Project Management Central 2.0 Release Announcement – Packed with New & Improved Tools for the Effective Management of Projects in SharePoint
[UPDATE, 12.17.2010] PM Central™ 2.0 for SharePoint 2010 is now also available. You can try out the 2.0 release of PM Central either for SharePoint 2007 or 2010 today for a 30-day free trial. With the release of version 2.0 of PM...SharePoint Task Master 2.0 Release Announcement – Powerful New Features for Scheduling Tasks in SharePoint
The Task Master team is pleased to announce that SharePoint Task Master 2.0 is now available. Featuring powerful new features such as the ability to create new tasks based on start date and variables such as work, due date, or duration;...Best Practices Conference Returns to La Jolla, CA in March, 2011
The Best Practices Conference will not only return to the West Coast in March, but it will also return to the most beautiful setting of any SharePoint conference I’ve yet attended: the Torrey Pines Hilton in La Jolla, CA. ...
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Migrate a SharePoint 2007 Site to SharePoint 2010 Using Database Attach
In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to migrate a site to SharePoint 2010 using the database attach method.
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Programmer’s Guide to User Profiles, Part 1 – How to Check Admin Rights & Get All UserProfile Properties
This is the first of a four-part series of blog entries in which I will describe how to read and modify SharePoint UserProfile using the SharePoint Object Model. The series will consist of the following: Part 1: How to Check Admin Rights and Get All UserProfile...
The Return of the Living Dead SharePoint Workflow
I wrote a post on Working with Workflows in SharePoint. The test case I created to learn about workflows returned from beyond the grave.
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Copy Documents to a Document Set
SharePoint 2010 delivers a comprehensive set of document management features. In this article, we take a look at how to copy and move documents to a Document Set. Challenge: In SharePoint 2010, as in SharePoint 2007, you can use the Send To menu to copy documents to...Test Drive Your SharePoint Workflow: Simulation Mode (and other Workflow Start Options) in Workflow Conductor 1.5
Have you ever wanted to test out your new SharePoint workflow before sending it out into the world? Maybe the workflow is designed to e-mail or assign tasks to a lot of people and you want to make sure everything is going to work as expected. Maybe there’s one...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: In Place Records Management for a Document Library
SharePoint 2010 delivers a comprehensive set of document and records management features. In this article, we take a look at a new feature called In Place Records Management. Challenge: In our company, we use SharePoint to manage our documents. Some of our documents...This Week in Bamboo (October 17th, 2010 – October 23rd, 2010)
At Bamboo this week, Group Redirect Web Part and SharePoint User Registration Accelerator have been released to the storefront for SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. For SharePoint Server 2007, we fixed some bugs and released the patches for the...
SPTechCon: The New Pillars of SharePoint 2010, with Paul Swider
For my final session of SPTechCon Boston before departing for the airport and home, I selected Paul Swider’s presentation on The New Pillars of SharePoint 2010. I’d already seen Paul “onstage” at the start of the day when he joined...Guest Blog by Geoff Varosky: Announcing the SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series!
Missed a session at the most recent SharePoint Saturday Boston event on September 25th, 2010? Well, now is your chance to catch it! Grace-Hunt and ThirdM will be hosting webcasts most of the speakers from the event, so you will have a chance to view sessions online,...
SPTechCon: Everything You Need to Know to Plan SharePoint Workflows, with Mike Fitzmaurice
At SPTechCon Boston early Friday afternoon, Mike Fitzmaurice presented his session, Everything You Need to Know to Plan SharePoint Workflows. Mike began with a brief history of SharePoint workflows, including an explanation of how SharePoint workflow works,...SPTechCon: Understanding How the SharePoint 2010 Sandbox Works, with Maurice Prather
As a non-developer, I’m unfamiliar with the new sandbox capabilities of SharePoint 2010, so I attended Maurice Prather’s SPTechCon session on the topic to gain an understanding of these capabilities. As described...Create a SharePoint Workflow to Loop Through All Items in a List with Workflow Conductor 1.5
Next in our continuing series about new Workflow Conductor 1.5 features: Have you ever wanted to create a single SharePoint workflow that could loop through every item in a list? Thanks to Workflow Conductor 1.5, now you can! In the latest release of Bamboo’s...
