Featured News
| 2009-11-18: SharePoint Product Team Blog | On November 18, Microsoft announced the general availability of the public beta of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for our customers and partners. | |
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| 2009-11-18: Microsoft Press Pass | Following the successful technical preview program, today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft is unveiling the public beta of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010.
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| 2009-11-18: zdnet.com | Microsoft is making available several different versions of Office, as well as a beta of SharePoint Server 2010 to interested testers, including Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps. | |
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| 2009-11-18: Redmondmag.com | Microsoft rolled out multiple public betas at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles on Wednesday. | |
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| 2009-11-18: ChannelWeb | Microsoft on Wednesday launched the public beta of Office 2010, paving the way for all and sundry to experience the suite's expanded collaboration features and cloud computing integration. | |
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| 2009-11-17: Infoworld | SharePoint 2010, the newly announced upgrade to Microsoft's popular Web and collaboration platform, is receiving a thumbs-up from developers pleased with the product's capabilities, including its use of Visual Studio as a tool for building SharePoint applications. | |
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| 2009-11-02: Reuters | IncWorx Consulting was the recipient of
Microsoft's 2009 SharePoint Deployment and Planning (SDPS) Partner of the Year
Award. The world's most prominent technology and business professionals met
during Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 Conference hosted by Microsoft at Las
Vegas' Mandalay Bay. Microsoft recognizes partners who stand apart from their
competitors in a number of areas by awarding them with Partner of the Year
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| 2009-11-02: Windows IT Pro | One of the biggest problems with SharePoint 2007 development is that all of its solutions run as full trust. This makes farm administrators reluctant to publish any solution that may disrupt the stability of the farm. Sandboxed solutions, new in SharePoint 2010, address this by allowing site collection administrators to deploy solutions that are safe to run. | |
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| 2009-10-30: IDC | Microsoft SharePoint is a phenomenon that obviously answers an enterprise need for a platform that
integrates the major information work tools – search, content management, business intelligence, workflow,
and messaging – into a collaborative work framework. | |
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| 2009-10-23: CMSWire | One of the immediate values SharePoint can deliver to an organization is the ability to address project management challenges, such as inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor information management practices and undefined project collaboration standards that compromises project success. | |
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| 2009-10-21: Network World | SharePoint is evolving beyond its server application role to become a full-fledged platform that could provide IT and developers alike with a powerful Internet tool while giving Microsoft new leverage against operating system foes, according to end users, analysts and partners. | |
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| 2009-10-19: Microsoft | At Microsoft Corp.’s SharePoint Conference, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced that the public beta of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 will become available in November, and revealed some of the new SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities for the first time.
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| 2009-10-19: Microsoft | SharePoint 2010 is a broad solution, it is “The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web." Learn more about the 40 key areas of SharePoint 2010. | |
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| 2009-10-12: InfoWorld | SharePoint is being deployed in more organizations each year. In fact, it has become for many companies a mission-critical solution because it provides such capabilities as wiki, blog, document library, photo gallery, and more, thus comprising a collaboration hot spot. Like Public Folders for Exchange, SharePoint has become a dumping ground for all sorts of content. And it must be protected. | |
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| 2009-09-28: National Journal Group Inc. | The new platform resides on the Amazon cloud -- a Web-based hosting service -- as well as government servers and is supported by the Microsoft SharePoint content management system, Microsoft SQL data warehouse and ESRI mapping services. | |
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| 2009-09-23: Forrester | Forrester evaluated 11 leading collaboration platform vendors across 60 criteria. Microsoft continued to lead the pack in 2009. | |
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| 2009-09-18: Microsoft | Join this webcast to see how Microsoft partners, IDV Solutions, SpeakTech, and Habanero Consulting, have combined Bing Maps and SharePoint Server to deliver compelling solutions for their customers. | |
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| 2009-09-16: InfoWorld | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a tremendous improvement over previous versions for both developers and IT professionals, enabling the next generation of collaboration | |
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| 2009-09-09: Reuters | Anyone craving real-world Enterprise 2.0
success stories need look no further than global PR giant Edelman, which has used the combination of Microsoft SharePoint and NewsGator Social Sites to transform an aging intranet into an engine of global collaboration called Fusion.
