SharePoint (MOSS) News & Articles

It was only four months ago that Mimosa Systems (news, site) released NearPoint for SharePoint. Today the vendor launches a major version of its solution for archiving, eDiscovery and business user productivity, NearPoint 4.0.

With many new features and functionality aimed at putting some pep in the step of the eDiscovery process, NearPoint 4.0 enhances content management, archiving and data capture.

With SharePoint 2010 quickly approaching, it is probably safe to say that interest in this Microsoft product-zilla is not likely to go away.

Companies like Colligo (news, site) take full advantage of market conditions and keep churning out products that (hopefully) make SharePoint experiences more enjoyable and productive. Please meet Colligo 4.0.

Just a quick note that Microsoft has released a fix for the expiration date issue that came with SharePoint (news, site) Service Pack 2.

In case you have forgotten, Service Pack 2 came with a nice little bug: a product expiry date is accidentally triggered, effectively rendering production licenses into trial licenses.

Microsoft did offer a temporary approach to resolve the issue while they worked on the hotfix.

Now the hotfix is available and there are two ways to install it:

• Install before you install Service Pack 2: This prevents the bug from occurring when you do the Service Pack 2 installation.
• Install after you install Service Pack 2: For those who already have the Service Pack installed, this will resolve the issue.

The actual Service Pack itself won't be updated for another 4-6 weeks.

Head over and download your hotfix now:

• For x86: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/5/2F51AB71-1325-49D2-9CB9-18DEC4780E99/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x86-glb.exe
• For x64: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/B/5BBD34A9-C528-42B0-8A5F-9A8997B25C32/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x64-glb.exe

There are a few different solutions available to backup and restore your SharePoint content, but not all of them enable the restoration of a single document, MetaLogix's Selective Restore Manager Pro for SharePoint however, does.

This post comes straight to you from collaboration corner, where Zoho (news, site) and Microsoft SharePoint are sitting together like two peas in pod. 

Aiming to bridge the gap between popular productivity applications and traditional, in-house office solutions, the pair recently announced a new plug-in that lets Zoho Office users work with Zoho online collaborative productivity applications to create, view, and edit files stored in Microsoft SharePoint.

NewsGator (news, sites) believes that social computing solutions like Social Sites are the next generation of operating system for the organization, calling them the "most productive home base for knowledge workers". They say the latest version of Social Sites -- v3.0 -- includes new capabilities that will transform the content in your organization into social knowledge that is both broad and deep. 

German company, Ontoprise launches the latest version of its open source Semantic MediaWiki+ to help improve a company's knowledgebase and make finding information and retrieval easier.

Tomoye (news, site) has a new version of their Community software available as a Public Beta starting today. Tomoye Community Software 3.0 is community and social networking application that can be deployed standalone or as an add-on for Microsoft SharePoint.

We gave you an overview of the current release of the community software back in November of last year. That version offered communities based on themes, expert classification, community metrics and a SharePoint powerpack.

The latest version, also being demonstrated at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston for the next three days, includes the ability to show information and people based on being voted most helpful or most connected. Community members also have a say on what's displayed on the community home page through voting.

That's probably not all this new version of Tomoye can do, but unless you sign up for their public beta, you can't seem to find much more information.

We'll be digging that up and bringing it to you as soon as possible. Until then, check them out at the Enterprise 2.0 conference or sign up for that public beta to see for yourself.

Get the feeling this isn't the only social networking, community announcement coming this week? Yeah, neither do we... Stay tuned!

When we first looked at the new MetaVis Technologies (news, site) tools for SharePoint, we knew there would be a lot of interest from enterprise struggling to manage and control their SharePoint implementations.

These tools which include taxonomy support and metadata management for SharePoint -- both MOSS and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 -- are any SharePoint architect's dream, helping with the creation, deployment and management of SharePoint sites.

Today they are generally available to the public and CMSWire caught up with Steve Pogrebivsky, MetaVis CEO and Co-Founder, to check on how the products are being received.

Inmagic (news, site) has bolstered its social knowledge management platform with SharePoint interoperability features. Who doesn't want to connect to MOSS nowadays?

You may be one of the many organizations who uses SharePoint on a daily basis for collaboration and document management. But not everything you need to do your job is located in the SharePoint content repository, nor should it be.

The days of a single content repository are over. Now come the solutions that enable you to leverage a central interface to manage and work with content from multiple repositories. ASG Software Solutions (news, site) provides you this ability using SharePoint as that central interface.

In a continued effort to provide integrated solutions with Microsoft productivity tools, Mark Logic (news, site) is now offering a toolkit for Microsoft Excel.

Their first foray in Office Integration included a Toolkit for Word that allows you to add custom metadata to Word documents to improve search and analytics and create better XML-based applications. It also enables you to view Word documents from the MarkLogic server.

At the same as the Toolkit for Word announcement, the MOSS Connector for Mark Logic was also announced. This connector automatically mirrors content from MOSS to the MarkLogic XML Server and can also integrate MarkLogic functions via SharePoint workflows.

Now, with the addition of a Toolkit for Excel, the integration is almost complete. The toolkit offers a number of capabilities including:

• Enhanced Search: Search across Excel books for worksheets, cells and formulas from within the MarkLogic environment, add the search results to an active workbook and more.
  
• Creation and Manipulation of Excel Workbooks: Create new workbooks from existing XML documents, manipulate and re-use workbooks stored in the repository with a built-in XQuery library and never have to run Office to do it.
• Custom Metadata for Excel Documents: Add and edit custom metadata across Excel documents.

In addition, an Excel add-in is included that will help you deploy web applications from within Excel. A sample application is includes that demonstrates how to use the toolkit.

The Mark Logic Toolkit for Excel is distributed under open source licensing, as an Apache 2.0 license. You can download your copy from the Mark Logic Developer Workshop.

Kazeon (news, site), provider of eDiscovery software, is now offering integration with Microsoft SharePoint. As a part of its fourth generation eDiscovery software, Kazeon's eDiscovery Sharepoint Manager lets Kazeon's resources, including data analysis and review, and concept search be shared across platforms and even into content repositories.

Earlier this month we talked about how Mainsoft (news, site) was helping integrate SharePoint and IBM Rational Team Concert, providing SharePoint collaboration capabilities inside the Team Concert world. Good stuff for project teams.

But what about organizations who live inside their Lotus Notes environments? They also need some SharePoint love. And Mainsoft is providing it to them as well with the latest version of their Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes.

What's new in Version 2? Come have a look.

PSIGEN Software, a fourteen year old company built on the premise “perfect, simple imaging” has a pretty strong grip on the Document Management and Enterprise Content Management world.

Mostly known for their capture solutions for SharePoint, the company recently announced a new tool they hope will win over even more hearts from the Microsoft fan base. SharePoint Lookup Provider (SLP) provides integration with the SharePoint Database, which reportedly allows for a jazzed up automation process when scanning and capturing documents destined for document Libraries.