Bamboo to Present Project Management Tools for SharePoint at the Best Practices SharePoint Conference
It has been a long time since I’ve visited San Diego. I am thrilled to be joining my colleague Angela in speaking at the Best Practices SharePoint Conference in La Jolla, CA, taking place March 7-9, 2011. What’s the topic of our presentation? Why...This Week in Bamboo (February 20th, 2011 – February 26th, 2011)
Have you tried Bamboo products with our new setup program? Want to try some more? This week at Bamboo, we rolled out another batch of products with the new, improved setup program for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. The most...
SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned, Part 5: An Image-uploading Caveat Regarding Anonymous Access, and Frustration Involving Modifying Font Styles
Where you upload an image within a SharePoint site may have consequences, mainly if the site is accessible to logged-in users.
Announcing Workflow Conductor 1.6
I know, I know. You’re still not done playing with all of the great new features Bamboo introduced a few months ago in Workflow Conductor 1.5. Well, get ready for even more good stuff, because Workflow Conductor 1.6 is available now for SharePoint...
Special for Bamboo Nation: Save 25% with Your SharePoint Conference .ORG Registration
Our friends SharePoint Conference .ORG have generously provided a special promo code for Bamboo Nation that will save you 25% with your conference registration. Just use code BAMBOO25 when you register to attend SharePoint Conference .ORG in Baltimore, MD...This Week in Bamboo (February 13th, 2011 – February 19th, 2011)
For this week, we released a few products with some updated features, bug fixes and a new set of other products using our new installation program for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. The highlight of the week is the new releases of Calendar Plus Web...
Bamboo Partners with Innovative-e to Offer SharePoint Deployment Planning Service
Bamboo Solutions and Innovative-e are combining forces to offer a guide service to increase the overall project management maturity level of client organizations. Atlanta, GA Bamboo Solutions is partnering with Innovative-e, Inc., a leading consulting firm in the...Registration is Now Open for All 3 Sharing the Point Asian Tour Events
As of this morning, members of the SharePoint communities in Beijing, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City may now register to attend the free half-day Sharing the Point events taking place in each city next month. In the tradition of community events such as SharePoint...Guest Blog by Peter Ward: Golden Rules for End User Deployment – An Exclusive Excerpt from ‘Microsoft SharePoint 2010 End User Guide: Business Performance Enhancement’
The following article is an extract from the book Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Performance Enhancement – Taking the basics to the Business with No-Coding Solutions for SharePoint 2010 End Users, by Peter Ward and Michael McCabe. Featuring a...Announcing the first Cloud Parts™ for SharePoint
I know what you’re thinking… another hollow “were in the cloud” fluff piece. Yes, it seems like everyone is saturating us with messages about how they are cloud-ready, cloud-enabled, or cloud-riffic! This blog post doesn’t contain any of that nonsense. What we are...Sneak Peek! New Bamboo Rating Column for SharePoint
I’m excited to share the news that Bamboo will be releasing a new product next month called Bamboo Rating. Bamboo Rating is a custom column you can add to any List or Library which will allow your users (including Read-only and Anonymous users if you...CAD + SharePoint + Prune Juice
When I first got out of school, one of my best friends got a job as an auditor. I immediately started making fun of him for it, partially because it seemed kind of lame, but mostly because he had a real job, and I worked at a senior center pouring endless glasses of...This Week in Bamboo (February 6th, 2011 – February 12th, 2011)
At Bamboo this week, we fixed some bugs and continued rolling out another set of SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 products using our new installation program. With the new release of User Manager for Sites HW59, we also released the patches using our new Web...Conquering Datasheet View in SharePoint 2007
Show of hands, how many of you have encountered this wonderful error and said out loud, “D’OH!”? I know that I have. Did you know that Datasheet is actually driven off of the Microsoft Office Excel library for base options, and Access library (yup,...Using the SharePoint Object Model, or With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
