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!
Posted
Jul 22 2008, 04:41 PM
by
John Anderson
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Bamboo Nation's de facto managing editor and, while he has learned much about SharePoint in his first year, he gleefully awaits the release of SharePoint 2010, and the reset button that release will represent for SharePoint Blank.