This Week in Bamboo (September 18, 2011 – September 24, 2011)
HW21 List Rotator Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (2.5.49) and SharePoint 2010 (2.5.67): New Features: Includes sample manual installation scripts in the “misc” folder of the installation package. Bug Fixes: Displays an error message when using custom view in...Countdown to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference: A Preview of Bamboo Nation’s Coverage, and More
As of today, we're just a week away from the biggest SharePoint event of the year, the Microsoft SharePoint Conference (SPC) in Anaheim, CA. Bamboo is once again a proud sponsor of the SPC, and over a dozen of us will be heading to Anaheim to represent the...This Week in Bamboo (September 11, 2011 – September 17, 2011)
HW08 User Directory Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (1.7.15) and SharePoint 2010 (1.7.23): New Features: Includes sample manual installation scripts in the “misc” folder of the installation package. Bug Fixes: In certain cases, when user selects the link...
Microsoft BUILD Conference Wrap-up: What’s in Windows 8?
The main focus is on quality. There was a huge emphasis on performance, speed, and power consumption.
Announcing Workflow Conductor 2.0 for SharePoint 2007
Back in July, Workflow Conductor version 2.0 offered up some great new features to SharePoint 2010 users, but that doesn’t mean we forgot about all of those people stuck in 2007 (SharePoint 2007, that is. Not people still listening to...Guest Blog by John Kleeman – SharePoint: 9, Formal Training: 1
I’m John Kleeman, Chairman of Questionmark, and in this guest blog entry, I’d like to share a liberating idea that is sweeping the world of corporate learning. Once upon a time, if you needed to learn a task, you embarked on a formal training course,...How to Configure Search Keywords for SharePoint 2010 & Apply them to List Search Simple Web Part
As you know, among the most important features in SharePoint is the ability to search keywords and find any word on your Web Application. In this article, we will take a look at how to activate the required services to search keywords in SharePoint 2010. We...
Windows 8 Highlights, Live from the Microsoft BUILD Conference
Muhammad shared the following Windows 8 highlights internally, we knew we had to share his observations with Bamboo Nation.
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Activate a Dropdown Menu in SharePoint 2010 Sites
SharePoint 2010 sites can display dropdown menus in the tabbed navigation across the top of the page. Shown within dropdown menus are a nest of sites, and the dropdown method of making links available helps us to organize sites cleanly. In this article,...Participate in a New Survey: How Are Businesses Using SharePoint?
Over at NothingButSharePoint.com, Derek Weeks has announced the latest round in a semi-annual survey that’s being conducted to determine how businesses are using SharePoint today. In addition to retaining questions from the two previous instances of the survey...How to Run Task Scheduler on Windows 2008 & Apply Password Expiration
Windows 2008 offers some new features which differ from Windows 2003. You may not know about these features yet, but one of the most important new features that you're likely to be interested in is the Task Scheduler. Task Scheduler is a tool which...This Week in Bamboo (September 4, 2011 – September 10, 2011)
HW24 List Rollup Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (5.0.141) and SharePoint 2010 (5.0.152): SharePoint 2007: Bug Fixes: List Rollup Schema and List Rollup Classic: When aggregating Document Libraries, the column ‘Name (linked to document with edit menu)’ does...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Creating an Association Between External Content Types for BCS Configuration Using SharePoint Designer 2010
Contrary to SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 creates the Business Data Connectivity (BDC) through SharePoint Designer 2010 and not through the Central Administration page. This change can take some getting used to for those who’ve grown accustomed to the...August 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 is Now Available
Following a week on the heels of the August 2011 Cumulative Update (CU) for SharePoint 2007, Microsoft has now released the August 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010. The following best practice information is shared on the official Updates for SharePoint 2010 Products page,...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Activate Features When Creating Custom Site Templates on Different Servers
SharePoint 2010 has many features that were unavailabe in SharePoint 2007. Consequently, complications are occasionally encountered when working on the new platform. In this article, we will take a look at how to activate features while creating custom sites or site...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Show Events from Multiple Calendars in a Single View Using Calendars Overlay
Among the great features of SharePoint 2010 is one that allows you to roll up multiple calendars into a single presentation. It’s called Calendars Overlay. If you take a standard Calendar Web Part and go to the Ribbon, there is a button labeled Calendars...This Week in Bamboo (August 28, 2011 – September 3, 2011)
SA08 R2.0 Workflow Conductor (2007) New Features: New Widget – Update User Info: Update SharePoint user profile properties. New Widget – Update AD Account: Update Active Directory account information. New Widget – Add Column: Add an existing site...Yes, It’s Time for a SharePoint App Store
I enjoyed a well-considered article from Global 360's Derek Weeks today on CMS Wire. Derek asks, "Is it Time for a SharePoint App Store?" It's a great question, and one that many of us have been asking for years, with only one obvious...Introducing Discussion Board Plus for SharePoint: Enhance Your SharePoint Site’s Discussion Board View with the Latest Release from Bamboo Labs
Update: Discussion Board Plus is now available from the Bamboo Solutions storefront. You're in love with SharePoint, so it's the first item on your collaboration and community platform checklist when your boss asks you to build out forums for the company. But...
