Sharepoint 2010 News & Articles

Metalogix (news, site) supports SharePoint from the administrative side of things offering migration, archiving and other management functions. Their recent acquisition of StoragePoint, another SharePoint solution provider, has added a new capability to their suite of solutions -- one that will appeal to many organizations.

Every company likes to save something special for their annual convention, and IRIS (news, site) is no exception. One of the releases that caught our attention was the upgrade to IRISPowerscan, which comes with a built-in connector to SharePoint 2007 and a wizard for capturing and managing documents.

In a recent article, Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, explained how new document management features in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) build on SharePoint 2007.

In a follow-up to that article Harmetz and Quentin Christensen, Program Manager for SharePoint 2010 Document and Records Management, outline how a new component called Document Sets will help users organize multi-document worksets.

H3 Solutions, creator of Mobile Entrée (news, site), a mobile application framework for SharePoint, has announced some new capabilities which include support for the upcoming SharePoint 2010 and its new Business Connectivity Services.

The release date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is out and about, but not everyone is happy with some of the details. Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company has ambitions with this release for a fully functioning Office in the cloud.

The official launch date for SharePoint 2010 (news, site) is circling the net and like everyone else interested in SharePoint, we have marked our calendar with a great big exclamation mark.

A recent paper released by Forrester Research (news, site) entitled SharePoint 2010: A More Viable Cloud Option argues that if you are looking at deploying SharePoint off the premises, with the introduction of SharePoint 2010 (news, site),  now is a good time to do it.

The release date for SharePoint 2010 (news, site) is rapidly approaching. But many are still not sure when -- or even if -- their organization will implement this new version. Are there features in 2010 that will help your team work smarter? Will you stick with SharePoint 2007? Or perhaps you're more interested in SharePoint alternatives.

And this brings us to our current poll:

This poll will be open until March 14th, but don't delay, tell us your plans now.

This week in document management brings us plenty of Microsoft news including SharePoint (news, site) archiving in the cloud and a new secure cloud service to simplify doing business for the Feds.

Some say that Microsoft hasn't really made many changes to SharePoint 2007's web content management functionality for SharePoint 2010 (news, site). While the underlying architecture may not have changed, there are some improvements that you are bound to like. Here are 8 changes to SharePoint WCM that you need to know about.

NCachPoint is a new solution from Microsoft Certified Partner Alachisoft. The company says its solution will help you improve the performance and scalability of your SharePoint implementation through the use of BLOB externalization and a number of caching techniques. Interested? Read on.

AvePoint (news, site) announced its DocAve Storage Optimization Suite late last year to help manage unruly SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 environments. Now it says it will offer a tool from that suite -- the DocAve Extender -- for free.

Iron Mountain (news, site) has announced its acquisition of eDiscovery and content archiving provider Mimosa Systems (news, site). There's probably no better reason than to say "it's all about the content baby".

Metalogix (news, site) is at it again, offering another way to migrate your content into another CMS. This time it's for those of you who have a blog but are being lulled by the sweet song of SharePoint 2010.

It’s always useful to get some kind of insight into the thinking behind the development of features in new software, particularly when it comes to SharePoint 2010 (news, site).

In a recent entry on the Microsoft Enterprise Content Management Team Blog, Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, explains how new features in SharePoint 2010 build on SharePoint 2007 and what we might expect in the future.