Booster Rocket Added to Project Management Central with R2.2
Sadly, today, July 21, 2011, marks the end of the United States’ space exploration program for at least several years to come. In tribute, Bamboo Solutions decided to reuse the booster rocket from Shuttle Atlantis to push the functionality of SharePoint Project...Guest Blog by Dux Raymond Sy: Top 10 Reasons You Should Attend SharePoint Saturday: The Conference
The first-ever “SharePoint Saturday: The Conference” (SPSTC) is coming to Washington, D.C. August 11-13, 2011, and you are not going to want to miss it! “SharePoint Saturday: The Conference” grew out of SharePoint Saturday events...Registration is Now Open for SharePoint Saturday: The Conference
Are you planning to attend the inaugural SharePoint Saturday: The Conference next month near Washington, D.C.? If so, get thee to the Registration page and get yourself registered to lock in your seat. If you’re not planning on attending, and...Announcing Workflow Conductor 2.0 for SharePoint 2010
I’m very excited to announce that Workflow Conductor version 2.0 for SharePoint 2010 is now available for download, bringing with it a lot of new and updated process-y goodness! It’s been a busy few months for the...Hey, You Know What’s Not a Word? ‘On-premise’ is Not a Word
For the most part, I've been holding my tongue on this topic for some time now, but I can no longer maintain my silence in good conscience. Granted, what I'm about to say, I say in self-defense as much as I say it as an instance of, shall we say,...This Week in Bamboo (July 10, 2011 – July 16, 2011)
SA35 Project Portfolio Dashboard R1.8.35 for SharePoint 2007 & 1.8.42 for SharePoint 2010: New Features: Includes sample manual installation/uninstallation script in the “misc” folder of the installation package. Bug Fixes: Internal bug fixes to...
Bamboo and Enterprise Content Management: News from the Major Accounts Team
We’ve been keen on kicking up SharePoint’s Knowledge Management capabilities. KBA provides a critical “self service” component.
WPC11: How SharePint Made LeAnn Rimes Hate Me
This week I was in the City of Angels for Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference. It was an amazing event, and there are a million stories about the people I met from all over the world. One of those people was singer/songwriter LeAnn Rimes. If you attended...WPC11: Wrap-up: Time to Jump Off the WPC Party Cruise
Here’s one last recap from a show that featured everything from Steve Ballmer dancing to the “3 Screens and a Cloud” theme made popular Ray Ozzie, Richard Branson stopping on his way to save the sharks, and Blake Griffin seen clutching his ESPY...SharePoint Conference 2011 Sessions Announced
We’re still two and a half months out from the SharePoint event of the year, but Microsoft has announced most of the 200+ sessions that are slated for this year’s SharePoint Conference. On my first scan through the announced sessions, several...Upgrading to Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator R2.0 Series: Upgrade from an Older version to R2.0 for SharePoint 2010
The latest release of SharePoint Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator (KBSA), R2.0 is now available. To take advantage of the new features in the latest release, please follow the steps below to upgrade your existing version. In R2.0, the following Web Parts were...WPC11: Pinpointing Opportunities and Problems with the New Microsoft Office 365
I’m in Los Angeles at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference this week. On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to sit in on Susan Dumett’s session regarding the recently redesigned Microsoft Pinpoint site. Pinpoint is Microsoft’s...WPC11: Kate & Will Spotted at WPC…
But then again, so was Elvis – multiple times! OK, I ain’t nothing but a Houndblog, and I’m not above using a cheap shill to hook Bamboo Nation into the latest WPC news. All joking aside, Microsoft delivered some serious star quality in the form of...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Automatically Import Users from Active Directory into User Profile & Display in an Org Chart
There’s no shortage of information available on the topic of User Profile Sync in SharePoint 2010, but I’d like to narrow the focus and share step-by-step instructions on importing users from Active Directory (AD) into User Profile (UP). As an added...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Open & Close a Popup Window Using the OpenPopUpPageWithTitle Method
Using JavaScript, there are a variety of different methods to open a URL in a popup dialog in SharePoint 2010 . In this article, we will talk about how to open a popup using one of these methods, OpenPopUpPageWithTitle, and how to refresh the page after...This Week in Bamboo (July 3, 2011 – July 9, 2011)
HW11A List Search Simple Web Part Release 2.1.39 (SharePoint 20007) & Release 2.1.42 (SharePoint 2010) – NOTE: Both releases share the same release notes: Bug Fixes: In some cases, when upgrading from an earlier version of List Search Simple Web Part to Release...This Week in Bamboo (June 26, 2011 – July 2, 2011)
HW11A List Search Simple Web Part Release 2.1.33 (SharePoint 2007) and Release 2.1.33 (SharePoint 2010): New Features: Optimized Search Results view for lists of type Discussion Board and Bamboo Discussion Board Plus (Beta of Bamboo Discussion Board Plus is currently...This Week in Bamboo (June 19, 2011 – June 25, 2011)
HW41I Bamboo Rating Release 1.1.12 (SharePoint 2007) and Release 1.1.11 (SharePoint 2010) share the same Release Notes: New Features: For the 5-star rating scale, provide the option to allow users to show average rating value as stars or showing the average value as...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Using ULS Logging
As many of you have already experienced in SharePoint 2007 (WSS and/or MOSS), even though ULS (Unified Logging Service) was shipped with the platform, extra work was required to write directly to the log files, or to monitor the health of your SharePoint farm servers....Upgrading to Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator R2.0 Series: Perform Database Attach and Upgrade Method to Migrate from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
The latest release of SharePoint Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator (KBSA) R2.0 is now available, and one of the many new features in this release is the ability to perform an upgrade of KBSA using Microsoft’s database attach and upgrade method and...This Week in Bamboo (June 12, 2011 – June 18, 2011)
HW09 Cross List Web Part Release 1.5.10 (SharePoint 2007) and Release 1.5.14 (SharePoint 2010) share the same Release Notes: New: Improved performance. Provides sample manual installation script in the misc. folder. Bug fixes: “Source Edit” dialog does not...
Office 365: The Butterfly Effect
My thoughts go to the Butterfly Effect, and why I feel like Office 365 is just like the flapping of the Butterfly’s wings.
How to Migrate your SharePoint Discussion Boards to Bamboo Discussion Board Plus Using the Discussion Board Plus Migration Tool
Update: Discussion Board Plus is now available from the Bamboo Solutions storefront. Interested in Discussion Board Plus for SharePoint, but want to make sure that you take full advantage of the features of your existing Discussion Boards? We’ve got you...Installing and Configuring Bamboo Discussion Board Plus for SharePoint
Update: Discussion Board Plus is now available from the Bamboo Solutions storefront. Installing Bamboo Discussion Board Plus for SharePoint Please review KB.12464: Best Practices for Installing Bamboo Products before installing Discussion Board Plus for SharePoint. If...
Say What? I Can’t Edit My Own SharePoint 2010 My Site?!!
I could edit my profile and anything else that was a hyperlink-enabled edit, but there was no Ribbon and no Edit button anywhere.