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| 2009-09-09: Microsoft | SharePoint Conference 2009 is selling out fast! Register today to secure your spot before we sell out! | |
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| 2009-09-08: Microsoft | Patterns and practices has released a new version of guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems. The guidance helps customers accelerate constructing advanced applications through examples and documentation. The guidance delivers a guide, a reusable library, and a reference implementation for a partner portal extranet. | |
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| 2009-09-02: Gartner Group | Get one viewpoint on how SharePoint is being used aggressively for many process improvements and content management opportunities. | |
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| 2009-09-01: Microsoft | In the past, customers have had a difficult time trying to detect what sites in a site collection have broken inheritance from the parent and thus why they cannot access some sites. The Permissions Reporting tool for SharePoint makes it very easy to detect where inheritance has been broken in a site collection.
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| 2009-08-27: OnWindows.com | Ferrari wanted to make its Web site as state-of-the-art and captivating as the cars it manufactures. The company migrated from a Java-based infrastructure to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to streamline development, simplify content management, and improve the user experience. With the new site, Ferrari has created a stronger audience connection. Site traffic has increased by 237 per cent, with a 150 per cent increase in unique visitors. | |
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| 2009-08-26: Microsoft Corp. | BorgWarner Inc., a leading supplier of highly engineered components and systems for automotive powertrains worldwide, has improved global collaboration and outside partner relationships with the launch of its new intranet and extranet, powered by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. | |
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| 2009-08-19: Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog | Ever wondered what makes SharePoint such an outstanding application? View the video to find out. | |
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| 2009-08-12: New York Times | SharePoint broke the $1 billion revenue mark last year and continued to rise past that total this year, making it the hottest selling server-side product ever for the company. | |
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| 2009-07-31: Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog | The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download. | |
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| 2009-07-27: Computerworld | Enterprise-level search coming out of Microsoft's takeover of Norwegian company FAST last year will be mated with SharePoint in a number of ways. | |
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| 2009-07-20: Microsoft PressPass | Learn more about MacOffice SP2. | |
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| 2009-07-15: CMS Wire | Microsoft gives us a bird's eye view into what SharePoint 2010 is really going to look and behave like. Time to take a little tour.
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| 2009-07-15: Information Week | The next version of the hot-selling collaboration and content management platform will add a host of user features as well as improved IT management capabilities. | |
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| 2009-07-13: New York Times | Microsoft’s saunter toward providing all of its Office software online continues this week with a preview of its Office 2010 software. | |
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| 2009-07-13: PC Magazine | Office 2010 looks set to be the smoothest upgrade in years to the world's preeminent productivity suite. | |
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| 2009-06-26: Microsoft | The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download. | |
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| 2009-06-24: Information Week | While it's no secret that Microsoft's SharePoint is increasingly being used for social networking applications, its wide range of uses -- from education and research to military and gaming -- is surprising, a presentation at Enterprise 2.0 revealed. | |
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| 2009-06-12: Product Design & Development | With the widespread adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and the evolution and acceleration of global product development initiatives, PTC believes the market is ready for a measurable shift in the way products will be developed. | |
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| 2009-06-01: Channel 9 | In this interview, Greg Galipeau, Microsoft Project Manager and senior consultant of RDA, discusses with Zhiming Xue about customizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) based solutions. | |
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| 2009-06-01: ASP.NET Pro | asp.netPRO editors have tallied the votes for this year's Readers' Choice Awards. More than 8,000 aspnetpro.com visitors voted on approximately 300 products in 25 product categories. Look for more coverage of the winners in the August issue of asp.netPRO. | |
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| 2009-05-28: PublicTechnology.net | Kainos has successfully delivered a SharePoint-based document collaboration project for RTÉ, Ireland’s public service broadcaster. The solution automates the handling and management of RTÉ’s copy clearance process which ensures that all commercials aired on RTÉ Radio and Television services comply with a comprehensive set of applicable laws and codes and are of a standard acceptable to RTÉ. | |
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| 2009-05-10: Microsoft | We've heard loud and clear that you want system requirements information as early as possible to assist in your budgeting and planning, so we're happy to announce (and confirm) some preliminary system requirements for SharePoint Server 2010. | |
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| 2009-05-07: SiliconRepublic.com | A major SharePoint rollout at Dublin City Council is envisaged to potentially save taxpayers €20,000 a month by eliminating paper from committee meetings. | |
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| 2009-04-28: Microsoft | Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services is now available for download. | |
