by John Anderson | May 13, 2010 | SharePoint Blank
There’s been a lot of talk, and no small amount of anticipation, over the past year-plus leading up to the release of SharePoint 2010. Yesterday, the big day finally arrived, and while I had hopes of covering the “virtual keynote” event for our 2010...
by Bob Young | May 13, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
OK, so for my first attempt at a Bamboo Team Blog post, I decided that I should write about a topic that every customer loves … DISCOUNTS! We believe that Bamboo products are competitively priced and, as a result, we typically do not offer reduced rates on our...
by Jeff Tubb | May 13, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
So you've already heard what sets Workflow Conductor apart from SharePoint's out-of-the-box workflows and from SharePoint Designer workflows, but you say you just can't rest until you find out how it compares to Visual Studio workflows? Well, you...
by Jeff Kozloff | May 12, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Hello to the SharePoint Farm Admins of the world! With all of the excitement surrounding today's launch of SharePoint 2010 and Bamboo's own List Bulk Import Release 2.0, we can't forget about WSS v3 and MOSS 2007. Last month,...
by Jeff Kozloff | May 12, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
I hope you are as excited as we are here at Bamboo Solutions over the just-released Office 2010 series from Microsoft, including the much anticipated release of SharePoint Foundation (formerly WSS) 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010! In SharePoint 2010...
by Katie Packard | May 12, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
If you’re at all involved in SharePoint, I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz building during the past few months regarding SharePoint 2010. The product officially launches today, and the Web 2.0 universe has been all a-flutter with the news and with...
by Jeff Tubb | May 12, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
OK. So we've already talked about SharePoint's Out-of-the-Box workflows, and about how they differ from Workflow Conductor, but how does Workflow Conductor differ from Microsoft's custom workflow creation tools? The answer to that is pretty long, so...
by Jeff Tubb | May 11, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
So, you've heard about Workflow Conductor, and you're hoping it can help you automate some processes, but you want to know how it stacks up against Microsoft's workflow offerings in SharePoint? Well, you've come to the right place, because...
by Myuyen Phan | May 10, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
For This week in Bamboo we rolled out a minor enhancement to one of our newest products Workflow Conductor. With the latest release of Workflow Conductor (R1.1), we fixed some bugs and improved its performance. See our Product Manager Announcement blog for...
by Janet G | May 10, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Last Thursday was a day for which I had waited with great anticipation; finally, the 4City Tour would arrive in Washington, D.C. This tour was produced and Platinum-sponsored by our partner, C5Insight, and Consultedge. The event also...
by Jeff Tubb | May 6, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
It’s been a little less than three months since we first released Workflow Conductor, and the response has been great so far. That said, we knew there was plenty of room for improvement when we released version 1.0. As much as we would love to have put out a...
by Jonas Nilsson | May 5, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
This sounds like a simple thing right? Just set the Locale of the SPWeb object to the locale you are interested in. Not so fast – this does not work, it will change the Locale but not things like the calendar being used. What you have to do is to create a...
by Myuyen Phan | May 4, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
This Week in Bamboo we have been very busy working on SharePoint 2010 releases for all products, but that's not all. We also spent time fixing some bugs, and released the patch for HW08 User Directory Web Part. With the new release of HW08...
by Katie Packard | May 3, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
I don’t have an extensive technical background, so my first few weeks at Bamboo have felt kind of like computer boot camp. Not only was I learning a new company and a new job, but I also was learning new tools–SharePoint and Bamboo’s 60+...
by Mike OBrien | Apr 29, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
About a month ago, I blogged about Bamboo’s commitment to customer service and mentioned that we’d soon be launching a customer satisfaction survey. I’m pleased to announce that we are now on the verge of rolling out the survey. Beginning next week,...
by Katie Packard | Apr 27, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
This morning I installed a Bamboo product on my virtual server so that I could test it and begin writing the documentation for it. This afternoon I spent an hour or so troubleshooting various issues while trying to deploy the product before I realized that I had...
by Bamboo Marketing | Apr 27, 2010 | Press Release
Bamboo Web Parts will enable Apptix customers to accelerate the deployment of hosted SharePoint sites, and enhance team collaboration and productivity Bamboo Solutions, provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft® SharePoint®, and Apptix, the leading provider of...
