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Heard about Google Wave?
by Andy on June 3rd, 2009
Google Wave what? In short, ‘Google Wave’ is a real-time communication platform. The past day or so I’ve read numerous articles about this being aimed as a potential competitor to SharePoint (for now I’m going to reserve my personal opinion of how much of a threat I think this may or may not be to SharePoint within the enterprise environment).
Want to know more? Here are some good reads:
- Screen Shots & Video:
http://tinyurl.com/kmsj3o
- Google Wave - A Complete Guide (by Ben Parr):
http://tinyurl.com/mk898h
- Unofficial news and tips about Google:
http://tinyurl.com/lvm9yx
- YouTube Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009:
http://tinyurl.com/nal2az
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Announcing SP2 for MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0
by Andy on April 29th, 2009
More details can be found on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog here - http://tinyurl.com/c7jmn8
This includes:
Getting Ready for SharePoint Server 2010
A new preupgradecheck operation is added to stsadm tool. It can be used to scan your server farm to establish whether it is ready for upgrade to SharePoint Products and Technologies “14″. It identifies issues that could present obstacles to the upgrade process. It checks for several SharePoint Products and Technologies “14″ system requirements, including the presence of Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 and a 64-bit hardware, and provides feedback and best practice recommendations for your current environment, together with information on how to resolve any issues that the tool discovers.
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Revelations About Exchange 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and MOSS 2007 SP2
by Andy on April 22nd, 2009
Great article reading links for:
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Revelations about Exchange 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and MOSS 2007 SP2 by officesharepointpro.com - http://tinyurl.com/cq8v9d
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Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products Will Redefine How People Work - http://tinyurl.com/cj6wtj
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Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System due to ship April 28th - http://tinyurl.com/db83yh
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AKS 2.0 & aRTE Release Dates Announced
by Andy on March 4th, 2009
The General Availability for public download is as follows:
- AKS 2.0: Monday, March 9, 2009
- HiSoftware aRTE for SharePoint v1.0: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The pending releases will be distributed through the new and improved AKS Community Portal at https://aks.hisoftware.com
Read more on the AKS blog article - http://tinyurl.com/dhw8p3
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Microsoft Announces FAST Search Roadmap
by Andy on February 18th, 2009
I found a great article today on officesharepointpro.com about Microsoft Announcing the FAST Search Roadmap. The following is an extract from http://tinyurl.com/cf6zl4
Tags: FAST, Search, SharePoint 2007Last April, Microsoft completed its acquisition of the Norwegian search developer, FAST Search and Transfer. Since then, teams from both companies have been working to further integrate the two products. Last week, at the FASTforward’09 event, Microsoft revealed some of the vision for FAST technologies moving forward. First, two products were announced: FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business. The first product will bring the high-end search capabilities of FAST to SharePoint Server’s collaboration, portal, and content management workloads. The second will be focused on providing search for sophisticated web applications. Both products will be released in beta later this year, which means their final form will be part of the 2010 wave of SharePoint products and technologies. In the meantime, Enterprise CAL customers can take advantage of the third announcement made last week: ESP for SharePoint. This offering is not a new product, per se, but rather a licensing path that enables customers to take advantage of FAST ESP with existing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) implementations, with a defined licensing path to FAST Search for SharePoint when it is released.
It’s interesting to me that this roadmap suggests that Microsoft is keeping FAST as a completely separate, though complementary, set of product offerings, rather than integrating them into out-of-box offerings or “premium” versions of SharePoint Server. I expect this has much to do with the timing of the acquisition and integration activities, which occurred well into the SharePoint 14 development cycle. It will be interesting to see if any of the FAST capabilities manage to sneak into the core search functionality of SharePoint. Without a doubt, FAST brings powerful enhancements to SharePoint, and further moves SharePoint into the “no brainer” category for enterprise search.
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December 2008 Cumulative Update (WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007)
by Andy on January 8th, 2009
December 2008 Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - http://tinyurl.com/3kvob6
Cumulative updates are scheduled for every two months.
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End of support for non SP1 WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 looming
by Andy on January 8th, 2009
Microsoft support for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 without Service Pack 1 will end on January 13th 2009 (for more about Lifecycle Supported Service Packs check - http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps#Office).
Prepare for the Upcoming Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2, expected between February and April of 2009.
Features will include:
- Improved Read-only Content Databases
- ECM Performance and Manageability Improvements
- Improved Index Rebuild Timer Jobs
- Upgrade Checker
Read more about it here - http://tinyurl.com/5vaxcp
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Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
by Andy on November 11th, 2008
Microsoft announces the new Microsoft Certified Master qualification for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. More details can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/SharePoint/default.mspx
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VPATs for Microsoft products
by Andy on November 7th, 2008
A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, or VPAT, is a standardised form developed by the Information Technology Industry Council to show how a software product meets key regulations of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
VPAT documents describe how the accessibility features of Microsoft products help federal agencies address the requirements of Section 508 Standards (and also for us guys in the UK!)
Here’s the link to a comprehensive menu of VPAT’s for Microsoft products, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/products/section508.mspx
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SharePoint Development Site
by Andy on October 31st, 2008
New to SharePoint development? Take a look at Microsoft’s ‘SharePoint Developer Introduction for .NET Developers’ - http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com/
Wondering how to build a SharePoint development environment? For a complete description on how to do this, I recommend Eli Robillard’s article http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2007/02/23/build-a-sharepoint-development-machine.aspx
Tags: Development, Learning, SharePoint 2007