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| 2009-04-26: SharePoint Team Blog | Gartner has posted a report for SharePoint that features a prominent customer, Pfizer. It highlights the benefits that SharePoint has brought to Pfizer and notes how agile and easy it was to deploy and use in the company. | |
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| 2009-04-23: Fresh Business Thinking | Leading IT experts have claimed that companies across the UK will be making a 'smart investment' by adopting Microsoft SharePoint during the credit crunch. | |
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| 2009-04-16: Redmond Developer News | On April 28, Microsoft plans to release Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office 2007, along with SP2 releases for some of its server products. Two of the servers that will get SP2 updates are Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. | |
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| 2009-04-15: Microsoft | PressPass spoke with Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Information Worker Product Management Group to find out more about how the next version of Office related product will deliver a synchronized experience across devices and provide greater choice and flexibility for customers. | |
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| 2009-04-02: Forbes | It's called collaboration software, and you should be using it. | |
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| 2009-04-02: Microsoft | SharePoint Designer 2007 now available as a free download. | |
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| 2009-03-31: Microsoft | People around the world already use Web 2.0 applications to share information, build virtual communities, and connect across geopolitical, sociological, and demographic boundaries. The next generation of government—Gov 2.0—has a unique opportunity to embrace these engaging technologies to respond to citizens with increased efficiency, transparency, and openness. | |
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| 2009-03-10: Information Week | Another key focus for the intelligence community's social and information-sharing initiatives this year is a common one: SharePoint. | |
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| 2009-03-04: Fierce Content Management | Arpan Shah is a Director on the SharePoint Product Management team. His currently leads audience and platform product management for SharePoint. Fierce Content Management spoke to Shah about SharePoint's role in many enterprise activities including content management, collaboration and search. | |
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| 2009-03-03: Microsoft | Commerce Server 2009 is now available for download to MSDN subscribers. Commerce Server 2009 delivers the ability to increase your business reach by making it possible to sell via multiple channels by using an out-of-the-box shopping site, SharePoint Commerce Services, and the Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation. | |
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| 2009-03-02: InformationWeek | The follow-up to Office 2007 will include lightweight browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that focus on collaboration. | |
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| 2009-03-02: Computerworld | GlaxoSmithKline is migrating 100,000 employees from IBM's Lotus Notes to Microsoft's hosted suite, which includes Exchange for e-mail, SharePoint, Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting, all managed from Microsoft's own data centers. | |
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| 2009-03-01: Visual Studio Magazine | Times are tough all over, but it seems somebody forgot to tell that to the growing ranks of SharePoint developers. Even as general IT and development budgets turn south, industry watchers say the amount of activity around SharePoint applications and features continues to rise. | |
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| 2009-02-27: NetworkWorld | If collaboration solutions were a smart investment in 2008, they are even smarter in the recession of 2009. Well architected SharePoint solutions are likely to be one of the smartest investments companies can make to survive and thrive in this challenging economy. | |
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| 2009-02-24: SharePoint Team Blog | The newly redesigned website (built on SharePoint Server 2007) www.welfare.ie has won an Ireland eGovernment award for most accessible Government website. | |
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| 2009-02-23: CMS Wire | Mauro Cardarelli, director of Portals and Collaboration at Vitale Caturano, took the time to address questions on strategies for linking document scanning with SharePoint to eliminate business process bottlenecks. | |
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| 2009-02-23: eWeek | General Motors CTO Fred Killeen keeps an eye on globalization and new models during the economic crisis. IT management must consider newer approaches such as virtualization, cloud computing, instant messaging and video conferencing to maintain efficiency and keep in contact with a widely distributed enterprise. | |
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| 2009-02-17: Air University Public Affairs | Using existing Sharepoint software, Maj. Scott Loller, 42nd Air Base Wing Plans and Programs Office deputy chief, developed a virtual method to manage information during emergency situations and base exercises. | |
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| 2009-02-10: Microsoft | Microsoft Corp. today disclosed a detailed road map for its enterprise search products, including the introduction of FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business. | |
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| 2009-02-10: ITWorld | Is inefficient communication plaguing your organization? Learn how to get everyone on the same page with SharePoint. | |
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| 2009-02-04: CMS Watch | Microsoft recently released an MSDN article written by Trent Swanson and Bhushan Nene from Microsoft, along with independent SharePoint MVP Scot Hiler. The article demonstrates how to implement an external content repository as a document library – like construct within SharePoint. | |
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| 2009-01-27: Information Week | Microsoft will discontinue PerformancePoint Server as an independent product and fold some of its capabilities into SharePoint Server, signaling a significant change in business intelligence (BI) software strategy.