SPTechCon: Making SharePoint Social – 10 Steps to Social SharePoint, with Joel Oleson
Despite the early (8:30 a.m.) start this morning at SPTechCon Boston, Joel Oleson’s Making SharePoint Social session was very well attended, and a fully engaged audience at that, as befits a session whose topic is social interactivity. Also befitting the...SPTechCon: Ask the SharePoint Experts Q&A with Heather Solomon, Dustin Miller, and Matt Passannante
For my last session of the day, I figured why choose just one expert when there’s a “three-for-one” special in the form of the Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Ask the SharePoint Experts session. All three featured experts are affiliated with...
SPTechCon: Dux Raymond Sy on Best Practices in Managing SharePoint Projects
With all due respect to the other presenters at SPTechCon, Dux Raymond Sy demonstrated again today that he’s absolutely in a class of his own as a presenter in the SharePoint space. Simply put, the man is a consummate public speaker, with an ease to...SPTechCon: SharePoint 101 – The End User … “A Day’s Walk in SharePoint with the Shepherd” with Rob Bogue
I am in Boston attending SPTechCon: The SharePoint Technology Conference this week. This Conference should be fun, as I am attending as an end user this week. Bamboo isn't exhibiting in the Exhibit Hall at the show, but we're roaming the exhibit...SPTechCon: SharePoint & the Cloud – Extending the Boundaries Keynote Delivered by Steve Fox
Microsoft Senior Evangelism Manager Steve Fox delivered the SPTechCon Boston keynote this morning and, fully inhabiting his role as evangelist, the topic of his keynote was SharePoint & the Cloud: Extending the Boundaries. If you haven't already gotten...
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Document IDs
SharePoint 2010 delivers a comprehensive set of document management features. In this article, we continue our series with a look at how Document IDs work. Challenge: In our company, we use SharePoint to manage our documents. Our SharePoint is deployed and...SPTechCon: SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Integration, with Laura Rogers & Mark Miller
Laura Rogers, with an assist from Mark Miller, presented a half-day workshop at SPTechCon Boston this morning on SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 Integration. As I mentioned earlier on the Bamboo Team blog, the workshop was as informative as it was...
Greetings from SPTechCon Boston! Some Food for Thought…
It’s a beautiful autumn day in Cambridge, and SPTechCon is off and running with a series of full-day and half-day workshops taking place today. Registration was a breeze this morning, with no waiting required – especially impressive given that the...
Customize Workflow Task E-mails, Schedule Workflow Deployment, Limit Workflow Designers, and More with Workflow Conductor 1.5
Since the release of Workflow Conductor 1.5, I’ve been writing about all the great new features available to workflow designers when creating SharePoint workflows: things like cross-site collection features, impersonation, and new Widgets to help manage users...This Week in Bamboo (October 10th, 2010 – October 16th, 2010)
This Week in Bamboo we released User Directory Web Part, User Redirect Web Part, and Password Expiration Web Part to the storefront for SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. For SharePoint Server 2007, we updated List Print, Tree View Web Part, and...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Customize the Welcome Page of a Document Set
SharePoint 2010 delivers a comprehensive set of document management features. In this article, we continue our deep-dive with a look at how to customize Document Sets Welcome Page. Challenge: Using the preceding article in this series, you were able to...SPTechCon Boston Kicks Off Wednesday
Barring a catastrophic weather-related event such as the blizzard in the northeast that caused me to miss SPTechCon in San Francisco back in February, I'll be Boston-bound for the East Coast edition of SPTechCon tomorrow. Earlier this year, I wrote...SharePoint Saturday Chicago
While many of my colleagues were set up at SharePoint Saturday D.C. this past weekend, I was at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago, which was also playing host to a SharePoint Saturday Chicago. I took the scenic route as I drove...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Recover Data from an Unattached Content Database
SharePoint 2010 offers some new backup and restore features for content data. Almost anything can be backed up and restored, from the whole farm to site collections, services, and search indexes. In this article, we will take a look at how to perform recovery from an...Manage Users and Groups in SharePoint Workflows with Workflow Conductor User Provisioning Widgets
The IT and administrative tasks associated with adding a new employee, moving someone from one department to another, or even just adding new responsibilities can be tedious and time-consuming. There might be a new computer, or a phone extension move; a million things...An Update on Customer Support at Bamboo
Hello again. When I last wrote about support at Bamboo, I outlined a number of changes we were making to improve the customer experience. I’m happy to report that those, along with many other improvements are now in effect, and the results have been...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Customize the Document Set Content Type
SharePoint 2010 delivers a comprehensive set of document management features. In this post, we will take a closer look at how to customize the Document Set content type. Challenge: Using the previous post in this series, you were able to create a Document Set using...Announcing the SharePoint 2010 Price Calculator, a Free Tool to Estimate SharePoint 2010 Licensing Costs
Are you considering a migration to SharePoint 2010 from WSS or MOSS? Looking at an investment in adopting SharePoint as your collaboration and document management platform as a result of critical acclaim for the 2010 release? Wishing there were a simple method of...This Week in Bamboo (October 3rd, 2010 – October 9th, 2010)
Have you checked out our storefront this week yet? At Bamboo this week, we continued rolling out new releases of SharePoint 2010 products, and released some patches for SharePoint 2007 products using our new version of Web License Manager 1.3.2. For more...
