Office SharePoint 2007 Books Galore!!!

This is from Joel Oleson’s SharePoint Land. He lists a boat load (yes that is a technical term) of SharePoint 2007 books that will be coming out soon to support the imminent release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.

Go check out Joel’s list at: Have you seen the new SharePoint books?

You should subscribe to Joel’s Blog – he is always a source of great SharePoint information.

Technorati tags: MOSS+2007, Microsoft, books, office System, Office 2007

MOSS 2007 Videos & Screencasts

Here are some links to videos and screencasts for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 on MSDN that SharePoint developers will find useful:

• Anonymous Access and Forms Authentication with WSS 3.0
  Learn how to configure a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site to use the ASP.NET 2.0 Forms Authentication Provider.
•  Configuring Security and Authorization with WSS 3.0
  Learn the new WSS 3.0 model for configuring access to a WSS site collection.
• Creating WSS 3.0 Workflows with Visual Studio 2005
  Create a custom workflow with Visual Studio 2005 and configure it to run from within a WSS 3.0 site.
• Introducing the Business Data Catalog (BDC)
  Learn how to access back-end systems using the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Business Data Catalog.
• Retrieving Data Programmatically from the MOSS Business Data Catalog
  Create a custom Web Part that performs custom queries against Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Business Data Catalog applications.
• Using MOSS to Create BI Dashboards and KPIs
  Create a custom Report Center site with a MOSS dashboard using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Web Content Management in MOSS 2007
  Use the Web Content Management features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to create a custom page layout for publishing content to the web.
• SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Overview
  3 group program managers (Jon Kauffman, PJ Hough, and Gerhard Schobbe) discuss the cool new features that in the Beta 2 release.
• Creating Custom Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2007
  Use the SharePoint Designer 2007 Workflow Designer to build a custom workflow on a SharePoint list.
• SharePoint 2007 – Blogs, Wikis, RSS
  Learn about the new SharePoint 2007 native support for RSS, Wikis and Blogs.
• Rob Lefferts – SharePoint Services and Workflow
  Rob Lefferts discusses SharePoint 2007 and workflow.
• Creating and Customizing Site Pages with SharePoint Designer 2007
  Understand the difference between page templates and page instances and learn how to customize your pages.
• Accessing Server-side Workbooks and Excel Services through Web Services
  Program standard Web Services from a Windows Forms Application to load Excel workbooks and perform server-side calculations.
• Creating and Using Event Handlers in WSS v3
  Create a list item receiver class to handle synchronous and asynchronous events.
• Creating and Testing Features with WSS v3
  Use Visual Studio 2005 to create and deploy a custom SharePoint 2007 feature.
• Office SharePoint Server 2007: Knowledge Network
  Knowledge Network is a new add-on for Office SharePoint Server 2007 that many people don’t know about yet. It automates the discovery and sharing of undocumented knowledge and relationships, enabling you to quickly locate who knows whom and who knows what within your constantly changing organization. In this interview John Hand and Glen Anderson from the KN team take us on a tour of Knowledge Network.

Update: Oops – Left this off the original post: From John Holliday

Technorati tags: MOSS+2007, Microsoft, ECM, Office 2007

Women In Technology LunchBunch Presentation

I was invited to speak at the October Women In Technology LunchBunch and gave my presentation on “Blogs: Changing the Way Businesses Talk With Customers” yesterday.

I had a great time and met some really nice new friends. As I promised the audience I have uploaded my presentation and Bogging Resources handout I made available.

You can download the presentation here and the Blogging Resources here.

Technorati tags: blogging, women in technology, betterecm

Really On The Road Again!

It has been a while since my last post. Well, I have been a bit preoccupied. This week I will be meeting with Microsoft Product Managers during the quarterly Partner Advisory Council (PAC) meeting in Cannes, France. I know, I know. Tough assignment but somebody has to go, right?

Anyway, I am an active member of the Microsoft Collaboration and Portals Partner Advisory Council. We meeting quarterly with Microsoft Product Managers to provide feedback from our customers and from our experiences building solutions using the technologies covered by our PAC. As you may have guessed, one of the products we advise Microsoft on is SharePoint. We are also responsible for knowing and providing feedback on the other Office System products like InfoPath, Groove, the Office client applications, Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, and the other products listed here.

I find participation on my PAC very valuable and I am helping my clients better take advantage of Microsoft’s new products and technologies based on the insights and feedback from the Product Teams. By participating in the Microsoft PAC program I hope to selfishly influence future products to help ECM become better.

So, what does the picture above have to do with the Microsoft PAC meeting later this week? Well, I decided to take a few days off before the PAC meetings and spent some time in Monaco over the weekend and on Monday. As it turned out Peter White and a friend of my wife and I, Jaared, were playing in London this week so we decided to take a short detour up to London tonight and catch their show. Wow! It was fantastic. The picture was taken at Pizza Express tonight during the encore.

I have been listening to Peter since the days when he played with Al Stewart. This part of my post was a little off topic but it helps to explain why I have been a bit behind on keeping up with BetterECM. Hopefully the great music and short breather will help reinvigorate me and keep things at BetterECM fresh and interesting.

Technorati tags: Microsoft, SharePoint, Office System, Peter White, Jaared, Al Stewart

On The Road Again…

In approximately two weeks I am hitting the road for a four day, four city tour, where I and some of our partners will be presenting our seminar entitled “Building SharePoint Business Solutions With Workflow”.

This seminar has been presented several times in the Washington, DC metro area and been well received. My presentation is called “Three Keys to Successfully Building Business Solutions With SharePoint”.

I will be posting my presentation in the next couple of weeks and we will be making an accompanying eBook available.

Here is the itinerary:

Austin
Monday, November 6, 2006
Microsoft Corporation Offices
9606 N Mo Pac Expy, Austin, TX 78759
(512) 795-5300
Register Online:
http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=112350

San Antonio
Tuesday, November 7. 2006
Team Momentum Offices
8000 W IH 10, Suite 240, San Antonio, TX 78230
phone: (210) 268.1149
Register Online:
http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=112353

Houston
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Microsoft Corp
2000 W Sam Houston Pkwy S #350, Houston, TX 77042
(832) 252-4300
Register Online:
http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=112352

Baton Rouge
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Team Momentum Offices
450 Laurel St. Ste. #1501, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
phone: (225) 295.4130
Register Online:
http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=112354

I hope to see some of my loyal readers at one of these events.

Oh yeah, you can catch my “Top Ten New Features of MOSS 2007″ which I added at the end of the “Three Keys…” presentation.

Technorati tags: SharePoint, workflow, Microsoft, Applied+Information+Sciences, BPM