Downloads available from Microsoft: PerformancePoint Server 2007 Contoso Demo Data - contains data for the Contoso application of PerformancePoint Planning and workspace of Monitoring and Analytics. This demo application was designed to illustrate real-world business scenarios on performance management areas like statutory consolidation, Plannin ...[Read More]

The only way I was able to be a part of PDC was via Twitter. Windows Azure Announced! and extending SharePoint Online as part of the Microsoft Cloud OS Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog about Azure Services Platform and Microsoft SharePoint Services  BetaNews posts about What is Windows Azure Microsoft writes what is the Azure services platf ...[Read More]

Here are my notes from today's PDC.  Watch PDC Live now! Ray Ozzie discussed Microsoft's implementation and speaking about infrastructure and support related to IT.  Building up to Windows Cloud OS. Speaking of Teir 3 which is the web.  Ray Ozzie speaking of when they started building the "Windows Cloud OS", Amazon EC2 launched. Annou ...[Read More]

For those, like me, were not able to make it to the PDC.  You can watch PDC keynote live at Microsoft PDC.com.  As Mike Gannotti points out, you might just hear about the future of Office and SharePoint 14.   Don't worry, we will be provided a summary of what was talked about.  Stay tuned.  If you have not already, subscribe to SharePoint Buzz RSS ...[Read More]

Here is your reading material for Friday The SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog posts on user profile replication engine which is a good read for those SharePoint deployment that have offices around the world While we wait impatiently for the PDC (Watch PDC notes live online), Microsoft TechNet has released new SharePoint 2007 articles: ...[Read More]

There's quite a bit of planning that you can do to configure and enable anonymous access In SharePoint 2007.  When you enable anonymous access, users will be able to access your view form pages (http://server/forms/allitems.aspx) without logging in.   For quite a few public sites, that's not what you always want.  Depending on your requirements, t ...[Read More]

The SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog about how to improve Performance, Availability, Security and Resource management by using the new features in SQL Server 2008 with Office SharePoint Server 2007  Register for the following Webcast and Learn how to build distributed applications that leverage the scalability and ubiquity of the servers ...[Read More]

Recently I completed a custom workflow solution with InfoPath 2007 integrated for a client.   NOTE: If you are interested in knowing how to create a workflow in Visual Studio and InfoPath 2007 task integration process comment below and I will publish it. In order to use InfoPath web-enabled forms you need to be running InfoPath Forms Services ...[Read More]

I received the following error message when accessing my SharePoint 2007 site: Service Unavailable If this ever happens to you, its most probably because the application pool associated to your website is not started.   Go to IIS Manager and Start the application pool for the sites that are not working.  Check out Service Unavailable for screen ...[Read More]

Here are the latest SharePoint posts:  Mark Miller has posted a beginner’s guide to content types which will help you on how to plan and implement content types for a document library The Bamboo Team Blog posted on SharePoint and Search Server 2008 informing the community of the different valuable addons that are available such as Open Search 1 ...[Read More]