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Open Source v SharePoint: The Trouble with Bundles (ComputerWorld)
“So if I can summarise this, would I be right in saying that Sharepoint does an awful lot of things adequately whereas your Open Source offerings do fewer things really well?” Thus spake a delegate at a recent ‘Sharepoint’ conference at which I was presenting an alternative Open Source e-learning stack which included Alfresco, Moodle and Mahara. Continue reading this entry »
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Running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on VMware Infrastructure (DABCC)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is one of Microsoft’s fastest growing server products. MOSS 2007 provides a highly-integrated applications platform that hosts a number of different collaboration and document management services. VMware and its partners have done significant testing to evaluate behavior and develop best practices for virtualizing MOSS deployments on VMware Infrastructure (VI). Our experience shows that all tiers in complex three-tier MOSS 2007 solutions can be successfully virtualized using VMware Infrastructure: Continue reading this entry »
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How to Prepare for a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Upgrade (eWeek)
Microsoft SharePoint is flexible and efficient, and has become the data storage and collaboration platform of choice in many organizations. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is due to be released in the first half of this year, and is expected to feature improvements to everything from application tools, integration framework and operational management to lifecycle management and social capabilities. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Joel Oleson offers IT professionals six steps to take to prepare for a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 upgrade. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 Web Apps: Better Than Google Apps? (CMSWire)
As the upcoming releases of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 draw closer, I’ve been highlighting some of the best new features that will be available this spring. This time, I’ll show you a very exciting feature that will allow your end users to work on their Office documents in a zero-client environment from within SharePoint 2010. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft Data Centers: Beyond the Container (Images) (CNET)
With the latest iteration of its data center design, Microsoft has created self-contained units that can be pre-built and shipped anywhere in the world. Microsoft showed a Windows Azure unit based on the fourth-generation design at November’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Continue reading this entry »
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Five Key Steps to Managing SharePoint Users (CMS Wire)
Managing user permissions in SharePoint can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, it empowers users to be responsible for defining who can do what on SharePoint sites without heavily relying on IT. However, on the flip side, user management can be a total mess without proper guidance and a well-defined process. Continue reading this entry »
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Is The New ‘Open’ Microsoft For Real? (Redmond Developer News)
It was all about openness at Microsoft’s MIX10 conference this week. What’s going on with the notorious bastion of proprietary, locked-in software long known for holding out against the open-source barbarians clamoring at the Gates of Redmond? Get it? “Gates” as in Bill? Maybe with him (almost) gone, the company is changing direction. Continue reading this entry »
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Windows XP: No IE9 for You (Computerworld)
Microsoft’s new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will not run on Windows XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed Tuesday. The move makes Microsoft the first major browser developer to drop support for XP, the world’s most popular operating system, in a future release. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint 2010: Screenshots (ZDNet)
There are quite a few prerequisites for a SharePoint 2010 install. These include the Windows Identity Foundation (codenamed ‘Geneva’), a SQL Server database and the Microsoft Sync Framework. Continue reading this entry »
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Get to know the Refinement Web Part in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search (.NET Developers journal)
In MOSS 2007, people often extending the search results experience by using the Faceted Search Web Parts. People really liked these so it looks like Microsoft decided to implement their own version called the RefinementWebPart (also known as the Refinement Panel). If you are familiar with the Faceted Search Web Parts at all, you will notice there are a lot of similarities in the way things are implemented. If you’re not familiar with what I’m talking about, it’s this web part that allows users to drill down into a set of search results based upon managed properties and other criteria. Let’s take a look at a quick example. Continue reading this entry »
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