Introducing the Bamboo Essentials Suite
How does Bamboo keep doing it? I've been here for six months now, and I keep asking myself that question because I'm constantly impressed. We have come up with a very exciting new Suite offering, so if I may get a drum roll,...This Week in Bamboo (June 20th, 2010 – June 26th, 2010)
This Week in Bamboo we’re so excited to announce some of our products are now available for SharePoint 2010. More information on all of the changes can be found below (see table), along with enhancements and known issues related to additional products....Project Management Central Now Available for SharePoint 2010
Bamboo is pleased to announce that PM Central™, the leading project management solution for SharePoint, is now available for SharePoint 2010. As a member of Microsoft's Technology Adoption Program (TAP), Bamboo was involved in the development of...Guest Blog by Microsoft UK’s Matt Deacon: A Glimpse Into the 2010 Microsoft Architect Insight Conference with James Burns’ Keynote on the Evolution of SharePoint
The end of March this year saw the fifth annual Microsoft Architect Insight Conference kick off in London. It was a great success, giving architects the chance to learn and share, as well as highlighting the ways in which Microsoft is redefining itself as a company in...Guest Blog by Microsoft UK’s Georgina Lewis: A Glimpse Into the 2010 UK Tech Days with Reed Shaffner’s Office 2010 Demo
As manager of the content and speakers for the UK Tech Days events, each year I liaise with a breadth of fantastic speakers that make these events what they are. This year's event was no exception, and one exciting area of conversation was Office 2010. At...Feature Comparison Chart: Bamboo Task Master Web Part vs. List Type Tasks in SharePoint 2010
Out-of-the-box, SharePoint 2010 provides more task management features than ever before but, as you can see in the feature comparison chart below, Bamboo Task Master's rich, drag and drop interface provides a wider range of...Workflow Conductor and SharePoint: Two Great Things That Go Great Together
So here you are, checking out your free 30-day trial of Workflow Conductor, and you’re thinking: “I’m already using the native SharePoint out-of-the-box workflows. Am I going to have to manage my workflows in two different places if I start using...Feature Comparison Chart: Bamboo SharePoint Video Library vs. Asset Library in SharePoint 2010
Out-of-the-box, SharePoint 2010 provides a library for the management of rich media but, as you can see in the feature comparison chart below, Bamboo SharePoint Video Library allows you a greater range of features and controls to present training...Feature Comparison Chart: Bamboo Alert Plus Web Part vs. SPAlert / My Alerts in SharePoint 2010
Out-of-the-box, SharePoint 2010 provides more alerting features than ever before but, as you can see in the feature comparison chart below, Alert Plus provides greater flexibility in the areas of sending alerts based on specific column changes, distribution lists and...Guest Blog by Mark Miller of EndUserSharePoint: Which SharePoint Conference Should I Attend?
I get the question wherever I go, "You speak at a lot of conferences. Which one should I attend?" That's really a loaded question. Each conference has a different agenda, so I'd need to sit and talk with you about what your goals are with SharePoint,...Using SharePoint Data in InfoPath Forms: How Does it Work?
