Meet this Year’s Model of the World Clock & Weather Web Part: Now with RSS Feeds, Calendar and Bing Maps Integration
It’s the last day before the holiday break, and there are still several to-do’s in need of crossing off my list, but how could I leave without continuing my annual tradition of blogging the release of the this year’s model of our popular World Clock...This Week in Bamboo (December 12th, 2010 – December 18th, 2010)
Are you ready for the Holidays? Bamboo Solutions is ready. For this week in Bamboo, we’re excited to launch our World Clock and Weather Web Part with many new and updated features for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Please check out...
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Backup a Site Collection Automatically with a PowerShell Script
I will demonstrate how to back up a SharePoint 2010 site collection automatically through the use of a PowerShell script.
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: PowerShell Script to Automatically Deploy Bamboo Web Parts
I will demonstrate how we can easily install a Bamboo Solutions Web Part using a PowerShell script and saving time.
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: “Cannot Connect to the Configuration Database” Error
Challenge: When you try to view your SharePoint site and receive the error message, "Cannot connect to the configuration database," how do you resolve the problem? Solution On the server farm, SharePoint connects to SQL Server...New Faces of Bamboo: Introducing Tom Polivka
Editor’s note: There have been several new additions to the Bamboo team since our last “New Faces” series, so it’s time once again to introduce the new folks to Bamboo Nation. We’ll begin with Tom Polivka, Director of...
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Deploy or Remove a Solution Package Using PowerShell Commands
SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, a plug-in for Windows PowerShell which contains more than 500 commands for SharePoint administrative work
This Week in Bamboo (December 5th, 2010 – December 11th, 2010)
At Bamboo this week, we released User Manager for Sites Release 1.3 and SQL View Web Part Release 1.0 to the storefront for SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. We also continued rolling out many patches using our latest version of Web License...Task Master R2.0 Feature Focus Series: About the Toolbar
The recent release of SharePoint Task Master R2.0 offers powerful new features and performance, providing enhanced task management within SharePoint. The Task Master team is busy getting ready for the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release—the SharePoint 2007 version is...Try Bamboo’s Data Visualization Sandbox & Win Free Stuff
If your schedule looks anything like mine, then you know that sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day. To help make your schedule less scary, Bamboo has created a sandbox to highlight our Data Visualization & Dashboarding Toolkit. Registration...This Week in Bamboo (November 28th, 2010 – December 4th, 2010)
For this week in Bamboo, we were very busy fixing bugs and releasing many patches for both SharePoint 2007 products and SharePoint 2010 products using our new Web License Manager version 1.3.9. For more details about the list of patches and bugs fixed, please...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Backing Up Data, Part 1 – Farm Backup
Backing up data in SharePoint has always been a somewhat daunting task. With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has given us new and vastly improved options while leaving existing methods unchanged. In this multipart series, we will take an in-depth look at each...Introduction to SharePoint PowerShell
Windows PowerShell is a new command-line shell for system administrators. It is a convenient tool which allows administrators to go through system properties and other settings. As SharePoint administrators, we need to care about properties in Farms, site collections,...This Week in Bamboo (November 21th, 2010 – November 27th, 2010)
At Bamboo this week, Workflow Conductor was released to the storefront for SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010, along with 2010-ready versions of SharePoint Poll Web Part, Virtual Map View Web Part and User Profile Plus Web Part. See our...PM Central R2.0 Use Case Series: How to Capture a Baseline
SharePoint Project Management Central™ (PM Central™) R2.0 is packed with great new features that make project management easier. In addition to providing multi-level tracking and reporting, PM Central also allows project managers to create baselines for...Working with Service Applications in SharePoint 2010
The Old: In MOSS 2007, additional services for Search, user profiles, the BDC (enabling connectivity to external data sources), and Excel Services were all bundled into a Shared Service Provider (SSP) enabling multiple Web Applications in the same SharePoint farm to...Edit in Datasheet, or, ‘When SharePoint Met Access’
It’s time to demonstrate once again that, even at the end user level, there’s seemingly always more to be learned in SharePoint… I should note upfront that I’ve had very little exposure to datasheets in SharePoint, partly because my day-to-day...PM Central R2.0 Use Case Series: How to Update Progress
Project managers have to monitor a project’s progress throughout its entire life cycle. They need to be able to track the actual dates, actual duration and actual cost for the project, in addition to the planned dates and planned cost. One of the new features...This Week in Bamboo (November 14th, 2010 – November 20th, 2010)
This week in Bamboo, we launched a major new product: List Consolidator for Users (HW72 Release 1.0), which is available for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 environments. What is List Consolidator for Users? What does it do, and how does it work? ...Experimenting with Memory for AutoStart SPWorkflow
When a SharePoint workflow is started through the Web client, the workflow is loaded in the memory of w3wp.exe until the workflow becomes idle and dehydrates to the SharePoint database. When the same workflow instance is rehydrated again, it is loaded in...Bamboo is SharePoint 2010-ready, Are You? Part 3: Announcing the Availability of Over 15 Products and Packs for SharePoint 2010
Bamboo Solutions is still moving full-speed ahead on the SharePoint 2010 train. Have you jumped on yet? Over 60% of Bamboo customers have stated that they either have already, or will be moving to 2010 within the next 12 months, and Bamboo is...eMark Consulting, Ltd. Joins Bamboo Solutions Partner Advantage Program
eMark Consulting, Ltd. today announced it’s partnership with Bamboo Solutions, the leading provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft® SharePoint®, as a member of Bamboo Solutions Partner AdvantageTM Program. The partnership represents...Workflow Conductor for SharePoint 2010 Available Now!
