BPCUK: ‘Best Practices for Organizing Documents in SharePoint 2010’ with Agnes Molnar
Agnes Molnar explained at the start of her session this afternoon at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference that, "The goal of my presentation is to provide as many best practices as I can in one hour, based on my experiences with SharePoint in the...BPCUK Keynote by Chris Johnson, Microsoft Senior Technical Product Manager, SharePoint
Following a trio of Microsoft marketing videos, Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge (and host of the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference) provided some brief welcoming remarks. Steve shared that the conference attendees represent “25 countries...Prediction – Microsoft & SharePoint Win Big in the Cloud
I’m increasingly seeing signs that tell me that Microsoft and SharePoint are going to secure a dominant market position as the shift toward cloud-based computing accelerates. Microsoft may be two years behind in the tablet game and grasping at relevancy with...
SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned, Part 7: What’s Up with Out-of-the-Box Web Analytics for Blogs?
I learned that to surface Web Analytics, and the Web Analytics Service Application must first be installed and activated.
This Week in Bamboo (March 27th, 2011 – April 2nd, 2011)
This week in Bamboo, we released the patch for SharePoint Project Management Central (PM Central) Release 2.1 for SharePoint 2010 with very exciting news that PM Central is now available with the performance of In-Place Upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint...Bamboo Gearing Up for the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference
The European SharePoint Best Practices Conference kicks off this Monday morning and will run through Wednesday the 13th at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, just steps from Westminster Abbey. Icelandic volcanoes notwithstanding, Bamboo will be...Performing an In-Place Upgrade for SharePoint Project Management Central
The latest release of SharePoint Project Management Central (PM Central) R2.1 has been announced. One of the great new features in this release is the ability to perform an in-place upgrade of PM Central using Microsoft’s database attach and upgrade method and...Announcing the Release of PM Central 2.1: Now with In-Place Upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to 2010
I know that many of you have been waiting patiently for this announcement, so I’ll get right to it: You can now migrate your existing PM Central from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010! But wait, that’s not all – we also added some additional...This Week in Bamboo (March 20th, 2011 – March 26th, 2011)
Workflow Conductor R1.6.1 was released to our storefront this week for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 with some new features and a lot of resolved bugs. Please check out Bamboo store for the latest version of Workflow Conductor. Also...Register Now to Save $400 on SPTechCon Boston
SPTechCon will return to the East Coast this summer, moving across the Charles River from Cambridge to Boston proper for the 2011 conference, taking place this June 1-3. Don’t miss this opportunity to attend technical classes and workshops...STP Asia: Ask the Experts, with Joel Oleson, Rob LaMear, Mark Miller, & Dux Raymond Sy
As the final official event of the inaugural Sharing the Point tour, an Ask the Experts panel was held in Ho Chi Minh City following the formal sessions. Each presenter had taken questions as the end of their individual sessions, so there weren't a great...STP Asia: Joel Oleson’s ‘SharePoint Worst Practices: Anatomy of a Failed Deployment’
Joel Oleson explained at the top of his session on SharePoint Worst Practices that, while there is plenty of space devoted to SharePoint best practices, his presentation would focus on "failed deployments, [and] mistakes that people make in SharePoint" as...This Week in Bamboo (March 13th, 2011 – March 19th, 2011)
This week in Bamboo, we launched a major new product available for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 to our storefront: Bamboo Rating Column (HW41I Release 1.0). What is Bamboo Rating Column? How does it work? You can check out our storefront for the...STP Asia: Rob LaMear’s ‘Can’t – Don’t – Won’t: SharePoint as a Service’
Rob LaMear, founder and CEO of Fpweb.net, the world's first SharePoint hosting business, spoke on the topic of SharePoint as a service in his Sharing the Point session. Before getting into the cloud, however, Rob said of the SharePoint community that...
Grading Documents in SharePoint with Bamboo Rating
SharePoint introduced Content Rating into SharePoint Server 2010. This is a great feature that is available on all SharePoint Lists and Libraries, however it is limited to just one rating per item. With this limitation in mind, Bamboo has created a way to provide a...![Lessons in SharePoint 2010: Web Part Title [2]?](https://testsiteshub.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/laptop-07.jpg)
Lessons in SharePoint 2010: Web Part Title [2]?
Recently, while adding a new Web Part to a content rich page I noticed that the title of the Web Part instance shows [2] appended to the end. I wasn’t sure how this could be as I could see only 1 Web Part instance on the page. After some research I found that...
