New Book on SharePoint Workspace 2010

Fabrice Barbin, Groove and SharePoint Workspace MVP for his fourth year now, has just published officially a book on SharePoint Workspace 2010 :

“SharePoint Workspace 2010 – From Disconnected SharePoint to Secure Agile Collaboration”

OK, it is in French… but sure that an Editor will be interested to publish it in English or that someone will deliver a translation service 😉

Have a look on

http://www.spw2010-lelivre.fr/2011/01/jour-j-louvrage-sharepoint-workspace-2010-est-disponible/

Reduce Network Bandwith and I/O Overhead on SharePoint 2010 Server with SharePoint Workspace 2010

Hi,

A major feature of SharePoint Workspace 2010 (next version of Office Groove 2007), is a significant reduction of SharePoint Server 2010 bandwith and I/O overhead.

How?

Well, with the current SharePoint 2007 or MOSS server, when a user requests a 20MB Powerpoint file from the server, he requests the first time 20MB data. If he makes a change, he sends back 20MB to the server. With SharePoint Workspace 2010, when the user makes a change on the file, he only sends back the "delta of changes" thanks to the Synch Framework.
While this sounds obvious for a file, this becomes much more interesting while you are working on a "team project" made availble through a SharePoint micro site as this is also valid for instance for SharePoint lists.

This feature is expected to have a significant impact on SharePoint 2010 server farms.

 

Interested to exchange more on the subject? Please join the SharePoint Workspace User Group on LinkedIn .

 

Regards,

 

Jean-Michel Davault

SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Office Groove 2007 MVP, MCTS 

Hommes & Process to present its Groove and SharePoint Workspace based solutions in Singapore

 

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SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Twitter

Hello,

 

Time is moving fast ! We are already January 13, 2010 and I hadn’t yet wished you

 

 

Well it is done now 😉

 

A lot of business is going on these days and I take the opportunity of this blog entry to

– point you to this pubic twitter post http://twitter.com/hughpyle … Just interesting to follow what is posted there and used as teasing for 2010 …

– tell you that I will be in Singapore again from January 18 to January 22

 

All the best in 2010 where the launch of SharePoint Workspace 2010 will be very interesting to follow !

 

Jean-Michel Davault

Groove/SharePoint Workspace MVP

 

 

 

 

 

 

SharePoint Server Site and SharePoint Workspace : Black and White :-)

Hello dear reader,

 

How could you better illustrate the new SharePoint Workspace capabilities than with this Magic Ball?

 

You post something locally … 

 

 

 

and it arrives automatically on the SharePoint Server Site   

Magic isn’t it?

Best

Jean-Michel

 

 

SharePoint Conference 2010 Las Vegas

Hi everybody,

 

The SharePoint Conference 2010 starts shortly !

 

If you are there, you have a significant chance to find me Booth 1003

 

Regarding NDA related information it is black out until tomorrow October 19 2009 around 9 AM.

In the meanwhile, you can have a look at the First Page of the Conference Guide 🙂

 

Otherwise, if you are still not convinced that global warming is accelerating have a look here at the Hoover Dam water level and that in less than 15 to 20 years you won’t even have some few remaining green on what you can still can find around !

 

Regards,

Jean-Michel Davault

 

 

 

Singapore SharePoint Pro and SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas

Dear Reader,

 

Before moving shortly to the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (October 19-23, 2009), I spent a week in Singapore with prospects and customers where I also spoke, together with Joel Oleson, at the SharePoint Pro.SG.

 

Here are some picture already Singapore Septembre 16, 2009

 

Two videos are planned to be posted which deal about :

 

	Office Groove 2007 / SharePoint Workspace 2010 Jean-Michel, MVP Groove
	Jean will share his knowledge on the Groove today and possibly the upcoming SharePoint Workspace 2010.  And how do you benefit from this piece of Collaboration Spectrum.
	Preparing for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Today Joel Oleson, Quest Software
	Don’t wait for SharePoint 2010!  You need to get ready now.  There is a ton of guidance in Service Pack 2 and the team blog to prepare for upgrade.  This session will drill into the PreUpgradeChecker and provide insight and guidance around planning for upgrade based on the information that has been released and will provide you with enterprise strategy and call to actions so you’re ready when it arrives.

 

See you soon at the SharePoint Conference either at OpenPortal booth or during keynotes and sessions !

 

Jean-Michel Davault

Groove and SharePoint Workspace MVP

 

 

SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Office Groove 2007 futures (updated)

Hello dear reader,

 

A short post to tell you that I won’t comment yet about SharePoint Workspace 2010 publicly (TechPreview either 14.0 or 14.1).

 

I will just say that SharePoint Workspace 2010 contains three key directions :

– the first one, the Hero Story, is a to take off-line a selected set of a SharePoint site, easy and simple end user approach,

– the second one, is about SharePoint Workspace 2010 collaborative spaces : a new format of Office Groove spaces to allow new scenarii of Office Groove 2007 spaces,

– the last one, is about Office Groove 2007 traditional spaces in order to ensure to existing long term customers their investments : this is particularly important for those who use Groove collaborative methods and tools for Emergency situations, Merge and Acquisitions scenarii, International Cross-Company Project Management, Continuity of Operations processes, Exceptions Handling in industrial project management and a set of other high added value circumstances…

 

A fourth way to share "workspaces" still exist : the traditional "folder" share which is normally NOT-activated within corporations but can be used within small organisations or during a limited period of time.

 

My key objective is currently to focus on what counts in these areas to the 500+ recurrent customers, who have been working with me and intend to continue to do so.

 

Don’t hesitate to drop me some lines,

 

Best Regards,

 

Jean-Michel Davault

Groove/SharePoint Workspace MVP

 

SharePoint and Office Groove : A new step forward !

Hi dear reader,

 

As a long term supported of the innovate technologies of Ray Ozzie, you will be delighed to watch this video :

 

and also to be ensured that you can take your SharePoint Documents along with you in a secure way !

With a few clicks, GrooveIT! pour Microsoft Office SharePoint retrieves documents from SharePoint document libraries and stores them in Groove workspaces allowing working offline in a secure way. Read More about SharePoint and Office Groove integration.

Pleased to hear more of you at WPC New Orleans !

Best

Jean-Michel Davault

 

 

 

Groove becomes SharePoint Workspace 2010

Dear Reader,

 

Whereas the current release of Groove already offers integration possibilities with SharePoint, in its official announcement of May 13th, Microsoft clearly positions the future release as their preferred offline client for SharePoint.

You know that it was time to take some decisions.  As you could already read in my book, co-implementation of Groove and SharePoint is something that was achieved in the enterprise for a long time in order to bridge decentralized and centralized worlds and get the best out of it. A white paper had also been written(download at the bottom of this page).
 
As SharePoint Workspace 2010 will be available in Office Professional Plus 2010, you may be willing to dive in a Groove – SharePoint experience, in preparation of a future implementation of release 2010.

 

I am proud to share with you that the recognized expert (since 2001) of Groove and SharePoint Integration  HOMMES & PROCESS  presented today May 25, 2009 in Paris , GrooveIT! for SharePoint which allow to bridge a SharePoint site directly to an Office Groove 2007 space via your favorite Internet Explorer 7 or 8 browser !

 

Make your life easy already today ! Furthermore, you will have the choice to choose either to remain "alone" (pure off-line function) or "share" to be with other authorized persons !

 

With Groove Spaces, with SharePoint Workspace 2010, you will continue to be the king : structure securely your unstructured data ! Does it sound familiar to you?

 

Jean-Michel Davault

Groove/SharePoint Workspace 2010 MVP