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Published on 17 Jan 2006 by sptblog
Like many people, my epiphany on the power of software came from my first exposure to an electronic spreadsheet (in my case VisiCalc on a TRS-80). It is great to SharePoint's customizable lists and web part pages have same "wow this is flexible" first impression on people. With the Office 12 wave, w
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Published on 12 Jan 2006 by sptblog
Hi! I thought I would follow Kurt’s post with some background on our next release of the SharePoint technologies and the thought process behind one of the goals for the release that we internally call “light-up not just roll-up”. SharePoint for the Office 12 Wave As we did with Office and SharePoint
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Published on 09 Jan 2006 by kurt_delbene
Hello, SharePoint Products and Technologies have become a key part of our strategy for delivering a complete working environment for information workers, where they can collaborate together, share information with others, and find information and people that can help them solve their business
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Published on 17 Jan 2006 by sptblog
Like many people, my epiphany on the power of software came from my first exposure to an electronic spreadsheet (in my case VisiCalc on a TRS-80). It is great to SharePoint's customizable lists and web part pages have same "wow this is flexible" first impression on people. With the Office 12 wave, w
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Published on 12 Jan 2006 by sptblog
Hi! I thought I would follow Kurt’s post with some background on our next release of the SharePoint technologies and the thought process behind one of the goals for the release that we internally call “light-up not just roll-up”. SharePoint for the Office 12 Wave As we did with Office and SharePoint
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Published on 09 Jan 2006 by kurt_delbene
Hello, SharePoint Products and Technologies have become a key part of our strategy for delivering a complete working environment for information workers, where they can collaborate together, share information with others, and find information and people that can help them solve their business
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Published on 20 Jan 2006 by sptblog
This was an exciting week for the SharePoint development team as we expanded our "dogfooding" of Beta 1 of SharePoint v3 to include 1) the entire Office team for all SharePoint features and 2) all of Microsoft for the next round of SharePoint Search. For people who have not heard the term before, "d
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Published on 21 Jan 2006 by sptblog
By now many people have heard that the upcoming version of MCMS 2002 (which I’ll refer to as ‘CMS’ for the sake of this post) will be built entirely on the Windows SharePoint Services architecture (with SharePoint Portal integrating the new CMS publishing features). I wanted to give some insight int
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Published on 21 Jan 2006 by sptblog
By now many people have heard that the upcoming version of MCMS 2002 (which I’ll refer to as ‘CMS’ for the sake of this post) will be built entirely on the Windows SharePoint Services architecture (with SharePoint Portal integrating the new CMS publishing features). I wanted to give some insight int
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Published on 20 Jan 2006 by sptblog
This was an exciting week for the SharePoint development team as we expanded our "dogfooding" of Beta 1 of SharePoint v3 to include 1) the entire Office team for all SharePoint features and 2) all of Microsoft for the next round of SharePoint Search. For people who have not heard the term before, "d
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Published on 26 Jan 2006 by sptblog
I just finished a couple weeks where I got to present our “12”-wave plans to internal and external groups. I told audiences not only was I excited to talk about the new software, I was equally grateful to be released temporarily from the locked R&D lab and to sample the heady fragrances o
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Published on 26 Jan 2006 by sptblog
I just finished a couple weeks where I got to present our “12”-wave plans to internal and external groups. I told audiences not only was I excited to talk about the new software, I was equally grateful to be released temporarily from the locked R&D lab and to sample the heady fragrances o
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Published on 28 Jan 2006 by sptblog
A couple of days ago, I reviewed how our test teams have been doing to extend out the configurations we validate as we move closer to the next beta. Beyond per-feature validation, the teams collaborate to produce a “config of the week” that combines several different topology elements into a
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Published on 28 Jan 2006 by sptblog
A couple of days ago, I reviewed how our test teams have been doing to extend out the configurations we validate as we move closer to the next beta. Beyond per-feature validation, the teams collaborate to produce a “config of the week” that combines several different topology elements into a
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Published on 01 Feb 2006 by sptblog
A big goal for our next release is to make it much easier to integrate enterprise applications (e.g. SAP, Dynamics, Siebel, custom databases and web services) into SharePoint Portals. Customers have asked us to make it more cost-effective to adapt processes and empower people with business data
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Published on 01 Feb 2006 by sptblog
A big goal for our next release is to make it much easier to integrate enterprise applications (e.g. SAP, Dynamics, Siebel, custom databases and web services) into SharePoint Portals. Customers have asked us to make it more cost-effective to adapt processes and empower people with business data
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Published on 16 Feb 2006 by sptblog
Today we announced the naming and packaging for the next release of the Office system products including Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Please check out the press release materials. Most of the stuff in the materials is self-explanatory, but I thought I'd tal
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Published on 16 Feb 2006 by sptblog
No this post is not about a popular TV show! We'll cover the integrated framework we are using in the next release of SPS + CMS (breaking news - now officially Office SharePoint Server 2007 - I will cover that in a second post later today) to enable people to create, manage and publishing the spect
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Published on 27 Feb 2006 by sptblog
We just got out of a lengthy performance review on our way to Beta 2. Things are in good shape and we hope to have preliminary guidelines around the same time as the beta. Performance work is one of the most fun parts of building software, and while a huge topic, I thought I would post about a few i
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Published on 08 Mar 2006 by sptblog
Since we often get asked about building collaborative applications, I thought I would highlight a few related articles on this: PJ Hough posted on some of the WSS V3 enhancements for tracking applications:http://blogs.msdn.com/pjhough/archive/2006/01/12/512300.aspx Terry Myerson posted on the Exchan
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Published on 11 Mar 2006 by sptblog
As the usage of Sharepoint increases, there is a profileration of Sharepoint sites. This makes it harder and harder to keep track of where your documents are located and also to see a unified view of your "stuff". In 2007 Office Server, we are introducing a couple of new web part
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Published on 14 Mar 2006 by sptblog
The Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006 (or MOS Dev Con for short) will begin on March 21st and signifies the start of a very busy conference season for SharePoint Products and Technologies this year. Although the SharePoint Product Management Group will be very busy with
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Published on 16 Mar 2006 by sptblog
One of the deployment scenarios that we were pretty naive about in SPS 2003 was the deployment of SPS in the enterprise with multiple forests. Part of why that happened was because we miscalculated how we thought AD deployments would happen. At the beginning of the O11 planning cycle (spring 2001),
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Published on 23 Mar 2006 by sptblog
Lots of Office SharePoint Server 2007 stuff covered in Bill Gates' and Kurt DelBene's keynotes and other sessions. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032293536&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US -- Jeff
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Published on 07 Apr 2006 by sptblog
We have been running through a wide variety of the security configuration testing on the way to our Beta 2 release, so I thought it would be good to post an update on some of the new things we are doing since it is one of the things we get commonly asked about. SharePoint 2003 has a robust security
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