Mindsharp SharePoint 2010 Power End User (Day 4)
Here we are on Day 4 of Mindsharp's SharePoint 2010 Power End User (Beta) class, and it was another jam-packed day of information. Day 4 is about the time when most people over the age of 25 (not that I'm admitting to being in that group) start to notice a...Mindsharp SharePoint 2010 Power End User (Day 3)
It's Day 3 of Mindsharp SharePoint 2010 Power End User (Beta) class, and I have to say that I have really been looking forward to work this week (not that I don't normally, but training is a special treat)! I love learning new things, and there's...Creating a Baseline Schedule Within a Project in Microsoft Project 2010
August is traditionally the month when most people take their summer vacations, but the PM Central team is looking forward to the fall, when SharePoint Project Management Central™ R2.0 will be released. One of the great new features in R2.0 is the ability for...Guest Blog by Tony Pounder: The First SharePoint Saturday UK Event…Ever!
The stats: SharePoint Saturday UK October 2, 2010 Birmingham Hilton Metropole 300 Attendees 15 speakers 3 tracks More information/registration here The story behind the stats: Hi, allow me to introduce myself – I'm Tony Pounder (@WorTony) and I'm a...Mindsharp SharePoint 2010 Power End User (Day 2)
Today is Day 2 of Mindsharp SharePoint 2010 Power End User (Beta) class, taught by veteran instructor Kay McClure. Kay will also be speaking at the upcoming SharePoint Best Practices Conference in Reston, VA. (See you there, Kay!) SharePoint and Office –...The Best Practices Conference is Coming … Want to Save $200 on Registration?
Incredible as it seems to me, the Best Practices Conference (BPC) is just around the corner, kicking off just two short weeks from today right here on Bamboo's home turf of Reston, VA. Beginning on Tuesday, August 24, the BPC-proper will run for three full...This Week in Bamboo (August 1st, 2010 – August 7th, 2010)
This Week in Bamboo we continued rolling out some more products for SharePoint 2010 to our storefront. We also released more patches for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 products. The most important patch of the week is SharePoint Project Management...Adding a Workflow to a Site Content Type in SharePoint
A couple of weeks after posting Using Workflow Conductor with SharePoint Content Types, we got an excellent question from a customer: “Do Workflow Conductor workflows work with Site Content Types?” Absolutely! Workflow Conductor workflow associations...Mindsharp SharePoint 2010 Power End User (Day 1): The Fun Begins!
I'll be posting all week about Mindsharp's SharePoint 2010 Power End User Beta class, where I'm attending as an online participant. I also attended their SharePoint 2007 Power End User class back in March. Though I considered myself an "informed"...Guest Blog by Ruven Gotz: Best Practice – Attend the Best Practices Conference
Sometimes, when I am a few weeks away from speaking at a conference, a friend in the town where I'm going may write to me to say: What times are you speaking? Maybe we can meet up right after your session. I have to let my friend down gently and tell them: Sorry,...This Week in Bamboo (July 25th, 2010 – July 31st, 2010)
At Bamboo this week we were very busy releasing many patches for both SharePoint 2007 products and SharePoint 2010 products, along with a new major product for SharePoint 2007 that everyone is really excited about, PM Central Mobile (Release 1.8). With our new...Comparing Microsoft Project Professional 2010’s Sync With the Bamboo MS Project Add-in
Some of our customers have asked how our Bamboo MS Project Add-in, which is included in SharePoint Project Management Central™, compares with the syncing capabilities between Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and SharePoint 2010. It’s a good question, so the...Guest Blog by Women in SharePoint’s Cathy Dew: Best Practices 2010 Live Bloggers Needed!