As SharePoint developers, we all use the SharePoint (server) object model. If your code is executing in a Web context, i.e., in the w3wp.exe process space, you don’t have to read on. But if you are writing server-side tools running as console/win forms...This Week in Bamboo (January 30th, 2011 – February 4th, 2011)
This week in Bamboo, we’re excited to launch Bamboo’s new installation program for our first set of SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 products. Want to see the new look of our installation program? Please check out our storefront for the...SPTechCon SF: Scott Jamison on ‘Social Computing Best Practices in SharePoint 2010’
For my final SPTechCon session here in San Francisco, I opted for Scott Jamison’s presentation on social computing best practices in SharePoint 2010. Social SharePoint sessions are always among my favorites at any given conference, and Scott’s session...SPTechCon SF: ‘Customizing the Social Aspects of SharePoint’ with Michael Doyle
I began an "all social" afternoon of sessions at SPTechCon today with Michael Doyle's presentation on customization of the social aspects of SharePoint 2010. Michael said upfront that the primary focus of the session would be My Sites, since they...SPTechCon SF: Joel Oleson’s ‘SharePoint 2010 Service Architecture Drilldown’
Having ended my Tuesday at SPTechCon with an advanced session for administrators delivered by Michael Noel (and having lived to blog about it), I decided to kick off today's sessions in a similar fashion. Today's advanced admin session was presented by...SPTechCon SF: Robert Bogue Demonstrates ‘How Workflow Works… and How it Breaks’
Now that I've already posted the most sensational aspect of Robert Bogue's How Workflow Works… and How it Breaks session, it's time to circle back and blog the rest of his information-packed session. Robert began the session, naturally enough,...Robert Bogue Declares ‘SharePoint Workflow is Evil’ & Asks SPTechCon Attendees to Help Get Him in Trouble with Microsoft
Late this morning at SPTechCon, I saw something I never expected to see at a SharePoint conference when SharePoint MVP Robert Bogue asked, in all seriousness, for attendees to help get him in trouble with Microsoft. It was a first for Robert as well, as he...SPTechCon SF: Jared Spataro’s Keynote on ‘Your SharePoint Journey: Maximizing Your Investment’
SPTechCon kicked off this morning with a keynote from Jared Spataro, SharePoint Product Management Team Lead at Microsoft. Jared explained that his focus would be on "How you're using SharePoint and how you can get more out of it," specifically by...SPTechCon SF: The SharePoint Journey, with Tony Lanni
Today’s lunch at SPTechCon was sponsored AvePoint and, consequently, AvePoint’s Tony Lanni provided a short lunchtime session on “The SharePoint Journey.” Tony began addressing the oft-pondered question of “What is...SPTechCon SF: Document Management from A to Z, with Paul Swider
After catching up with a few folks over coffee in the registration area this morning, I kicked off my first San Francisco edition of SPTechCon with Paul Swider’s half-day workshop on Document Management in SharePoint 2010. Paul’s one of the...
SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned, Part 4: How to Grant Permissions
I’m going to take a short break from mining my experiences with page construction and editing over at the Sharing the Point site to share some newly acquired knowledge right here at “home.” Fear not though, for I’ll be doing so within the...SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned, Part 1: Wrestling with Images & Links
As I mentioned the other day, I was responsible for a fair amount of page construction and content assembly/publishing on the Sharing the Point (STP) site. Naturally, my tour-mates all provided their share of content, but as the dedicated “content guy,”...
SPTechCon San Francisco 2011 Preview
This year’s San Francisco edition of SPTechCon kicks off a week from today, and I, for one, am pleased that there are no blizzards in the forecast. Which is to say that, unlike last year, I’m looking forward to actually getting to fly out of D.C. to...
SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned, Part 3: How to Create a New Page (and Delete a Page)
As I was writing my last post on how to create a blog in SharePoint 2010, it occurred to me that I had kind of jumped the gun, and that I hadn’t yet sufficiently laid the foundation for such a post. After all, from a site-construction standpoint, creating the...
Online Documentation: SharePoint Organization Chart Web Part (Bamboo Labs Release)
Note: This documentation refers to the initial beta release of the SharePoint Organization Chart Web Part, now available as a free download from Bamboo Labs. Table of ContentsOverviewSystem RequirementsInstalling the SharePoint Organization Chart Web...
