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Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:05 GMT

Microsoft annonced the official release date for Sharepoint 2010 and Office 2010.

The date is May 12th 2010.

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch

Sharepoint 2010 videos

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:24:59 GMT

Microsoft has a collection of Sharepoint 2010 videos for those wanting a quick peek at all the new features.

Worth a look.

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/videos.aspx

SharePoint and Web 2.0 Enterprise

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:55:55 GMT

On Michael Greth’s Blog i found a nice list of Enterprise 2.0 Social Software add-ons and stuff for Sharepoint 2007.

The list includes:

Community Kit: Enhanced Blog Edition
Community Kit: Enhanced Wiki Edition
Tagging
Taxonomy
Faceted Search
Role Based Templates for MySites
FaceBook Web Parts
Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint
Org Chart Web Part
Academy Mobile
etc……

SharePoint and Web 2.0 Enterprise - Michael Greth [SharePoint MVP] - SharePointCommunity

SharePoint for Squirrels - by Natalya Voskresenskaya [MVP]: FAST search engine for SharePoint PART 1 (Dictionaries)

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:21:36 GMT

Good stuff about Sharepoint and FAST Enterprise Search Platform.

SharePoint for Squirrels - by Natalya Voskresenskaya [MVP]: FAST search engine for SharePoint PART 1 (Dictionaries)

Ten Themes for SharePoint

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:44:20 GMT

Microsoft has released 10 new themes for Sharepoint to make Sharepoint not look like Sharepoint :-)

The downloads can be fond here. download link

If you follow the link to The Sean Blog you will find screenshoots of the different themes.

The Sean Blog : Ten Themes for SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:13:03 GMT

Microsoft has released a toolkit to help create WSRP compliant content from Sharepoint lists and libraries.

This will enable Sharepoint conttent in IBM WebSphere Portal, SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal etc.

The toolkit contains Whitepapers and sample code and can be downloaded from the MSDN Code gallery.

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint

Faceted Search for SharePoint 2.0

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:59:43 GMT

On codePlex there is a project with webparts to help refine Sharepoint serarch.

From codePlex:

"Project Description
MOSS Faceted Search is a set of web parts that provide intuitive way to refine search results by category (facet). "

More info:

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=835

And you can find the download at CodePlex

http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=FacetedSearch&ReleaseId=7387

Faceted Search for SharePoint 2.0 Released - Michael Gannotti on SharePoint +

Install WSS 3.0 (or MOSS) on Windows Vista

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:50:00 GMT

Bamboo Solutions has created a solution for installing WSS 3.0 on Windows Vista thus eliminating the need for Virtual PC or VMware for Sharepoint Development.

This should greatly improve the development experience for Sharepoint developers.

Article at Bamboo

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:53:14 GMT

Microsoft has released a Solution Accelerator to quickly deploy sharepoint in an extranet solution.

From Microsoft's description:

This software and documentation helps administrators quickly deploy a SharePoint-based solution for collaborating across the Internet. The documentation includes Planning for External Collaboration with SharePoint, which describes the planning process for deploying the solution in a small or mid-sized environment, and the Deployment and Operations Guide, which explains how to install and configure the solution, provides guidance for users, and describes how to deploy the solution in larger environments.

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

MOSS 2007 as a DMS

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:43:01 GMT

Great articles on Bob Mixon's blog about using MOSS 2007 as a Document Management System.

MOSS 2007 Document Management Services - Document Centralization
MOSS 2007 Document Management Services - Document Centralization - Part 2
MOSS 2007 Document Management Services - Document Centralization - Part 3

Taxonomy - Blog

WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 is released

admin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:45:28 GMT

Microsoft have released Service Pack 1 for both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007

More info at the Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Team blog

And there's allot more information about SP1 at Technet, you will find it here.

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing the Release of WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1

Tool for exporting SharePoint Content

admin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:37:41 GMT

I found this information at Chris O'Brien's blog at http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/

this looks like a great tool for deploying content from one sharepoint server to another. Much more granular then the built-in content deployment features.

The tool have a wizard for choosing the content to export and looks fairly easy to use.

Chris O'Brien's blog: Introducing the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

How to retrieve the Sharepoint default save location from Word

admin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:01:00 GMT

If you are using VSTO to develop a Word Template for use in a Sharepoint document library you might come across the need to in your VSTO code find out what Sharepoint Document Library the Word document was opened from.

This information is not available from the Word object model. When you open or create a new Word document from a Sharepoint Document library Microsoft Word is activated by a ActiveX control that comes with the Office installation. The call to Word is made via standard DDE and the Word object model does not expose the path to the Sharepoint document library where the document came from.

The path to the Sharepoint Document Library is passed as parameters to the DDE call and is accessible from the VSTO code with the following line of code:

Environment.CommandLine

This will return a string with all of the parameters passed via DDE. Parse the string and you will find the path to the Sharepoint document library where the Word document was opened or created from.

Preview into WSS 3.0 SP1 and SharePoint Server 2007 SP1

admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:42:35 GMT

The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team have posted some information about the upcoming WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1.

Some of the highlights are:

Windows Server 2008 Support and Compatibility
ASP.NET for AJAX Compatibility and Support including support for WebParts built with AJAX Control Toolkit
+ New STSADM commands and 60+ Hotfixes

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Preview into WSS 3.0 SP1 and SharePoint Server 2007 SP1

Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model

admin — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:15:30 GMT

Good information from Microsoft about what every developer should know on disposing objects when using the Sharepoint object model.

Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model