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Office & Sharepoint Pro Blogs
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I sat in on Dan Holme's Excel and SharePoint session where he talked about moving Excel-driven processes to SharePoint. One example he gave was a company that gathered salepeople's Excel spreadsheets once a week for the CEO to see each salesperson's "pipeline"--likely...
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I sat in on a great session by Asif (AH-siff) Rehmani on SharePoint Designer 2010 . He demoed creating a reservation form to show how SharePoint Designer 2010 works. The high point of one of the changes Microsoft has made included a SAVE button. Whoo...
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While you've been slaving away, part of SharePoint nation has been living it up in Las Vegas this week. Yes, "living it up"--one SharePoint guy I spoke to said he hadn't been outside in 24 hours AND he hadn't done any gambling in the casino, if that's...
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I spoke with Martin Tuip, Mimosa Systems senior technical product marketing manager, about SharePoint's evolution. He compared SharePoint to Exchange, which is not surprising, I suppose, considering he's an Exchange MVP but also considering SharePoint's...
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Greetings from SFO airport, where I'm sitting on a plane, awaiting the final leg of my flight to Las Vegas for the SharePoint Pro Summit 2010 . It's been a whirlwind of a week as I shifted gears from my role at NBC during the Olympics to focus on developing...
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Need to get up to speed on using Silverlight in SharePoint? Paul Stubbs has a nice article in SharePointPro Connections magazine about using Silverlight 4 Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 . And if you're not into reading about it, he offers a quick look into...
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I spoke with Joel Oleson at Quest Software about Quest's recent release of the public preview of Migration Manager for SharePoint 2010. It will enable people to directly migrate from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint 2010. Quest has tested it...
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In between lying on the couch reading a dry-as-toast tome on SharePoint and bringing a team of SharePoint trainers to your site for a week, lies the vast middle ground of SharePoint learning: the SharePoint conference. One I'm looking forward to next...
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By Ted Pattison Scaling a SharePoint farm is often achieved by efficiently sharing resources across sites running in different web applications and by offloading processing cycles from front-end web servers to dedicated application servers. SharePoint...
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Last night, 80,000 of my closest friends and I sat in BC Place and experienced the closing ceremonies of the XXI Winter Olympics. It's always an emotional experience, to watch the games come to an end, to see the city empty of its throngs, and to begin...
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You just bought SharePoint. Now what? Do you know what products are out there to help you do what you want to do with SharePoint? For my own sanity, I'm simply compiling a list of SharePoint categories, and then I'll be filling in that list with products...
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AvePoint DocAve Archiver is a business-rule aware, item-level archiving solution for Microsoft SharePoint with full content index and search support. Mimosa Systems Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint Archiving Return to SharePoint products....
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HiSoftware HiSoftware is Microsoft’s partner for SharePoint accessibility compliance as the developer of the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) with over 5,000 downloads worldwide. HiSoftware specializes in commercial accessibility solutions for SharePoint...
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Here at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, I've put in long work days, every day working for NBC Olympics as we broadcast the Games to the US audience. But I did also manage to get away on Thursday evening for a dinner meeting with the folks at Colligo....
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Dan Holme's article " Potential SharePoint Pitfalls " outlines 6 potential SharePoint pitfalls that can threaten the success of a SharePoint implementation: 1. Not having a governance plan. 2. Using MOSS 2007 when WSS would have sufficed. 3. Underestimating...
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Saw this nice list of SharePoint 2010 features by my colleague Michael Otey at Windows IT Pro . Just a friendly warning: If you don't want to be bothered with migrating to SharePoint 2010, you should probably keep your upper management/business intelligence/marketing...
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Greetings from Vancouver, host city of the XXI Winter Olympics, February 12-28, 2010! I arrived here on Sunday to support the broadcast of the Olympics on NBC, which will share the Games with US audiences in high definition on its many networks and online...
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Editor Sheila Molnar met with Kirk Koenigsbauer at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009: At the recent very successful Microsoft SharePoint 2010 conference, Microsoft executive Kirk Koenigsbauer talked over some of the highlights of the new release,...
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As many of you know, SharePoint is very easy to deploy. That often results in a proliferation of SharePoint installations that busy IT pros have to manage. Granted, some management tools are included with SharePoint, but for now those management tools...
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For those who drink more than Kool-Aid. Besieged by a Rocky Mountain blizzard, we warmed our hands at our laptops and recited recent SharePoint product news to each other while quaffing hot brown water from the coffee machine and sucking on candy corn...
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At the recent Microsoft SharePoint conference, Jeff Teper, Microsoft corporate vice president for the Office Business Platform, met with Sheila Molnar, editor of SharePoint Connections, and described the key themes of SharePoint 2010. Here’s Jeff in his...
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SharePoint product news, for those who drink more than Kool-Aid....
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One of the big structural changes in SharePoint 2010 are Service Applications, the successor to the Shared Service Provider model in SP2007. Now, service applications are part of SharePoint Foundation 2010 (successor to Windows SharePoint Services). And,...
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If you have been following my commentaries, you know I am a *huge* fan of SharePoint 2010. It's astounding what the SharePoint Product Group has done in the three years since SP2007 went live. See http://www.sharepointproconnections.com/TabId/149/NodeId/1994/sharepoint-2010--what-a-difference-3-years-makes.aspx...
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By Steve Fox When I think developer platform, my baseline requirements are solid tool support, a good cadre of out-of-the-box (OOTB) features that I can leverage, and a robust set of APIs. Although Microsoft SharePoint has historically fulfilled these...
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