Blogs

Visual Studio 2010 RC, SharePoint 2010 RC, and Forefront for SharePoint 2010 RC!

Submitted by Tristan on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:00

Microsoft have released the Release Candidate versions of Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Forefront Protection for SharePoint 2010!

Office 2010 RC released

Submitted by Tristan on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:08

Neowin.net reports that the first release candidates (RC) of Office 2010, both server and client versions, have been released to testers. I'm looking forward to testing SharePoint integration!

MS Publication - A Guide to Data Governance for Privacy, Confidentiality and Compliance

Submitted by Tristan on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 18:58

Microsoft recently released a draft guide to Data Governance for Privacy, Confidentiality and Compliance.

SharePoint 2010 and Windows Identity Foundation presentation

Submitted by Tristan on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 23:16

There’s a great video on SharePoint 2010 and how it uses Windows Identity Foundation here. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC26 It was delivered by Sesha Mani, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. I recommend checking it out!

Here are some points:

Introduction to Claims-based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 in plain English

Submitted by Tristan on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 11:50

Introduction

There is a lot of hype about claims based authentication, and unfortunately a lot of confusing jargon. My goal in this post is to explain what claims based authentication means in plain English. This includes what it enables, and what it doesn’t enable. I am going to try my hardest not to use any technical terminology beyond the bare minimum.

SharePoint 2010 blog news

Submitted by Tristan on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 23:16

Well, we've all been waiting for SharePoint 2010 information to become public, and now that SharePoint conference '09 has started, the information is bursting out.

The first post I've found is from SharePointsolutions.com at http://sharepointsolutions.com/sharepoint-help/blog/index.php/category/s... . Here's a summary of the key points:

Using Office Outlook 2010 with Lotus Notes backend connector (DAMO) on Windows 7.

Submitted by Tristan on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 16:00

Many companies wish to use Lotus Domino as a mail backend, with Microsoft Outlook as the mail client.

IBM provides a connector for doing this, called DAMO - Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook. It's available on the IBM website, if your company has the necessary contractual arrangements... and if you can find it!

File Classification Infrastructure integration with SharePoint 2007

Submitted by Tristan on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 14:32

I've been playing around with the File Classification Infrastructure stuff in Windows 2008 R2 Server.

I was hoping that you could use it to classify files inside SharePoint 2007. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to do it.