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Announcing the release of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit V1
SharePoint Product Team
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Posted: Thu, Jul 15th '10 |
Back by Popular Request - Live Chats with MVP Experts
SharePoint Product Team
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"span style="font-size: small;"Do you have questions about SharePoint?nbsp;Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010?nbsp; By popular request, SharePoint /span/spana href="http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/"span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"span style="font-size: small;"MVPs/span/span/aspan style="font-f [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 14th '10 |
Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Product Team
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Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10 |
Installing KB938444
SharePoint Product Team
pWe’ve been tracking a small number of customers that have experienced issues after installing KB938444 through Windows Update.#160; /p pAfter the reboot at the end of installation we’ve had reports of Windows SharePoint Services sites and Central Administration being inaccessible with the error, “strongHTTP 404/strong”, “strongServer Error: …/strong” or “strongCannot connect to the configuration database/strong”./p pThis issue only affects Windows SharePoint Service v3 standal [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 22nd '10 |
Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint - with the MVP Experts
SharePoint Product Team
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"span style="font-size: small;"Do you have questions about SharePoint?nbsp;Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010?nbsp; By popular request, SharePoint /span/spana href="http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/"span style="font-family: verdan [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 17th '10 |
Save the Date - SharePoint Conference 2011
SharePoint Product Team
pspan style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: x-small;"span style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: x-small;"span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #231f20; font-size: 10.5pt;"
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"spanstrongSave the Date for SharePoint Conference 2011,/strong the premier worldwide conference dedic [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 8th '10 |
Live from the BI Conference - June 8, 2010
SharePoint Product Team
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="color: #1f497d;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"span style="font-size: x-small;"span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"At the BI Conference today, Ted Kummert demonstrated the new self-service user experiences that wersquo;ve enabled in Office an [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 8th '10 |
Update to SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites
SharePoint Product Team
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: small;"span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"If you installed bSharePoint Server 2010 For Internet Sites - Enterprise/b using a license key obtained from the Volume Licensing Service Center or Microsoft Partner Network before May 25, 2010, you may encounter the following symptoms: /spanspan style="color: black;"o:p/o: [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10 |
Update for SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites
SharePoint Product Team
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p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"If you installed Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 For Internet Sites Enterprise, and then you tried to activate the product by using the enterprise key before May 25, 2010, you may encounter the following symptoms: /p
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p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"The following Enterprise features are not available, or the featu [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Top 10 Resources to get you started…
SharePoint Product Team
pWith the official launch of SharePoint 2010 last week, we thought now would be a perfect time for us to share some resources to help you to get started evaluating and learning about the new release.#160; /p pThis post contains links to download evaluation software, guides, demo virtual machines and lots more, for both Developers and IT Professionals./p p#160;/p p1. Check out the Office 2010 amp; SharePoint 2010 Launch a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010launch/en-us/Pages/home.aspx" tar [read].
Posted: Fri, May 21st '10 |
Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
pDo you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010?#160; By popular request, 28 SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx"two live chat events about SharePoint/a. These events are a great opportunity to tap into the vast knowledge of these industry professionals who are regarded as the best in their field. Two opportunities are available to join the conversation. Times [read].
Posted: Thu, May 20th '10 |
Language Offerings for SharePoint 2010 Products
SharePoint Product Team
pMultilingual support is key to the deployment success of many of our global customers. This post shares our plans for language coverage for SharePoint 2010 and estimated release timeframes. To date we have shipped 19 languages, including strongEnglish, Japanese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Korean, Hebrew, Hindi, Danish, Thai, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch and Italian/strong with 21 others shipping between now and September 201 [read].
Posted: Thu, May 13th '10 |
Virtual launch event today
SharePoint Product Team
pJoin the live virtual launch event for Office and SharePoint today at a href="http://www.the2010event.com"www.the2010event.com/a!/pimg src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10011770" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/sharepointteamblog?a=1jGNeUxkFNs:0nnFzST3V7k:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/sharepointteamblog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/sharepointteamblog?a=1jGNeUxkFNs:0nnF [read].
Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
Executive Thoughts on SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Product Team
pCheck out SharePoint GM Eric Swift’s thoughts on SharePoint 2010 in this new executive video blog!#160; Go to a href="http://www.the2010event.com"www.the2010event.com/a to participate in the virtual launch event and a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint"www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/a to get more information.#160; Follow us on twitter @sharepoint and use hashtags #join2010 and #sharepoint.#160; Become a fan at a href="http://www.facebook.com/mssharepoint"www.facebook.com/mssharepoint/a a [read].
Posted: Tue, May 11th '10 |
Plan Your Server Farm with Capacity Management Resource Center for SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Product Team
pThe release of SharePoint 2010 Products marks a substantial change in the way Microsoft approaches capacity and performance documentation. We have listened to feedback and learned from customer experiences with SharePoint Server 2007 and our own testing to establish a comprehensive set of initial guidance for capacity and performance management for SharePoint 2010./p pWe have published a Capacity Management Resource Center (a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601870.aspx"htt [read].
Posted: Thu, May 6th '10 |
Announcing Launch - May 12, 2010
SharePoint Product Team
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormalSPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"FONT face=verdana,genevaFONT size=2Watch Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on May 12, 2010 at 8 a.m PST or 11 a.m. EST. The live Microsoftnbsp;keynote focuses on the next wave of productivity that delivers:?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-m [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 28th '10 |
Live Chats to Learn more about Sharepoint - 28 MVP Experts
SharePoint Product Team
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormalSPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"FONT size=2 face=verdana,genevaDo you have questions about SharePoint?nbsp;Want to learn more about SharePoint 2010?nbsp; By popular request, 28 SharePoint MVPs are participating in /FONTA href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx"FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=verdana,genevatwo live chat events about SharePoint/FON [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 27th '10 |
Temporarily disabling List View Threshold on a large list
SharePoint Product Team
pIn SharePoint 2010, some new limits have been added to protect the servers and other users from expensive operations inadvertently carried out by other users. For a complete list of the SharePoint 2010 Software Boundaries and Limits, click a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601870.aspx"here/a a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601870.aspx"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601870.aspx/a. If you'd like to find out more about what the differe [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10 |
Announcing the CMIS Connector for SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
pCross-posted from the a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/"ECM team blog/a/p pToday at the SharePoint 2010 Summit @ AIIM Expo, Eric Swift (a href="http://twitter.com/eswift"@eswift/a), General Manager of SharePoint Marketing announced that Microsoft with be shipping the CMIS Connector for SharePoint as part of the SharePoint Administrator Toolkit by the end of June 2010.#160; The CMIS Connector for SharePoint provides a CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services)interface over the top of [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 21st '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Summit @ AIIM Expo
SharePoint Product Team
pThis week a team from Microsoft is headed to Philadelphia to host a series of educational sessions and a Customer Immersion Experience.#160; They will be delivering this content at the a href="http://www.aiimexpo.com/"AIIM Expo + Conference/a and hopefully you can attend to learn from the people behind the product.#160; Read more on the ECM blog a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2010/04/16/get-ready-for-the-sharepoint-2010-summit-aiim-expo.aspx"here/a, where you can hear more about the [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 19th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM!
SharePoint Product Team
pa name="_GoBack"/aToday we reached an exciting engineering milestone- the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010!/p pRTM is the final engineering milestone and a major achievement for all of the internal teams who worked so hard to get to this point. As tirelessly as our engineering teams worked, we would never have reached this milestone without incredibly active participation from our customers and partners. More than 5,000 organizations a [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 16th '10 |
Learn How to Design an Internet Business Solution with SharePoint 2010: Free 2-Day Training for SharePoint Partners
SharePoint Product Team
p25 Seats Available for a 2 day SharePoint 2010 Solution Designer training for partners in Redmond (April 26-27, 2010)/p pThe SharePoint Solution Designer training objective is to skill Business Analysts and Solution Architects on reusable ‘best in class’ patterns for the SharePoint platform using real-world scenarios across a solution area.#160; /p pRecognizing and appropriately applying SharePoint solution patterns increases repeatability which optimizes time spent in solution design, deli [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 14th '10 |
Making Your SharePoint 2010 Customizations Visual Upgrade Aware
SharePoint Product Team
pHi, Jonathan Kern here a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/04/06/customizing-ribbon-positioning-in-sharepoint-2010-master-pages.aspx" target="_blank"again/a. Today’s post is about one of the new features in SharePoint 2010: Visual Upgrade. Visual Upgrade allows administrators to decouple UI upgrade from system upgrade. This helps make upgrading to a new version of SharePoint far less painful for your users and for your helpdesk personnel./p pMuch of our UI is aware of Visual [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 14th '10 |
Customizing Ribbon Positioning in SharePoint 2010 Master Pages
SharePoint Product Team
pHi, I’m Jonathan Kern and I’m a developer on SharePoint Foundation. For SharePoint 2010, I am responsible for a variety of User Experience (UX) features such as Visual Upgrade, Site UI (including v4.master and minimal.master), and parts of the Ribbon platform. I’m posting today to talk about how two of these features work together: the Ribbon and the Master Page./p pAs you’ll likely notice in SharePoint 2010, the Ribbon is specially positioned to always be visible on the screen, even if [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 6th '10 |
Feedback around protecting SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
pOur friends on the Forefront Server Protection team are conducting research to understand what applications you would like to protect, and how you would like them protected. One of the applications they are soliciting feedback on is SharePoint. The a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/forefrontsurvey"survey/a shouldn't take more than 5-10 minutes, and your feedback directly impacts product decisions. /p pPlease head over to a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/forefrontsurvey"http://www.surve [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 24th '10 |
Get Ready for SharePoint 2010 with Ignite Online: now available for partners on the Partner Learning Center!