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| 2009-01-17: Information Week | Microsoft VP Jeff Teper, who's led SharePoint's development since its inception in 1998, says the mission is simple: "To have one place to go to organize, share, and access information wherever it lived." | |
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| 2009-01-05: Useit.com | In total, the 10 winners were built on 26 different products—substantially fewer than the 41 used in 2008 or the 49 used in 2007. Most impressively, fully half of the winning intranets used SharePoint, especially the recent MOSS platform (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007). | |
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| 2008-12-01: MyDevConnections | Pej Javaheri and Steve Fox sat down with each other for a conversation about SharePoint at DevConnections in Las Vegas in November, 2008. | |
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Featured Reviews
| 2007-09-10: CRN Tech, Mario Morejon | Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers a lot more than just portal capabilities. It is one of the best platforms for developing .NET applications for the web. | |
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| 2007-08-13: InfoWorld | InfoWorld review gives SharePoint Server 2007 high ratings on ease-of-use and feature capabilities. | |
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| 2007-04-17: AIIM - The Enterprise Content Management Association | Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has won the AIIM E-DOC Magazine Readers' Choice Award for best collaboration. These awards recognize software and hardware manufacturers in the enterprise content management industry as selected by the readers of the magazine. | |
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| 2007-04-11: Network World, Travis Berkley | "With the release of Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft has made some dramatic changes to its popular collaboration software. Our Clear Choice Test of the SharePoint collaboration and content-management server found the new version easier than its predecessor to install and use." | |
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| 2007-02-07: InfoWorld, Oliver Rist | "Most important: It's all about collaboration. SharePoint used to be pretty much an HTML-based Web site that could talk to public folders. Now you've got personal vs. team sharing built right in. Users looking at their default SharePoint pages for the first time have immediate tools to build the usual SharePoint goodies..." | |
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| 2007-01-11: eWEEK, Jim Rapoza | "Most importantly—and the reason for which eWEEK Labs has given the platform an Analyst's Choice award—SharePoint Server 2007 is the best product we've seen for getting a capable and feature-rich enterprise Web platform up and running quickly." | |
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| 2006-10-11: Computerworld, Richard Ericson | Get a complete lowdown on the 2007 Microsoft Office system with a section on the dynamic site design of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and its interaction with Office applications. | |
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Additional News & Reviews
| 2009-09-10: Search Security | Once you've established your Microsoft SharePoint security best practices around access controls and permissions, you'll need to drill down into protecting specific groups, such as external users, figure out how you'll authorize users, and the security issues around SharePoint. | |
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| 2009-09-09: CMSWire | Microsoft has released an updated version of their "Developing SharePoint Applications" guidance. | |
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| 2009-07-29: Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog | In his talk, Razorfish Technical Director, Tony Jones, gives an overview of the interactive landscape and of SharePoint For Internet Sites, supported by real-world case studies and project lifecycles. | |
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| 2007-12-11: SharePoint Team Blog | These service packs include a number of hot fixes across Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services, new Stsadm commands for repartitioning databases and renaming host site collections, and updates to documentation that address performance and capacity planning concerns. | |
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| 2007-11-12: InfoWorld | Del Monte honored for its SharePoint Server implementation. This year's recipients of InfoWorld's highest honor are shining examples of IT projects undertaken by tech leaders committed to pushing their organizations forward. | |
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| 2007-11-06: Microsoft PressPass | Microsoft unveils new enterprise search products, including one available as a free download. | |
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| 2007-09-12: CIO Insight | The nation's fourth largest bank will roll out a social networking service for 110,000 employees using Microsoft SharePoint Server product. | |
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| 2007-08-15: CRN, Kecin McLaughlin | It's getting tough to find a Microsoft partner who isn't either reaping the financial benefits of deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 or eagerly planning to add it. | |
