I've had partners asking me for the release date of SharePoint 2010 since about half-way through last year. We now have a date! Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 will be launched on 12th May 2010. The RTM (Release to Manufacturing...

With the 2010 version, a lot of work has been done to tighten up the integration between SharePoint and InfoPath. One example of this is workflow initiation forms. One of the things you can now do with SharePoint 2010 is create reusable SharePoint...

One of the licensing options for SharePoint, including MOSS 2007, is the For Internet Sites license, sometimes referred to as MOSS FIS. There are a fair number of sites out there built using MOSS 2007, including Spinebreakers , the Bill and Melinda Gates...

This video shows the new web part in SharePoint 2010. It's now easy to embed an InfoPath form as a web part within a SharePoint page.

Second in my series of demos introducing InfoPath 2010 and some of the new features. This demo shows some of the different ways you can add and manage rules to a form template. It shows quick rules, the rules management pane and copying rules, as well...

One of the improvements in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is the ability to interact with Visio. As well as the new Visio Services allowing you to render Visio diagrams in the browser, you can create a workflow diagram in Visio that can be used in combination...

InfoPath allows you to create forms with very sophisticated logic. Some of this can be done using the out of the box features and formulae but there is always the option to write custom code. I would not recommend using InfoPath if vast amounts of custom...

When customers buy Software Assurance from Microsoft, they receive vouchers that can be redeemed for training days or various planning services packages, including SharePoint Deployment Planning Services. A Microsoft partner will then provide the service...

If you are a Microsoft Registered, Certified or Gold Partner, I am offering some free introductory training to the capabilities and value of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This is a day-long classroom session intended to get you up to speed on what...

Welcome to 2010. As someone who grew up reading sci-fi books this is a year that should include colonies on Mars, regular trips to the moon and flying cars. Well, it doesn’t look that any of those will be coming out of Microsoft Research this year, but...

There's no point reinventing the wheel. Rather than sitting down myself to create a demo of this wonderful new feature you can get by combining SharePoint 2010 and InfoPath 2010, I thought I'd link you to this video put together by the InfoPath 2010 team...

The InfoPath Team are holding a competition. If you are building a solution using InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010, make a short video about your solution (no more than 6 minutes) and you could win an Xbox 360. There are a couple of points about eligibility...

The SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas this year was a sell. There was a lot of demand for places and, since the event, there's been a lot of demand for the materials. So Microsoft is making them available. If you were unable to attend the conference...

Given that I spent a ridiculously long time trying to get an InfoPath form to interact with a spreadsheet published through Excel Services, I thought this was a suitable subject for a blog post. If I stop someone else feeling like they want to beat themselves...

First in a new series of demo videos introducing InfoPath 2010. In this demo, I show the creation and publication of a simple electronic form.

It’s time to have a play. The public beta has launched and now you can get hold of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. You can download it from www.microsoft.com/2010 and try out some of the new features such as: · Conversation threading in Outlook...

There are spaces available on courses Microsoft are putting on for partners around SharePoint for web content management. The training is a four-day bootcamp for developers, aimed at IT professionals who currently work on MOSS internal deployments who...

There are some new web content management features that allow you to track what content is being accessed by users in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This information can be accessed and analysed by the SharePoint administrators, but it can also be...

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes the ribbon user interface, giving a much more consistent experience when used alongside Office. There are several advantages to the ribbon UI. One is that it makes it a lot clearer whether or not a user has certain...

With MOSS 2007, you can use metadata and official taxonomy to organise your documents. In Microsoft SharePoint Sever 2010, you still have all those capabilities, but you also get the ability to be less formal and have users define their own tags for SharePoint...

There are several short-comings with designing workflows in the current version of SharePoint Designer (but there’s always Visual Studio and some excellent third-party tools to combat those short-comings). One of the problems with SharePoint Designer...

A lot of people, when they first get SharePoint, instantly want to make it not look like the out of the box SharePoint. In Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, there are a lot more themes to choose from. When you create a team site, there is a “getting...

MOSS 2007 came with a few out of the box workflows to do tasks which are common in a huge range of organisations. One of these was the approval workflow, provided out of the box because the majority of companies have an approval procedure of some form...

Microsoft are making some changes to the naming of things in SharePoint 2010, the most obvious being the dropping of the word “Office” from the main product name. A rather larger change of name is Windows SharePoint Services becoming SharePoint Foundation...

I'm continuing my series of posts highlighting some of the new features in SharePoint 2010 by talking about one of the new document management features. In Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, it’s a lot easier to have document management policies that...