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]

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’ve talked to many customers who were looking to make the various applications in their organizations behave as a single system to their end users. This is a great goal as it leads to many benefits from higher user productivity to lower training ...[Read More]

Black Blade Associates (my company) has released a free tool that will let you import your Blogger blog into a SharePoint blog site. This is the tool I used to import this blog to the company SharePoint blog site. Here’s some info about the tool ...[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]

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]

Microsoft has released their version of “The App Store”. Windows Marketplace for Mobile is available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/get-marketplace.mspx   Windows Marketplace for Mobile download works o ...[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]