SharePoint Use Cases

Few months ago I blogged about great piece of software called MindManger. I really like the concept of mind mapping, but I was missing the ability to easily collaborate with other users of MM. Posting mindmaps in a SharePoint library sounds fine, but MM does not know how to work with files stored in a [...]

While doing deployments, we have a number of virtual machines that we use as copies of customer production environment; for testing; learning etc. We installed one such machine using a trial key from Microsoft site. As key is only valid for 90 days, it expired, but we still wanted to use that VM for demonstration. [...]

As we are preparing for a local CRM event, I took some time to play with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Demonstration Tools, a set of tools for easier demonstrations. For each CRM presentation I am using CRM VPC image prepared by Microsoft. It is already pre-populated with data. However this set of tools might help you [...]

In my previous posts about blogging from Word I mentioned that Word 2007 and SharePoint are great when working together. But in SharePoint blog is not available as a feature but as a site so you need to create one site per each blog. That’s fine if you are using a blog site for blogging, [...]

Few days ago, while working with Word 2007 to publish blog post to our intranet site I received an error “Word cannot publish this post“. The error is described in the following KB article, but suggested solution did not solve my problem. The problem was caused by inappropriate security settings: Vista stored another AD account [...]

I just love Word using Word as a client tool for publishing blogs. It is a really good example of software + services model. For years I have been working with different end users that are using custom and Microsoft solutions to create web content. While using Word as you web/blog editor key benefits for [...]

A client of mine encountered a problem with Outlook 2007 and CRM 4.0. Outlook was constantly restarting with the following error: Microsoft Office Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please tell Microsoft about this problem. We have created an error report that you can send to [...]