Best Practices Conference (BPC) attendees, are you bringing a laptop with you? Can you type? We will feature live blogging again this year, and are looking for some volunteers to help us by blogging sessions during the conference. Live blogging gives the BPC a wider...This Week in Bamboo (July 18th, 2010 – July 24th, 2010)
This Week in Bamboo, we fixed some bugs and released a patch for SharePoint 2007 Data-Viewer Web Part. With the new release of Data-Viewer Web Part (R3.1.26) we fixed issues involving calculation, formatting a sum on a column if the column contains...Recovering a SharePoint Navigators Tab or List in SharePoint Project Management Central
One of the fun aspects of my job is that I get to intentionally break Web Parts or cause errors so that I can figure out a) what not to do and b) how to fix problems. I recently spent some time playing around with the SharePoint Navigators Web Part, which lets you...How to Start Your Workflow Conductor Workflows “Automagically” in SharePoint
I’m not going to claim that Workflow Conductor workflows are “magic”, but you can give your users a good David Copperfield impression by kicking a workflow off automatically when the situation warrants it. How cool would it be, for example, if a...Guest Blog by Dave Chennault: SharePoint – The Next Killer iPad App
I’m Dave Chennault, and this is my first guest blog for Bamboo Nation. I will be blogging about Governance for SharePoint, cool new trends in technology that affect SharePoint, and interesting aspects to BPOS and SharePoint in the cloud. I’ve also got a...
Microblogging on SharePoint: Summer 2010 Update
Microblogging in SharePoint, specifically addressing the possibility of Bamboo’s developing Twitter/Yammer-like functionality as a SharePoint Web Part.
Guest Blog by Newsgator’s Brian Kellner: Skate to Where the Puck is Going to Be
I've seen a few versions of Wayne Gretzky's famous quote, but its essence is that anticipating, deciding, and moving quickly allows great players to make great plays. Like lots of good advice, it sounds pretty obvious when you hear it; but, if you've ever...Debugging ECMAScript in SharePoint 2010
One of my favorite new features of SharePoint 2010 is the ECMAScript object model. OK, the .NET and Silverlight client object models are also neat but they don’t come close to the ECMAScript object model. And don’t even get me started on...A Sneak Peek at the New Features in PM Central R2.0
While some of you are excited about the summer's movie releases (Inception, anyone?) or your fast-approaching vacation, our engineering team is tirelessly working on the next set of features for the upcoming release of SharePoint Project Management Central™...
7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success
In the presentation, I shared practical knowledge of how SharePoint 2010 can address common project management challenges.
Go Green with Workflow Conductor: Reuse Your Workflows
Time is a non-renewable resource! Save yours with these tricks for reusing your Workflow Conductor workflows. Workflow Conductor provides a simple, yet powerful, way for you to automate your SharePoint-enabled business processes. Its intuitive drag-and-drop interface...Monitor ‘Heat Wave 2010’ with Bamboo World Clock & Weather Web Part 2010!
First it was the blizzard of 2010 that had us freezing, and now it's heat wave 2010 that has us melting, so what better way to track the weather than with the Bamboo World Clock and Weather Web Part 2010? With the Bamboo World Clock and Weather Web Part,...PM Central Installation Made Simple
Hello again, Bamboo Nation. I hope this post finds you well. In my last couple of posts, I wrote one about Bamboo Essentials, and a tongue-in-cheek post which also focused on Bamboo Essentials but told the tale of Frank, an Imperial...This Week in Bamboo (July 11th, 2010 – July 17th, 2010)
This Week in Bamboo, we released the following patches: Bamboo Column Level Security (Release 1.3.3), SharePoint In and Out Schedule Board (Release 1.3.2) and Mini-Calendar Web Part (Release 2.7.8). It is important to know that with the new version of...Using Workflow Conductor with SharePoint Content Types
Does Workflow Conductor work with Content Types? People have asked us this many times, and we're happy to report that yes, it does! Included in this article are two clever ways you can use Workflow Conductor to take advantage of Content Types in SharePoint:...Assigning Budget Work and Budget Cost to Projects in Microsoft Project 2010
Although it feels like we just released SharePoint Project Management Central for SharePoint 2010 only yesterday, the PM Central team is already preparing for the upcoming release of PM Central this fall. One of the great new features we will offer is the option for...Parsing the Marketing Spin in Microsoft’s Cloud Story at the WPC
WPC 2010 has now come to a close, and if there was one message that was made abundantly clear this week it was that Microsoft is all in when it comes to the cloud. But what does that really mean? My bet is that you will get a different answer from everyone you ask....WPC: A Microsoft-centric Weekend at Nationals Park, and Presidents Both Real and Imagined
I am writing my first blog post from the 2010 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference while waiting for Wednesday’s keynote speaker, former President Bill Clinton to take the stage. As I have been a member of Voices for Innovation for a couple of years, I...WPC – Social Media & Community: 5 Basic Tips
I'm going to take a detour to something that may not seem immediately SharePoint-related, but it's a topic that I know many of our readers are interested in: Social Media. You see, I'm here attending my first Worldwide Partner...Bamboo at the WPC: Almost as Famous as Steve Ballmer!