SharePoint Product Team
pAn exciting opportunity for SharePoint partners- Upgrade your skills to SharePoint 2010 through a series of self-paced modules of SharePoint 2010 technical training –including demos, presentations and hosted hands-on-labs now available through the Partner Learning Center! With two different tracks, both IT professionals and developers can take advantage of SharePoint 2010 Ignite to get ready to deploy and support implementations of, or build custom applications on SharePoint 2010./p pIf you [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 24th '10 |
Analysts’ review of SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Product Team
pAs we announced last week, SharePoint Server 2010 will RTM next month. We’ve been keeping you updated on the documentation and guidance that we’re providing but the technology analyst community has also been very busy talking to their clients about SharePoint 2010 and publishing their take on the new release. Examples include Forrester’s recent report i, /ia href="http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/sharepoint_server_2010_evolutionary_step_toward_content-centric/q/id/54451/t/2"i“ShareP [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 12th '10 |
Chat with SharePoint MVP Experts
SharePoint Product Team
pDo you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)? The SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, speakers, trainers, user group leaders and answerers in the MSDN forums. This is the first time we have brought these experts together as a collective group to answer your questions live. So please join us and brin [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 12th '10 |
Accessibility and SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Product Team
pThis is Tim McConnell, Program Manager on the SharePoint Foundation team. For the 2010 release, I’ve worked with SharePoint platform and partner teams to deliver powerful, reliable, accessible user experiences. Like a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/01/07/office-2010-accessibility-investments-document-accessibility.aspx"Office/a, a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/officewebapps/"Office Web Applications/a, a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/30/accessibility-in-w [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 9th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Office 2010 Launch
SharePoint Product Team
pToday, we officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 amp; Office 2010. In addition, we announced our intent to RTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010.#160; /p pIt’s an exciting time for us! We hope you can virtually join us on May 12th at 11am EST to listen to Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch. You can register for the event @ a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/201 [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 5th '10 |
Walkthrough of enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010
SharePoint Product Team
pIn our last blog of this series a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/12/03/walkthrough-of-creating-a-sharepoint-2010-external-list-using-visual-studio-2010-beta.aspx"Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Visual Studio 2010 Beta/a, we introduced how to create a simple “Hello world” external list in SharePoint 2010 Beta using Business Data Connectivity Designer in Visual Studio 2010 Beta. /p pIn this blog, we will show you how to pull data from an exte [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
SharePoint Dialog Auto-Sizing and Master Page Customization
SharePoint Product Team
pSharePoint web dialogs bring an exciting new UI feature: they can auto-size to the content of a hosted page. Auto-sizing works by examining the contents of your page during page load, and setting the size of the dialog accordingly. Unfortunately, this feature can be speed bump on the road to master page customization. This post will describe the master page customization process necessary to keep dialog auto-sizing working with your master pages./p p#160;/p pThe most important thing to note is [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 26th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 3 – List View Architecture
SharePoint Product Team
p/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: #39;Times New Roman#39;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi"Hi all.span style="mso-spacerun: yes"#160; /spanThis is Greg Chan, Program Manager on the SharePoint team, for the third part in this List View series. In this post I’m excited to have one of the key architects of the new XSLT List View Web Part (XLV [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 25th '10 |
Enabling a Button on the Ribbon Based on Selection
SharePoint Product Team
pA lot of people have asked me how to create a button which enables if and only if a single item is selected. This isn’t something we have out of the box, but the code to get this functionality is pretty simple. I’m going to assume that you’re generally familiar with SharePoint, CustomActions, and customizing the Ribbon – if that’s not the case, you’d probably be better off researching those things before delving into this./p pBasically, the enabling behavior all boils down to the fo [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 15th '10 |
December 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
SharePoint Product Team
pDecember 2009 Cumulative Updates are available for download for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Cumulative Updates will now always be available at the a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx"Update Center/a/p pFor additional download information and detailed descriptions of the strongDecember 2009 Cumulative Update/strong visit the Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies at a href="htt [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Product Team
pWe've seen some confusion in the newsgroups and elsewhere on the versions and editions of Windows that SharePoint 2010 will run on. This post is meant to clarify some of the most common questions we have seen./p pSharePoint 2010 will support only 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2.#160; SharePoint will not install at all on 32 bit Windows, or any earlier version of Windows#160; such as Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003./p pSharePoint is not supp [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 22nd '10 |
Try System Center Operations Manager Management Packs for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta and SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta
SharePoint Product Team
pManagement Packs allow users to monitor SharePoint 2010 with a href="http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/operationsmanager/en/us/default.aspx"System Center Operations Manager/a. SharePoint Foundation Management Pack and SharePoint Server 2010 Management Pack enables monitoring of bSharePoint Foundation 2010,/b bSharePoint Server 2010,/b bSearch Server/bb 2010 (These is separate management pack for FAST search), Project Server /bb2010 and Office Web Apps/b. Once management pack is imported to [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 11th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 - Using the New SharePoint Lists
SharePoint Product Team
pHi!#160;#160; I'm Jason Morrill, another Program Manager on the SharePoint team.#160;#160; I wanted to write a bit about what it feels like to use SharePoint lists with the new user experience.#160;#160; If you've got a SharePoint site sitting around, I'd encourage you to open it in another window and follow along as I talk about things. br /Let's start by just browsing to a document library with no content./p p#160;/p pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/ShareP [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 8th '10 |
Planning for Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2010
SharePoint Product Team
pIn order to upgrade to SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010, you must first be running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 at SP2 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 at SP2, respectively. For customers running prior versions of SharePoint, including Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003, this means that you must first upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 prior to upgrading to 2010 versions. W [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
How to set Replication Directory Changes
SharePoint Product Team
pIn November, we posted a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/11/18/path-to-user-profile-synchronization-success-in-sharepoint-2010-beta.aspx"guidance/a to help setup User Profile Synchronization for those evaluating SharePoint 2010 public beta.#160; In order for the sync to work, the SharePoint WFE farm admin account or UPA admin account must have “Replicated Directory Changes” permissions in Active Directory.#160; To help the SharePoint admins that are not Active Directory [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 14th '09 |
Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Visual Studio 2010 Beta
SharePoint Product Team
pThere are a bunch of SharePoint features in Visual Studio 2010 Beta. You may have already heard about them from reading the blog a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/28/short-overview-of-sharepoint-features-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx"Short Overview of SharePoint Features in Visual Studio 2010/a or by other means. Today I want to introduce one of them, Business Data Connectivity (BDC) designer, which is available in the project template Business Data Connectivity Model. If BD [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 3rd '09 |
Beta Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta and SharePoint Server 2010 Beta are now available for download
SharePoint Product Team
pSeveral beta language packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta and SharePoint Server 2010 Beta are now available through the Download Center.#160; Installing one or more language pack will allow you to evaluate the new Multi User Interface (MUI) features of SharePoint 2010. /p pThe following language packs are available:/p ul liGerman/li liEnglish/li liSpanish/li liFrench/li liJapanese/li liRussian/li liChinese (simplified)/li /ul pSharePoint Foundation 2010 Language Packs/p pa href="http://ww [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 2nd '09 |
SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 1 – Introduction to the new List View
SharePoint Product Team
pHello.#160; This is Greg Chan, a Program Manager on the SharePoint team.#160; I am excited to kick-off a new blog series that will cover a wide spectrum of topics related to the new List View in SharePoint 2010.#160; /p h2What is a List View again?/h2 pPut simply, a List View is a view for displaying SharePoint list data.#160; The concept of List View has been around since SharePoint v2.#160; While there are other technologies being used for visualizing list data in different scenarios (e.g. Co [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 2nd '09 |
Installation notice for the SharePoint Server Public Beta on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Windows 7
SharePoint Product Team
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormalFONT size=3FONT face=CalibriSPAN style="COLOR: black"If you will be installing the SharePoint Server 2010 Public Beta on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or Microsoft Windows 7, thennbsp;you will need to download and install an update from /SPANSPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"A href="http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=23806"http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=2 [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 19th '09 |
Update Center is now live
SharePoint Product Team
pThe a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx"Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products/a went live today, which will enable customers to find an up-to-date list of all of our Service Pack, Public Update, and Cumulative Update releases in one location. While the SharePoint team blog has posted Cumulative Update package information in the past, this will be available on the a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx"Update [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 19th '09 |
Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta
SharePoint Product Team
PThe TechNet content about this topic has been updated to incorporate the information in this blog.nbsp; Please refer to it if you need guidance on setting up user profile synching in SharePoint Server 2010 Beta./P
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PSTRIKE[Note:nbsp;Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows 7 WCF hotfix isnbsp;now available and this post [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 18th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Resources
SharePoint Product Team
As Steve Ballmer announced this morning at the SharePoint Conference, and Jeff Teper notes below in his post, the public beta of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 will be available in November. For more resources, take a look at: - SharePoint 2010 Website - to view SharePoint 2010 in action - SharePoint 2010 forum- for SharePoint 2010 questions - SharePoint 2010 Developer Center - for developer info - http://www.mssharepointitpro.com - for IT Pro info - http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint - for m [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Developer Center
SharePoint Product Team
The SharePoint 2010 Developer Center is now live on MSDN. This new sub-site includes Getting Started modules, as well as a Beta version of the SharePoint 2010 SDK. To read more, take a look at the SharePoint developer documentation team blog, or head straight to the SharePoint 2010 Developer Center to see detailed, public technical information and instruction around both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Product Team
This is my third and final post as part of our disclosure of SharePoint 2010 today. The previous posts covered the SharePoint History and how we Engineer SharePoint. This morning, Steve Ballmer and I are kicking off the SharePoint Conference so it is time to talk about SharePoint 2010! It is incredibly fun and rewarding to unveil this release driven input from you and innovative ideas from the team. As Steve announced, we will release the Beta of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in November and l [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
Engineering SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
This is the second post in the run up to the SharePoint Conference on October 19th. Last time, I covered the history of SharePoint. This time, I will talk about how the broader Microsoft Office team designs and builds SharePoint highlighting improvements for the 2010 cycle. This is our fourth major release of SharePoint plus several releases of Office before that. There has been continuous learning and improvement in our product design and development approach, particularly as we have expanded t [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 12th '09 |
SharePoint Conference 2009 has officially SOLD OUT!
