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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
eWeek has a great mini interview with Stuart Cohen, the CEO of the Open Systems Development Labs. Stuart describes a conversation with Martin Taylor, Microsoft Corp.’s general manager of platform strategy, who recently approached him to consider ways in which the two could conduct a joint research project to do...
Monad is the next generation of the Windows Shell, I was expecting it to ship in Windows Vista but there seems some doubt about that now. However it is expected to ship as part of Exchange 12. The Exchange team have taken Monad the engine and more importantly the “concept...
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...
Only a few minutes ago I posted about developments in VOIP and Sametime integration, then we get the Microsoft Live Meeting 2005 add-in:
Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook
With the Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook, you can:
- Schedule a Live Meeting from Outlook
- Identify individual meeting participants as attendees or presenters
- Send separate invitations for attendees and for presenters
- Specify default meeting options and override those defaults for specific meetings
Live Meeting Add-in for Office Collaboration
With the Office Collaboration Add-in, you can start a Meet Now meeting directly from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, or Project. The document appears in an application sharing session.Live Meeting Add-in for Instant Messaging
If the recipient also has the Live Meeting Add-in Pack installed, you can start a Live Meeting from Windows Messenger or from MSN Messenger.