MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0

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Event Description  Products: SharePoint Portal Server. Recommended Audience: IT Professional. Language: English-American Description: Many organizations are currently managing their Web content with Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. The new Office “12” SharePoint Servers handle many of the capabilities previously performed by Content Management Server while taking advantage of SharePoint foundation technologies that combine both document management […]

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[via Web Content Management in Office “12”] By now many people have heard that the upcoming version of MCMS 2002 (which I’ll refer to as ‘CMS’ for the sake of this post) will be built entirely on the Windows SharePoint Services architecture (with SharePoint Portal integrating the new CMS publishing features). Gerhard Schobbe, Group Program […]

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Arpan Shah, Product Manager for MCMS and SharePoint has written a nice article on his blog about how to get ready for Office “12”: http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/11/24/496759.aspx He quoted me a couple of times pointing to my blog. For your convenience below are direct links to the articles Arpan was refering to. Regarding direct access to the […]

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[Via Lawrence Liu] Well, theOffice “12” Beta 1 Technology Preview Program has officially started, and 10,000 lucky customers and partners are in the process of downloading the bits from our BetaPlace site. Already, the early press coverage has been very positive: PC Magazine: Microsoft Office 12 Beta 1: Extreme Makeover CNET: Inside Microsoft Office 12 (Beta […]

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As Office 12 will leverage Windows Workflow Foundation as Workflow engine it might be interesting to see the differences between Biztalk Server (the other Workflow product shipped by Microsoft) and Windows Workflow Foundation. Brian Loesgen has provided such a comparison on his blog: http://blogs.ineta.org/bloesgen/archive/2005/10/09/56481.aspx

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[Via Andrew Connell] At the MVP Global Summit, Microsoft disclosed that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, InfoPath, Publisher, Visio, and OneNote in Office 12 will support saving documents to PDF natively… no need for PDF printer drivers any more!!! The saved documents will be based on Adobe’s Open Specification and can be read using any tool […]

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Now after Arpan posted his Top 10 favorite features for next version of SharePoint and MCMS Lawrence Liu has posted his favorite list: A “Global” Template that is applied/provisioned before any other template, and a Feature Framework that provides modularity for “additive” templates OOB document review/approval workflow with support for digital signatures Integration with Outlook […]