by Bamboo Marketing | Apr 27, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Bamboo Web Parts will enable Apptix customers to accelerate the deployment of hosted SharePoint sites, and enhance team collaboration and productivity Bamboo® Solutions, provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft® SharePoint®, and Apptix, the leading provider of...
by Myuyen Phan | Apr 26, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
If you like our Project Management Central now, you will be in love with the latest release, version 1.8. Want to know why? Check out the new features of Project Management Central (R1.8) and read about its improvemed performance and...
by Myuyen Phan | Apr 26, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
This week we rolled out a minor enhancement to our desktop application System Log Manager. See the release announcement blog post by product owner, Jeff Kozloff for more details. We also fixed some bugs for Alert Plus, Password Expiration Web Part, List...
by Katie Packard | Apr 23, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Starting a new job is always exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. I’ve been at Bamboo for just over a month now, and I still end each day feeling like I can’t possibly learn any more than I already have–but I always do, the very next day. As...
by John Anderson | Apr 23, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
During Monday morning’s SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference keynote, Steve Smith did a great job of teasing the official Conference party, set for Tuesday night. Steve referenced the party that took place during the precursor to the Evolution Conference, last...
by John Anderson | Apr 22, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
If you read my post on the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference keynote, you already know that Conference organizer Steve Smith promised “three days of absolute fulfillment and awesomeness.” Steve and his entire team at Combined Knowledge delivered on that...
by Bamboo PM Girl | Apr 22, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
We just released version 1.8 of PM Central™, Bamboo’s project management solution for SharePoint. This is the eighth update to PM Central since we introduced the product in 2009. We’ve been steadily adding new features based on customer feedback and...
by Geoff Ables | Apr 21, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
C5 Insight will be working in partnership with Microsoft and Success Accelerators to present their upcoming seminar, “The SharePoint 2010 World Premiere.” The seminar is being presented as a concurrent session in their 4 City Tour, as well as in a...
by John Anderson | Apr 21, 2010 | SharePoint 2010
Tuesday afternoon at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference, Matt Groves dedicated his first session of the Conference to answering the question, “What does Web 2.0 and Social Networking mean to the user?” As longtime Bamboo Nation readers will have...
by Brian Kellner | Apr 21, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
In the waves of enterprise information technology updates, the conflicts often have clear-cut lines. Typically several players vie for a defined space (ERP, anti-virus, CRM, email, etc). The analysts create criteria to rank the solutions, and customers select from one...
by Wes Bryan | Apr 20, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Today was the last day of the SharePoint Conference.Org, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to speak with more show attendees. SharePoint 2010 is definitely on everyone’s minds and it seems the majority of the attendees are planning to start serious deployment...
by Bamboo Marketing | Apr 20, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Recently I got to sit down and interview Waffles, Bamboo’s newest mascot. If you haven’t seen him yet, check him out here as he delivers video cameras like it’s Christmas. V: Waffles, thanks for taking the time to talk with me. First of all, I know...
by John Anderson | Apr 20, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind experience here at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference, what with little ol’ me attempting to do the work of four people (four being the total number of Bamboo staffers who were meant to be here before Iceland’s...
by John Anderson | Apr 20, 2010 | SharePoint 2010
At the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference Monday afternoon, Brett Lonsdale of Lightning Tools presented a demo of the various roll-up Web Parts available out of the box in SharePoint 2010. With just an hour to demo the Content Query Web Part, Data View Web Part,...
by Wes Bryan | Apr 19, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
This week Bamboo is also attending the SharePoint Conference.Org in Baltimore, Maryland. A group of us are here sharing time covering Bamboo’s tabletop in the vendor area and attending sessions. Daisy Anand and Angela Dillon will team to present a Bamboo led session...
by Jeff Kozloff | Apr 19, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
As an IT Administrator, you become all too familiar with the above text. The error comes and then disappears. You’d love to just claim it as a random fluke, but past experiences tell you it isn’t and you just know it will be back. So what do you do? You investigate....
by John Anderson | Apr 19, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference organizer Steve Smith took the stage in London this morning to greet attendees, promising “three days of absolute fulfillment and awesomeness.” Acknowledging the difficulties that the eruption of Iceland’s...