OK, maybe "almost as famous as Steve Ballmer" is a bit of a stretch, but despite the fact that we're not formally exhibiting at this year's WPC, and with thanks to our marketing team and our very bright, eye catching t-shirts, people at the...A Long Time Ago in a SharePoint Environment Far, Far Away…
I would like to take a moment to introduce the most recent visitor to Bamboo Solutions: Frank S. Trooper. Frank has led a long and varied life in a galaxy far, far away, and he came a long way to share his story with us. After growing up as a moisture farmer in...WPC Kicks Off with a Day of Giving and Sounds of ‘Oh Cloud’
This year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference kicked off on Sunday, July 11th, with a Day of Giving featuring a host of volunteer projects for the local D.C. community, providing me with the opportunity to participate in the “Salute to Our...Customization Best Practices for Project Management Central
The customization best practices have been updated to reflect changes in PM Central R2.0. Read this blog post for the updated customization best practices. The PM Central team’s adrenaline is still pumping on the heels of PM Central’s release on SharePoint...This Week in Bamboo (July 4th, 2010 – July 10th, 2010)
At Bamboo Solutions we try our best to improve our products day by day and fix our customers’ bugs as fast as we can. For this past week we fixed some bugs and released the following patches: List Integrity (Release 2.4.11) and SharePoint Video Library...This Week in Bamboo (June 27th, 2010 – July 3rd, 2010)
This Week in Bamboo we rolled out a minor enhancement of Bamboo Solutions’ SharePoint File Share Library (Release 1.1). With the new features in the 1.1 release, user can now upload file larger than the SharePoint maximum file upload size. And much...Greetings from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C.!
Greetings from the Worldwide Partner Conference! Being that the WPC is in Bamboo's backyard this year, it was a no-brainer for many of us to attend – not only to meet with our own great partners, but also to hear about the latest and greatest from...We’ve Seen STS, WSS, MOSS … Now Pick the New SharePoint Abbreviations!
OK, Bamboo Nation, time to put those creative thinking caps on! It's been rather entertaining watching the evolution of SharePoint over the years, but even more entertaining has been watching the name changes, especially given what a mouthful they've...Workflow Conductor Use Case (4/4): An InfoPath Survey – Getting Results (AKA “The Workflow”)
We've finally reached the end of this week's four-part Workflow Conductor use case series about an InfoPath survey, and your patience is about to be rewarded. Today, it's all about the workflow! So without further ado, make sure you have your 30-day trial...Rollup Your SharePoint Lists, SQL Tables or Views and Display Grouped Data in Charts & Graphs with the Chart Plus Revolution Pack from Bamboo
Who doesn't like useful, colorful, and informative pictures? Pictures of what you may ask… why, charts and graphs representing data of course! Did you know that just a couple of weeks ago, we released the SharePoint 2010-compatible version...
