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Colligo Briefcase: offline SharePoint for iPad and iPhone

By tim, on September 5th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I took a quick look at Colligo Briefcase, an offline SharePoint 2007 and 2010 client for the Apple iPad and iPhone. There is a free Lite version, limited to 50Mb and with cut-down features; Briefcase Pro which costs a modest $2.99; and Enterprise which adds centralized management.

SharePoint is a powerful collaboration platform, but Microsoft’s

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Recovering documents from SharePoint 2010

By tim, on July 23rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I mentioned the other day that an update broke my SharePoint installation. The timing was bad as I was just about to leave the office for a few days, so as it turned out I did not get to focus on this properly until last weekend. This virtual server is backed up nightly. I restored

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SharePoint security update stops SharePoint working

By tim, on July 13th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

This morning I noticed that my test SharePoint 2010 installation was not working. Browsing to the site got me HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.

The problem seems to be related to the update KB2553365 which I noticed had been installed last night, following an initial failure.

Note this point in the description

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Farewell to Microsoft Small Business Server

By tim, on July 5th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced pricing and licensing for Windows Server 2012. A dry topic perhaps; but one which confirms the end of a product with which I am perhaps too familiar: Small Business Server. It is spelt out in the FAQ:

Q33. Will there be a next version of Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard?

No.

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Wrestling with SharePoint and Office 365: code to bulk move documents

By tim, on June 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I have mixed feelings about SharePoint, Microsoft’s flexible but infuriating collaboration platform. It makes difficult things easy and easy things difficult, or something like that. Today’s story is an example, and may also be of interest if you are wondering how to write code that manipulates documents in SharePoint as found in Office 365.

The

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What would you like to see in Microsoft Office 15?

By tim, on January 30th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Today brings the news that Microsoft Office 15 is now in Technical Preview (also known as private beta).

There is little news about what is in it other than this:

With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office

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Microsoft Office 365: the detail and the developer story

By tim, on June 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended the UK launch of Office 365 yesterday and found it a puzzling affair. The company chose to focus on small businesses, and what we got was several examples of customers who had discovered the advantages of storing documents online. We were even shown a live video conference with a jerky, embarrassing webcam stream

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OpenOffice moving to Apache; next step reunification with LibreOffice

By tim, on June 1st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Oracle has announced that it is contributing the OpenOffice.org code, the source for the free productivity suite that competes with Microsoft Office, to the Apache Software Foundation’s Incubator:

Incubation is the first step for a project to be considered among the diverse Open Source initiatives overseen by the ASF. A submitted project and its community

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Perforce is developing a content management system called Chronicle, says we should version everything

By tim, on June 1st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Christopher Seiwald, founder and CEO of Perforce Software, on the eve of the company’s 2011 user conference which starts today.

The Perforce product manages source code, dealing with version history, check-in and check-out, branching, merging and so on. It is excellent software, lightweight, fast and reliable, and there are Perforce

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SharePoint Workspace 2010 – what a mess

By tim, on May 25th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

For some time I have been meaning to post about SharePoint Workspace 2010. This application was introduced as part of Office 2010, though it is partly based on the older Office Groove software. Its purpose is to allow users to work with documents stored on SharePoint servers even when they are offline. I regard this

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