SharePoint Organization Chart Web Part for SharePoint 2007 Now Available in Bamboo Labs
It’s my pleasure to announce the newest addition to Bamboo Labs with the release of the SharePoint Organization Chart Web Part. Combining the power of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Profiles with Microsoft...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Use PowerShell to Browse the SharePoint Object Model
While developing custom code for SharePoint, I’ve often run across situations where I need to quickly find the list schema, column internal name, or just the GUID of an item so I can make a decision and continue designing the code accordingly. In...Bamboo is SharePoint 2010-ready, Are You? Part 4: Announcing the Availability of the Final Set of Bamboo Products and Suites for SharePoint 2010
Bamboo Solutions has been moving full-speed ahead on porting of our entire product portfolio to SharePoint 2010 over the past year and, as you may have already heard, we are now FINISHED! Did you know that over 60% of Bamboo customers have stated...This Week in Bamboo (January 9th, 2011 – January 15th, 2011)
At Bamboo this week, we fixed some bugs and released patches for the following SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 products: List Integrity and User Directory Web Part. With the new release of User Directory Web Part for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, we...Bamboo Product Suites Fully Support SharePoint 2010
Prior to to last year’s historic launch of SharePoint 2010, Bamboo announced its plans to support the new platform. A good amount of time has passed since then and we have all had time to digest much of the new information about SharePoint...
Essential SharePoint 2010 Training Resources
As an engineer here at Bamboo, I have been learning SharePoint 2010 over the past year or so and, during that time, I’ve come across many helpful websites and resources that I’ve been adding to my “Favorites” all over the place. Today, I...SharePoint 2010 Training, Part 1: The Building Blocks
Over the years as SharePoint has grown its features into the platform that we love and appreciate, it has also grown in complexity. Even for a technical person like myself, understanding the different aspects of SharePoint has become a daunting job. So I asked myself,...PM Central R2.0 Use Case Series: How to Use Maximum Unit and Assignment Units
SharePoint Project Management Central™ R2.0 offers improved resource management through task and project allocation. Project managers now can assign a percentage of the time that a resource works on a task or project, for example: assigning a resource to work...
First-ever SharePoint Saturday Vietnam to Take Place 1/22, Featuring Bamboo Speakers
On Saturday, January 22, the first-ever SharePoint Saturday Vietnam will take place at the Alov Center in Ho Chi Minh City. Given that our Technology Center is located in Ho Chi Minh City, it should come as no surprise that Bamboo will be...
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: 5 Best Practices to Configure Diagnostic Logging with PowerShell Commands
Demonstrating how to configure SharePoint 2010 diagnostic logging, following Microsoft’s best practices, in just a few PowerShell commands.
Sharing the Point Asian Tour Coming this March
You may have already read a blog post or tweeted one of the featured speakers (or you may have seen my own breaking of the news last week in my Bamboo Nation Year in Review post), but in the event that you haven’t already heard, a brand new, community-focused...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Configuring a Site for Anonymous Access
Challenge: How can anonymous access to a site in SharePoint 2010 be set up, and how do the steps differ from SharePoint 2007? Solution: If you have been running MOSS or WSSv3 on Server 2003 and you’ve set up anonymous access before, you know the...
The Year in Review with Bamboo COO Lam Le
Editor’s note: As we continue our annual Year in Review series with a look back on 2010, you’ll notice a number of new faces among the participants this year. Our goal with this year’s offering was to offer the most holistic glimpse into the...
Bamboo Services’ Year in Review with Daisy Anand
Bamboo dramatically increased the depth and breadth of professional services offered in 2010. How did this come about?
Bamboo Enterprise’s Year in Review with Rob Manfredi
Editor’s note: As we continue our annual Year in Review series with a look back on 2010, you’ll notice a number of new faces among the participants this year. Our goal with this year’s offering was to offer the most holistic glimpse into the...Bamboo Support’s Year in Review with Mike O’Brien
Editor’s note: As we continue our annual Year in Review series with a look back on 2010, you’ll notice a number of new faces among the participants this year. Our goal with this year’s offering was to offer the most holistic glimpse into the...Bamboo Tools & Technologies’ Year in Review with Jeff Tubb
Editor's note: As we continue our annual Year in Review series with a look back on 2010, you'll notice a number of new faces among the participants this year. Our goal with this year's offering was to offer the most holistic glimpse into the...
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Resource Throttling Settings for Large Lists
Consistent with its past behavior for this platform, SharePoint 2010 enhances those features we found to be ‘good’ with MOSS/WSS v3.0, improves upon those things we found to be ‘not so good,’ and offers us new functionality and features we...This Week in Bamboo (December 26th, 2010 – January 1st, 2011)
While you were getting ready for the year-end celebration, at Bamboo Solutions we were very busy fixing bugs and continuing to roll out patches for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 products using our new Web License Manager v1.3.9. What’s...
