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Information about Microsoft SharePoint Server, SQL Server 2012, Business Intelligence and Office.

BI Bites 8: PerformancePoint Services KPI

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos. In this video, I show how to create rich KPI...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/16/2010

Want to download the BI Bites videos?

I've had a request from someone wanting to put my BI Bites videos on their internal SharePoint...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/15/2010

BI Bites 7: PerformancePoint Services Data Connections

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos. In this demo, I show how to use...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/15/2010

BI Bites 6: Excel Dashboards

This video continues my series of bite sized Business Intelligence demos. In this demo, I show how...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/14/2010

BI Bites 5: Publish to Excel Services

This video continues my series of demos showing the Microsoft BI offering in bite sized chunks. In...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/11/2010

BI Bites 4: Simple KPI

This demo continues my series of videos showing the Microsoft business intelligence offering in bite...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/10/2010

BI Bites 3: Decomposition Tree

This video continues this series showing Microsoft's BI offering in bite sized chunks. In this demo,...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/09/2010

Office in the Clouds

A version of Office Web Apps is now available to SkyDrive users for free! If you log into your...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/09/2010

BI Bites 2: Data Bars

This video continues my series of demos showing Microsoft BI features in bite sized chunks. This...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/08/2010

BI Bites 1: Sparklines

This demo starts a new series of videos showing some of the capabilities of Microsoft's BI stack in...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/07/2010

SharePoint is...

There is one very difficult question which I get asked on a regular basis. What is SharePoint? Well,...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/26/2010

SharePoint 2010 Overview for partners

Want a broad overview of the capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/26/2010

Edition Comparison

The term SharePoint is used to refer to both Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/25/2010

2010 Products Demo Machine

Microsoft have released an RTM version of the SharePoint 2010 demo machines, available to partners...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/14/2010

Articles and whitepapers

In the approach to the official launch of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, more and more...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/27/2010

Edinburgh SharePoint User Group

I will be presenting at the Edinburgh SharePoint User Group next month at the Microsoft offices at...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/22/2010

SharePoint Ignite Online

Want to learn more about SharePoint Server 2010 but can’t manage to make the classroom training...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/22/2010

Office 2010 Menu to Ribbon Guides

When I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007, I adapted quickly. There were a few days of...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/14/2010

Multi-stage disposition in SharePoint 2010

This video shows one of the new content management features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010:...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/13/2010

SQL training for partners

One of my colleagues is putting on a couple of LiveMeetings on SQL Server 2008 R2. These are...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/12/2010

Progress

The first electric generators were used in industries over 150 years ago. The model was quite...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/07/2010

InfoPath 2010 Introduction Part 4 - Quick Publish

This short demo video shows the time-saving capabilities of the Quick Publish button in InfoPath...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/06/2010

What is SharePoint 2010?

I usually respond to that question with one of my own. Do you want the two hour answer or then ten...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/01/2010

Making InfoPath talk to Visio

In a previous blog post, I talked about how to get two Visio diagrams to interact on a SharePoint...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/31/2010

Form Conversion

One of the nice features of InfoPath is the ability to convert existing Word or Excel forms into...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/29/2010

Connecting two Visio web parts

I’m taking a break from talking about forms and workflow to share a simple idea which I think is...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/25/2010

SharePoint and Office 2010 Launch Date!

I've had partners asking me for the release date of SharePoint 2010 since about half-way through...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/08/2010

Workflow initiation forms

With the 2010 version, a lot of work has been done to tighten up the integration between SharePoint...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/03/2010

SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites

One of the licensing options for SharePoint, including MOSS 2007, is the For Internet Sites license,...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 02/08/2010

InfoPath 2010 Introduction Part 3: SharePoint Form Web Part

This video shows the new web part in SharePoint 2010. It's now easy to embed an InfoPath form as a...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/20/2010

InfoPath 2010 Introduction Part 2: Rules Management

Second in my series of demos introducing InfoPath 2010 and some of the new features. This demo shows...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/19/2010

Creating Workflows in Visio 2010 and SharePoint Designer

One of the improvements in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is the ability to interact with Visio....

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/15/2010

Sandbox Code and InfoPath

InfoPath allows you to create forms with very sophisticated logic. Some of this can be done using...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/14/2010

New SAVB Online tool

When customers buy Software Assurance from Microsoft, they receive vouchers that can be redeemed for...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/14/2010

SharePoint 2010 Introduction Training

If you are a Microsoft Registered, Certified or Gold Partner, I am offering some free introductory...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/05/2010

New year, new SharePoint

Welcome to 2010. As someone who grew up reading sci-fi books this is a year that should include...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/04/2010

Customise a SharePoint List Form

There's no point reinventing the wheel. Rather than sitting down myself to create a demo of this...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 12/23/2009

Win an XBox 360!

The InfoPath Team are holding a competition. If you are building a solution using InfoPath 2010 and...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 12/08/2009

SharePoint Conference Content Available

The SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas this year was a sell. There was a lot of demand for places...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 12/07/2009

InfoPath and Excel Services

Given that I spent a ridiculously long time trying to get an InfoPath form to interact with a...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 12/01/2009

InfoPath 2010 Introduction Part 1: Create a simple form

First in a new series of demo videos introducing InfoPath 2010. In this demo, I show the creation...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 11/25/2009

Office 2010 beta is here!

It’s time to have a play. The public beta has launched and now you can get hold of Office 2010 and...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 11/24/2009

SharePoint web content management partner training

There are spaces available on courses Microsoft are putting on for partners around SharePoint for...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 11/12/2009

There are some new web content management features that allow you to track what content is being...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 11/10/2009

Ribbon UI

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes the ribbon user interface, giving a much more consistent...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 11/04/2009

Tagging and Folksonomy

With MOSS 2007, you can use metadata and official taxonomy to organise your documents. In Microsoft...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 11/03/2009

Reusable no-code workflows

There are several short-comings with designing workflows in the current version of SharePoint...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 11/02/2009

More theme customisation

A lot of people, when they first get SharePoint, instantly want to make it not look like the out of...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/28/2009

Out of the box workflow customisation

MOSS 2007 came with a few out of the box workflows to do tasks which are common in a huge range of...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/27/2009

What's in a name?

Microsoft are making some changes to the naming of things in SharePoint 2010, the most obvious being...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/26/2009

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