By JASON HALL Published August 10, 2009 Sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus to solve problems is the foundation of Collaboration. Arguably the most popular structured method for collaboration today is Microsoft® Office SharePoint®. Incorporate that with the rapid progress of SmartPhone capabilities over fast 3G networks and you op ...[Read More]

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]

I'm looking forward to presenting this weekend at SharePoint Saturday Chicago on Saturday, June 13, 2009.   Schedule (PDF) Sessions Thank you Sponsors Speakers Directions   I will presenting SharePoint Branding 101, SharePoint Branding is not impossible. Why deploy a SharePoint site that looks like every other SharePoint site. ...[Read More]

Pity the lowly folder. SharePoint document library folders are not feeling the love from all sides. The common argument is that they promote unorganized document management, make filtering difficult, hide content, provide a rigid hierarchy, and don’t take advantage of SharePoint’s strong and flexible metadata capabilities. Folders are horrible, ...[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]

Penny Coventry, MVP has a great post on How to find the level of SharePoint you are running, with the recent release of SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2, we wanted to update this reference list.   Here is a summary of the latest version numbers: MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP2 - 12.0.0.6421 MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Cumulative update (KB956056 & KB95 ...[Read More]

Microsoft has just released Service Pack 2 for SharePoint (both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007).  This update includes two main categories of fixes: Previously unreleased fixes that were made specifically for this service pack. In addition to general product fixes, this includes improvements in stability, in performance, and in security. All the ...[Read More]

Microsoft has released an excel sheet which lists the Issues Fixed by Service Pack 2 (SP2) in the 2007 Office Desktop Applications.  I just wanted to quickly outline, the SharePoint specific fixes for Microsoft Office desktop applications.    OneNote Before SP2, if you tried to create a shared notebook on SharePoint in a folder path where th ...[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]