by Katie Packard | Apr 19, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
I don’t know about you, but when I don’t understand something, I sort of shut down. Instead of focusing on the subject and trying to break it down into smaller chunks that I can figure out, I let my eyes glaze over and my mind wander to more interesting...
by John Anderson | Apr 19, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Remember last week when I blogged that Bamboo would be fielding an all-star team at the SharePoint Evolution Conference in London this week? Well, it seems that Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano had other plans and, as it turns out, ye olde humble correspondent...
by Linda Hogg | Apr 16, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
In our final video, we’re describing our general experience of SharePoint 2010: we’ve found it to be a flexible, straightforward, and dependable development platform with rich tools, which opens up a wealth of rewarding possibilities for developers and IT...
by Linda Hogg | Apr 15, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
In this video, we’re explaining how good quality file sharing, easy version control, and a rich tool base in products like Visual Studio 2010, are all reasons we’d recommend the SharePoint platform to practically any business of any size. We find that the...
by Linda Hogg | Apr 15, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
In this video, we explain that the open accessibility standards and end-to-end solution possibilities of the Microsoft stack enable us, and our clients, to communicate on any browser or system we choose, without having to bolt together disparate pieces of equipment...
by Katie Packard | Apr 15, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
When I first heard about SharePoint, I understood that it was an interactive platform that enabled organizations to share information and collaborate on a large scale. I assumed that it was like any other Microsoft product, where I’d just click an icon on my...
by Linda Hogg | Apr 14, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Hello, I’m the Director of Black Marble, software development and IT consultancy based in the North of England. We use Microsoft SharePoint, BizTalk, and Visual Studio Team System to deliver what customers require – quality IT assets to power their growth...
by Katie Packard | Apr 14, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Today I learned that cool people “in the know” about SharePoint don’t say “Global Assembly Cache;” they just called it the “GAC,” or the “gack.” My more knowledgeable coworkers joked that this mistake would make a...
by Bamboo PM Girl | Apr 14, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
As with all of our Bamboo products, we appreciate your continued feedback on our product life cycle. We try to incorporate your comments into our product roadmaps and schedules as much as we can. Many of you have asked about the status of the next release of...
by John Anderson | Apr 13, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Bamboo is a proud Sponsor of the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference (and Bamboo Nation is a Media Sponsor of the event), and you’ll be able to find us in booth # 17 in the exhibit hall beginning at 8 a.m. Monday morning. Staffing the booth and looking forward...
by John Anderson | Apr 12, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Except for Ken Lownie’s brief closing remarks (which included the announcement that ShareFEST will reconvene next year, “probably right here” in the Philadelphia Loew’s Hotel), Dux Raymond Sy’s much-anticipated session closed the...
by John Anderson | Apr 9, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
My ShareFEST case study of the day today was BioClinica’s Peter Benton’s presentation discussing the success that BioClinica has seen with SharePoint as an enabling platform for next-generation clinical solutions. Peter began his presentation with a...
by John Anderson | Apr 9, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
While introducing Michael Gannotti this morning, Ken Lownie of NextDocs shared an exchange that he’d had last night during the live webcast Q&A that Michael and Dux Raymond Sy hosted. Speaking with a conference staffer, a non-technical person with no...
by John Anderson | Apr 8, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
Coinciding with the inspired Beer Tasting Hospitality Suites event which followed the official reception in the exhibit hall at ShareFEST this evening, Dux Raymond Sy and Microsoft’s Michael Gannotti hosted a Q&A with the audience which was webcast live to...
by John Anderson | Apr 8, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
At ShareFEST this afternoon, Patrick Metzler of Shire, the UK’s largest biopharmaceutical company, was joined by SharePoint consultant John Jones of HighPoint Solutions to present a case study on the creation of a SharePoint Center of Excellence (CoE) at Shire....
by John Anderson | Apr 8, 2010 | The Bamboo Team Blog
The first case study I attended at ShareFEST was a fascinating presentation by Ron Burns, founder of ProtonMedia, featuring a demo of their virtual collaboration product ProtoSphere, including scientific poster session functionality that was developed specifically for...
