The cache of Relevant Information that you’re accumulating in your SharePoint environment must be able to be used by the variety of team members in a myriad of forms – starting with a desktop browser and printed on a piece of paper.

In the spectrum of project management tools, SharePoint’s task list provides a good balance between simplicity of design and ease of use on the one hand, and power and extensibility on the other.

Flash forward to SharePoint, a synchronous communication tool, that relies on a consistent and navigable HTTP connection between client and server. Connections that are poor, unreliable or inconsistent create negative perceptions with users that are very difficult overcome

Recently there have been a few questions asked on @EUSP’s STP (Stump the Panel) which needed a specific integration with Outlook that you simply can’t get using OOTB features of SharePoint.

The idea I came up with, was to store data in a custom List in SharePoint, and create a VBA macro that captures Calendar additions automatically, and uploads them straight to the SharePoint List.

My Marketing department approached me this week and they are interested in using SharePoint to manage their marketing campaigns. In particular, they were interested in the ability to manage contact lists. Sounds simple enough.

List administrators should be able to send e-mails to all the approved and registered users specifying some filters. For instance, the list administrator should be capable of sending e-mails to all the registered users from Canada. In this article, I will show you how to implement this requirement using Microsoft Word Mail Merge.

This is the fifth article in a multipart series that is intended to help you create mailing lists for your SharePoint sites or blogs without writing a single line of .NET Code. In the introductory article, I listed the project initiatives, requirements, and objectives. In Part 1, I created a secured backend where we will store the subscribers’ contacts. In Part 2, I configured the ‘Contact’ content type, created a subscription form for the mailing list and did some simple customizations to it. In Part 3, I utilized the thrilling DataFormWebPart to further extend and enhance the subscription form to meet the project requirements. In Part 4, I implemented requirement # 3 by creating a list that comprises the names of all the countries of the world and a lookup field that gets its values from this list.

One of the most asked questions I get from End Users about SharePoint is “How do I remove the connection from Outlook?” This is usually requested because they are receiving an excessive number of authentication prompts in Outlook due to not having their machine configured correctly or some other bug. In most cases, the prompting should end once they add the site to the Trusted Sites, allow IE to pass authentication, and setup the WebClient in the registry. Note: At my organization, we also have an installer that will do all of that for you. If that is too much and they just have to have it removed, here are the steps.

BPOS is an insanely feature rich platform. Exchange, SharePoint (MOSS Standard!), presence, instant live meetings – it’s a lot of functionality that I would sorely, sorely miss if I had to live without it. My business would be severely impacted without it. Could I find replacement functionality? Probably, but I think I would have to cobble it together from a variety of other vendors, complicating my life. BPOS has so far proven itself to be stable and reliable. For the right kind of customer (like my company), BPOS is worth strong consideration.