Document center Document libraries now allow end-users to select multiple document, upload documents with drag and drop option. Tag documents with tag such as "I like it" which will make them easily available on MySite, this way you can always refer to them later. At the same time users can be more specific about tagging by means of tagging with taxonomy and view suggestions for taxonomy. Documents rating provides social tagging of the documents with comments provided by end-... Read Full Story
The best scenario when you can say “ I know my SharePoint Farm” is when you actually just set it up, not months after. Giving your environment a health check is a good idea, especially in environments that do not have on staff people 100% dedicated to SharePoint. This week I was at a client to do exactly this, the “health check” of their farm. There were no complains about the performance or bugs, but because there was no SharePoint monitoring or maintenance set up they thought it would be a... Read Full Story
This is another SharePoint Saturday even in the area. This time it is put together by Dave Mann. Join SharePoint architects, administrators, developers, and other professionals who work with SharePoint for a special 'SharePoint 2010 Themed Saturday' on November 7th, 2009. The day will be filled with educational and informative SharePoint 2007 and 2010 sessions and provide you with an excellent opportunity to network with Microsoft MVPs and other SharePoint professionals in Philly area. ... Read Full Story
Great session at SPC 2009 by Simon Skaria, Lead of Customer Advisory team, Microsoft. In short, this session was oriented around 3 main topics: Flexible deployments IT Pro productivity From the flexibility of deployments stand point, Skaria was highlighting the following features of SharePoint 2010, such as: Installation: Installations of the Sharepoint is simplified by server preparation feature such as, one click prerequisites install. this alone is a great time saver, isn’t it? i... Read Full Story
The first 2 sessions of the conference were key notes with speakers such as: Steve Bulmer, Tom Rizzo, Arpan Shah, and many others. Some of the key highlights from the session are here. So let’s start with.. Business Connectivity Suite The concept of external content types makes it easier to connect external data sources from within SharePoint designer and to surface this info in familiar interface like office, with ability to edit / insert / delete data. One of the examples that Tom Rizzo us... Read Full Story
Join us for our weekly SharePoint Shop talk. We have been thinking about introducing the idea of group questions into categories and addressing them one category at the time. In this case all workflow questions could be answered in Workflow SharePoint Shot Talk, or something like that. For today and future Shop Talks send your questions to: Send an email to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com Twitter me (@natalyvo) Leave a comment here. Just dial in on the call and ask it there. Sign... Read Full Story
Yesterday I have received email notifying me that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP). this is exciting second time in the row. Congratulations to all newly awarded, and re-awarded MVPs. Read Full Story
Another one in our series of SharePoint Shop talk. Harry Hones is back from vacation, last week he did not participate on the call. Send your questions to: Send an email to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com Twitter me (@natalyvo) Leave a comment here. Just dial in on the call and ask it there. Sign up here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=h6hm9ptg8zt7302t And Just dial in on October 1st, at 12:30 EST. Here is a photo that I snapped during our SharePoin... Read Full Story
SharePoint Saturday is on the road again, it is coming to NY on September 12th. SharePoint Saturday NYC is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of topics focused on Microsoft SharePoint technologies. SharePoint Saturday NYC is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint! Sign up now http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/ny/default.aspx Location: Lear... Read Full Story
In addition to our regular SharePoint Shop Talk webinars, I’d like to invite you this Thursday, August 27th at 12:30 PM EDT for a webinar where we will talk about SharePoint in the Cloud. The world is talking about Cloud Computing and moving IT infrastructure out of corporate data centers and utilizing the services of an organization that is better suited to providing reliable service cost effectively. Microsoft is aggressively moving to provide businesses with a choice in running busin... Read Full Story
