It was great speaking at SharePoint Saturday NH last month. My presentation on Advanced SharePoint Document Management with Multi-file Documents is now available. This session focused on implementing advanced SharePoint document management syst ...[Read More]

I often help prospective customers decide whether or not they should implement SharePoint or an alternate product. Not long ago the choice was fairly simple, but now there are many options: Drupal, DotNetNuke, Oracle Web Center, Web Logic, Alfresc ...[Read More]

I needed to write a customized approval workflow. I know I could use InfoPath to create custom approval task forms, and I saw many posts showing how this is done. But if I could use the SharePoint Approval Workflow task forms, I could save a lot o ...[Read More]

I was thrilled when I first started working with WSS V3 and saw that the list item pages for creating, viewing, and editing list items were actual web part pages. This opened up a way to customize these pages for various lists in a way that was ve ...[Read More]

Black Blade Associates has just released a new black paper: Enhancing SharePoint Document Management with Virtual Documents. Lack of Virtual Document support is one the most common reasons consumers pass up SharePoint in favor of more expensive docu ...[Read More]

I’ve been a fan of OneNote for several years. I like how easily I can capture some information without worrying about file names or explicitly saving data. Now I’ve found another reason to love OneNote: I can synchronize all of my notebooks across m ...[Read More]

Microsoft issued a press release announcing the both the public beta of SharePoint 2010 and its general release. The public beta will be available November 2009, along with the public betas of Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010. The general re ...[Read More]

Do you wish you were at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009? Me too. Watch selected conference video highlights here: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/videohighlights.aspx   Tom Rizzo, Senior Director for SharePoint, recaps the ne ...[Read More]

Do you wish you were at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009? Me too. But, you can watch the keynote here: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx   The keynote had lots of great content including loads of SharePoint demos su ...[Read More]

Download the Visual Studio 2010 beta and check out the SharePoint 2010 walkthroughs and how to’s here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx   Walkthroughs Add Feature Event Receivers Create a Custom Field, Content Type, L ...[Read More]