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Information about Microsoft SharePoint Server, SQL Server 2012, Business Intelligence and Office.
Multi-stage disposition
I'm continuing my series of posts highlighting some of the new features in SharePoint 2010 by...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/26/2009
Document Sets
I'm continuing my series of posts highlighting some of the (many) new features which are going to be...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/22/2009
Content Ratings
Continuing my series of posts about new features in Microsoft SharePoint 2010, I’d like to talk...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/21/2009
Phonetic Search
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 builds on the already strong foundations of MOSS 2007. The...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/20/2009
Get Going Now
With the SharePoint Conference this week, Microsoft has begun lifting the shroud of secrecy around...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/20/2009
How to: Create a read-only view
I'm continuing my series of how to videos by showing how to create a read-only view. There are...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/06/2009
InfoPath in the real world - Care Services
I’d like to continue talking about the use of InfoPath in the real world by talking about Children’s...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 09/30/2009
SharePoint on the Web
SharePoint is generally known as intranet software, a tool for enabling workplace collaboration or a...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 09/17/2009
BI Seminar
A Microsoft partner Blueprint are putting on a seminar about the Microsoft Business Intelligence...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 09/14/2009
A Novel Website
I’m using this blog to make an announcement about something that has nothing to do with SharePoint,...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 09/07/2009
Scenario: Stock Ordering
Another simple scenario where SharePoint and InfoPath can work together to make life easier. A...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 09/03/2009
Live Partner Training
We're putting on some readiness training in the upcoming months. These events are free and open to...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 09/01/2009
SharePoint Conference 2009
There's still time to sign up for the SharePoint Conference in October. This event is open to...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/28/2009
Partner Training
The SharePoint partner team in the UK have been planning training and readiness for the next year...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/28/2009
Scenario: Budget Request
Another scenario where InfoPath and SharePoint can aid business processes. In this demo, an employee...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/26/2009
Scenario: Holiday Requests
This is a short demo showing a potential scenario for InfoPath and SharePoint workflows improving...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/24/2009
Generating a unique form number - a SharePoint counter
I’ve had a request to expand on my post about generating automatic numbers for InfoPath forms. I was...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/24/2009
Generating a unique form number
I’ve had someone ask me about automatically giving InfoPath forms a unique number. The scenario in...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/10/2009
The phases of technology use
I’d like to make a sweeping generalisation about how people react to technology. Disregarding for...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/05/2009
Improving Form Performance
When you load up InfoPath forms in a browser, do you see this message? Probably. The important...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/04/2009
How to: Connect to a database
Continuing my series of how to demos. I had a request to do a video showing how to show red, yellow,...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/04/2009
How to: Show indicators based on values
This video is a response to a request. The request was to show how to show indicators based on...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/03/2009
A novel announcement
In this post, I'll be talking about something other than SharePoint and forms for a change. I'm...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 07/03/2009
How to: Display a form in SharePoint
Continuing my "how to" series with this requested demo. In this video, I show how to embed an...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 07/03/2009
How to: Hide a Section
Continuing my series of "how to" videos, I show how to use conditional formatting to hide or show a...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 07/01/2009
InfoPath in the Real World - Commitments
This is my second post about real-world implementations of InfoPath. Again, I’m sticking close to...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 07/01/2009
How to: Auto Populate
A couple of different people have asked me how to auto-populate the values in fields based on the...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/30/2009
InfoPath in the Real World - Web Seminars
This is the first of an ongoing series showing how InfoPath has been used in real-life situations....
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/29/2009
SharePoint for Business Intelligence
Final video in this series showing how SharePoint can be used to solve a range of business problems....
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/26/2009
MOSS 2007 SP2 Bug Fix
About a month ago, I posted about a bug in Sevice Pack 2 for SharePoint. This bug sets an expiration...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/26/2009
SharePoint for Business Processes
Continuing my series of short introductions to how SharePoint can be used to solve various business...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/25/2009
SharePoint for Document Management
Continuing my series of videos showing the capabilities of SharePoint as a solution for various...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/18/2009
SharePoint for Search
This is the third in my series of videos showing how SharePoint can be used as a solution to a range...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/17/2009
SharePoint for Collaboration
This is the second in my series of videos showing how SharePoint can be used as a solution to a...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/16/2009
SharePoint for Portals
This video is the first of a new series showing how the capabilities of SharePoint fit various...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/10/2009
Better with Office - Slide Libraries
I’m going to finish off this series of Better with Office posts, but there’s more that could be...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/09/2009
Better with Office - Data Connection Libraries
Previously in this series, I’ve talked about general Office documents, which might be Word files,...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/08/2009
Better with Office - Workspaces
Continuing this series of blog posts, I’m going to talk about document workspaces. The idea behind...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/04/2009
Better with Office - Workflows
SharePoint has two levels of workflow capabilities. With Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you get...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/01/2009
Better with Office - versioning
This is the second part in my series of posts about the benefits of combining SharePoint with...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/28/2009
Better with Office - Metadata
What is metadata? The simple definition is that it’s data about data. In the case of SharePoint,...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/26/2009
Better with Office - introduction
SharePoint is part of the Microsoft product stack. This doesn’t mean that it’s just another item on...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/26/2009
MOSS 2007 SP2 Bug
It turns out there’s a bug in the recently released Service Pack for MOSS 2007. I first became aware...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/26/2009
ECAL Suite LiveMeeting for Partners
If you work for a Microsoft Partner and are confused what exactly the CAL Suites are and why people...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/14/2009
It's not piracy - it's the Ultimate Steal
If you're a UK higher education student or staff member, you can get Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/12/2009
InfoPath forms within SharePoint pages
One of the great things about InfoPath 2007 is that it allows people to design forms that can be...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/11/2009
InfoPath Introduction Part 8
This is part 8 in my series of introductions to InfoPath 2007. In this demo, I show the publishing...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/28/2009
SharePoint Hosting Webcasts
In June, I'm going to be running a series of three webcasts for hosting partners. They will...
Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/27/2009