I received my copy of Seamless Teamwork by Michael Sampson a few days ago and have been reading it non-stop.  Seamless Teamwork is a refreshing approach to SharePoint and how to use it effectively.    This book is not for IT Professionals or Developers, rather this book is for anyone who has to work with people through SharePoint (for example: ...[Read More]

At SharePoint Buzz, we are thankful for alot of things.  We are thankful for the following: 1,000,000+ pageviews; since we started in 2006 20,000+ community members visiting us per month  2000+ RSS Feed subscribers who are notified of our latest blog posts Our sponsors: zevenseas and teamdirection for the past few months  We'd like to give ...[Read More]

UPDATE: Microsoft has just announcing the availability of the Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint 1.3.  Which can be installed on x64 Server OS machines running SharePoint x64. Previously only x86 Server OS could be used.   Ever since the SharePoint Team announced, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: V ...[Read More]

Get The Point has posted a nice little summary of the different SharePoint offerings provided by Microsoft.  Here's a summary of the many faces of SharePoint:   Mini SharePoint Small SharePoint Medium SharePoint Large SharePoint   I'd go so far as breaking up the Large versions: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft ...[Read More]

 A friend of mine is celebrating the month of November by participating in the Man of Movember charity to promote men's health awareness and raise money for the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada.    Last year he was able to raise over $1000 and he is a few hundred away from that goal this year.  Prostate cancer is a disease in which c ...[Read More]

Typemock are offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint, for a special introduction price. it is the only tool that allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server. To learn more click here. The first 50 bloggers who blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Full Isolat ...[Read More]

The amazing team at zevenseas have decided to release their Social Bookmarking solution for SharePoint for free.   What is “Tagged Links”?  It’s social bookmarking for SharePoint, taking the standard “Links List” to a new level via browser integration, one-click tagging, advanced graphical views and global tags that allow you to define tags acr ...[Read More]

Here are some quick how to integrate Project Server 2007 with SharePoint 2007 Assumption: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (VHD) is installed and configured. Deploy / install Microsoft Project Server 2007 Run SharePoint Configuration Wizard (this should run automatically after installing Project Server 2007) Browse to Create Project We ...[Read More]

Check out the following articles available on Microsoft TechNet: Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 that covers the following topics such as: Recommended installation sequence for updates Installing a software update Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V which covers Recommendations for configuring and o ...[Read More]

If you have not heard, Microsoft SharePoint Online is now LIVE!  It has come out of beta and you have your SharePoint environment hosted and managed by Microsoft! Starting from $15 per user per month, this can be a cost effective solution for many small businesses.    Centralized resources & workflow management (SharePoint Online) From $7.25 ...[Read More]