Tagged: Collaboration

More on Project Server for Office 12

All Project Server functions are exposed as a set of web services.  Just like Office Client interacts with WSS,  Project Professionals integration with Project Server as also completely achieved via these web services,  which means other clients or server solutions can also be integrated using these web service interfaces. These...

OneNote Office 12

I use OneNote now and then and have never really become convinced about its utility as a universal Note Taking solution,  for the following main reasons: Layout controls are limited Nervousness about use on two or more machines Difficulty sharing notes with other people who don’t use OneNote I am...

SharePoint and Frontpage

FrontPage investments professional web design SharePoint no-code applications great integration with the rest of the Microsoft web authoring platform Front page has made big improvements in compliance with web standards Dataview web part, used to integrate diverse data sources and present them through SharePoint WYSIWYG design experience conditional formatting static...

SharePoint 12 – Document Management

Document management was really just simple check-in and out in v2.  Now it’s quite impressive: Alerting and RSS feeds on document libraries, as described in this post Custom meta-data Improved capture of meta-data in Office client applications If documents are XML, meta-data can be extracted into lists Creation of custom...

Community in SharePoint v3, part of Office 12

There are lots of small changes that come together to enhance the community support in SharePoint v3.  Here is an overview: People become first class citizens, where ever a person appears in SharePoint the information available is improved There is a person field type that can be added to lists...

SharePoint 12 – everything is a list

Lists were already VERY powerful in WSS v2.  They get even better in V3. Pretty much everything in V3 is a list The capabilities available in lists therefore get inherited everywhere The standard library of list types has been greatly improved,  previously for example the standard list type for “issues”...

Sharepoint 12 – Alerts and Subscription

I always thought WSS v2 had useful alerting,  but it was let down because of the lack of good information contained in the alert.  Well the new version has superb alerting and subscription, in two forms: Alerts can be delivered by email at certain intervals Any list can be subscribed...

SharePoint 12 User Experience

Here are some of the highlights Bread crumbs everywhere, really help users,  in the previous version it was easy to get lost, much more difficult now! Much cleaner UI and much easier to discover new capabilities.  Not as rich as Office client,  but getting there Very configurable, and data is...

Office 12 and Beyond – Real time collaboration

Main themes: Reduce cost, including travel and communications expenses Time to market, how to get breakthrough ideas to market faster Distributed teams, how do I get a global organisation to act in concert Connect people, especially customers and suppliers Access to information and people 4 key capability areas, which are...

Groove positioning and Office 12

Mac Olsen is the Group Program Manager for Groove integration Key points about Groove: Best for people who need to work with each other when they don’t share a common infrastructure Need to work off-line Need robust security A few extra services have been created to make Groove more acceptable...