SharePoint Product Team
SharePoint Conference 2009: SOLD OUT! We’re officially SOLD OUT! With 7000+ SharePoint experts, developers, partners, users, MVP’s and enthusiasts this is officially the BIGGEST SHAREPOINT CONFERENCE EVER!!! We’ve had a phenomenal response to the conference this year with a 94% increase in attendance and we can’t wait to see you all in just over 10 days! Discounted Hotel Room Rates: SOLD OUT! Due to high demand in registration our discounted hotel room rates at The Hot [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 9th '09 |
SharePoint History
SharePoint Product Team
Hello! As we are just two weeks away from disclosing SharePoint 2010 at the SharePoint Conference starting October 19th, I wanted to write three posts to provide context on the upcoming release. This first post will cover the history of SharePoint. I hope it will provide some useful perspective behind our vision and what we have learned as well as a few fun anecdotes. The second post will cover the engineering process for SharePoint 2010 - how we design and develop SharePoint in the Office team [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
Install SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2
SharePoint Product Team
Starting from Service Pack 2, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 support Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2. When you try to install SharePoint bits on Windows Server 2008 R2 directly, you may see the following dialogue: This is because Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 bits without SP2 slipstreamed are not supported on Windows Server 2008 R2. The KB article 962935 is not live on the web site yet. To install on Windows Server 200 [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 2nd '09 |
How we did it: Speeding up SharePoint.Microsoft.com
SharePoint Product Team
SharePoint.Microsoft.com is a critical communications channel for SharePoint. We wanted to provide visitors with a rich and helpful experience and at the same time educate them on what SharePoint can do for their businesses. The site leverages our industry-leading web content management platform, and provides useful content and resources to the visitors. In addition, we also recognized that there were fundamental Internet challenges that needed to be overcome in order to improve page loading tim [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 29th '09 |
Patching a mirrored farm with minimal downtime
SharePoint Product Team
For administrators of large SharePoint server farms, a newly-published article describes how to update server farms that use database mirroring, while incurring minimal perceived downtime for users. This solution is for enterprise customers who have high-availability needs and infrastructure. The article describes a step-by-step process for Office SharePoint Server farms that incorporate SQL Server mirroring. You can achieve similar results on Office SharePoint Server farms that are set up in a [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 18th '09 |
SharePoint Conference 2009 Update: We’re SELLING OUT FAST!
SharePoint Product Team
SharePoint Conference 2009 is selling out fast! Register today to secure your spot before we sell out!
If you’re in need of a little encouragement to hit the registration button then read on, we’ve got a new set of sneak peek session titles to share and an update on conference hotel availability and Post- Conference workshops.
Session Sneak Peek: 15 New Sessions!
Check out the new sneak peek sessions below, and don’t forget, they’re just a small sampler of almost 250 sessions we hav [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
Announcing the release of patterns and practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance
SharePoint Product Team
Patterns and practices has released a new version of guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems. The guidance helps customers accelerate constructing advanced applications through examples and documentation. The guidance delivers a guide, a reusable library, and a reference implementation for a partner portal extranet. It compliments product documentation and helps architects and developers in the following areas: · Use SharePoint capabilities to m [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 8th '09 |
Microsoft Virtualization: Best Choice for SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
Virtualization continues to be a hot topic with many customers recognizing the benefits of virtualizing SharePoint including reduced server hardware costs, power and space savings, improved server utilization and rapid server provisioning. Additionally, by choosing MS Virtualization (hyper-v + System Center) customers benefit from a lower cost solution (both up front and ongoing) that is already part of Windows Server and an integrated end to end management solution for both physical [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 2nd '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Partner Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners!
SharePoint Product Team
SharePoint 2007 Partners: You’ve heard the buzz about SharePoint 2010 and seen the sneak peeks. Now learn how you can get ready to start building with and deploying SharePoint 2010! SharePoint 2010 Ignite is a 5 day instructor-led training program for SharePoint 2007 partner developers and implementers coming soon to a city or virtually to a PC near you! This is an invitation-only training event for partners and we are accepting nominations today. Want to know more about Ignite and explore ho [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 28th '09 |
Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit
SharePoint Product Team
I’m pleased to announce that the fourth version of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit is available for download! This is our last planned offering of new features and functionality for this toolkit that services both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3.0. That said, we do plan to release a separate new toolkit for SharePoint 2010. With this release we added functionality to address various difficult administrative task [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 27th '09 |
Adecco Personalizes Web-Site Experience, Reduces Customer Attrition by Two-Thirds
SharePoint Product Team
“By automating core operations of the Web site with Office SharePoint Server 2007…we are empowering our business users to take full ownership and control of how, when, and what we produce.”- Chris Fiorillo, Vice President of Internet Strategy, Adecco USAConnecting more than 700,000 qualified job-applicants with businesses around the world every day, Adecco is a global leader in staffing solutions. Adecco wanted to take better advantage of the Internet to provide people with the resources t [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 24th '09 |
New SharePoint 2007 video
SharePoint Product Team
If you're new to SharePoint, or working with people who are new to SharePoint and have a hard time explaining what it is, you might find the SharePoint in Plain English video to be helpful. This video takes a friendly approach to show how SharePoint can help you work together with others in more efficient ways. For example, SharePoint can help you plan and work on a project online instead of sending files back and forth in e-mail. Link to the video: http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/7 [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 14th '09 |
Session Sneak Peek for the SharePoint Conference 2009
SharePoint Product Team
Have you watched the SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek videos and are hungry for more?!
The SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the first time Microsoft will publically share all of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer. We know you want to know what you can expect to see and hear about during the conference – so here’s your SharePoint Conference 2009 session sneak peek!
We have almost 250 sessions planned, and over 80% of them will be brand new 2010 content. That’s 15,000 minutes of SharePoint, Shar [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 13th '09 |
Second largest Brazilian Airline Automates Web Content Management, Drives Agility, and Reduces Costs with “SharePoint For Internet Sites”
SharePoint Product Team
Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes [Gol Intelligent Airlines] positions itself as the best option for people who appreciate quality air services for a good price. Gol has always taken advantage of the almost unlimited reach of the Internet, offering tickets online for the first time in Brazil. In order to build on its already strong Web presence, Gol migrated its Internet site infrastructure to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and integrated Web content publi [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 10th '09 |
Italian Car Maker, FERRARI, Forms Stronger Customer, Fan Connection with “SharePoint For Internet Sites”
SharePoint Product Team
Ferrari wanted to make its Web site as state-of-the-art and captivating as the cars it manufactures. The company migrated from a Java-based infrastructure to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to streamline development, simplify content management, and improve the user experience. With the new site, Ferrari has created a stronger audience connection. Site traffic has increased by 237 percent, with a 150 percent increase in unique visitors.
Get the full written and video case study here [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 5th '09 |
Learn how Web and Interactive agencies use SharePoint to light up the brand for customers, such as Kroger or Dell Financial.
SharePoint Product Team
Hear about Microsoft’s Web Content Management offering (“SharePoint For Internet Sites”) firsthand from Razorfish—one of the world’s largest interactive agency and advertising buyers. In his talk, Razorfish Technical Director, Tony Jones, gives an overview of the interactive landscape and of SharePoint For Internet Sites, supported by real-world case studies and project lifecycles. Finally, Tony concludes by explaining how to build Internet solutions with SharePoint For Internet [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 29th '09 |
June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download
SharePoint Product Team
The server-packages of June Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download. KB articles are also avaliable. Download Information Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 June cumulative update package http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=971538 Office SharePoint Server 2007 June cumulative update package http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=971537 Detail Description Description of the Windo [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 20th '09 |
Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview
SharePoint Product Team
Today, we’re announcing that SharePoint 2010 has reached the technical preview engineering milestone. The SharePoint team is running a limited, invitation only Technical Preview program. While we’re not sharing SharePoint 2010 details at this point, we did want to give our customers & partners a sneak peek at SharePoint 2010! We’re very excited about SharePoint 2010 and looking forward to the SharePoint Conference this October where we’ll talk about all the investment areas across wo [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
How We Did It: BDC Meta Man Web Edition
SharePoint Product Team
For today’s guest post, I’d like to introduce Nick Swan and Phill Duffy. Nick founded Lightning Tools with Brett Lonsdale in 2006 and BDC Meta Man was a result of their efforts. Fast forward to 2009 and Phill Duffy is part of the team (Nick Swan, Brett Londsdale, Dmitry Kaloshin, Michael Gamza, Hrayr Diloyan, Ashot Brahamyan, Karen Khumaryan & Hrachya Bekverdyan) that built and launched BDC Meta Man Web Edition. This post gets into the decisions and components they used [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 6th '09 |
Enterprise Social Computing web site
SharePoint Product Team
At #e2conf (tag name for Enterprise 2.0 Conference), we announced a new Microsoft mini-site dedicated to enterprise social computing. It’s running on the sharepoint.microsoft.com environment that hosts the primary SharePoint marketing site. On this social site, you will find content about using the social power of SharePoint to help your organization to collaborate and communicate. Plus, the site has a fresh new design and uses the blog feature that is built into SharePoint.& [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 6th '09 |
Service Pack 2 Update.
