Long time no post. Yes, I've been very busy indeed. Well, it’s finally time to move this blog to its new home that’s powered by Office SharePoint Server. The URL is http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/lliu . Although it’s slightly longer to type...

Personally, I believe that screencasts will quickly become the de facto way for many people to learn how to use a new piece of software like Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In today’s fast paced, YouTube crazed world, it’s often times more efficient...

A lot of buzz for “ Enterprise 2.0 ” was generated last week from Socialtext’s announcement of SocialPoint for SharePoint. As usual with new and exciting “the next big thing” announcements related to Microsoft products and technologies like this, my colleague...

Yup, it’s the real Steve Ballmer! His son was playing on the other side of the court – we split a full regular court into two half courts. I could hear his booming voice cheering his kid on throughout the game. J I think his son’s 2-3 years older...

I knew that by using WSS 3.0 to host the SharePoint Community Champions team site , I would run into scenarios that would challenge some of the design assumptions that went into the development of the out-of-the-box webparts in SharePoint. In particular...

Some people have told me that I have a tendency to talk about online communities and social networking with such zeal that it sounds a bit like hype, which is why I feel very fortunate to have recently discovered someone who can convey the importance...

Now that our Internet facing “dogfood” infrastructure has been upgraded to WSS 3.0, I can finally launch to the SharePoint Community Champions team site. The URL is http://sharepointchamps.officeisp.net . I am very disappointed (mostly in myself) that...

My colleague, Korby Parnell , recently decided to withdraw from speaking on the “Microsoft Blogs: Pioneering Corporate Transparency” panel discussion that’s been scheduled for the upcoming Business Blogging Summit conference on Oct. 25-27 in Seattle,...

Wallop launched its private beta this morning, and the blogosphere is yet again abuzz with excitement about social networking. My fellow MS blogger, Don Dodge, provided a good summary of Wallop. By pure coincidence, Wallop’s Web Operations Manager is...

I’ve often joked with my colleagues and the SharePoint MVPs that my most productive working hours are 9 PM to 5 AM rather than during the normal 9 AM to 5 PM work day when I’m jumping back and forth between meetings, phone calls, e-mail threads, dropping...

Since much of my work with the SharePoint community is externally facing, many of my colleagues don’t have any visibility to the things that I do as part of my job. So, it wasn’t too surprising that one of them recently asked me, “Hey, you’re a technical...

After I posted my previous entry about “ Associating multiple categories in a SharePoint blog ,” I started to wonder what else people would do almost immediately after creating a site with SharePoint 2007’s Blog site template (see screenshot below), but...

The blog application that is created with WSS V3’s Blog site template is limited to just one category per post. How to customize it to support multiple categories per post has become an FAQ, so here’s a series of screenshot snippets that shows just how...

I’m very happy to announce that the Alpha release of the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) for review and feedback at http://cks.inetium.com/sites/sckalpha . The folks at Inetium did most of the work for free even though the company is a for profit Microsoft...

Starting tonight, the Toshiba Tecra M5 is once again my primary machine, and I will never go back to Windows XP. I have very recent builds of Windows Vista (#5520) and Office 2007 (#4414) installed on it, and I finally managed to get Virtual Server 2005...

Well, I did it! Today, I installed Windows Vista on my Tecra M5 and got everything including Aero Glass working just fine. I managed to get a Windows Experience Index of 3.0 (see picture below), which I understand is pretty good. I think that I’ll...

I must admit that I had a very brief encounter with Windows Vista several months ago but decided that it would be a higher priority for me to dogfood the Office 2007 programs than Vista. Brian Valentine sent out an e-mail last week, encouraging everyone...

Wow, it's been over a month since my last post, and yes, I do have an excuse this time. I took a week off around July 4th and was completely "off the grid" (no cell phone, no computer, nothing). I really enjoyed the time off, and so did my family! However...

This video was done over a month ago, but it got held up in the queue since Scoble decided to leave Microsoft and had a ton of stuff to transition to the rest of his team. Anyway, the video is here on Channel9. One of the key issues that might not...

I’ve been dreaming (and done lots of thinking and talking – mostly internally at Microsoft and with the SharePoint MVPs) about this for the past several months, so it’s immensely gratifying for me to see the project finally on CodePlex (at http://www...

Father’s Day is my favorite day of the year – better than Christmas or even my birthday. Unlike Christmas, Father’s Day is all about me, and unlike my birthday, it always lands on a Sunday, which means I never have to worry about taking a day off. It...

[Update 06/19/2006: the newsgroups below are now reflected on the SharePoint Community home page as well as the Microsoft Discussion Groups home page , so people who are just joining the community will be able to find and interact with the new newsgroups...

[ Update: Yikes! Several people have informed me that my SharePoint Community side meetings conflict with my colleague, Mike Fitzmaurice ’s sessions on Windows SharePoint Servers V3 Overview and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Overview, which...

And Bill Gates gave it along with the Golden Discs for Windows Vista Beta 2 and Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 2 to Alan Nunns of Chevron on stage during his keynote session at WinHEC last Tuesday while I was watching the live Webcast at home. It was...

The C9 video of the SharePoint Group Program Managers that I mentioned in my previous post is now online at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=196522 . Although I’m sure that you’d enjoy the entire 55 minute video, here are some timestops for...