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| 2007-07-30: Government Computer News, David Essex | "[SharePoint Server] 2007 is an entirely different ballgame," said Peter O'Kelly, research director at Burton Group. "Everything we've seen so far says it's worked pretty effectively and scaled pretty well." | |
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| 2007-07-03: CMS Watch | "Pharma was supposed to be sacred ground for the big ECM vendors—the one area of turf where few really thought Microsoft would tread." | |
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| 2007-06-29: Microsoft.com | SharePoint Server 2007 has received U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 certification for managing records and documents. This page includes a link to the full press release plus additional information about this standard and add-on pack. | |
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| 2007-06-20: InformationWeek, W. David Gardner | Read David Gardner's interview with Derek Burney, general manager of SharePoint Platform & Tools, on the Web 2.0 technologies Microsoft is delivering under the SharePoint platform. The article also references how customers like Hawaiian Airlines and the Body Shop are using SharePoint Server 2007 for their external facing Web sites. | |
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| 2007-06-20: CNET News.com, Martin LaMonica | Microsoft announced Community Kit for SharePoint, a Web add-on that enables businesses to take advantage of "Enterprise 2.0" services, such as enhancing a blog's look, better wiki tools, and a tag cloud feature. | |
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| 2007-06-06: | Read how SharePoint Server 2007 is gaining traction and popularity among IT administrators as the integrated server solution for managing content and processes. | |
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| 2007-06-01: Redmond Magazine, Michael Desmond | Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. deploys a SharePoint Server 2007 web-based portal to solve data-sharing problems. Jim Travis, director of sales and marketing, says the impact the initial SharePoint deployment is having on his sales and marketing teams has caused "a deeper appreciation of the metrics behind the business." | |
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| 2007-06-01: aspnetPRO, David Riggs | The readers of asp.netPRO magazine have voted SharePoint Server 2007 the best content management system for ASP.NET development. | |
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| 2007-05-08: The Wall Street Journal, Pui-Wing Tam | Oil company Chevron plans to deploy SharePoint Server to help reduce the flood of office documents that raise storage costs and decrease worker productivity. (Subscription required for full WSJ.com article). | |
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| 2007-05-01: Redmond Magazine, Joanne Cummings | "With SharePoint, we've shown the management people that yes, you can really keep a project on track with team members dispersed all over the country and all over the world." | |
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| 2007-04-24: The Wall Street Jounral Online, Robert A. Guth | Miami-Dade County Public Schools created a SharePoint application to help students and teachers collaborate, with over 50,000 students accessing the system within the first two months.
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| 2007-04-18: CNET News.com, Cadace Lombardi | Read how Microsoft is embracing Web 2.0 tools as part of its Enterprise Content Management strategy. | |
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| 2007-04-18: The Intelligent Enterprise Weblog, Doug Henschen | "SharePoint already has some 10,000 corporate customers and more seats than all other ECM vendors combined, by some estimates. So it's not surprising that fresh announcements about SharePoint integrations are a dime a dozen here at AIIM Expo." | |
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| 2007-04-16: CMSWire, Brice Dunwoodle | Introducing the new Interactive Media Manager, a next-generation content management solution that combines digital work flows and media application integration in a collaborative environment built on core strengths of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. | |
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| 2007-02-24: Information Week, Nicholas Hoover | Learn the concerns enterprises have about the security, return on investment, and employees' adoption of Web 2.0 business tools. Find out how corporations are using SharePoint Products and Technologies and the 2007 Microsoft Office system to improve their collaboration platform. | |
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| 2006-12-01: eWEEK, Jim Rapoza | SharePoint Server 2007 includes a cornucopia of new template options for quickly building a wide variety of Web sites, portals and community pages as well as much-improved workflow and routing features. | |
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| 2006-09-01: Windows IT Pro | Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services outstripped the competition and took first place for Collaboration solution. | |
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| 2006-09-01: Windows IT Pro | Document management systems are becoming an essential part of the modern enterprise's collaborative work environment. According to Windows IT Pro readers, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is the leading technology in this space. | |
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