SharePoint Use Cases

SharePoint Sandboxed solutions allow site administrators to deploy custom web parts without physical (console) access to the SharePoint server. Sandboxed solutions are easily uploaded via Solutions gallery. Sometimes, while developing a solution, you want to know if your code is running sandboxed or as a normal farm solution. In order to check if the code [...]

If your company is considering implementing SharePoint collaboration platform Microsoft has a free* offering for you: SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS). How can you benefit from this program? Well it is easy. If you are currently planning to deploy SharePoint to your organization you can contact a certified SDPS partner to help you plan this [...]

I am so proud to make this announcement… on December 9th 5:30 pm we are organizing the first meeting of Croatian SharePoint User Group. Check our site (in Croatian)… The only topic on our agenda for December 9th is… SharePoint 2010 Overview and what’s new. Hope to see you there… If you would like to [...]

On November 27th I will be speaking at SharePoint Conference Slovenia, one of the first events where you will be able to see SharePoint 2010 live. There is also a preconf day hosted by  SharePoint MVPs where you will be able see new SharePoint in live action. Take advantage of the early bird prices for [...]

For a while now I have been enjoying really great videos by Common Craft (@CommonCraft). The company specialized in making small but very useful videos explaining technology (and other) concepts in very simple way. The topic for this week is SharePoint. It is a bit over optimistic (SharePoint is not silver bullet) but it might [...]

Back in summer of 2008. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood launched stackoverflow.com, a Q&A community site for programmers. In just few months it became on of the most authoritative sources for programming questions. These guys made a perfect site which is so much better than thos crapy MSDN/Technet forums and other Q&A sites over the web. Great job guys!!! [...]

In last few weeks Laura Rogers has been posting interesting articles about Data View Web Part (DVWP). Check them out here. I know a great deal about Data View Web Part and there are numerous solutions I posted here which were created with it (Blog archive | SharePoint Lists and Libraries, Outlook Style | KPIs), [...]

In last two weeks I did not have enough time to post here as I was preparing to deliver a session at Microsoft Windays conference. As I promised here are the slide decks. WinDays 2009 – SharePoint For End Users – Shortcuts To Success View more presentations from tonifrankola. The same one in Croatian: WinDays [...]

Last week, in the part 1, I wrote about possible integration scenarios for SharePoint and CRM. In this post I am going to explain which products you can use to integrate the two. Integration option 1. – For customers without SharePoint Enterprise Microsoft released List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 which you can [...]

Few weeks ago I taught Course 8912A: Customization and Configuration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and a student asked an interesting question: How should I integrate SharePoint and CRM? Here are some of my advices and experiences on this topic. Scenario 1. Integrating CRM with SharePoint (SharePoint to CRM) Problem: CRM is really great application [...]