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January 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:09 PM

InfoPath Forms as Part of SharePoint Sites

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
Posted by sptblog | 2 Comments
Friday, January 27, 2006 7:31 PM

Configure it Out

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
Posted by sptblog | 7 Comments
Thursday, January 26, 2006 6:32 PM

Taking the Show on the Road

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
Posted by sptblog | 8 Comments
Friday, January 20, 2006 10:41 PM

Content Management Server and SharePoint

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
Posted by sptblog | 13 Comments
Friday, January 20, 2006 5:53 PM

Double Dogfood Week

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.
Posted by sptblog | 10 Comments
Monday, January 16, 2006 9:06 PM

BI Portals and Excel Services

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
Posted by sptblog | 6 Comments
Thursday, January 12, 2006 6:17 AM

SharePoint Roadmap and Light-Up Not Just Roll-Up

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
Posted by sptblog | 13 Comments
Monday, January 09, 2006 4:25 PM

SharePoint's Role in Microsoft's Collaboration Strategy

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
Posted by kurt_delbene | 18 Comments