SharePoint Product Team
The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download. The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2. The update is applicable to [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
How Microsoft IT Designs and Creates Enterprise Publishing Portals Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
SharePoint Product Team
Kiley Williams and Martin Cai will be hosting this webcast on July 7. Kiley and Martin are program managers and part of Microsoft IT (internal business unit that manage the business systems that are used by all of Microsoft).
Microsoft runs a global intranet on SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and over the years, Microsoft IT has collected valuable lessons and strategies based upon the implementation. Sign up for this webcast if you are interested in learning about:
Planning and development appr [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 18th '09 |
How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com
SharePoint Product Team
I’d like to introduce this next post by congratulating Tony Tai (SharePoint Product Manager) and the team who worked on getting the SharePoint marketing site onto SharePoint. This was a very cool project and it set the foundation for all the future sites and content that we can now quickly manage and publish onto the Internet. I’d also like to give a special kudos to Tim McDaniel and Celina Baginsky for all their contributions to the project. So let me get out of the way an [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 18th '09 |
Updated list of conferences on the road to the SharePoint Conference 2009
SharePoint Product Team
Crossed off 8 conferences on the list of SharePoint conferences and only 5 more conferences until the SharePoint Conference 2009! Awesome! Instead of redirecting back to the old post, here is the updated list: SPTechCon June 22-24, 2009: Boston, MA For three exciting days, you'll be eating, drinking, sleeping, talking and living Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The first day at SPTechCon Boston is filled with intense full and half-day workshops, h [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 9th '09 |
TechNet Launches New Interactive Silverlight Application for STSADM Technical Reference
SharePoint Product Team
The vision was to plan, design, develop, test and publish a high quality SilverLight application that would improve the overall customer experience with the current downloadable Visio diagram for the Stsadm SharePoint command line admin tool. We have delivered; our application provides a fully browsable interface, in-depth information from the TechNet TOC and library, and links to specific topics for each Stsadm command line operation and property. By using separate XML data files, the SilverLig [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 5th '09 |
Office Developer Conference moving to SharePoint Conference 2009
SharePoint Product Team
Want to get an in-depth look at Office 2010 for Developers? Want to see what 64-bit Office looks like? As you may have seen at PDC, TechEd or elsewhere, Office 2010 is on its way. To help you get ready, Office 2010 for Developers will be highlighted at the upcoming SharePoint Conference (October 2009, Las Vegas, NV) and TechEd conferences around the world in 2009 and 2010. NET: Office Developer Conference will not take place this year; instead we are including the Office Developer Conference co [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 2nd '09 |
Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2
SharePoint Product Team
We take product quality seriously and make every effort to avoid and resolve issues that adversely impact our customers. Unfortunately, we have recently discovered a bug with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that affects all customers that have deployed it for SharePoint Server 2007.
During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
SharePoint on SharePoint: Launch of new website
SharePoint Product Team
Lights… Camera… Action!
Today, we launched the SharePoint marketing website on SharePoint Server 2007. First the home page, it is brand new and we’re using Silverlight enabled web parts to keep the interface simple, elegant and dynamic thus enhancing the overall usability of it. You can watch customer videos, learn about events, download trial versions of the software and a lot more on the home page now. Since the site is powered by MOSS, we are taking advantage of the publishing featur [read].
Posted: Wed, May 20th '09 |
Enter to win a free pass to the SharePoint Conference 2009!
SharePoint Product Team
Do you think of yourself as someone with a flair for web design? How would you like a free pass to the SharePoint conference & ultimate bragging rights with your friends?
Here is what you need to do. Dream up what you think the homepage of the SharePoint conference should look and feel like. Don’t worry about the content; we are most interested in the look and feel, colors & layout. Will you go wild or will you go conservative? You decide!
The competition is open now & ends on Ju [read].
Posted: Tue, May 19th '09 |
Update on SharePoint forms based authentication(FBA) and Office client
SharePoint Product Team
Hi folks,
It’s Steve Peschka from the SharePoint Ranger team again. I wanted to update everyone on some changes with the level of support and integration in the Microsoft Office client applications (hereafter referred to simply as “Office”) and SharePoint sites that are secured with forms based authentication (FBA). For those of you who have read part 3 of the FBA whitepapers (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977430.aspx), you know that at the time Office and SharePoint 2007 was [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
April Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download
SharePoint Product Team
You may already read from blogs about April Cumulative Update for separate components in SharePoint. Now, the server-packages (also known as “Uber” packages) of April Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download.
Download Information
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 April cumulative update package http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=968850
Office SharePoint Server 2007 April cumulative update pac [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
Congratulations to the First Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters!
SharePoint Product Team
James Petrosky, the program manager for the SharePoint Master and MCA programs, notified me that his blog post went live on the Master blog.
You might be asking what is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Master? Here’s how I see it: a candidate spends 3 weeks at Microsoft to be educated, challenged, tested and then at the very end – if they pass all the labs and written exams, then they receive the Master certification. I know the trainers and many of the candidates from both classes and I [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09 |
Announcing Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
SharePoint Product Team
We are happy to announce that Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been released to the Microsoft Download Center. It includes all the fixes prior to SP2, and also several enhancements to improve server farm performance, availability and stability. Plus, a new stsadm operation has been added to help customers prepare for the upgrade to the next version of SharePoint. We recommend installing this new service pack and to help, I’ve assembled l [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 due to ship April 28th
SharePoint Product Team
Office Service Pack team announced Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 would be available on April 28th. It provides many fixes and performance improvements, as well as some new features. Also with the new service pack, Internet Explorer 8 will be added into browser support matrix as level one, and Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 as level two. We recommend every customer to start planning their patch window to apply this service pack. Please look ou [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 16th '09 |
Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Product Team
You have probably seen the news announcement today where we announced the public beta for the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. As part of that announcement, we also talked about some of the names for the “14” wave of products including Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. I wanted to answer some questions that I think will inevitably pop to the top of your mind: What happened to the Office piece of the name? We love MOSS. . . . The first thing you’ll notice is th [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09 |
SharePoint Designer available as a free download
SharePoint Product Team
Today we are excited to share with you some news about SharePoint Designer 2007. Starting now (April 2, 2009), SharePoint Designer 2007 will be available as a free download! We want more of you customizing SharePoint and feel that this a good way to put the tool in the hands of more people. You can find a lot more information in our site including: a) Letter to our Customers b) Frequently Asked Questions c) Free Download Also, make sure to watch this video where Tom Rizzo and J.R. Arredondo disc [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 2nd '09 |
How We Did It: LearningPoint for SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
Today's guest blog post is from Martin Harwar who the chief solution architect for Point8020 Limited. A few weeks ago, I was able to sync up with Martin while he was on campus and he was kind enough to assemble this post that dives into how his solution is leveraging Silverlight-on-SharePoint to build rich Internet applications. At the end of the post, he links you off to a longer white paper, demos of his learning management system and trial. So on to Martin's post. Enjoy! Dav [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 1st '09 |
List of upcoming SharePoint conferences - UPDATED
SharePoint Product Team
It’s spring and the December post of upcoming conferences has been updated. Also, many in the SharePoint community have sent me local events such as Code Camps, SharePoint Saturdays, etc. Let’s put it this way – I would be in the CEO/platinum awards program with any airline if I started to travel around the world to visit all these deep dive events! If you are interested in attending, then please reach out to a local SharePoint user group - the International SharePoint Professi [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 30th '09 |
Case Study: Pfizer Takes a Two-Pronged Approach to Content Management
SharePoint Product Team
Gartner has posted a report for SharePoint that features a prominent customer, Pfizer. It highlights the benefits that SharePoint has brought to Pfizer and notes how agile and easy it was to deploy and use in the company. As a result of the deployment, the report notes that Pfizer has more than 41,000 active SharePoint users, supports external collaboration sites accessible to authorized non-Pfizer employees, and “has fostered information sharing and collaboration within Pfizer. [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 26th '09 |
Microsoft® Commerce Server 2009 is Now Available on MSDN!
SharePoint Product Team
Over on the e-commerce blog (owned by the Commerce Server team), they announced the availability of Commerce Server 2009 on MSDN. Excellent! So why is this so relevant to the SharePoint audience? Commerce Server 2009 delivers an out-of-the-box shopping site that leverages SharePoint Commerce Services which provides a gallery of 35 web parts and controls that can be assembled within SharePoint. Here’s a list of some of the functionality provided by SharePoint Commerce Services: · Virtual [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 26th '09 |
Possible Issue with mergecontentdb STSADM Operation
SharePoint Product Team
Under certain circumstances, the mergecontentdb Stsadm operation may fail. These circumstances include combinations of significant site collection size, user traffic, and SQL Server load. When the command fails, both the source and destination databases can be corrupted. If you use mergecontentdb, make sure that you: · Always back up both the source and target databases before using this operation. · Set the site collection to be read-only before using mergecontentdb to move it. · Refr [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 25th '09 |
Uber Packages of February Cumulative Update are Ready
SharePoint Product Team
You may have been waiting anxiously for the uber packages because of your scheduled patch time window. Yeah, we heard from you. Now here they are:
Download Information
February Cumulative Update Uber Package for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Version: 12.0.6341.5000)
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961755
February Cumulative Update Uber Package for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Version: 12.0.6341.5002)
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnu [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 10th '09 |
Announcing the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) v2.0
SharePoint Product Team
Today, Microsoft and HiSoftware are pleased to announce the release of the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) v2.0. The AKS v2.0 provides an accessible development framework and significantly reduces the level of effort and knowledge needed by customers and partners to improve the accessibility of SharePoint based sites and applications.
The AKS v2.0 follows on from the success of the AKS v1.0 and v1.1 which have been downloaded by more than 4000 organizations in fifty countries. The AKS v [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 10th '09 |
Microsoft SharePoint Developer Challenge
SharePoint Product Team
Here is an opportunity for you to win great prizes by sharing your knowledge and breadth of experience with Developers in the SharePoint Developer Forum. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/threads/ From March 1st, 2009 to May 31st, 2009 there will be three contests and 5 monthly prizes given. You can win an Xbox 360, a Zune 120GB , or a 7” digital frame! For more information, including eligibility and entry requirements, see official rules at http://blogs.msdn. [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09 |
Is it time to apply Feburary Cumulative Update?
SharePoint Product Team
You may have already read from some blogs that February Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is avaliable to download. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 961750 Global http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961750 967703 Language specific http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967703 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 & Microsoft Search Server 2008 961749 Global http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961749 961754 Language specific http://supp [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09 |
eWeek.com: GM IT Steers Through the Economic Storm
SharePoint Product Team
Beyond achieving critical economies, the goal of globalization at GM is to enable units in far-flung locations to think and act as a common part of a single corporate organism, the company said. In carrying out this plan, GM standardized on certain key software applications: the Siemens NX enterprise CAD application; the Siemens Teamcenter Community platform, a collaborative platform for engineers; Microsoft Communicator for instant messaging; and Microsoft SharePoint Server for virtual meeting [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09 |
Department of Social and Family Affairs wins eGovernment Award for accessible website
SharePoint Product Team
The newly redesigned website (built on SharePoint Server 2007) www.welfare.ie has won an eGovernment award for most accessible Government website. The Department of Social and Family Affairs’ winning entry contains comprehensive information on all of the Department’s schemes and services, as well as policy and legislation, in an easy-to-use, consistent and modern design. Website accessibility for all was one of the key considerations in the redevelopment of www.welfare.ie. The site is [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 24th '09 |
SharePoint + PowerShell
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross Posted from Zach Rosenfield's Blog]
Today I’m posting about a rather dense technology issue—so please bear with me! Those of you who read my blog know that I am a huge fan of PowerShell and on occasion talk about various ways to use PowerShell for managing SharePoint deployments. Additionally I’ve seen projects and people around the web discuss it. However, it wasn’t until learning about some of the most in-depth inner-workings of PowerShell did an important realization come [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 12th '09 |
Microsoft Unveils New Enterprise Search Road Map
SharePoint Product Team
Strategy features FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business. Microsoft Corp. today disclosed a detailed road map for its enterprise search products, including the introduction of FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business. FAST Search for SharePoint, a new search server that will add the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, will be available as a part of the next release of the Microsoft Office syst [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 11th '09 |
Analyzing Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Usage
SharePoint Product Team
The current version of SharePoint gives an administrator the ability to look into what is actually happening on a farm, how many users are active, how heavy are they using the system, what type of requests are coming in, what kind of clients, etc. Much of this information is captured in the IIS logs. Mike Wise who works on the Customer Advisory Team specializes in SharePoint capacity planning and architecture and his goal is to make SharePoint capacity planning more of a science and less o [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 11th '09 |
SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) Tool v1.0 for SharePoint Products and Technologies
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-post from SharePoint IT Pro documentation Team Blog. .]
The real power of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is that they can be endlessly customized to meet a wide variety of business needs. The Protean nature of SharePoint is at once its most powerful feature and its most formidable; the complexity of your SharePoint environment can increase by orders of magnitude when you begin to shape it to suit your needs. This complexity can make troubleshooting Shar [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 6th '09 |
Announcing the SharePoint Conference 2009!
SharePoint Product Team
We’re delighted to announce the details for the SharePoint Conference 2009! This year we’ll be at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada between October 19-22, 2009. Don’t miss your chance to attend the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related technologies! SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the conference to learn about SharePoint “14”. Be the first to learn about the improvements we’ve made to the platform and how many of those [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 4th '09 |
SPDisposeCheck Released!
SharePoint Product Team
SPDisposeCheck v1.3.1 has been released on MSDN Code Gallery, http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck. This tool will help improve the quality of your SharePoint assemblies. It will inspect your SharePoint assemblies and check that you are correctly disposing of certain SharePoint objects (IDisposable objects which includes SPSite and SPWeb). The tool is based upon the guidance published in this MSDN article, Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Ob [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 30th '09 |
New IT Showcase: Connecting With Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Create a Controller Workspace
SharePoint Product Team
Microsoft IT using Excel Services on SharePoint Server 2007 was able to create a Controller Workspace. This workspace provides a centralized BI environment that enables users to view reports, key performance indicators and other financial data. Next to the case study, you can view a complimentary video demo. Check it out! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540427.aspx Dave Pae SharePoint Technical Product Manager [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 30th '09 |
How We Did It: Podcasting Kit for SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
Today’s guest blog post is from 3Sharp, the primary developer of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint. 3Sharp has very deep technical knowledge of PKS and can effectively leverage it to quickly implement custom social media applications for the enterprise. We hope that today’s blog will help you understand how components of PKS were designed, and how you might leverage these components in your own SharePoint solutions.
Enjoy!
Dave PaeSharePoint Technical Product Manager
The Podcasting Kit fo [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 30th '09 |
Microsoft Business Intelligence strategy update and SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
There have been some recent developments regarding our Business Intelligence strategy that is very exciting and I wanted to share these with you. Microsoft’s vision for Business Intelligence has always been about pervasive access to information. Having more people access the right information enables smarter, timelier decisions, stronger collaboration on projects, facilitates accountability throughout the organization, and propels the company forward. In today’s economy, having the right inf [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 23rd '09 |
System Center Data Protection Manager releases Service Pack 1
SharePoint Product Team
I want to congratulate the Microsoft Storage Solutions team for releasing Service Pack 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM 2007). It’s been exciting to watch as enterprises that are deploying SharePoint are also seeing the value of a Microsoft backup & recovery solution. It’s especially good for us in the SharePoint team, since we’ve worked with our friends in the DPM team to ensure that DPM 2007 only leverages the best practices and supportability mandates that we h [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 16th '09 |
Announcing: Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3
SharePoint Product Team
The Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) provide project templates for developers using Visual Studio 2008 to create, debug, package and deploy SharePoint projects including Web Parts, Data Lists, Content Types, Event Receivers, Templates, Modules and other SharePoint artifacts. The v1.3 release is an incremental release of the VSeWSS including top feature requests. It is an interim release for SharePoint Developers on the roadmap until Visual Studio 2010 is released with significant [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 12th '09 |
How to create a SharePoint slipstream using the latest updates
SharePoint Product Team
With the announcement of the December 2008 Cumulative Update and the changes in the software update model it brings, we felt it was a good time to revisit the topic of slipstreaming. This post provides the process for creating a slipstream installation source that uses the December 2008 CU as an example. You can simply replace the December 2008 CU with the February 2009 CU, April 2009 CU, and so on going forward because the process will be the same. Here are the steps to creat [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 9th '09 |
Announcing December Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
SharePoint Product Team
We are happy to announce that December Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is available now. Despite the fixes and improvements, this new update package is also an effort to create a more convenient way for SharePoint administrators to keep all files in their SharePoint installations up-to-date. In this post, we will guide you on how and when to update, and the background of this new update model improvement.
December Cumulative Update Steps & [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 17th '08 |
Announcing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
Today, we are excited to announce the release of the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Toolkit for Office SharePoint Server 2007. The WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint provides sample code for producing WSRP conformant data from SharePoint lists and libraries. External portal platforms (e.g. BEA AquaLogic Portal, IBM WebSphere Portal, SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal etc.) can then render SharePoint data natively through their WSRP consumer portlets. The Toolkit is available now for download f [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 15th '08 |
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2008
SharePoint Product Team
Yesterday, we released a security bulletin summary for December 2008. Within the bulletin summary, you will find Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-077 which is a security update that resolves a privately reported vulnerability. This security update is rated as important and addresses the elevation of privilege if an attacker bypasses authentication by browsing to an administrative URL on a SharePoint site. The affected products are SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008. The security [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 10th '08 |
How Microsoft Does IT: Designing, Developing, and Deploying SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Portals
SharePoint Product Team
Microsoft IT works to address the needs of a large and demanding business organization. They are asked to implement and support systems that cover core business functions (computers, networks, security, etc.) all the way to advanced technologies that grow and drive a global business. SharePoint is one of the business systems that is globally available internally and externally at Microsoft. On 1/27/2009, Jad Honein, Microsoft IT Software Development Engineer, will host a TechNet Webcast on " [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 9th '08 |
List of upcoming SharePoint conferences
SharePoint Product Team
I was looking at my Outlook calendar and wanted to share some of the larger conferences scheduled in the upcoming months. As we get into the Spring, I'll update the community with an updated list. Cheers! Dave Pae SharePoint Technical Product Manager SharePoint Technology Conference January 27–29, 2009: Burlingame, CA For three exciting days in January, you'll be eating, drinking, sleeping, talking and living Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The first day a [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 9th '08 |
How We Did It - Nintex Reporting
SharePoint Product Team
I'd like to introduce today's guest blogger - Mike Fitzmaurice, ex-Microsoft SharePoint Product Manager and currently the Vice-President of Product Technology at Nintex. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Nintex aligns with Microsoft's strategic and architectural direction to develop products on the SharePoint platform. A common request for many SharePoint deployments is to provide more advanced reporting about a SharePoint farm than what is currently available out-of-box. For today's blog, Mike e [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 5th '08 |
How We Did It – Automating Service Requests using InfoPath Forms Services
SharePoint Product Team
Overview Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. ThreeWill recently worked with Microsoft to build a generic Service Request Office Business Application (OBA) using InfoPath Forms Services. The application addresses the need for enterprises to have a no-code way to quickly turn around service request based SharePoint sites (i.e. sites that are using electronic forms to initi [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 14th '08 |
Announcing SPDisposeCheck tool for SharePoint Developers
SharePoint Product Team
The SPSite and SPWeb Dispose() methods are an important thing for developers who work with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to master. Many SharePoint API's allocate COM based memory that is not released by CLR garbage collection and must be released by calling the Dispose() methods. Microsoft Guidance for when to call SPSite and SPWeb Dispose() methods have been published in this MSDN whitepaper by Mike Ammerlaan and Scott Harris. In addition, Roger Lamb has provided additional de [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 12th '08 |
Microsoft User Research Group Looking for SharePoint Users
SharePoint Product Team
Last week, the Microsoft User Research team reached out to me regarding a set of studies they were planning to execute in the upcoming months. In a nutshell, the team focuses on how people interact with hardware and software products; and then the information and feedback gathered is translated directly into product improvements. For their next series of studies, they are looking for individuals who use SharePoint at least once a week. The studies will be held at the Microsoft campus in Redmon [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 11th '08 |
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008
SharePoint Product Team
This week at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Jason Zander, the GM for Visual Studio, announced and demonstrated the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint. Here's a quick summary of what he showed: Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 11th '08 |
Introducing the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect for SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
Last week at IT Forum in Barcelona, we announced the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) for Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Master program is designed to be the top-tier technical certification for SharePoint Products and Technologies for years to come. The goal of the MCM is to provide a means for training, recognizing, and developing the top SharePoint technical experts in the world. Specifically, the MCM is intende [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 11th '08 |
How We Did It – Allowing Connections to Multiple SSRS Servers with Report Viewer and Explorer Web Parts
SharePoint Product Team
Overview
Today’s guest blog post is from ThreeWill, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. You might remember them from a previous article about the SharePoint Connector for Confluence. They worked with Microsoft on a recent project to extend some of the features of SSRS Web Parts to meet the needs of the enterprise.
