Randy Holloway at MicrosoftBlogging from the field.EnterpriseWeb 2.0 over the past year- February 17, 2007 My interest in this new approach to enterprise software begain a while back. Harry Pierson and I talked over a year about about the convergence of Enterprise and Web 2.0. Since I work with customers that are focused on solving problems based on these technologies I decided to start a blog on this topic after Mix06 last year. During that time, I've spent a lof of time with customers focused on the deployment of MOSS and improving their ability to collaborate while integrating their LOB...http://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/enterprise-web-2-0-over-the-past-year.a... Composite applications with SharePoint and Office- February 17, 2007 Office Business Applications: Building Composite Applications Using the Microsoft Platformhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/composite-applications-with-sharepoint-... SharePoint Community Portal- February 17, 2007 The SharePoint team has created a SharePoint Products and Technologies Community Portal that runs on SharePoint. The site aggregates many of the key Office Servers blogs and resources that are important to SharePoint developers and implementers. Like the SharePoint blogging site, I'm very glad to see this.http://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/sharepoint-community-portal.aspx Product team blogs running on SharePoint- February 17, 2007 The MSDN and TechNet blogging infrastructure is based on Community Server (based on the old .Text code base). This has served the Microsoft blogging community well, but now that SharePoint supports blogs I know that a lot of people have been curious to see when we would start using SharePoint for Microsoft bloggers. Today, Lawrence Liu from the SharePoint product team moved his blog over from TechNet to a new domain for SharePoint bloggers. His new site is located here. I'm not sure what the...http://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/product-team-blogs-running-on-sharepoin... SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer Ships- February 17, 2007 Project 2007 Team Blog: "The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as MS SQL, registry, metabase and performance monitor. Once collected, a set of comprehensive best practice rules are applied to the topology."http://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/sharepoint-best-practices-analyzer-ship... What is driving the convergence of Web and Enterprise software- February 17, 2007 Dion Hinchcliffe really captures the key driver for this new paradigm for software in the enterprise in a recent article. (Hint: it isn't about doing cool, new things to emulate the leading technology companies) He writes, "The motivations for mashups are quite different inside of organizations, where application backlogs and demand for more software that will improve collaboration and productivity are often rampant. If this state of affairs is true, far from having too much software,...http://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/what-is-driving-the-convergence-of-web-... Defining EnterpriseWeb Convergence- February 17, 2007 This morning I ran across a Wikipedia entry while reading Lessons Learned From Social Software Implementations by Mike Stopforth. In Wikipedia, Enterprise social software is defined as "social and networked modifications to company intranets and other classic software platforms used by large companies to organize their communication. In contrast to traditional enterprise software, which imposes structure prior to use, this generation of software tends to encourage use prior to providing...http://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/defining-enterprise-web-convergence.asp... SharePoint AJAX toolkit- February 17, 2007 One of the hallmarks of newer Web applications include AJAX-driven features that more seamlessly refresh data in the browser without requiring the use to click a link or refresh the page. Daniel Larson has released a SharePoint AJAX toolkit to integrate this kind of functionality into SharePoint. I hope to check this out soon.http://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/sharepoint-ajax-toolkit.aspx Dion Hinchcliffe on Enterprise Web 2.0- February 17, 2007 To get an understanding of the trends for Enterprise software convering with trends on the Web, take a look at Dion's blog- Enterprise Web 2.0. I first ran across Dion at Mix06 last year. While many enterprise software development companies (e.g. Microsoft, IBM, SAP) are focusing on these Web trends, I think Dion does a good job at looking the grassroots efforts in this space and what smaller software vendors and the enterprise customers themselves are doing.http://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/dion-hinchcliff-on-enterprise-web-2-0.a... Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites- February 17, 2007 One of the benefits of the SharePoint My Site is that a user can personalize the site to include data that is important for them to share with colleagues and other people in the organization. One of the challenges with a My Site though is that a "one size fits all" template doesn't really help to differentiate what people do and what their interests are for people trying to network within the organization. While you can create your own templates for My Sites, the need for different content...http://blogs.msdn.com/rholloway/archive/2007/02/17/role-based-templates-for-sharepoint-my-... |