I've had a request from someone wanting to put my BI Bites videos on their internal SharePoint deployment to help their users see what they can do. Rather than just sending him the files, I thought I'd put them somewhere everyone can get hold of them...

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos. In this demo, I show how to use PerformancePoint Services' Dashboard Designer to create a data connection to a SQL Server Analysis Services data cube.

This video continues my series of bite sized Business Intelligence demos. In this demo, I show how to create a dashboard in SharePoint 2010 to display parts of an Excel workbook.

This video continues my series of demos showing the Microsoft BI offering in bite sized chunks. In this video, I show how to publish items in an Excel workbook to Excel Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

This demo continues my series of videos showing the Microsoft business intelligence offering in bite sized chunks. In this demo, I show how to create a simple key performance indicators (KPI) based on a project task list and then how to display a KPI...

This video continues this series showing Microsoft's BI offering in bite sized chunks. In this demo, I show the decomposition tree feature of PerformancePoint Services within Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

A version of Office Web Apps is now available to SkyDrive users for free! If you log into your SkyDrive, you’ll now see a little section informing you that you can create new Office documents with the familiar client logos. Clicking on...

This video continues my series of demos showing Microsoft BI features in bite sized chunks. This demo shows one of the improvements to conditional formating in Microsoft Excel 2010: negative data bars.

This demo starts a new series of videos showing some of the capabilities of Microsoft's BI stack in bite sized chunks. This video shows how easy it is to add a simple chart to a table by using the new Sparkline feature of Excel 2010.

There is one very difficult question which I get asked on a regular basis. What is SharePoint? Well, here are a few things that SharePoint is.

Want a broad overview of the capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010? Due to the success and demand of the earlier sessions, I'll be running another SharePoint introduction day on 23rd June in Reading. The training...

The term SharePoint is used to refer to both Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (and all the previous versions), which can lead to some confusion as to exactly what features you're going to get with your license...

Microsoft have released an RTM version of the SharePoint 2010 demo machines , available to partners and customers. This is a pair of virtual machines which come with a range of technologies from SharePoint and the Office Suite as well as supporting technologies...

In the approach to the official launch of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, more and more documentation is being released. Articles and white papers are being published on TechNet, MSDN and Microsoft Downloads. If you want to see what’s new, you can go...

I will be presenting at the Edinburgh SharePoint User Group next month at the Microsoft offices at Waverley Gate, Edinburgh. I'll be diving into the workflow capabilities of SharePoint 2010 including the forms integration and the visual design capabilities...

Want to learn more about SharePoint Server 2010 but can’t manage to make the classroom training sessions? This may be the answer. SharePoint Ignite Online training is now available on the Partner Learning Center. Partners can upgrade their skills...

When I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007, I adapted quickly. There were a few days of confusion but within a week, I was more efficient using the new Ribbon UI. The problem came several weeks later when I wanted to use a macro in Excel. I found...

This video shows one of the new content management features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: multi-stage content management policies.

One of my colleagues is putting on a couple of LiveMeetings on SQL Server 2008 R2. These are probably relevant to any SharePoint partners who provide or are interested in building a SharePoint BI offering. While SharePoint provides the front-end of a...

The first electric generators were used in industries over 150 years ago. The model was quite straightforward. If a company wanted to use electricity in their business, they went and bought a physical electric motor which they would install in their building...

This short demo video shows the time-saving capabilities of the Quick Publish button in InfoPath 2010.

I usually respond to that question with one of my own. Do you want the two hour answer or then ten hour answer? I’m not entirely joking when I say that. SharePoint is huge. It can do a wide range of different things and be used in an enormous number of...

In a previous blog post, I talked about how to get two Visio diagrams to interact on a SharePoint page. Now I’m going to bring that discussion back round to my favourite Microsoft product. How can an InfoPath form talk to a Visio diagram? Visio is...

One of the nice features of InfoPath is the ability to convert existing Word or Excel forms into InfoPath forms, potentially saving you a lot of time. When you load up InfoPath Designer 2010, you are first presented with the options of all the form templates...

I’m taking a break from talking about forms and workflow to share a simple idea which I think is quite useful around Visio diagrams in SharePoint 2010. One of the new features in SharePoint 2010 is Visio services, which enables you to display Visio diagrams...