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]

There are many posts out there extolling the virtues of using metadata over folders for organizing information in SharePoint 2007. I certainly believe that metadata is a great tool for for classifying information, but it is incorrect to ask whethe ...[Read More]

I was looking for some info on how SharePoint stacked up against Documentum, and came upon Johnny Gee’s article titled Documentum vs SharePoint – Round 2. First I wanted to thank Johnny for a great post and Eric Crone (of ForeFront Partners LLC) for ...[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]

Happy day, oh happy day: the SharePoint 2010 beta is now available for download to Microsoft MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The PTA Team Blog for Belgium & Luxembourg has more details, including links to the Office 2010 beta. Follow these downloa ...[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]