Working the Spaces, Sharing the Point

If you have SharePoint Workspace 2010 and French is your primary language, help is on the way:  Fabrice Barbin has published a book on SPW 2010 in French, available here . 

This post describes the content types you can synchronize in a SharePoint workspace, and also describes lists that you cannot yet synchronize using SharePoint Workspace 2010. You can synchronize most lists and libraries in a SharePoint workspace, although...

In SharePoint Workspace, you can create Groove workspaces to be shared among invited members. Groove workspaces can include a variety of productivity tools. To see the list of tools that ship with SharePoint Workspace, look in the Tools group, and on...

A SharePoint list may undergo design changes over time as an organization identifies new requirements. For example, a form design might be updated with new fields. In particular, calculated fields will not synchronize with the SharePoint server if they...

Problems with checking out or checking in documents (or discarding a checkout) in a SharePoint workspace document library may result from one of the following circumstances: · You may have lost connectivity with the SharePoint server. To test your connectivity...

As you use SharePoint Workspace, you receive a variety of notifiers, called “alerts”. Alerts notify you about: · New messages or invitations. · Unread information in a workspace, a workspace tool, or a tool item. · Status information, such as whether...

SharePoint 2010 lets you configure security settings for individual documents or an entire library of documents so that you can protect confidential or personal content by limiting access to a specific group of users. You can further protect documents...

SharePoint Workspace users may quickly notice the near omnipresence of the Microsoft Office Upload Center icon in their Windows notification area: The Microsoft Office Upload Center (msosync.exe) manages synchronization between your SharePoint workspaces...

Perhaps you’re already enjoying the flexibility of using a SharePoint My Site. You can compartmentalize content as Personal (content available only to you), Collaborative (content available to you and specific team members), and Shared (content available...

SharePoint Workspace 2010 provides a Groove Web Services API that is compatible with the API in Groove 2007. The Groove Web Services API allows you to develop an application that can access data in Groove workspaces and tools. Your application runs in...

Over time, you may accumulate a large number of workspaces and contacts. All of your workspaces and contacts are listed in the SharePoint Workspace Launchbar. Here are some different ways you can organize your workspaces and contacts. Opening the SharePoint...

Are you thinking about deploying SharePoint Workspace in your organization but you’re holding off because you don’t want to give SharePoint users access to peer networking workspaces? If so, you can achieve both objectives by configuring a...

The SharePoint Workspace team is moving this week to NERD, Microsoft’s New England Research and Development campus in Kendall Square.  As of Monday we’ll be surveying the scene in Cambridge and across the river in Boston, getting to know our new...

SharePoint Workspace gives you the freedom to work with SharePoint content from any location, even when you’re not on your network. But with this freedom comes the potential for edit conflicts if the same item is edited on the server while you edit it...

Need deployment info on SharePoint Workspace 2010?  Mena Paton has written a white paper on deployment essentials that you can download in printable form here , and you can also get live information on the topic here , from the Office 2010 library...

With SharePoint Workspace 2010, you can access file data housed in SharePoint Workspace through Windows Explorer and certain Office applications. This is true for both SharePoint workspaces and Groove workspaces, though Groove workspaces must be 2010...

When the SharePoint Workspace team moves to Cambridge, we’ll have lots of company. Yesterday Microsoft announced plans to expand the NERD with the addition of more than 100,000 square feet in One Cambridge Center, as discussed in a nice blog post by Joe...

When you create a SharePoint workspace, you download list and library content from a SharePoint site to your computer. This content is then automatically synchronized with the site whenever you’re on your network. This means updates you make in your local...

The SharePoint Workspace team is getting ready to move to the Microsoft NERD (New England Research & Development) Center in Kendall Square down in Cambridge this summer. It’ll be a big change for us – we’ve been in our beloved Shoe (a great old converted...

Yung Chou has put together a couple of nice posts on SharePoint Workspace, pointing out some of the differences between SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Groove 2007.  Here is Part 1 and here is Part II .

There are three storage mechanisms SharePoint Workspace uses to store data on your local computer. Lists, InfoPath forms, schema, and views are stored in SharePoint Workspace itself, BCS data has its own storage mechanism, and your SharePoint documents...

This article presents an overview of how you can work with document libraries in SharePoint Workspace. What Does the Documents Tool Do? The SharePoint workspace documents tool allows you to create content and collaborate on documents anywhere you take...

In securing your SharePoint Workspace environment, it’s important to understand the encryption story. The table below summarizes built-in data encryption in SPW 2010: Workspace type Is file* data encrypted on-disk? Is non-file data encrypted on disk?...

Anand Kulkarni and Drew Harris will be offering An Introduction to SharePoint Workspace at the SharePoint user group event in Waltham, Massachusetts this coming Tuesday, 2/23. Things get underway at 6 p.m. at the Microsoft offices on Jones Road. Follow...

For those of you who are new to SharePoint Workspace – welcome and thank you for exploring the product. You can comfortably proceed on to other parts of the web without reading the rest of this blog entry. However, for those of you keen on a little history...