Overcoming the ‘Override Check Out’ SharePoint Blues
By default, any Permission Level below the Design does not possess the right to Override Check Out.
How to Create a New Bamboo Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator Site in Its own Site Collection
With the exciting launch of Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator R2.0 earlier this year, interest from the SharePoint Community has been phenomenal! This post will be part of what I hope will become a series of posts containing tips to make the most of your trial or...This Week in Bamboo (August 21, 2011 – August 27, 2011)
HW20 Calendar Plus Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (4.1.65) and SharePoint 2010 (4.1.63): Bug Fixes: The deployment of the June 2011 Cumulative Update causes several issues including: a security validation error appears in the SharePoint List and Library category of the...
This Week in Bamboo (August 14, 2011 – August 20, 2011)
Find out the latest updated fixes, new features and additional notes for our products.
Aggregate Across SharePoint Site Collections… Say What??
I recently had the pleasure of attending SharePoint Saturday: The Conference (thanks again to Dux Raymond Sy and Innovative-e for putting it together!), and one of the most common requests that I heard was for the ability to aggregate data not across just sites, but...Meet Us in Berlin at the European SharePoint Conference 2011
We are delighted to announce our Sponsorship of the European SharePoint Conference taking place in the Estrel Convention Centre, Berlin from October 17-20. As sponsors, we are taking part in the largest European SharePoint-focused Expo, where you can meet members of...Announcing the Release of Discussion Board Plus for SharePoint: Empower Users to Find and Share the Most Accurate and Relevant Content
You’ve probably heard the sayings, “Written once, read many times,” and “Speak once, listen many times” before, right? In today’s organizations, teams are often located in different locations, and even...Need a Conditional Initiator for Workflows in SharePoint? Meet Alert Plus R3.2
With the increasing adoption of SharePoint comes the need for a more complex line of business processes. SharePoint provides workflows which provide order to business processes, but initiation of these workflows is limited to just three main types: User manually...SharePoint Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator: Customize Your Own Online Knowledge Tool
SharePoint Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator (KBSA) helps organizations to create a centralized space for sharing knowledge, facilitating e-learning, or hosting an online self-help area. The new release, version R2.1, offers performance...SPSTC: Jay Leask & David Berry on ‘Stepping into Social Computing with SharePoint’
On Saturday afternoon at SPSTC, Booz Allen Hamilton associates Jay Leask and David Berry presented their session on Stepping into Social Computing with SharePoint. Discussing Enterprise 2.0, Jay said that, in essence, it represents "the next iteration of...
This Week in Bamboo (August 7, 2011 – August 13, 2011)
Discover new product features, updates, fixes and product notes for our most popular SharePoint product line.
