Tag: Office

Service Pack 1 announced for SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Project 2010, and Project Server 2010

While I’m not at TechEd Atlanta today, it’s good to see that The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team announced that SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is “on track for release at the end of June” 2011.  While I’m sure there are plenty of bug fixes included, I’m specifically interested in the following updates that are… Continue reading Service Pack 1 announced for SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Project 2010, and Project Server 2010

Installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 Stand-alone

SharePoint Foundation 2010 is an incredible product.  Not only does it provide robust collaboration capabilities, web site management tools, security management tools, and data integration tools, but SharePoint Foundation 2010 is free.  Foundation 2010 is available to download from Microsoft today and can be used for any type of site, internal or external.  I’ll be… Continue reading Installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 Stand-alone

SharePoint 2010 Licensing Part VI: FAQs

I’ve tried to cover a lot of information in this SharePoint Licensing mini-series, but there is still a lot of information to cover.  For lack of a better format, I’m also including a SharePoint Licensing FAQ. Q: My company has a lot of employees that will be using SharePoint 2010.  Can we just purchase the… Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Licensing Part VI: FAQs

SharePoint 2010 Licensing Part III: Search, Office Web Applications, and Project Server

In the previous post, SharePoint 2010 Licensing Part I: Foundation, Server, and Designer and SharePoint 2010 Licensing Part II: Windows Server and SQL Server, I covered SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Windows Server, and SQL Server.  In this post, I’ll cover additional related products. Microsoft Search Server Express 2010.  SharePoint Server… Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Licensing Part III: Search, Office Web Applications, and Project Server

SharePoint Document Libraries: 2 authors but no exclusive check out

I think that anyone that has even seen a SharePoint demo knows that SharePoint offers robust document collaboration features with the ability for exclusive Check-In and Check-out.  Exclusive Check-In and Check-Out is optional and configurable individually within each library.  Some of the organizations that I work with have ‘less than savvy’ end users who are… Continue reading SharePoint Document Libraries: 2 authors but no exclusive check out

Microsoft Office 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 Released Today

Today, Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010. Consumers can now purchase Office 2010 at more than 35,000 retail stores across the globe, such as Best Buy, Fnac, Harvey Norman and PC World; through online retailers, including Amazon.com; and direct from Microsoft at Office.com.

Great new post about Microsoft Software Assurance (SA)

Those who do know about Software Assurance associate the program with getting the next version of software at no additional cost, however there are other benefits that can save you money from your budget on training, support and services. If you know your organization has an Enterprise Agreement, then you also have Software Assurance. If… Continue reading Great new post about Microsoft Software Assurance (SA)

SharePoint SP2 updates Office Integration with FBA

Technorati Tags: Office,SharePoint According to a new blog post from SharePoint Ranger Steve Peschka (I assume) at http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/13/update-on-sharepoint-forms-based-authentication-fba-and-office-client.aspx, there are just a few things that have to properly align.  You need to have Service Packs installed on both the SharePoint Farm and the client that Office is installed on (both Office and OS).  This may… Continue reading SharePoint SP2 updates Office Integration with FBA

Deploying Microsoft Access 2007 Application

Our team recently built a solution in Access 2007 some of the end users did not have Office 2007 and only had Office 2003.  Of course, the one feature that we used was not supported in Access 2003 and having everyone upgrade was not an option. Download the Access 2007 Developer Extensions: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D96A8358-ECE4-4BEE-A844-F81856DCEB67&displaylang=en This will… Continue reading Deploying Microsoft Access 2007 Application