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May 2, 2010
SharePoint Workspace
The ultimate ECM solution should allow information workers to work so flexible that they can do so anywhere they want, and anyhow they want to work. The ability to work offline is an essential part if you are really serious about executing such a vision. To this end, a couple of years ago Microsoft decided to acquire a product called Groove. In SharePoint 2010, it's called SharePoint Workspace and it fits in with SharePoint Server 2010 in a very natural way. Because of the importance of offline working, we will devote a blog post to this topic that shows you the basics of working with SharePoint 2010 Workspace.
May 2, 2010
PowerPivot: brief discussion
Brief discussion about PowerPivot.
May 1, 2010
Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint: brief discussion
Brief discussion about Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
May 1, 2010
Word Services: brief discussion
Brief discussion about word services.
May 1, 2010
Mobile Access: brief discussion
Brief discussion about mobile access.
May 1, 2010
What is ECM?
When we first started working with SharePoint, we were working with the beta version of SharePoint Portal Server 2001 to implement an intranet for a medium-sized law firm. At that time, SharePoint consisted of a digital dashboard, the newest version of MS Search and a bunch of document management features (and a really groovy Windows shell extension that made it possible to interact with SharePoint using Windows Explorer, which we still kind of miss to this day). Our customers used SharePoint Portal Server 2001 mainly as a document management system, migrating documents from their file servers to a SharePoint repository, although it wasn't a very scalable one at the time.
May 1, 2010
PowerShell: Interact with SharePoint in the fastest way possible
Windows PowerShell is taking the administrative side of the Microsoft world by storm. What it is? An extensible automation engine built on top of the .NET Framework that allows administrators to perform administrative tasks.
May 1, 2010
Themes: brief discussion
Brief discussion about SharePoint themes.
May 1, 2010
Service Applications : brief discussion
Brief discussion about service applications.
April 30, 2010
REST: The SharePoint RESTful interface
SOAP may be the de facto standard when it comes to solving problems surrounding remote communication and interoperability, but it's also true that SOAP can be quite complex and for many types of applications complete overkill. REST on the other hand, which stands for Representational State Transfer, is rapidly gaining ground as a lightweight Web service protocol that allows you to remotely manipulate resources over the Internet. Although not strictly necessary, REST is usually used in conjunction with the HTTP protocol. The exciting news is that SharePoint 2010 supports a RESTful interface, and it does this by leveraging ADO.NET Data Services.
April 30, 2010
Binary Large OBjects: Externalizing BLOB storage via RBS
Before the 2008 release of SQL Server, you could choose whether a custom application stored large pieces of data (Binary Large Objects, or BLOBs) inside the database or maintained references to BLOBs on the file system. The FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008 changed all that by offering the best of both worlds.
April 30, 2010
Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010: brief discussion
Although the biggest change in the SharePoint search arena, as far as we're concerned, consists of the addition of Fast Search to SharePoint (see section "Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint"), there have been additions to the existing enterprise search features of MS Search as well.
April 29, 2010
Access Services: Creating web applications and publishing them to SharePoint 2010
Every now and then a technology appears that promises that end users will be able to create CRUD (Create Read Update & Delete) applications in a point-and-click fashion. In the previous two versions of SharePoint, this role was acted out by SharePoint Designer. In the 2010 release, this role is fulfilled by Access 2010 in combination with the newly introduced Access services.
April 22, 2009
Velocity: Solving a Spider-Man/Human Torch dilemma
In this article we’ll explore a Spider-Man/Human Torch dilemma that revolves around MOSS performance and memory management.
April 23, 2009
Red alert: configuring Report Server in SharePoint Integrated Mode ain't funny all the time
We're writing this because we're planning to never ever ever, when configuring Report Server in SharePoint integrated mode, get stuck on the following error message:
“The report server cannot access settings in the SharePoint configuration database. Most likely, the Windows SharePoint Services object model is not installed or the Report Server Web service and Windows service accounts do not have access to SharePoint database, To configure service account access, use SharePoint Central Administration”
February 28, 2009
Clap and yell: Warm up SharePoint
It is rumoured that, in the early days of his career, a famous Texan movie star with big muscles used to perform in a sleazy circus to make some money. He used to perform a number of weird acts such as drinking large amounts of beer in front of an audience. The one act we thought was most curious of all was called “Clap and yell”. During this performance he used to climb to a considerable height and then jumped on a trampoline whilst doing what the title of the act promised: clapping and yelling during his fall. This blog post is much like that, in the respect that it delivers exactly what the title promises.
February 19, 2009
Exploring the Data View Web Part
Companies typically use a multitude of repository types to store and manage their data. A company may use SQL Server to store relational data; the Windows file system for storing semi-structured data and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) files to hold hierarchical data. The need to aggregate and manage data in a central location is a very common requirement within portal environments. To cater to this need, you could build custom Web Parts using Visual Studio.NET to incorporate various data sources. Instead, for a range of scenarios, you will want to try to use the Data View Web Part first. The Data View Web Part is an advanced tool that allows you to create solutions for viewing and managing data in a fraction of the time it would take you to build a similar solution in Visual Studio.NET. The Data View Web Part lets you view and manage data coming from different data sources, like Web services, SharePoint lists and server-side scripts.
February 19, 2009
The Custom configuration feature - Update
Check out the new update of the Custom Configuration feature!
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