Moss News & Articles

It was inevitable that at this year’s LegalTech conference eDiscovery-related announcements would abound. So the announcement that archiving specialist Mimosa (news, site) and legal consulting and risk management company Navigant have integrated their products is not really that surprising. Between the two, they hope to be able to deploy software that cuts the costs of eDiscovery while providing a more efficient and more streamlined product.

I finally got around to reading the preliminary SharePoint 2010 taxonomy and metadata info on MSDN. As most of you know, MOSS 2007 had some serious challenges in this regard (e.g., no hierarchical metadata, no sharing controlled vocabularies across site collections, etc.) -- and they caused information architects like me much consternation.

It would appear that SharePoint 2010 includes many new features under the umbrella of Enterprise Metadata Management, and they seem to have addressed some key issues. Here are the highlights.

The SharePoint 2009 Conference kicked off officially yesterday with the keynotes from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO and Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President, Office Business Platform. If you had the time to listen to keynotes (which were streamed live), then you know Microsoft is expecting big things for SharePoint 2010 (news, site) -- not just for the enterprise but also for the web.

On the last day of ARMA ’09, the focus on SharePoint was clearly compelling, and the room was full. Through interaction with the attendees, it became clear that many of us are facing the same situation.

SharePoint is already in the organization, but hasn’t necessarily been deployed through a defined strategy.

In the run up to the worldwide SharePoint conference in Las Vegas later this month, it is inevitable that there will be a number new developments announced before the curtain finally lifts on October 19th.

One such development is the announcement by enterprise content management vendor pTools (news,  site)  that they have extended its Web CMS product to be used directly in the SharePoint (news, site) interface and framework.

The release of v3.6 of NextDocs (news, site) Regulatory Document Management system continues the company’s move towards establishing itself as the principal provider of document management systems for the Life Sciences.

It comes with pre-configured support and full validation documentation for the DIA Electronic Document Management (EDM) Reference Model.

SharePointBoost is a supplier of SharePoint Web Parts and Add-ons, in addition to consulting services. Their products range from list, administration, portal, alert to lookup web parts, in addition to a couple of free tools.

Probably one of the most interesting is the SharePoint Password Change web part. With a new version recently released, this web part offers some nice capabilities to help administrators manage the password security policies for their implementation.

So it was available -- the fourth and final version of the SharePoint Administrators Toolkit for SharePoint 2007 (news, site) -- for a little while. The toolkit, which offers administrative services for both MOSS and WSS3.0 has been released, but is not available due to a file issue in the download package.

Now some of you might ask why Alterian (news, site) would have two SharePoint connectors in their inventory content management connectors. If you knew the history of Alterian, you would know. It's because they have two web content management systems: Morello and Immediacy. And each one connects to SharePoint a little bit different.

Ah, we knew it wouldn't be long until we heard about another new SharePoint connector. This latest one comes from Kentico (news, site) and is called the Kentico CMS Connector for SharePoint. What's different about this one? It's free.

SharePoint Solutions (news, site) decided to make accessing and integrating Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) database information from/with SharePoint less of a chore by introducing new SharePoint Data Zoom extensions.

Migrating existing content into a SharePoint system, and specifically into a SharePoint Page Library -- the foundation of a SharePoint Publishing website -- is neither simple nor straightforward.

To migrate content into SharePoint we took a look at a number of tools, both commercial tools and custom-built ones paired with a data aggregation framework. Here is a review of our experience, a summary of our final approach and some postmortem thoughts.

Who says you have to pay for all those SharePoint licenses to have your SharePoint content available on a public website? GOSS Interactive says you don't -- if you use the GOSS iCM SharePoint Connector.

Ah, there are workarounds for everything these days aren't there?

Earlier this year AIIM (news, site) released its annual State of the ECM Industry 2009 report which found that overall, electronic content at an organizational level is in a mess.

Revisiting the report in the cold light of day AIIM President John Mancini summed up the findings of the report on the Digital Landfill blog recently.

Hardly a day goes by that we don't find ourselves covering some of the eight facts about document management that he raises. Three of these in particular, strike a chord with us, as we are sure they do with you.

• Email Exposure
• Legal Discovery
• SharePoint Deployments

There are few organizations that haven't considered -- and implemented -- SharePoint (news, site) in some manner. But as much as it has been implemented, it's still a confusing and often frustrating platform to work with.

Delivering just the kind of help these confused folk need, CMS Watch offers their latest research on SharePoint. The SharePoint Report 2009 helps organizations better understand where and how this platform might best fit in their organization. Here's what you can expect.