the term "communities of practice." But Eric Sauve, co-founder and CEO of Tomoye, was kind enough to enlighten me on the topic. Tomoye, (www.tomoye.com) whose name means revolution...
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There are a number of technical articles about how to configure Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 to serve as both a local, intranet collaboration site and an extranet portal for clients, partners, vendors, etc. There are issues relating to URL namespaces...
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I've been lucky enough to be selected to present four sessions and participate in a panel at TechEd this year. My sessions are listed below. PLEASE COME, particularly to the (very cool and new and different) sessions I'm delivering on Thursday and...
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Companies are turning in droves to Microsoft's SharePoint platform, quickly recognizing the benefits of a system that enables better collaboration and document workflows, and therefore improving information worker productivity and efficiency . However,...
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Today I delivered a session entitled, Unleash the Productivity: Microsoft Office Applications as SharePoint Clients , as part of the live online event, SharePoint In Action. Thanks to all of you who attended!! Slides can be downloaded here . You can view...
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On Saturday, Steve Ballmer sent a pointed letter to Yahoo CEO and Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang that clearly indicated Ballmer’s frustration with the process. The full text of the letter can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-03letter.mspx...
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Success in the business world increasingly depends on distributed teams of people working together. People need to collaborate, communicate, and interact with partners, vendors, customers, and internal team members, and organizations are embracing collaboration...
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The days of the centralized corporate workforce are waning. In a recent briefing, Gareth Taube , Vice President of Marketing for Certeon (www.certeon.com), said that there's evidence that more than 60 percent of employees of major corporations are located...
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Companies today rely more than ever on the ability to share information with employees, partners, and customers, and solutions have evolved from simple fileshares and document storage systems, to more elaborate content management and collaboration applications....
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I just ran across a very strange behavior that I figured I'd better blog about, in case it might help someone else. I'm not yet sure what the problem is, but I found the solution. I was configuring a machine for demonstration purposes that had Outlook...
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If you're developing for SharePoint, unfortunately you are stuck developing on a Windows Server box running SharePoint, or on a desktop running Windows Server in a virtual machine. After the recent release of Windows Server 2008 (which I love by the way),...
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It's conference season, and I'm lucky enough to be representing our community in several events, including the upcoming SharePoint Pro Live events in several cities in March and April. At these events, I'm speaking on the "State of SharePoint." I certainly...
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As I was installing and testing WSS 3.0 SP1 on Windows Server 2008, I was having troubles getting document libraries to open in Explorer view. I was actually using IE on WS2008, an it just wasn't working. The DESKTOP EXPERIENCE features had been installed...
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Microsoft announced the availability of Search Server 2008 Express. This tool, unveiled last year, is a free (did I say free ?) downloadable enterprise search product that enables you to easily provide powerful search capabilities across a wide range...
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SharePoint does deliver, in my opinion, a fantastic platform for web application development. Sure, it’s “version 1.0” but wow what a 1.0 it is! It’s awesome on the ‘back end,’ but we’ve lacked a way to create rich, interactive user experiences. That...
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So if you didn’t already know that SharePoint was “big,” Microsoft announced that it is now a $1 billion (with a “b”) business! Wow. After 18 months of v3/2007, I’d say that rocks! Microsoft also claims that there are already 100 million licenses sold,...
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This morning, in front of the 4,000 or so attendees at the sold-out Microsoft SharePoint Conference (SPC), Bill Gates raised the curtain on a set of services and products that I think will have a wide-reaching impact on the industry and on the way we...
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Microsoft has released Office 2007 SP1, an update for all Office clients. This is the client application Service Pack -- a rollup of bug fixes and other patches that Microsoft has released in year since Office 2007 went public. The service pack is a mere...
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Big news! The long-awaited release of WSS/MOSS SP1 has hit the streets. And this is a doozie of a service pack. So big that a page on TechNet has been created to guide you through it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx...
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Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 SP1 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 SP1 is around the corner, and product team member and all-around-great-guy Joel Oleson posted an overview of what's to be expected on the Microsoft SharePoint...
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Last week, Microsoft released the beta of the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool. The tool's name says it all. Instead of wading through the capacity-planning documentation, you can get a rough idea of your hardware needs and farm topology design. Just...
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On Thursday, Microsoft released a white paper focused on the planning and optimization of SQL storage for SharePoint. Check it out at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f/?en-us/library/ca472046-7d4a-4f17-92b1-c88a743a5e3c1033.mspx...
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This week, Microsoft and the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium announced a joint standards-based development project that will provide assistive technology to computer users who are blind or print disabled. This open collaboration...
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Microsoft has released the 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide, a free set of tools that can help organizations of all sizes improve the security and privacy of desktop computers. The recommendations and resources included in the guide were created and...
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AvePoint announced a series of five, half-day workshops focusing on SharePoint deployment and administration from 11/27/2007 to 12/11/2007, in Waltham, Washington, Mountain View, Austin and NYC. AvePoint's product, DocAve 4.5 SharePoint Adminsitrator...
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