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Bamboo Solutions is a leading provider of Web Parts and Solution Accelerators for Microsoft SharePoint. In SharePoint Blank, a new employee (and a blank slate with regards to SharePoint) candidly blogs his day-to-day SharePoint learning, sharing his trials and triumphs.

Additional SharePoint Integration Points

For the past several weeks, Bamboo's COO has been conducting a series of twice-weekly presentations for employees on SharePoint architecture, with the idea being that the talks are being given as if for a CIO-level audience.  I've been tempted to blog every one of these sessions, but today's offering featured a section that simply had to be captured for SharePoint Blank.  Specifically, the portion regarding several applications (in addition to Office-related ones I've already covered) that essentially "plug and play" with SharePoint.

As we're in the final pressure-cooker period of readying our SharePoint for Project Management topic area for launch, I'm unable to start experimenting with any of these just yet, but that doesn't mean I have to wait to share them with you.  (Also, feel free -always- to push me to return to a given topic that I've said I plan to revisit if I haven't gotten to it in due course.)

So without further ado, here are a few Microsoft products that I didn't know worked with SharePoint:

  • You can store and share a OneNote library in SharePoint (via Office 2007) and, by doing so, even those without a OneNote "client" will be able to access your data;
  • As with Outlook, you can take the contents of a SharePoint library offline via Groove; and
  • You can combine SharePoint and Popfly to create two-way mash-ups ... which can then be featured just about anywhere you like, including your Vista sidebar.

I may not have the time to play with these new toys in SharePoint yet, but if you do, by all means, please report back!

Only published comments... Jul 22 2008, 04:41 PM by John Anderson

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About John Anderson

John Anderson is new to both Bamboo Solutions and to SharePoint, but he isn't new to online community.  Having recently departed AOL, where he was a Programming Manager for that company's social media team, John is thrilled to have joined the Bamboo family as Manager of Content & Syndication.  As a member of the Online Operations team, John takes great pride in helping shape the creation and direction of Bamboo Nation, our nascent SharePoint community.  Within Bamboo Nation, John writes the blog SharePoint Blank, in which he (always candidly, sometimes humorously, and even occasionally informatively) documents his daily progress in learning SharePoint.  John is also profoundly uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person and is going to stop now.