We recently released Workflow Conductor 1.5 for 2007, which added a slew of great new features. I’m happy to announce that all of those new features are now available in for SharePoint 2010 Foundation and Server, including cross-site collection actions, the...Feature Comparison Chart: Bamboo List Rollup Web Part vs. Content Query Web Part in SharePoint 2010
Out-of-the-box, SharePoint 2010 provides more data mining features than ever before but, as you can see in the feature comparison chart below, with Bamboo List Rollup Web Part, users can take aggregation of lists beyond the confines of a single site...
Bamboo Solutions Expands the Collaborative Capabilities of Best-selling Project Management Application for Microsoft SharePoint
Project Management Central allows organizations to leverage their investment in SharePoint Bamboo Solutions, the leading provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft SharePoint, has released the latest version of SharePoint Project Management Central (PM Central)....Bamboo Solutions Expands the Collaborative Capabilities of Best-selling Project Management Application for Microsoft SharePoint
Project Management Central allows organizations to leverage their investment in SharePoint Bamboo Solutions, the leading provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft SharePoint, has released the latest version of SharePoint Project Management Central (PM...A Tour of SharePoint 2010 on Windows Phone 7
One of the few downsides of working closely with SharePoint, and being part of the Microsoft stack, is having to deal with an office full of iPhone fanboys. Being one of the few (OK, maybe the only one) in the office that does not own an iPhone, it’s a...SharePoint Knowledge Base Accelerator Now Available for SharePoint 2010
Bamboo is pleased to announce the release of the SharePoint Knowledge Base Accelerator for SharePoint 2010. Providing your organization with essential features to facilitate internal- and external-facing corporate knowledge bases,...This Week in Bamboo (November 7th, 2010 – November 13th, 2010)
This week in Bamboo, we’re excited to announce the three biggest Bamboo’s products: Alert Plus Web Part Release 3.0, Calendar Plus Web Part Release 4.0 and List Rollup Web Part Release 5.0 are now supported on SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint...The Partner Advantage Team Welcomes inScope to the Partner Program!
inScope works for sales, marketing and customer service departments of public and private organizations who struggle with most organization’s number one priority – higher sales/profit and happier customers. Through strategic relationships with world...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: 4 Methods to Migrate a Single List to SharePoint 2010 from 2007
Challenge: I recently needed to move a list from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. I wanted the destination list to have the exact content as the source list including structure, list items, and attached files. Since SharePoint does not have an...Top Ten Sources of Web Traffic to Bamboo – Google Dominates But Bing Doubles
I have a saying around the office here at Bamboo, “If it isn’t worth blogging about, it isn’t worth doing”. Honoring the spirit of that statement, I spent some time surfing our Google Analytics numbers today and decided to share some of...
Whitepaper: SharePoint 2010 User Management
Introduction Microsoft SharePoint is a platform for building and deploying collaborative solutions. It is a centralized Web portal that tracks content and documents as well as users, audiences, and teams. One of the major challenges for the SharePoint IT administrator...PM Central R2.0 Use Case Series: How to Update Budget Cost and Budget Work
Project managers need to make sure that a project’s scope, time and resources align with the project’s budget. One of PM Central R2.0™’s great new features is the ability for project managers to create budget cost and budget work and compare...
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Customize the Document Set Ribbon
SharePoint 2010 delivers a comprehensive set of document management features as well as improvements to the user interface. In this article, we will take a look at a how to customize the Ribbon of the Document Set. Challenge: As previous articles...Guest Blog by Newsgator’s Brian Kellner: Facebook Groups, SharePoint, and the Future of Enterprise Social Computing
Several years ago, I did a double-take as I walked past the desk of one of my developers. He had three instant messaging windows open on his desktop. When I asked him why, he said he was asking other developers about how to solve a problem. One of my most productive...
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Create a Custom Site Definition with Additional Content in SharePoint 2010 Using Visual Studio 2010
Site Definitions give you lots of flexibility in choosing custom layouts, features, elements, modules, etc., that are included when a new site is created in SharePoint. Furthermore, Site Definitions make it easier to maintain and upgrade your SharePoint...This Week in Bamboo (October 31st, 2010 – November 6th, 2010)
If you want to know what’s new with This Week in Bamboo, please check out our storefront for our latest and greatest releases of the week. SharePoint Project Management Central Release 2.0 and SharePoint Task Master Release 2.0 for SharePoint 2007 are now...Coming Soon: Workflow Conductor for 2010
We’ve had a lot of people asking when Workflow Conductor will be available for SharePoint 2010, so I wanted to let everyone know that we are in the final testing stages as we speak, and (barring any last-minute twists) Workflow Conductor for 2010 should be...This Week in Bamboo (October 24th, 2010 – October 30th, 2010)
For this week in Bamboo, we continued rolling out many patches using our new version of Web License Manager 1.3.2 and fixed some bugs for some products of SharePoint 2007. For more details about the list of patches and bugs fixed, please see below. HW03 Tree...Guest Blog by Inventu’s Jeff Urbanczyk: Mainframe and Midrange Users Easily Integrated within SharePoint? C’mon!
Inventu Corporation provides state-of-the-art tools for the automation, integration, modernization and migration of IBM and UNIX screen-based applications. Inventu's tools (Screensurfer and Flynet Viewer) make it easy and efficient for developers to leverage...PM Central R2.0 Use Case Series: How to Create and Track Data for a Department
In case you haven’t heard, SharePoint Project Management Central™ (PM Central™) R2.0 was released last week. There are tons of great new features, but one of the most exciting ones is the ability for project managers to create a department site in...
Bamboo Announces Developer Subscription Program; Full, Single-user Licenses for Entire Microsoft SharePoint-based Product Line
Bamboo TechLib subscription includes complete single-server non-production licenses for all Bamboo Web Parts, Accelerators, and Applications.