In this project, ThreeWill helped a large telecommunications organization address their concern of [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 3rd '08 |
PDC 2008: Announcing Azure Services Platform and Microsoft SharePoint Services
SharePoint Product Team
Today, in Day 1 of the PDC Keynote, Ray Ozzie unveiled the Azure Services Platform. Azure makes it possible for developers to create applications and services that run in the cloud or to create web, mobile, or hybrid applications that extend the value of on-premises applications. To learn more about Azure, go to http://www.azure.com .
In the Azure Services Platform, a number of developer services were mentioned including Microsoft SQL Services, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services & Microsoft S [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 28th '08 |
Prepare for the Upcoming Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2
SharePoint Product Team
Office Service Pack Team announced Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System. This new service pack will be released between February and April 2009. It will contain both client and server updates. Here are some of the SharePoint related topics that we will be expanding upon in later posts. Improved Read-only Content Databases Whenever a content database is marked read-only, all of the site collections in that database are automatically marked as read-only. ECM P [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 25th '08 |
Announcing New Daylight Saving Time Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
SharePoint Product Team
Daylight Saving Time (DST, in some countries it is called summertime) exists in many countries. The start dates and end dates of DST change from year to year, and countries may change their policies for DST occasionally. This DST update is an effort of SharePoint product team to reflect these new changes. It includes updated time zone definition information for the following countries: Iraq Argentina Chile Iran Morocco Pakistan Venezuela For more detail of this update, please refer to [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 17th '08 |
Best Wishes to Lawrence and Welcome to Dave!
SharePoint Product Team
Lawrence Liu, who has been on the SharePoint team for over 3 years leading the SharePoint community effort, joined Telligent this week – a Microsoft partner. Many of you have probably worked or virtually interacted with Lawrence and know of his extreme passion for community development. In appreciation for all of his dedication and hard work, the SharePoint product management team would like to say a huge thank you for the last 3 years and wish him the best of luck!So let me introduce myself [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 16th '08 |
Some AAM guidance from the front lines
SharePoint Product Team
The ISA Server team recently wrote a nice blog post explaining some of the issues you may face when deploying SharePoint in an extranet. Many of these issues can be avoided by spending some time up front on planning and testing. Close collaboration between your firewall/proxy administrators and your SharePoint administrators during this phase is often the key to a smooth deployment. Here are some helpful articles on TechNet to get you started:
Planning an Extranet Environment for Office Shar [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 14th '08 |
64-Bit and the Admin Toolkit Download Trend
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-Referenced from Zach Rosenfield's Blog]
Just over a month ago I announced the release of the second Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit. We’ve been getting great feedback and lots of interest—and I wanted to share our download results:
After 5 months we’re just shy of the 29,000 download mark, but more interesting is the disparity between x86 and x64 downloads. We feel like we often talk about the benefits of going 64-bit with your SharePoint deployments—but the down [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 4th '08 |
Announcing August Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
SharePoint Product Team
The Microsoft Office team has changed the way that it delivers hotfixes for reported problems. This change comes in the form of cumulative updates and critical on-demand hotfixes. The objective is to deliver high-quality fixes in an acceptable time and on a predictable schedule. Cumulative updates are scheduled for every two months, so customers can be better prepared to test and apply new updates. Those who need an emergency fix can request critical on-demand (COD) fix. For information, please [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 30th '08 |
SharePoint Evaluation VPC Image will expire 9/30
SharePoint Product Team
If you’ve activated and are using the SharePoint evaluation image from http://www.microsoft.com/vhd you’ve hopefully noticed by now that it’s due to expire at the end of this month…! We’ll be getting a new image with an extended expiry date (Early 2010) uploaded to the same site in the next few days – I’ll update this post when it’s available. If you have activated the original image and have been using it for demos or a POC you’ll need to download the new image and backup and [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 23rd '08 |
Share More Community Tips on Office Online
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-posted from the "Get The Point" Team Blog.] Office Online has a new commenting feature that I mentioned in an earlier post about Community Tips. When you have questions or advice about the content you find, you can sign in with a Windows Live ID and post questions or bits of advice for the rest of the community. It’s similar to comments on a blog, except that Community Tips comments are not actively monitored by the authors. That said, it’s a way to have a conversation that [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 12th '08 |
Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification
SharePoint Product Team
Today represents the start of a new era in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) interoperability as Microsoft, EMC and IBM announced a jointly developed specification that leverages SOAP, REST and Atom to enable communication with and between ECM systems. The new specification known as Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) defines a platform and language independent means of accessing ECM repositories and will be submitted to OASIS for advancement through its rigorous standards dev [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 10th '08 |
We'll miss you, Patrick.
SharePoint Product Team
Patrick Tisseghem, long time SharePoint MVP and co-founder of U2U, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, suddenly passed away on September 3rd evening in Gothenburg, Sweden due to heart failure. He is survived by his wife, Linda, and daughters, Anahi and Laura.
On behalf of the SharePoint product group, I offer my deepest condolences to Patrick's family. Patrick was a leading figure in the SharePoint community, well known for his standing room only presentations at conferences and user group meeti [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 6th '08 |
Just Published! WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SDK 1.4 Download and Online MSDN Library
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-posted from Randall Isenhour's blog.] Hello SharePoint Developers! We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the online MSDN Library + the downloadable SDKs for both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0! In our never-ending efforts to improve the customer and partner experience, we are announcing the sim ship of both the online MSDN Library and the downloadable SDK! No more confusion about what’s the latest version: August is August! > Download the MOSS SDK 1.4 Downl [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 29th '08 |
Announcing the SharePoint Best Practices Series
SharePoint Product Team
Over the last few months, the SharePoint product team has released a number of resources, updates and made supportability announcements to help our customers and partners deploy SharePoint solutions. Recently, we released the Infrastructure Update that provides fixes and even a new set of Search Federation features. We also announced support for Virtualization technology like Hyper-V and SQL Server 2008. And most recently, we announced the availability of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2. [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 29th '08 |
SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0 is Now Available!
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-posted from Zach Rosenfield's blog.]
I’m excited to announce that the second version of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit is available for download! As I said back in April, we would be offering regular updates to this toolkit with new features and functionality for both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3.0. With this release we added functionality to address some of the challenges associated with running a highly available and/o [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 29th '08 |
Using Excel & Excel Services with SQL Server Analysis Services 2008
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-posted from Excel Team Blog.] With the recent announcement of SharePoint Server 2007 supporting SQL Server 2008, like you, I was excited to setup my Excel / Excel Services environment to take advantage of the great new capabilities available, and there are many. I encourage you to take a look at how the new SQL environment will benefit your SharePoint deployment, and your Business Intelligence reporting and analysis capabilities. SharePoint Server 2007 can use SQL Server 2008 as a reposit [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 28th '08 |
Announcing the “How to get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft” white paper
SharePoint Product Team
I'm very proud to announce that the "How to get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft" white paper is now available for public download here. Over the past 12 months, I’ve met with many customers and received numerous escalations from our field about how social computing capabilities can be used to solve real business problems. This white paper was developed primarily to answer those questions. I had originally planned to release the document at the SharePoint Co [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 28th '08 |
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 issue on Windows SharePoint Services v2.0
SharePoint Product Team
In case you have installed .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 on a machine which hosts Windows SharePoint Services v2.0 website running on .Net Framework 2.0, you will notice the following problems. Windows SharePoint Services v3 is not affected by the update. Symptoms If .NET Framework 3.5 SP 1 is installed on Windows SharePoint Services v2.0 the symptoms are: Each web part will display the following error: Web Part Error: A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Web Part Page cannot be displayed or imported [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 27th '08 |
Updated Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint (with support for Silverlight 2 Beta 2) released to CodePlex!
