by Eugene Rosenfeld | Mar 4, 2010 | InfoPath, MOSS, Office, SharePoint, Visual Studio, Workflow
I needed to write a customized approval workflow. I know I could use InfoPath to create custom approval task forms, and I saw many posts showing how this is done. But if I could use the SharePoint Approval Workflow task forms, I could save a lot of development time...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Jan 26, 2010 | MOSS, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Foundation, WSS
Update: I’ve made a couple of updates related to new SharePoint 2010 capabilities. There are many posts out there extolling the virtues of using metadata over folders for organizing information in SharePoint 2007. I certainly believe that metadata is a great...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Jan 7, 2010 | Blogger, MOSS, SharePoint, WSS
Black Blade Associates (my company) has released a free tool that will let you import your Blogger blog into a SharePoint blog site. This is the tool I used to import this blog to the company SharePoint blog site. Here’s some info about the tool from the Black Blade...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Jan 7, 2010 | Identity Management (IdM), Impersonation
I’ve talked to many customers who were looking to make the various applications in their organizations behave as a single system to their end users. This is a great goal as it leads to many benefits from higher user productivity to lower training costs. However, the...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Jan 5, 2010 | MOSS, SharePoint, WSS
I was thrilled when I first started working with WSS V3 and saw that the list item pages for creating, viewing, and editing list items were actual web part pages. This opened up a way to customize these pages for various lists in a way that was very difficult to do in...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Jan 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Update Black Blade has released the Blog Importer tool, the one I used to export my blog. Download the tool today. I’ve exported the posts in this blog to my company’s SharePoint blog site: Black Blade Associates Blogs. Why? I had a few reasons for exporting the...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Dec 4, 2009 | Document Management, Documentum, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer 2007, SharePoint Foundation, WSS
I was looking for some info on how SharePoint stacked up against Documentum, and came upon Johnny Gee’s article titled Documentum vs SharePoint – Round 2. First I wanted to thank Johnny for a great post and Eric Crone (of ForeFront Partners LLC) for a good comment...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Dec 2, 2009 | Document Management, Documentum, MOSS, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Foundation, WSS
Black Blade Associates has just released a new black paper: Enhancing SharePoint Document Management with Virtual Documents. Lack of Virtual Document support is one the most common reasons consumers pass up SharePoint in favor of more expensive document management...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Nov 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has released their version of “The App Store”. Windows Marketplace for Mobile is available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/get-marketplace.mspx Windows Marketplace for Mobile download works on Windows Mobile...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Nov 19, 2009 | MOSS, OneNote, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Foundation, WSS
I’ve been a fan of OneNote for several years. I like how easily I can capture some information without worrying about file names or explicitly saving data. Now I’ve found another reason to love OneNote: I can synchronize all of my notebooks across multiple computers...
