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

An In-Depth Look at Developing Mobile Applications With Mobile Entrée Custom development for SharePoint can mean many things.  Workflows, master pages, business data catalog implementations, forms services, reporting capabilities, the list goes on and on.  Since 2003, the staple of custom SharePoint applications has been the custom WebPart.  Mobi ...[Read More]

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

If you aren't following us on twitter, here are some of the latest updates from the SharePoint Community: Jan Tielen writes on how to Determine the URL of SharePoint Web Services using jQuery/Javascript Learn how to step by step Rename your MOSS installed virtual machine (VPC / VMWare) Chris O'Brien speaks of SharePoint Optimization, BLOB c ...[Read More]

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

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

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

Microsoft Update Product Team Blog has just announced that the 2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 2 will be released April 28, 2009 Besides announcing the formal date and better documentation we can expect a some noteable areas: Ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and P ...[Read More]

SharePoint Buzz has migrating its content from the ever popular open source blogging platform Wordpress to a shiny new Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 powered Blog.  The move to the SharePoint Blogging platform has brought plenty of issues but much more flexibility.   Granted we will miss Wordpress but we look forward to the future run entirely ...[Read More]

Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow ProjectThis is the 3rd part of our Beginners Guide to SharePoint 2007 Workflow Development.   You understand the workflow development scenario and how to create an InfoPath web-based form.  Now in this part of the series, we will be Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow Project for workflow develop ...[Read More]