SPSTC: Rob Manfredi on ‘Trends Driving the Need for Solutions on SharePoint – Frontline Business Automation and How to Best Deliver Those Solutions’
Rob Manfredi, Bamboo Solutions' Vice President of Sales, explained at the beginning of his SPSTC session Saturday morning that in his presentation he would be "trying to be Bamboo-agnostic" on the subject of delivering solutions on SharePoint. Rob...SPSTC: Mark Rackley on ‘SharePoint & jQuery – What I Wish I Would Have Known When I Started’
Mark Rackley, aka the "SharePoint Hillbilly," presented his SPSTC session on SharePoint and jQuery to the very definition of a packed house today. In truth, as a non-developer, this fact caused me to feel a little guilty for taking up a seat but, with...SPSTC: Jeff Willinger Asks, ‘What’s in it for Me?’ User Adoption & Employee Engagement Strategies for Enterprise Social Computing Projects
Friday morning at SPSTC, Jeff Willinger, armed with a quart of iced coffee, presented a lively session on User Adoption & Employee Engagement Strategies for Enterprise Social Computing Projects (Making SharePoint Sexy). Jeff began by showing a Katy Perry...SPSTC: Ray Wang on ‘Addressing Key Challenges in Social Business Adoption – Lessons Learned in Putting the Social Business Maturity Framework to Work’
Disruptive technologies specialist Ray Wang began his session on "Assessing Social Business Evolution" at SPSTC this morning by explaining that the research results he'd be sharing hadn't yet been published, and wouldn't be until next week. ...SPSTC Keynote: Dean Halstead on ‘Innovation at Microsoft’
Dean Halstead, Visualization Architect for the Microsoft Federal Team, provided the opening keynote at SPSTC this morning, addressing the topic of innovation at Microsoft. In getting a sense for the makeup of the audience by a show of hands, the greatest number of...Greetings from SharePoint Saturday: The Conference (SPSTC)!
The inaugural SPSTC kicked off this morning in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Annandale, VA with opening remarks provided conference organizer Dux Raymond Sy, and SharePoint Saturday founder Michael Lotter. Set to a thumping musical soundtrack, Dux began...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Using the Silverlight Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 to Create a Silverlight Web Part
Introduced with SharePoint 2010, the Client Object Mode helps developers design client applications that access SharePoint content without installing code on the server. The Client Object Model can run directly on client machines without having...
This Week in Bamboo (July 31, 2011 – August 6, 2011)
Get new product updates, information about fixes and additional notes on our SharePoint product line.
SharePoint Saturday: The Conference (SPSTC) Debuts Thursday; Bamboo to Present Two Sessions
The first-ever SharePoint Saturday: The Conference (SPSTC) is set to begin this Thursday morning in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Annandale, Virginia, and the crème de la crème of SharePoint experts will be descending on the National Capital Region for...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Programmatically Create Term Sets & Metadata Columns in the Managed Metadata Service Application
An article on Microsoft TechNet defines managed metadata as being "a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define, and then use as attributes for items in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010," and I would argue that it's the...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Configuring FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
Many of you are familiar with SharePoint 2010 Search, its enhancements from the existing SharePoint search and its powerful capabilities for enterprise deployments. FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint offers even more than that, an out-of-the-box search engine with...
This Week in Bamboo (July 24, 2011 – July 30, 2011)
Discover new product features, updates, fixes and product notes for our most popular SharePoint product line.
SharePoint is Going Away
A full week has passed since I returned from Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Los Angeles. It was a great event, during which I had many, many interesting and productive conversations. I spent last week digging out of the email...
This Week in Bamboo (July 17, 2011 – July 23, 2011)
Discover new product features, updates, fixes and product notes for our most popular SharePoint product line.
SharePoint Saturday: The Conference to Feature ‘Executive’ Track
In addition to sessions and workshops targeted at the “traditional” SharePoint conference audience (developers, admins, end users, etc.), the inaugural instance of SharePoint Saturday: The Conference (SPSTC) will offer a track geared for “C”...Greetings from SharePoint Fest in Chicago!
It was a hectic morning here at SharePoint Fest in Chicago with lots of foot traffic, especially for a one-man show here at the Bamboo booth, but I’m managing. Visitors to our booth so far have included Honeywell, McDonald’s, and...
Bamboo Solutions Continues to Expand the Business Process Management Capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint
Workflow Conductor v2.0 for SharePoint 2010 allows organizations to easily automate their existing business processes July 27, 2011 12:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bamboo Solutions, the leading provider of solutions for...
Edit My Profile in a SharePoint 2010 My Site when the My Settings page isn’t Editable
This is a solution that an Administrator will need to put in place and not one that ends users will be able to put into place on their own.