SharePoint Product Team
I'm very excited to announce that we have just released the an updated version of the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint that supports Silverlight 2 Beta 2! These blueprints were designed to provide developers with a better understanding of how to integrate Silverlight with SharePoint. Silverlight is an incredibly powerful technology, and with the increase in SharePoint adoption, we’re seeing greater customer and partner demand for integrating the two in order to provide a richer user e [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 20th '08 |
Update on Licensing and Virtualization Support for SharePoint Products and Technologies
SharePoint Product Team
Today we’re excited to announce support and licensing updates for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 running in virtual machines. This is part of a larger announcement affecting multiple Microsoft products, including Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint Server.
As of today, we formally support SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 running under Hyper-V through our normal support channels. In addition, we now offer s [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 19th '08 |
SQL Server 2008 Support for SharePoint Products and Technologies
SharePoint Product Team
You may already be aware of the recent RTM announcement of SQL Server 2008. We are happy to announce that Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 & Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 now support SQL Server 2008. Our documentation has been updated to include support for SQL Server 2008. Please refer to:
Windows SharePoint Service 3.0http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288751.aspx
Office SharePoint Server 2007http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx
In the next few weeks, [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 15th '08 |
Announcing Faceted Search v2.5
SharePoint Product Team
Cross posted from the Enterprise Search Blog Starting Faceted Search 2.5, the solution relies on Microsoft Enterprise Library to address common software requirements in caching, logging, exception handling, policy injection etc., etc. More importantly, the 2.5 is a ground breaking release that is setting new targets for the Faceted Search. So, what’s new? New Features 1. Caching – dramatically improves performance and decreases the load on the search engine The solution uses 2 mechanisms f [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 12th '08 |
Upcoming conferences with plenty of SharePoint oriented content
SharePoint Product Team
Hosted by MindSharp (one of the premier SharePoint training partners), sponsored by Microsoft Press (which recently published the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices book), and keynoted by Tom Rizzo (who needs no further introduction), the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in Washington D.C. on September 15-17, 2008 is the key conference for those of you, who want to learn the best ways to design, deploy, organize, and administer SharePoint-based business solutions. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 21st '08 |
Announcing: Availability of Infrastructure Updates
SharePoint Product Team
This morning we released to web three new important updates that affect SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express and Project Professional 2007. The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) applies to: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Microsoft Search Server 2008 Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express The Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePo [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 15th '08 |
A much easier way to keep track of new SharePoint content published on MSDN and TechNet
SharePoint Product Team
The following RSS feeds have been available for a few months now, but we still get questions on a weekly basis from people wondering how they can keep track of SharePoint oriented content that is published on TechNet and MSDN. Feed for new SharePoint content on MSDN: http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/sharepoint/rss.xml Feed for new SharePoint Services 3.0 content on TechNet: http://services.community.microsoft.com/feeds/feed/WindowsSharePointServicesNewContent Feed for new SharePoint Se [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 3rd '08 |
Announcing: SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross posted from the Enterprise Search Blog] It’s been around 45 days since the acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer closed and we’re moving quickly to provide interoperability for Microsoft customers between FAST ESP and Microsoft SharePoint Server. The first deliverables from this work are a set of FAST ESP Search Web Parts for quickly integrating results from FAST ESP into SharePoint Server 2007 and a FAST ESP Search site template. Using these Web Parts and Site Template Shar [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 20th '08 |
Belated Announcement: SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper now available
SharePoint Product Team
My name is Paul Learning, a Senior Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services specializing in SharePoint deployments, and it's with great excitement and pride that I announce the release of the SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper. This 90+ page whitepaper is based on a lot of hard work, dedication, and collaboration from a team of exceptional individuals; it documents the architectural design considerations and performance characteristics of a real-world, large-scale S [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 17th '08 |
How We Did It: Christian Children’s Fund extranet powered by SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
Overview
Ironworks Consulting, a management and web consulting firm and Microsoft Gold Partner, recently launched a new global extranet for the Christian Children’s Fund (CCF), which is one of the most respected child development organizations in the world that has been a non-sectarian global force for children, working in 31 countries, assisting more than 13.2 million children regardless of race, creed or gender since its inception in 1938. CCF has provided more than $2.7 billion in services [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 17th '08 |
Announcing open source Podcasting Kit for SharePoint - the power of social media for the enterprise
SharePoint Product Team
Overview
About 8 months ago, we posted a "How We Did It" guest blog entry here about Microsoft Academy Mobile, a community driven videocast/podcast solution that had been built on the SharePoint platform and continues to be used internally at Microsoft. We received a lot of feedback from customers, mostly in the form of "Hey, that's very cool, but how can I implement it for my own organization?" as well as many inquiries from partners in terms of "Can I get the source code, so I can leverage it [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 10th '08 |
More ISV Partners Betting on SharePoint Server 2007 as the de facto Enterprise Social Computing Platform
SharePoint Product Team
We are very excited to highlight our ISV partners listed below, all of whom are leading providers of enterprise social software, and they have placed significant bets on SharePoint Server 2007 as the Enterprise Social Computing Platform of choice. See them at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week and expect to hear much more from them about their SharePoint integration and value added features in the coming weeks!
Atlassian, the maker of Confluence, a leading enterprise wiki, announced the b [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 9th '08 |
How We Did It: Connectbeam Spotlight Connect for SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
Overview
Connectbeam, founded in December, 2005, is a leading provider of enterprise social software applications and the first company to integrate concepts of social bookmarking and tagging with those of social networking. Connectbeam’s new Spotlight Connect for SharePoint provides SharePoint users with a single destination for discovering and sharing rich enterprise social bookmarking and tagging information. Spotlight Connect for SharePoint also extends and enhances the native collaboratio [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 9th '08 |
How We Did It: Integrating Telligent Community Server Evolution 2008 with SharePoint Server 2007
SharePoint Product Team
Overview During the past several years, Telligent’s customers have used Community Server to address their Internet facing social media and collaboration requirements. Recently, with the rise of enterprise social computing requirements inside the firewall, our plan is to seize the opportunities in this space by positioning Community Server as a complement to SharePoint and providing several key integration points. This blog entry explains the “how” and “what” in term [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 9th '08 |
How We Did It: blueKiwi SharePoint Connector and OfficeAssistant
SharePoint Product Team
Introduction
The blueKiwi Software, a leading Europen provider of enterprise social software, just announced the blueWiki SharePoint Connector along with blueKiwi OfficeAssistant. The blueWiki SharePoint Connector allows SharePoint customers to integrate blueKiwi's complementary, highly specialised social software suite into their existing SharePoint environment, surfacing valuable social metrics, such as the most active discussions across the whole organisation, within a SharePoint portal.
Shar [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 9th '08 |
How We Did It: NewsGator Social Sites 2.0 - Enhanced Social Computing on the SharePoint Platform
SharePoint Product Team
Overview
NewsGator Social Sites extends Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with social feedback (i.e. bookmarking, tagging, commenting), social networking, and community functionality by leveraging the SharePoint platform and social computing services provided by NewsGator Enterprise Server. SharePoint is a great foundation for social computing application development and can be easily extended through web parts and web services.
Before we get into the technical details of how the Social [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 8th '08 |
Tomoye Ecco and SharePoint Integration – How We Did It and What We Will Do Next
SharePoint Product Team
Overview
Tomoye Ecco is a .NET-based community of practice (COP) software application. A "COP" is a venue for peers with a common set of goals or domain expertise to easily collaborate across an organization or between multiple organizations. An online COP is a place where members can ask and answer each other's questions, find experts, and share documents and other web accessible content. A COP adds "community intelligence" to the content that gets shared as well as to the people that share it [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 8th '08 |
See SharePoint at TechEd IT Pro (Orlando) and Enterprise 2.0 (Boston)
SharePoint Product Team
Those of you attending the TechEd IT Pro Conference in Orlando or the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston next week, please stop by the SharePoint booth in the respective exhibit halls to see SharePoint in action, ask us your toughest questions, and tell us about cool and useful applications of SharePoint and what areas you’d like us to improve on. But come early because given what we saw during the TechEd Developer Conference this past week, you’d likely run into a crowd at our booth. :-) [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 7th '08 |
Announcing the VSeWSS version 1.2!
SharePoint Product Team
Hi everyone, Chris Johnson from the WSS PM team here. We are really excited and pleased to announce that Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio extensions for WSS are now available for download! This version adds Visual Studio 2008 support to the extensions. This is something many of you have been asking for. Download VSeWSS 1.2 Today we are releasing the English edition of the Version 1.2 extensions. We will be releasing the German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese Tradit [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 4th '08 |
Developing Workflow Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation
SharePoint Product Team
During the past several months, we've seen a lot of questions about developing custom SharePoint workflows in the comments of various posts on this blog as well as in the SharePoint Workflow community forum. Many of the answers can be found in a recently published MSDN technical article written by a couple of senior consultants (Daniel Odievich and Alireza Etemad Mazaheri) in Microsoft Consulting Services. If you have any questions about developing workflows in SharePoint, please read the articl [read].
Posted: Sat, May 31st '08 |
How We Did It: Australia National Native Title Tribunal website - advanced web content management
SharePoint Product Team
Overview
The National Native Title Tribunal of Australia assists people to resolve native title issues over land and waters. Set up under the Native Title Act 1993, the Tribunal is an Australian Commonwealth Government agency and is part of the Attorney General's portfolio. The Tribunal needed to upgrade its website, and the Vivid Group, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, was selected to develop the new website using MOSS 2007.
The Tribunal website needed to provide access to government record [read].
