One of the new features with SharePoint 2010 is the option to add-on FAST for advanced indexing and search capabilities. The short presentation below gives an idea of the extras you get with FAST versus just using SharePoint. The focus is on internal indexing/search solutions. FAST offers a lot more over SharePoint for use with public facing web sites but that’s a whole other scenario.
Read more »This week I presented at the SharePoint Evolutions Conference and one of the sessions I delivered was an interactive tour around some of the new and improved features being introduced in SharePoint 2010, from the end-user’s perspective. Here’s a presentation that summarises some of the demonstration:
Read more »With the next release of SharePoint, Microsoft has been changing some names and adding to the product range. Starting with the basics:
| What’s it called? | What does it do? |
| SharePoint Foundation Service | Provide a web-based platform for storing and collaborating on documents and other activity-related information. Previously called: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) |
| SharePoint Server | Full web-based platform for information management, search and collaborative working including personalisation and integrating other applications into a single user interface. Previously called: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) |
| SharePoint Workspace | Client for offline co-creation/collaboration on SharePoint content from remote locations/across firewalls. Previously called: Groove |
Microsoft announced a new product at the SharePoint conference that has been going under the codename Project Gemini – PowerPivot
PowerPivot is being released as an add-on component to Excel 2010 (licensing not available at time of writing). It’s purpose: analysing massive sets of data using familiar tools…
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The SharePoint 2010 product line-up was announced during Steve Ballmer’s keynote at the SharePoint conference on Monday 19th October 2009. And it’s a lot longer list…
Read more »Commoncraft have been at it again with their Plain English way of explaining technology. And this time it’s SharePoint that gets the 3 minute treatment, on behalf of Microsoft:
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