Office 2010 revealed in more detail

Since the launch of the Office 2010 technical preview, Microsoft has revealed most of the anticipated Office 2010 release in great detail way ahead of the expected official announcement that was expected to be done at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference 2009

To unfold the secrets watch out for the introduction videos office twenty ten videos available at

http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/

Peronsally I was impressed with the new features in outlook 2010 that will help keep emails and our meetings more organized then what we have today, significant changes done to OneNote 2010, I always love OneNote whether it was 2003 or 2010, hats off to its online/offline capabilities. I was not much excited about office 2010 except for the fact that it allows live communication between users from a document management standpoint.

I was dying to know more about Infopath 2010 but was disappointed to know not much is available yet. Infopath 2010 is suppose to fix all the paint points that its preceeder 2007 version had specially with the forms services integration in sharepoint.

So I hope you all will find this information valuable and interesting. More secrets yet to be revealed ....... keep watching out this space.

Sharepoint 2010 developer document released

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 team has released a download for SharePoint 2010 developer documentation which contains white papers and help files. To review your copy, Please download zip file from Microsoft.com

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94afe886-3b20-4bc9-9a0d-acd8cd232c24&displaylang=en

Preparing for Sharepoint 2010 Upgrade Today

I was looking for new references available for sharepoint twenty ten on internet, I happen to look at this cool presentation by Joel Oleson that talks about high level task involved with the sharepoint twenty ten upgrade. Click here to look at the presentation.

Thanks Joel for sharing this great piece of information, I hope everyone will find this information interesting and valuable.

SharepointAge Rocks !!!!!

What is SharePoint 2010

What is SharePoint 2010? SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you to connect & empower people through an integrated set of rich features. Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint 2010 helps you cut costs with a unified infrastructure while allowing you to rapidly respond to your business needs.



Watch out for a sneak preview here I am very excited to expose more about the sharepoint twenty ten so keeping watching .......

BDC Meta Man Web Edition Released

Lightning Tools has recently released a web edition for BDC Meta Man to generate the Business Data Catalog Application Definition file. The web edition is designed to address the user paint point about SharePoint can communicate with their Line-of-Business Systems, but why they need to use a desktop application(BDC Meta Man Desktop Version) to create the Application Definition File.

Other goals for the web versions are as follows.

• Allow users to create Application Definition File from within the browser (Figure 1 - BDC Meta Man Web Edition)
• Give the ability to create Application Definition File to Site Collection Administrators
• Give users functionality of BDC Meta Man from within the browser
• Streamline the process of creating an Application Definition File.
• Imitate BDC Meta Man desktop application (Figure 2 - BDC Meta Man)

Some screencasts and demos are available at their website Lightning Tools

Enjoy the great enterprise suites with sharepoint with the ease of these awesome tools.

Happy Sharepointing !!!!

How to disable edit forms fields with sharepoint

While working on one of the projects, an sharepoint edit form needed to have some fields to be disabled or readonly. I did not wanted to write custom code to achieve this, also was looking for a solution that would be quick, handy and would utilize the web developement experience, I thought of giving it a shot with Javascript ..... while researching more on this I saw Andrey Shchurov Blog where Andrey has discussed the similar solution using Javascript.

Thanks Andrey for pointing this out, you have saved lot of my developement time.

Service Pack 2 Update - Expiration Issue Fix

The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download.

The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2.

For more details on downloading the fix, refer the blog below.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/25/service-pack-2-update.aspx

Signups for Office 2010 Beta is OPEN !!!!

Office 2010 Beta signups are now available. The survey doesn’t guarantee your entry into the program, but it does put you into a pool of other applicants Microsoft will invite to participate in the beta. Sign up, if you would like to participate for Office 2010 Beta.

http://connect.microsoft.com/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=3343&SiteID=160&InvitationID=Beta-PRJM-HVCM

Happy Sharepointing !!!

Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by Using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane

Recently while going through some MSDN articles, I happen to know a way of exposing enterprise search in sharepoint with Internet Explorer 7.0 and the Microsoft Office 2007. Following MSDN articles talk about it in more detail.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625970.aspx

Enjoy this cool enterprise feature !!!

Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products - Sharepoint 2010

Since the announcing of SharePoint 2010 in may'09, the community has been buzzing with what we know about ‘10, we are still speculating lot about ‘10. There isn’t a whole lot of concrete information out there yet, but I’ve compiled a list below of what I’ve read and known from various communities so far.

1. Inline editing for list items : no need to hit the datasheet view

2. BDC will be a two way road : sp2010 may support inserting data from BDC

3. No IE 6.0 Support : SharePoint 2010 will be “targeting standards based browsers (XHTML 1.0 compliant) including Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.x. running on Windows Operating Systems.

4. With same architechture as of MOSS 2007, the stress will be on intergarting the advanced UI features, watchout for office like ribbon control, ajaxed controls etc

5. Content Management Interoperability Services : This will allow SharePoint to communicate with other CMS.

6. PerformancePoint Monitoring & Analytics functions will be bundled into the Server license.

7. Users will be able to open/edit/save/collaborate on Office documents through a web browser.

8. Native support for ODF and PDF seems to be a safe confirmation as Office System SP2 will now support editing of both formats.

9. All Forms Server functions bundled with 2010 – There are clients who signed on for Forms Server standalone for WSS installs, so it would be nice if they bundled it with the next equivalent of WSS. I have an unofficial confirm from an MS employee that features will be available in 2010 but no solid details so far.

10. Standardized UI across all Office products, browsers, mobile devices.

11. Open API support

12. FAST Search for Server Enterprise owners