One of the best things about working for Bamboo is getting to learn something new every day. It reminds me of just how little I really know, something my mother told me constantly when I was 16. (Mom, if you're reading this, you were RIGHT!) I recently wrote an...Guest Blog by Newsgator’s Laura Farrelly – Hit a Home Run With Your Webinar Marketing Efforts
Since we are in the midst of the Major League Baseball Draft, I thought the use of some baseball analogies would be a fun way to share NewsGator’s webinar best practices! Over the last few years, NewsGator has moved its webinar marketing from the minor leagues...TechEd 2010: SharePoint 2010 as a Social Computing Platform
For my final session at TechEd, I took in Ted Pattison's presentation on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as a Social Computing Platform, which was "centered around the User Profile Service" and was directed primarily at the developers in the...TechEd 2010: Outlook Social Connector – Deployment & Development Overview
The final afternoon of TechEd began for me with Microsoft Senior Product Manager John R. Durant’s spirited session, Outlook Social Connector: Deployment and Development Overview. John was easily the most engaging speaker I saw in New Orleans this week,...TechEd 2010: Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM & SharePoint 2010
This morning at TechEd, Microsoft Technical Evangelist Girish Raja presented his session on Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM & Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Girish began by discussing the notion of xRM, or “any” Relationship...Guest Blog by Janet Goda: Open Government & Collaboration at the Gov 2.0 Expo
The inaugural Gov 2.0 Expo took place at the Washington Convention Center in our nation’s capital May 25-27, and was co-produced by O’Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb. The 3-day event drew hundreds of speakers, attendees, vendors and citizens. President Obama...TechEd 2010: SharePoint Security – Permissions, Identities & Objects…Including a ‘Gotcha’ that Breaks Security Trimming
This afternoon at TechEd, I attended the SharePoint Security: Permissions, Identities and Objects session presented by Dan Holme. Dan is Director of Training and Consulting at Intelliem but, as he explained, his "job really is to help the [SharePoint]...TechEd 2010: Fine Tuning Your SharePoint Server 2010 Environment
I chose Fine Tuning Your Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Environment as my first session of the day today; a 300-level presentation by Shannon Bray (Technical Architect with Planet Technologies) and Mike Watson (a Microsoft alumnus, and now owner and Principal...Take the Easy Road: Create a Project Site Template That Includes Additional Columns
I am not a warm weather kind of person. As soon as May arrives and the warm days become more frequent, I start dreaming of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Give me negative temperatures and thick sweaters over sunscreen and flip flops any day. There’s just...TechEd 2010: ‘ECM for the Masses – How Microsoft SharePoint Server Delivers on the Promise’ in SharePoint 2010
In deference to the 5 p.m. start time, Richard Riley, Group Product Manager for SharePoint at Microsoft announced at the top of his ECM for the Masses: How Microsoft SharePoint Server Delivers on the Promise session that he only had "about two slides …...TechEd 2010: SharePoint & Azure – ‘How Do They Play Together?’
Steve Fox, Senior Evangelism Manager at Microsoft presented his session, SharePoint and Azure: How Do They Play Together? this afternoon at TechEd. I’ll be frank and state up-front that there was a fair amount of code on the screen in this session so, as a...Breaking News: Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 Announced!
All eyes may be on TechEd North America in New Orleans (which is where I am as I type and, current post notwithstanding, is my beat this week) at the moment, but Microsoft has just released a humdinger of an announcement for those of us in the SharePoint...Displaying Additional Key Metrics on the PM Central Portfolio Site By Adding Additional Columns to the Project Health List
I’m sorry; that’s a long blog title, especially so early on a Monday morning, but what can I say? I’m bringing the big guns today. PM Central’s Project Health List displays important information about your project, including the project name,...Workflow Conductor Use Case: Expense Report Approval
Now that you've gotten your feet wet with a simple Workflow Conductor use case based on the Request Approval widget, let's make things more interesting by adding conditional branching, sequential approval, and SharePoint field updates. I'll also throw in...Bamboo Solutions Donates More Than $200,000 for American Red Cross Infrastructure
Bamboo Products will Supplement Microsoft SharePoint Deployed across National Operations Bamboo Solutions, the leading provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft SharePoint, announced today that it is donating more than $200,000 worth of products to the American...
Bamboo Solutions Donates More Than $200,000 for American Red Cross Infrastructure
Bamboo Products will Supplement Microsoft SharePoint Deployed across National Operations Bamboo Solutions, the leading provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft SharePoint, announced today that it is donating more than $200,000 worth of products to the American...Live from TechEd: Overview of Social Computing in SharePoint 2010
In his session, Overview of Social Computing in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Senior Technical Product Manager Dave Pae engagingly addressed the topic of enterprise collaboration and what it means from a Microsoft perspective. Per Dave, at its...Live from TechEd in New Orleans: What’s New in Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010
My flight from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans for TechEd this morning arrived just in time for me to drop my bags at my hotel before (literally) crossing the street to the Convention Center for a quick lunch in advance of the afternoon sessions. For my first...
Web Edit in SharePoint 2010, Part 5: Working with Text (3 of 3) – Styles, Layout, & Markup Tools
Editing Tools available for use with text in SharePoint 2010 out-of-the-box are Styles, Layout, and Markup.
Web Edit in SharePoint 2010, Part 4: Working with Text (2 of 3) – Clipboard, Font, and Paragraph Tools
This mini-series-within-a-series look at the Editing Tools for text edits tomorrow with the final three buckets: Styles, Layout, and Markup, happy editing!
