The more you use SharePoint, the more potential you see. I know because I’ve been working with it for years. You see past simple collaboration. You see workflow, document routing and approval features. You envision drastic improvements to efficiency.But as your vision take shape and your needs get more sophisticated you begin to realize that yo ...[Read More]

An In-Depth Look at Developing Mobile Applications With Mobile Entrée Custom development for SharePoint can mean many things.  Workflows, master pages, business data catalog implementations, forms services, reporting capabilities, the list goes on and on.  Since 2003, the staple of custom SharePoint applications has been the custom WebPart.  Mobi ...[Read More]

If you aren't following us on twitter, here are some of the latest updates from the SharePoint Community: Jan Tielen writes on how to Determine the URL of SharePoint Web Services using jQuery/Javascript Learn how to step by step Rename your MOSS installed virtual machine (VPC / VMWare) Chris O'Brien speaks of SharePoint Optimization, BLOB c ...[Read More]

One piece of the Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System due April 28th announcement from the Microsoft Update Blog is the information on the STSADM upgrade scanning tool. The Office Sustained Engineering Team Blog preannounced this Service Pack back in October. That post and this update are a part of their effort “to increase transparency ...[Read More]

Microsoft Update Product Team Blog has just announced that the 2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 2 will be released April 28, 2009 Besides announcing the formal date and better documentation we can expect a some noteable areas: Ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and P ...[Read More]

Without commenting on how organizations spend their IT budgets on products such as Office 2007 or SharePoint 2007, I wantd to outline my experience on why organizations move to SharePoint.  The reason I am blogging about this is because of CMSWire's recent reporting on how a study finds SharePoint primarily used for file sharing did not go well fo ...[Read More]

Recently, a collegue and I were helping a client enable Forms Based Authentication.  He sent out an email on how you lose client integration functionality when you have Forms Based Authentication enabled. SharePoint Buzz Twitter Community is GreatI tweeted earlier today that I was working on a draft version of this post and the SharePoint Twitte ...[Read More]

SharePoint 2007 has quite a few features. One of them is Timer Jobs. If you don't know how to work with Timer Jobs, then check out the 7 Development Projects for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 ebook offered in one of our top posts Free SharePoint e-Book by Microsoft. Windows SharePoint Services Time ...[Read More]

This webcast describes effective techniques you can use to secure Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn about the benefits and limitations of several different authentication methods, and the management and role of permissions in SharePoint groups. We also discuss different permission levels a ...[Read More]