Thoughts of a SharePoint Super Fan on Microsoft’s Leadership, Today & Beyond

Someone from the audience of Hungary’s University of Economy got angry and started to talk violently at Steve Ballmer. He topped his performance by throwing eggs (?) at him.

I cannot understand how Starry Dynamo came up with a conclusion that SharePoint is only respected because of its File Management capabilities as she has written in this post.

All of the project engagements I have worked on SharePoint required complex usage of the tool extending it to fit large enterprise requirements.

Paul Andrew (Microsoft Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform), Andrew Connell (SharePoint MVP) and Rob Bogue (SharePoint MVP) are working together to provide a series of SharePoint developer ramp-up webcast starting May 20 until June 18. The schedule are as follows:

Web Parts, Rob Bogue
Tues, May 20 : 12-1p

Bill Gates demoed Microsoft Touchwall during the Microsoft CEO Summit. This is similar to Microsoft Surface and Bill Gates says they are working on making different kinds of surfaces including horizontal and vertical to have interactive capabilities and a software that powers it.

In this demo he clearly shows a new experience of doing presentations other than the standard powerpoint slides. I am sure at least 1 of the 115 CEOs who attended the summit might test drive this technology within the year especially when it gives more engaging talk in front of shareholders.

The video presentation and screenshots

The SharePoint Learning Kit was released a few months back via CodePlex and is an e-learning delivery and tracking application built in WSS 3.0.

In an excerpt from the product page:

This is exactly what I need. I love technical posters and Kirk Stark from the SharePoint User Assistance team satisfied cravings by creating posters that shows the parameters of SharePoint Stsadm. He created one for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Microsoft has released a couple of weeks ago the SharePoint Administration Toolkit which gives the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and update alert emails whenever web apps change URLs.

As described on the Microsoft download page:

WSS is short for Windows SharePoint Services and is a free component of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. WSS is also provided as a free download here.

WSS is a great starter SharePoint component you can use for information and documents management as well as a team collaboration tool.

Techticles already have the How to Guide category in SharePoint. Today, I have decided to add another category titled What is/are which aims to answer “what” questions in SharePoint.

Keep an eye on this.

Galdon released GFX 3.0 which is their latest fax archiving and billing solutionf for RightFax—Fax server product.

The predecessor of GFX 3.0 is version 2.7 for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. The older version shall be supported for customers who have not yet upgraded to the latest version of SharePoint.

GFX is a great product that allows management of fax documents for both inbound and outbound. These documents are then archived and posted in SharePoint.