Posted: Tue, May 27th '08 |
Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 to provide native support for ODF and PDF document format standards
SharePoint Product Team
A picture is worth a thousand words. :-)
Congrats to our comrades in the Office client product groups for living up to Microsoft's Interoperability Principles. More details about this important announcement on Doug Mahugh's ("Mr. Interop / OpenXML") blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2008/05/21/office-support-for-document-format-standards.aspx. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 21st '08 |
Announcing: SharePoint WCM book available at TechEd 2008
SharePoint Product Team
It's exciting to see customers using SharePoint for their Internet sites. We've seen some great success stories and big companies choosing SharePoint for their web content management solution. While SharePoint offers a rich set of capabilities out-of-the-box, customers want to add new functionality, customize the look and feel and add business specific logic. This requires a deep understanding of the SharePoint web content management (WCM) capabilities.
I'm happy to announce that Andrew Con [read].
Posted: Wed, May 21st '08 |
Developers, developers, developers! SharePoint wants you!
SharePoint Product Team
If you're interested in becoming a (better) SharePoint developer, I'd like to call your attention to the 3 opportunities below.
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers Live Webcast
In this 10 part series, you will receive practical technical information from Robert Bogue and Andrew Connell, both SharePoint MVPs, covering 10 fundamental developer topics on SharePoint via Live Meeting webcast.
About the series:
Every Tuesday and Wednesday from May 20 to June 18
Starts at 9:00AM PST
Eac [read].
Posted: Tue, May 20th '08 |
Announcing SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS)
SharePoint Product Team
If you’re involved with SharePoint in some way, either as a customer or partner, I think that you'll be excited to learn about a new program we're announcing today called SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS). SDPS is a partner and Microsoft Consulting Services delivered offering designed to help our Software Assurance (SA) customers successfully plan and deploy SharePoint. Using field proven business and technical guidance, the program provides best practices and well defined results [read].
Posted: Mon, May 19th '08 |
Screencast: Using Word 2007 or Windows Live Writer to post to SharePoint blog
SharePoint Product Team
[A growing number of our customers has been asking for richer ways of creating blog entries to be posted to their SharePoint environment. To answer this FAQ, I've cross-posted below a blog entry by Mike Gannotti from several months ago. For more information about Word and Windows Live Writer, visit the Microsoft Office Word team blog and the Windows Live Writer team blog, respectively. ] I am often asked about tools for publishing to a SharePoint blog. There are two great tools that interface [read].
Posted: Fri, May 16th '08 |
New governance content for SharePoint published on TechNet
SharePoint Product Team
Hi. I’m Rob Silver, a writer on the IT Pro content team for SharePoint. I’d like to inform you about some content I recently researched and authored about governance with respect to SharePoint Server 2007. Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that you establish in your enterprise to guide, direct, and control how it uses technologies to accomplish business goals. To strike the right balance between the needs of the SharePoint users in your enterprise and [read].
Posted: Fri, May 16th '08 |
How We Did It: Building a News Workbench on MOSS 2007 for Microsoft's Corporate Intranet Portal
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-posted from the Enterprise Content Management Team Blog.] Hi there. My name is Sean Squires and I'm a Program Manager for the Microsoft IT Information Services group. We are responsible for driving technical design and solution creation for many internal portal properties running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). We also work closely with the product group evaluating new features and showcasing innovative ways to extend the product. George Perantatos, a recent contributor on this [read].
Posted: Tue, May 13th '08 |
Posters for SharePoint Stsadm command line parameters now available
SharePoint Product Team
Following popular demand, Kirk Stark from the SharePoint User Assistance team has created a set of useful posters that show the Stsadm command line parameters for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0.
The following files are available for download from this document library on the SharePoint Community Portal
Stsadm parameters poster for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007:
JPG format (1,214 KB)
PNG format (861 KB)
Visio format (769 KB)
Stsadm parameters poster for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:
JPG [read].
Posted: Mon, May 12th '08 |
Announcing: Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – Developer User Guide
SharePoint Product Team
I'm pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1. The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint were released back in Feb 2008 and an update for Visual Studio 2008 is planned for release in June 2008. The user guide is downloadable here and represents approx 200 pages of documentation applicable to both the 2005 and the 2008 release of the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint. The [read].
Posted: Mon, May 12th '08 |
Getting Started with SharePoint Development
SharePoint Product Team
Here's one of the best, most succinct lists of resources for SharePoint developers that I've seen thus far: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2008/05/01/getting-started-with-sharepoint-development.aspx. It was compiled by Paul Andrew, my teammate who's primarily responsible for the SharePoint developer audience in terms of evangelism, readiness, and adoption. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 12th '08 |
Knowledge and Talent in a People-Ready Business
SharePoint Product Team
We have been receiving a growing number of inquiries from customers asking about the business value as well as Microsoft's vision of "Social Networking" and "Enterprise 2.0" and "Social Media" and other buzzwords related to Social Computing in the business environment. While we do have a number of information resources and related news articles on our product information website that describe how the social computing capabilities of SharePoint and Office products provide business value, the holi [read].
Posted: Fri, May 9th '08 |
Measure SharePoint Service Level Availability and Performance with the Service Level Dashboard Solution Accelerator Beta
SharePoint Product Team
Last week at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), we released the beta of a Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager 2007. System Center is the brand for Microsoft’s family of management software, including SMS and MOM, which were renamed to System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Operations Manager with the last release cycle.
The dashboard is a new Solution Accelerator that provides end-to-end visibility and reporting of the health and performance of your [read].
Posted: Wed, May 7th '08 |
SharePoint Backup and Restore Resources - Redux
SharePoint Product Team
Since we get so many FAQs on this topic, I'd like to recall this blog entry that was posted about six months ago. In addition, there's now more information about using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 to protect SharePoint. I highly recommend that you take a look at the 20 minute technical webcast by Jason Buffington, Senior Product Manager for DPM. Of course, we also have several ISV partners that provide a variety of backup products and solutions that address the myriad of [read].
Posted: Tue, May 6th '08 |
SharePoint Server Search & Search Server: Scale & Performance Guidance.
SharePoint Product Team
If you're interested in Scale and Performance guidance for Search in SharePoint Server and Search Server then check out the 1st and 2nd in a series of posts by Dan Blood on the the Enterprise Search Blog. Dan is a Senior Tester in the Search engineering team and responsible for running our internal dogfood servers and as such has a heap of useful hands on experience for anyone planning, managing and scaling our Enterprise Search technology.
There's much more to come from him and team over the n [read].
Posted: Sun, May 4th '08 |
Colleagues, Social Distance & Relevance in People Search, and other Social Networking tools in SharePoint
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-posted from Mark Arend's blog. Mark has been doing some exciting work with SharePoint User Profile extensions and MySite customizations with one of our strategic customers. He collaborated with several SharePoint Program Managers to draft the following blog entry, which I hope that many of you will find to be quite useful. Please leave a comment here or on Mark's blog if you have any questions. You can read more about SharePoint's Social Networking capabilities from this previous blog ent [read].
Posted: Fri, May 2nd '08 |
Announcing the First Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-posted from Zach Rosenfield's blog.] It's with great excitement that I get to be the first to announce the initial release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit! Since shipping SharePoint back in November of 2006 we've been listening to your feedback and requests for more tools to help you run our product. We've been listening and our team is deeply committed to supporting you and our in market products. One of our approaches to better support you is to provide a regular rele [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 30th '08 |
How We Did It - Tag Driven Information Architecture using MOSS 2007 for the New Zealand Ministry of Transport
SharePoint Product Team
Background About a year ago, Provoke (a Microsoft Gold Certified partner based in New Zealand) worked with the New Zealand Ministry of Transport to complete the second phase of their corporate intranet. In addition to being proven successful within the Ministry, the intranet won several awards including Microsoft’s Partner Solution of the Year and was named in Nielson Norman Group’s “Top Ten Intranets of 2008.” More information about this distinguished annual award from Jakob Nielson him [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 29th '08 |
Announcing the launch of OfficeLabs.com - powered by MOSS 2007
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-posted from the Office Labs team blog. Look for exciting announcements of joint projects from Office Labs and the SharePoint product group in the near future! ] "Welcome to Microsoft Office Labs." It's great to be able to say that. For quite some time the Office Labs team has been exploring ideas internally at Microsoft. Now we'd like to show you some of our ideas and ask you to give them a whirl. We're a group of designers and developers that collect ideas from all over Microsoft (but [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 28th '08 |
FAST Tender Offer Complete!
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross posted from the Enterprise Search Blog] Well, it has been a while since I last posted – but for good reason. Aside from our usual day-to-day efforts to deliver great enterprise search solutions for our customers, we’ve also been feverishly working on the acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer that we originally announced on January 8. Today, I’m excited to share that the tender offer is complete! As I mentioned in January, FAST has an incredibly talented team of folks [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 25th '08 |
SharePoint = Platform (and Application)
SharePoint Product Team
[Cross-posted from Arpan Shah's blog. Arpan is the Director of Technical Product Management for the SharePoint product group.] SharePoint technology, in many ways, is a game and category changing technology. Because SharePoint is revolutionary, different people (and sometimes our partners and competitors) view its value in different ways. Unlike commodity and vertical applications that serve a very specific purpose, SharePoint is a 1) platform and 2) application that drives strategic and immedia [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 20th '08 |
SharePoint MVPs know how to have fun .. and give constructive product feedback
SharePoint Product Team
Around 70 (out of a total of 131) SharePoint MVPs from around the world are here in Redmond this week for the yearly MVP Global Summit conference. So, what/who are the MVPs? MVPs are individuals, who are awarded Most Valuable Professional status by Microsoft for their deep technical expertise, product knowledge, continuous feedback, and consistent advocacy of the “voice of the customer." Their contributions help Microsoft evolve its programs and products. MVPs are thought leaders committed to [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 17th '08 |
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