Gridding .NET :

Critics of Sharepoint and often potential customer are confused by what Sharepoint really is. And MS marketing haven't found a perfect 3/4 Word definition as yet. Perhaps something like Office-CMS-Portal-Server would come near to it.

I usually describe it as a "Microsoft Mega CMS/Portal/Intranet" depending on who I am talking to. Then I add "It does (take care of ) X for you out of the box". X being file/archive documents/mail, project management, content management, bpm, workflow, publishing, (personal) intranet(s), business intelligence, search, forms, wikis, blogs, server side Excel, versioning, auditing.

How would you best describe it?

Sharepoint 2007 UDF primer

Sharepoint 2007 User Defined Functions Primer

http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/04/04/UdfsPrimer.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/luisbeonservices/archive/2006/11/08/using-udfs-to-write-to-sql-databases.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ms517343(office.12).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/09/13/753036.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/07/12/DebugUDFs.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/07/11/UpdateUdfAssemblies.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/03/24/ExcelServicesHelloWorld.aspx

posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:33 PM by stefandemetz with 1 Comments

Sharepoint 2007 List Events

Sharepoint 2007 List Events

A few good posts on list events:

http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/archive/2006/04/21/18620.aspx
http://sharethispoint.com/archive/2006/08/01/20.aspx
http://sharethispoint.com/archive/2006/07/28/16.aspx
http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2006/07/31/1706.aspx
http://blah.winsmarts.com/Post.aspx?postID=68
http://spstips.blogspot.com/2006/06/event-handlers-in-moss-sharepoint-2007.html

posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 5:59 AM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

Sharepoint 2007 as backend to Access 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/thirdoffive/archive/2006/09/19/698707.aspx

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/stefandemetz/archive/2006/09/16/Relational_Sharepoint.aspx

posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 4:59 PM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

Sharepoint and CRM integration

a few interesting posts about Sharepoint and CRM integration

http://weblogs.mysharepoint.de/mgreth/archive/2005/12/13/1477.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2006/06/20/639918.aspx
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/vandest/archive/2006/01/21/4744.aspx
http://msmvps.com/blogs/cgross/archive/2005/01/12/31786.aspx
http://blog.sonomapartners.com/2005/12/crm_dashboard_w.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/midatlanticcrm/archive/2006/03/10/Microsoft_CRM_SharePoint_List_View.aspx
https://blogs.msdn.com/jonwhite/archive/2006/02/13/531249.aspx
http://ts2community.com/blogs/charlesv/archive/2005/10/30/381.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2006/06/20/639918.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/john_westworth/archive/2006/06/12/435134.aspx
or have a look at a CRM on Sharepoint

Here is the translated page for my employers Sharepoint CRM product features.

posted Monday, September 18, 2006 1:21 PM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

Should Sharepoint become more relational

Supposing a helpdesk where each Issue has several tasks attached with a specific cost. There is no easy (fast) way to do it right now, besides some custom coding. Would it help if Sharepoint was more relational?

posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:40 PM by stefandemetz with 1 Comments

Sharepoint to become a Web DB?

Sharepoint is becoming more and more a frontend to a backend. Connectivity to MS Access is a given. Now, I'am asking myself if Sharepoint will become a frontend just like Access is to the Jet engine. If only Sharepoint had inbuilt referential integrity!! Give it some ACID !!

posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:58 AM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

Sharepoint CRM

My employer has recently create a CRM entirely build on Sharepoint - MOSS 2007.

Here is the translated page for the Sharepoint CRM features.

Post on Sharepoint + CRM

posted Monday, September 04, 2006 6:04 AM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

Free Sharepoint templates

I put online a mini Sharepoint 2007 site templates (sorry no fancy graphics as yet) . It's a reception/concierge application-template. It's free to download. It works on Sharepoint 2007 MOSS and WSS.

posted Monday, August 28, 2006 8:55 AM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

MOSS 2007 collaboration OOB scenario wanted

What it means is I'd like to make every list item "collaborationable":

For each item in a List I'd like to be able to automatically(without hard wiring it all up by hand in Sharepoint):

create a Wiki page
create a Discussion/forum post
create a blog post
create an issue/to do item/task
upload/associate an email to it
log an IM/voice chat against it(OK, I'm pushing it)

If one could then wire up all these things to the single list item in a pretty dashboard that really would be knowledge management with Sharepoint MOSS 2007.

posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:51 AM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments