Monthly archive for June 2012

Excel Co-Authoring does work in SharePoint 2010 Office Web Apps

Talking to Jeff Deverter yesterday about how cool Excel Co-Authoring was in SkyDrive, I couldn’t answer whether two or more people could edit the same Excel Spreadsheet in the version of Office Web Apps that comes with SharePoint Server 2010. But now, I can. They can! In the screen shot above, notice the “2 people editing” message in the Excel status bar. The example is from the Microsoft Information Worker VM. If you’d like to see a great demo of

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My first experience with New-SPConfigurationDatabase

Todd Klindt gets a lot of respect in the SharePoint Administration community. He should. He consults, writes, speaks, webcasts publicly weekly and leads a user group with a consistently great rating. Todd highly recommends a scripted configuration approach to SharePoint. And he’s not the only one, but mostly I’ve ignored that advice in the past. However, as a new co-worker of Todd’s, I’ve heard him recommend to clients more than once in the 7 weeks I’ve worked with him to

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