How To Rate My Site in SharePoint
Are you curious how your SharePoint site is doing? Do you need a way to get valuable feedback from your users? Now you can! With the combination of Bamboo Rating and these simple steps, you can receive that valuable, real-time rating from your users. In the...
Guest Blog by Bill English: Mindsharp Customer Appreciation Event
Mindsharp is proud to announce a special Customer Appreciation Event that will run through the month of March, thanking customers for their continued support. The event will extend customers special package pricing on Mindsharp’s UserVersity computer based...Guest Blog by Dux Raymond Sy: Operation ShareLove: Support NZ + Japan & Win!
On Feb 22, 2011, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch, NZ. It was one of the worst calamities New Zealand has experienced. On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered from one of worst natural calamities in modern history. A lot of people died, are missing and...
Feature Comparison Chart: Bamboo Rating vs. Content Rating in SharePoint 2010
We launched Bamboo Rating two days ago and you might have started to wonder why we built Bamboo Rating in the first place. Besides the seamless integration with both out-of-the-box SharePoint Lists and Libraries, as well...This Week in Bamboo (March 6th, 2011 – March 12th, 2011)
Data-Viewer Web Part 3.2 was released, with some new features, to the storefront this week for SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. See our Product Manager’s blog post for more details on the new release 3.2 of Data-Viewer Web...
Rate that Video in SharePoint!
Did you have a chance to read yesterday’s exciting product news announcing the release of Bamboo Rating? No? If you have a minute, jump on over to the announcement of Bamboo Rating. We think you will be impressed. Good to go? ...Checking in From SharePoint Fest Dallas
Broadcasting live from SharePoint Fest at the Irving Conference Center here in beautiful Irving, TX! We’ve got quite the crowd here today, and myself and Tom Polivka are here manning the Bamboo Solutions booth. We’ve had some good...STP Asia: Mark Miller’s ‘The Missing Link Between SharePoint & Your Business’
The topic of Mark Miller's Sharing the Point (STP) session was dedicated to exploring the "missing link between SharePoint and your business." The business process automation (BPM) focus of his STP session is representative of Mark's role as Chief...
New Product: Bamboo Rating for SharePoint Content
The highly anticipated Bamboo Rating custom column is now released! So what can you do with Bamboo Rating? Rate List Items Rate Library Items Even rate Site Pages You can do all this and more, all from the comfort of your SharePoint 2007 (WSS v3.0 &...
Bamboo Data-Viewer Web Part Release 3.2 Released!
Have you ever sought the ability to modify SharePoint Lists in Datasheet Mode across sites? With Data-Viewer Web Part Release 3.2, featuring the new Datasheet View mode, now you can! Using keyboard controls of TAB and ENTER, navigate from cell to cell to...STP Asia: Dux Raymond Sy’s ‘Empowering Your Organization with SharePoint 2010’
Presenting the first session of the business track in Manila, Dux Raymond Sy exhibited all of his trademark energy and passion for SharePoint while talking about Empowering Your Organization with SharePoint 2010. Dux explained that the intent of his...
STP Asia: Microsoft Philippines Hosts the Second Sharing the Point Event in Manila
The Sharing the Point (STP) team arrived at the Microsoft Philippines office in Manila bright and early on a beautiful summer Saturday morning in Manila. Given the fact that it was a beautiful Saturday at the beginning of the Philippine summer, the team was moderately...STP Asia: Paul Swider’s ‘Developing Social Applications with SharePoint’
Immediately following Michael Noel's session on SharePoint virtualization in Beijing was Paul Swider, speaking on the topic of Developing Social Applications with SharePoint. Ironically, as I type these words at the Microsoft office in Manila at the second...STP Asia: Michael Noel’s ‘Best Practices for SharePoint 2010 Virtualization’
With six sessions being presented during the Sharing the Point tour, we've arranged them into two tracks consisting of a business track and a technical track. In Beijing, I sat in on two of the technical tracks, Michael Noel's session on Best Practices...
STP Asia: Microsoft Hosts a Fantastic Inaugural Sharing the Point Event in Beijing
Most of the intrepid Sharing the Point (STP) travelers arrived at the Microsoft office in Beijing early Thursday afternoon, having come straight from the airport and our flight from Sydney (including a brief but memorable layover in Guangzhou). The team was met...An Introduction to Cloud Parts™ for SharePoint.
