In October I presented at a Records Management event in London for Unicom. The title was SharePoint and Records Management: The Good, Bad and Ugly…
With the release of SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 earlier this year, a new set of applications also arrived – Office Web Applications. Office Web Apps are browser-based versions of Office, enabling you to create, view and edit presentations, spreadsheets and documents using just a web browser.
Two questions keep coming up in SharePoint conversations with clients – What’s the licensing for Office Web Apps? Can I create documents using just Office Web Apps with SharePoint or do I still need Office to be installed?…
With the next release of SharePoint, Microsoft has been changing some names and adding to the product range. Starting with the basics:
| What’s it called? | What does it do? |
| SharePoint Foundation Service | Provide a web-based platform for storing and collaborating on documents and other activity-related information. Previously called: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) |
| SharePoint Server | Full web-based platform for information management, search and collaborative working including personalisation and integrating other applications into a single user interface. Previously called: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) |
| SharePoint Workspace | Client for offline co-creation/collaboration on SharePoint content from remote locations/across firewalls. Previously called: Groove |
The Microsoft SharePoint Product Group has a blog post announcing a new Capacity Management Resource Center for SharePoint 2010. The Capacity Management Resource Center is hosted on TechNet and should be a big bookmark for anyone deploying SharePoint. Here are the first 3 key links…
This week I presented at the SharePoint Evolutions Conference and one of the sessions I delivered was an interactive tour around some of the new and improved features being introduced in SharePoint 2010, from the end-user’s perspective. Here’s a presentation that summarises some of that demonstration:
