Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden
Grow, SharePoint, Grow!
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)
No, I know that the coincidence of this announcement, on Day 4 after I’ve started in the new role of...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 09/10/2008
Inbox Zero
Well, all the excitement about starting a new job and letting ideas start to sift through...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 09/08/2008
Tending a New Garden
For two years, I experimented with other sites to host my blog. I am now back to this hosting...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 09/01/2008
Release to Web of Documentum and FileNet Indexing Connectors
We released two Microsoft Enterprise Search Indexing Connectors (also known as Protocol Handlers)...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/27/2008
SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP
These new SharePoint web parts provide interoperability between FAST ESP and Microsoft SharePoint...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/27/2008
Partner Redistribution of Search Server Express
We’ve heard from many partners who are interested in redistributing Search Server Express with their...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/27/2008
WhitePaper: Optimizing MOSS WCM for Search
A new white paper has been published to MSDN that describes some approaches to creating Microsoft...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/18/2008
Posting Again?
You'd think that I'd learn that posting on this blog is a dangerous thing, and that I'd learn to...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/18/2008
SharePoint v3 and 2007 – Support for SQL Server 2008
The good folks at the SharePoint Product Group have announced that Windows SharePoint Services v3...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/18/2008
Should FrontPage Sites be Moved to MOSS?
I ran into an interesting situation this morning with a customer. One of their internal...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 05/06/2008
The Mesh
Well, there have been a lot of blog posts in the area around Mesh, a technology recently released by...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 05/05/2008
Lenovo X300
Wow. Mother’s Day is coming up… Do you think that if I bought this for Kris, that she’d...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 05/05/2008
May 2008 PSSPUG Meeting
Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group The next Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group meeting is scheduled...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/23/2008
MindSharp SharePoint Summit
MindSharp is holding a SharePoint Summit and will be delivering 5 different training classes in...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/23/2008
The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users
I may have mentioned this before, but Robert Bogue has published a book dedicated to SharePoint End...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/23/2008
SharePoint Joel
You may remember Joel Oleson, who until recently was a Technical Product Manager with the SharePoint...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/23/2008
Enterprise Grade Blogging
In March, the SharePoint team announced a forthcoming integration between SharePoint 2007 and...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/23/2008
MSFT Interactive Media Manager – for Digital Asset Management
The original version of Interactive Media Manager was released last April, and the next version, now...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/23/2008
Updated Exchange Public Folder (vs. SharePoint) Guidance
Public Folders will continue to be supported in the next major release of Exchange Server, after...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/23/2008
MikeyG and 1,000 Posts!
I want to take a minute and congratulate Mike Gannotti on reaching his 1,000th blog post! What...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/22/2008
Short Time Between product Cycles for SharePoint Search
I was reading Dan Holmes' SharePoint Newsletter today and he talked about his observations in...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/21/2008
AIIM NW Event – The Evolution of Content Management
I understand that this is short notice, but there's an event this Thursday evening in Seattle that...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/14/2008
Logical Architecture Model for SharePoint
While I love using PowerPoint slides as much as the next person, sometimes I find that unrolling a...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 04/14/2008
Mindsharp SharePoint Summit in Washington
Mindsharp will be holding a SharePoint Summit in SeaTac, Washington (very close to SeaTac Airport),...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 03/31/2008
Ted Pattison SharePoint Training in Redmond
The Ted Pattison group is coming to Redmond the week of April 21. Two classes are being...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 03/31/2008
Belated Welcome to IBM to the OOXML Party!
Well, it's not really a belated welcome, as they've been with us at the OOXML Party since the...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 01/22/2008
SharePoint End User Training
The SharePoint team at Microsoft has produced and delivered SharePoint training materials for end...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 01/21/2008
IWC/2008 Conference
I'm going to be speaking at the SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008 (IWC/2008) conference,...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 01/19/2008
Ecma Open Office XML Comments Completed Today
All of the 3,522 national body comments for the Ecma Open Office XML file format have been responded...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 01/19/2008
MOSS Intranet Design Award Winner - New Zealand Ministry of Transport
The Nielsen Norman Group's "Intranet Design Annual 2008: Year's Ten Best Intranets"...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 01/09/2008
SharePoint Lab Webcasts (or, “LabCasts”) during January
Class description: Join this Full Day virtual training to learn the new features of Microsoft®...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 12/31/2007
Slipstream installation of SP1 with WSS/MOSS
Until the combined source is available for a slipstream installation of SP1 with WSS/MOSS, you can...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 12/31/2007
The Launch of the SharePointPedia
SharePointPedia.com is a web site where people discover and share useful content about SharePoint...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/28/2007
What’s the Difference Between Search Server 2008 Express and Search Server 2008?
With the two new Search Server 2008 products that were recently released...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/28/2007
Update to Office File Format Compatibility Pack?
For those of you with sharp eyes, you may have noticed that the date on the download package for the...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/28/2007
Fred Claus - Thumbs Up
I went with the family to see the movie "Fred Claus" this afternoon. Granted it was...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/12/2007
VMRCplus 1.6 released
An updated version of VMRCplus has been released. Version 1.6 can be downloaded here. ...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/02/2007
Top Things About SharePoint That You May Not Have Known – Arpan Shah
On October 9th, we were able to host Arpan Shah, Director of Technical Product Marketing Management...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/15/2007
SharePoint Governance – Joel Oleson
On September 27th, Joel Oleson, Sr. Technical Product Manager for SharePoint, visited the Microsoft...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/15/2007
.NET Source Code To Be Released
Mr. Guthrie announced on his blog about the release of source code for the next version of the .NET...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/04/2007
SharePoint Books and More Books
Wow - the SharePoint books are flowing off of the presses! Mike Walsh has a list that is...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 09/19/2007
Speaker update for Sep 20 PSSPUG Meeting
Well, we had some confusion about dates with Todd Bleeker, so we're going to bring Todd back on...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 09/19/2007
Prep for next User Group meeting
Wow. It seems that all I post about is the Puget Sound SharePoint User Group. I wonder if...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 09/18/2007
PSSPUG Meeting – 6 SEP 2007
Last night was our first "real" Hands-On Lab session for the Puget Sound SharePoint Users...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 09/07/2007
PSSPUG Meeting - Aug 23 2007
Tonight was the second general meeting for the Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group, in Bellevue,...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/23/2007