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Office 2010 – where did the “Share” menu go?

Posted by on May 18, 2010 1 comment

In Office 2010 Beta, the File menu contained a Share option, that allowed you to save a file directly to a SharePoint site, or even to SkyDrive.

I was looking for that option in the final release, but could not find it. Well, the Share option is no longer there, but all the functionality is under Save & Send.

It took me a while to figure that out, so I thought I might share it with you.

 

SharePoint Evolution Conference London

Posted by on April 19, 2010 No comments

The next three days, I’m attending the SharePoint Evolution Conference in London. After a very unpleasant check in at the Eurostar terminal in Brussels, I managed to get to the conference center safely. Some speakers and probably also some attendees did not make it here due to the volcano eruption in Iceland.

I’m looking forward to the various Information Worker sessions.

SharePoint Log Reader

Posted by on February 1, 2010 No comments

Tired of using Notepad to plough through your logs?

Tom just released a new version of his SharePoint Log Reader on Codeplex.

This nice utility allows you to browse through the SharePoint ULS log files in a more convenient way. Some of the features:

  • load multiple log files
  • advanced filtering
  • copy error message to clipboard
  • support for correlation ID (SharePoint 2010)

Have a look at this short demo movie.

The ribbon in SharePoint 2010

Posted by on November 3, 2009 4 comments

As you have probably heard, SharePoint 2010 has a total new interface on the user side: it has the ribbon as we know it from Office 2007.

There are a couple of reasons why this can probably become an issue and will require extra training for your end users:

  • a lot of companies are still running Office 2003, and will probably hold on upgrading until Office 2010 is available. These people have never seen the ribbon before!
  • the ribbon is “security trimmed”, but where in MOSS 2007 any option that you did not have access to was hidden, it is grayed out in SP 2010. This gives some very strange results if you only have read access: you get a ribbon full of disabled buttons.
  • Some functions are less accessible than befor, e.g. the content types. It requires some extra clicks to get where you want.

ribbon

Definitely something to consider when you start planning your end user training!

The poor man’s SharePoint Conference

Posted by on October 19, 2009 No comments

19102009021How do you follow the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas if your boss didn’t want to pay your ticket?