Are you an administrator of SharePoint? Are you a site owner? Are you using BPOS/Office365 or another SharePoint hosting provider? Then we have some good news for you. Bamboo has just recently made our new Cloud Parts™ available for you to try out for...
BPC 2011: Final Day – Ask the Experts Panel Business Track
The Ask the Experts session at the Best Practices Conference began with a question related to finding the logical starting point for planning a move to SharePoint for a 5 million user Army Medicine Web Site for MedCom. The panel agreed that there may be too...BPC 2011: Wes Preston Presents ‘SharePoint: When to Crawl, Walk or Run’
Wow! Hard to believe it's Wednesday already, the last day of SharePoint Best Practices in San Diego. We've had a great time at the conference. It's been exciting to see the enthusiasm of the attendees as they've taken advantage of the really impressive...This Week in Bamboo (February 27th, 2011 – March 5th, 2011)
At Bamboo this week, the following patches were released to the storefront for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, and are available with our new setup program: Cross List Web Part, Password Expiration Web Part and Grants Management Solution Accelerator. ...
BPC 2011: Why Projects Fail – How to Leverage SharePoint and Bamboo PM Central for Project Management
Thanks to the Best Practices Conference organizers, we were able to present some best practices with project management today right after the awesome Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras lunch. The main discussions were centered around: Why projects are challenged or doomed...Registration Now Open for Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim
Microsoft announced earlier today that registration has opened for this year’s Big Show, the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011. The last Microsoft SharePoint Conference took place in Las Vegas back in October of 2009 sold out, drawing more ...AUSPC 2011 Keynote: Paul Culmsee on ‘SharePoint Governance Home Truths’
Paul Culmsee delivered the keynote on the second and final day of the Australian SharePoint Conference this morning, addressing the topic of "SharePoint Governance Home Truths." Paul began by acknowledging that there are two aspects to SharePoint...BPC 2011: Keynote with Ben Curry – SP Server 2010 Best Practices – You Can’t Fix Stupid!
Ben Curry started his keynote session off with a few examples of Best Practices in real life where one or more disasters were encountered due to a lack of planning. With this he moved into the number one Best Practice that one must follow-...AUSPC 2011: Jeremy Thake on ‘NothingButSharePoint.com – How We Built This Global Community on SharePoint 2010’
For my final session of day one at the Australian SharePoint Conference, I took in Jeremy Thake’s session on how NothingButSharePoint.com (NBSP) was built on SharePoint 2010. Jeremy began the session by stating his goal as sharing what’s involved in...BPC 2011: To Social or Not to Social
Social Computing and Social Features seem to be the big topics here at the Best Practices conference. Yesterday, I attended the session “Let’s Get Social: Effective Strategies for Leveraging the Social Computing Features of SharePoint 2010” Susan...BPC 2011: Questions from the Bamboo Booth “Do You Offer Installation, Configuration or Training Services?”
Hello again from the Best Practices Conference. There is so much going on today that I felt it was time for another update. We seem to be getting a lot of questions today at the booth regarding Professional Services. These questions are coming mostly from clients...
BPC 2011: Please Save the Pandas
Hello Everybody out there in Bamboo Nation! I am reporting in from day 2 of the Best Practices Conference. We just finished breakfast and it has already turned into an extremely busy day at the booth! Everyone is coming to snatch up the Bamboo Pandas that we are...SPCOrg: Build a Knowledge Base in 10 Minutes?
The first day of SharePoint Conference .ORG in Baltimore wrapped up with Bamboo’s session titled Accelerating Application Development in SharePoint. As promised in the title, we discussed how quickly a customizable application framework can be built...AUSPC 2011: Paul Culmsee Presents ‘Community Challenge – Define & Design’ SharePoint Intranet Requirements
The first of the Community Challenge events that conference organizer Debbie Ireland mentioned in her introductory remarks this morning took place in the first session slot of the day. Being the first in the three-part series, its topic was focused on defining...AUSPC 2011 Keynote: Joel Oleson & Mark Miller Present ‘The History & Future of the SharePoint Community’
At the beginning of the joint keynote presented by Joel Oleson and Mark Miller at the Australian SharePoint Conference, Joel explained that as he and Mark had discussed what they could bring to Australia, he realized that "One of the things that's really...
Greetings from the 2011 Australian SharePoint Conference
I’ve logged a fair number of travel miles on behalf of Bamboo Nation over the past three years, but nothing compares to the events I’m covering this week, beginning today at the second Australia SharePoint Conference in Sydney. I was already...