Bamboo Releases Latest Version of Workflow Conductor; Improved Automation & Management of Business Processes with Microsoft SharePoint
Over 100 new and improved features provide revolutionary enhancements to business process automation using SharePoint. Workflow ConductorTM, Bamboo’s application suite designed to extend business process automation in SharePoint. With its expanded functionality,...Bamboo Releases Latest Version of Workflow Conductor; Improved Automation & Management of Business Processes with Microsoft SharePoint
Over 100 new and improved features provide revolutionary enhancements to business process automation using SharePoint. Workflow ConductorTM, Bamboo's application suite designed to extend business process automation in SharePoint. With its expanded functionality,...Best Practices for Writing JavaScript in SharePoint 2010
JavaScript is an important part of building any interactive website, and SharePoint is certainly no exception. With SharePoint, JavaScript is often used to execute code on the client and it is usually designed to affect only one specific Web Part, as opposed...SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Document Sets for a Document Library
SharePoint 2010 delivers a comprehensive set of document management features. In this post, we will take a look at one of the new Document Library features: Document Sets. Challenge In many situations, you want to have the ability to manage multiple documents in your...Impersonate Another User in Your SharePoint Workflow with Workflow Conductor 1.5
Have you ever wished you were somebody else for a day? I would love to be Lady Gaga, just so I could wear a stunningly bizarre hat and platform boots sometime other than Halloween. If your goals are a little less “Paparazzi” than mine, you might want to...Copy a List Item To Another Site Collection (and Other Workflow Conductor 1.5 Cross-Site Collection Features)
Have you read about all the great new features in Workflow Conductor 1.5? Eager for more details about features like cross-site collection access, impersonating another user in your workflow, Simulation Mode, and all the new Widgets? We hear you…so here is the...This Week in Bamboo (September 26th, 2010 – October 2nd, 2010)
This week, Bamboo is proud to announce the release of Workflow Conductor version 1.5 for SharePoint 2007. This release offers dozens of new and updated features, as well as numerous bug fixes and performance improvements. ...Announcing Workflow Conductor 1.5
I'm excited to announce that the newest version of Workflow Conductor is now available for download from Bamboo. This release includes a slew of new and improved features that users have been requesting. If you were daring enough to read about the upcoming...Announcing Full SharePoint 2010 Compatibility for the Bamboo Project Management Suite
Boasting over 31 products and tools that cover your needs for performing effective project management with SharePoint, Bamboo’s Project Management Suite has now achieved full support for SharePoint 2010. Most of the products in the Suite have been...Bamboo is SharePoint 2010-ready, Are You? Part 2: Announcing the Availability of SharePoint File Share Library & Wiki Publisher 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...The SharePoint50 Project: Some Thoughts on Being Named a Top SharePoint Influencer
With a post on EndUserSharePoint two weeks ago, Mark Miller and Global 360 announced the SharePoint50 Project. In a nutshell, Global 360 and KnowledgeLake commissioned Influencer50 to perform an independent study to determine the 50 most influential voices in the...
