January 2010 Newsletter

We’ve been waiting for what seems like an eternity to finally unveil the masked maven known as SharePoint 2010 to the masses. We’ll have the beta up and running beginning in February and are anxiously awaiting the day you can proudly call hosted SharePoint 2010 your own.

As we all know, the new SharePoint 2010 is designed to be bigger and badder than ever with lightning fast search capabilities and new business connectivity services. Enhanced integration with Visual Studio 2010 lets you build sandbox solutions to test custom code without affecting your production environment. A glossy new version of SharePoint designer finally lets all non-developers build without writing code, while updated social media tools make work seem like Facebook™ behind a firewall. A new and improved user interface and an in-place content editing interface are just a few more of the new features you’ll immediately want to get your hands on.

Congratulations are in order! Our partnership with CorasWorks has spawned a revolutionary, super solution for your departmental day-to-day demands. This little engine that could contains a suite of stable SharePoint apps which let you chug through your day like your favorite talking tank engine. We would call it Thomas, but we’d get sued.

Sick of the same old view? If the answer’s yes, our SharePoint tip of the month is right up your alley. Make the view work for you by filtering by a set of criteria, sorting in a particular order or hiding unnecessary columns. Below we’ll show you how to create, change and modify your view for a list or library.

We recently had a Fpweb.net hosting customer inquire about uploading multiple files to SharePoint 2007 using a Mac (with drag and drop functionality). We all know that you can map a network drive to your SharePoint document library in Windows Explorer. It utilizes the WebDAV protocol to retrieve SharePoint data and to upload files into SharePoint.

The problem:
The default web interface for shared documents on macs doesn’t give me the option of multiple uploads or explorer view.