SharePoint

Springhouse to Sponsor and Attend “What’s New? Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010″ Events in Virginia

Springhouse  has been asked by Microsoft to sponsor three upcoming events in the DC Metro and Richmond, VA areas. The event is titled "What’s New? Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010: The Enterprise Collaboration Platform " and will be held in Chevy Chase, MD on 2/18; Reston, VA on 2/25;  and Richmond, VA [...]

Winter Olympics Press Portal Powered by SharePoint 2010

With the Winter Olympic games just a few weeks away I just read today that SharePoint 2010 has just won a “Gold Medal”. Well kind of…The US Olympic Committee has set up a press portal that is running on SharePoint 2010. Nice!!!
SharePoint expert Dan Holme reports from the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he [...]

Managing Image Metadata in SharePoint Image Library

 
Ever upload images in huge batches to your SharePoint Picture Library? I just did the other day and then had to think how I would update keywords and metadata for hundreds of photos. I sure wasn’t going to click Edit Properties on all of the photos!
If this was a normal Document library, no problem. [...]

SDPS Partners Can Download SharePoint 2010 Beta VHD

The SharePoint 2010 VHD is now available for Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) partners.  The SharePoint 2010 VHD is a virtual machine that contains SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 that you can start using today.  Go to your SDPS partner portal for further details!
 
What is SDPS?
SDPS allows Microsoft customers to use Software Assurance Benefits to [...]

Some of the New Features of SharePoint 2010 – from SPC09

If you didn’t already know, this week is SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. Three of Springhouse’s employees are there learning about all of the new features that will be part of SharePoint 2010.
Some bits and pieces of information from the conference have made their way back to our offices and I wanted to share [...]

SharePoint 2007 Exposed - Live Demo in Pittsburgh 10-29-09

Hello Pittsburgh!! Are you ready to get exposed? Check out this upcoming event — SharePoint Exposed — a complimentary live demo of the product by our SharePoint gurus. That’s right, we are bringing our “sold out in Philly” event to Pittsburgh on October 29th.
Learn how SharePoint 2007 can help your organization increase efficiency and productivity!

How would [...]

SharePoint Meeting Workspace – An Underappreciated Template

Series on leveraging the Meeting Workspace to improve business process and end user satisfaction.
About Meeting Workspace
Since I started working with SharePoint in 2003 (SPS2003,) I have grown fond of the Meeting Workspace site template for its simplicity and usability for the end user. It is the only site template that does not have a quick [...]

Sneak Peek of SharePoint 2010 and Access Services from WPC09

Wow, these video demos keep getting better and better as Day 1 of WPC09 moves along. Here is another clip of how Access  is going to directly tie in with SharePoint 2010 via Access Services.
From the demo it now looks like you can create an Access form in the client application and publish that up [...]

SharePoint: Creating Thank You Pages for Improved User Experience

To support User Experience, special attention should be given to the click stream when Users perform tasks such as:

Ask a question
Take a survey
Submit a Post

In many instances, the landing page following the completion of a task within SharePoint does not provide adequate feedback to the end user that their actions resulted in a successful submission [...]

How to Disable the Send New Email Checkbox in SharePoint

How many other SharePoint site admins and owners are annoyed by that little checked checkbox to automatically send out an email to a new user or group when you add them to a permissions list? I know I certainly am and I always find myself unchecking that box.
See…the below checkbox. It’s initially checked. And why?? I’m usually [...]