Collaborative Solution Survey This survey is in support of a graduate-level special project by students at Central Connecticut State University. The purpose of this project is to create a model which evaluates available collaborative solution(s) for their applicability and fit for common tasks in the...

A nice overall review of the Groove 2007 Server at InfoWorld here.. "but you're going to want Groove Manager working for you in any deployments above 100 seats". Caveat: All 3 Groove Servers need 64bit based Windows Servers (see my prior post on how expensive an evaluation of the Groove 2007 Server can...

There are a few RSS feeds available that can keep you posted about Groove support items - Groove Office 2007 Server: http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=11861&ln=en-us&msid=f0ddadbd1c944b4f9da511b89f11e8ea Groove 2007 Client - http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid...

I have been fairly active in the Groove Forums and I received a most interesting bit of email this evening - "Thank you for your post to my question re. Groove 3.1 Presence on the MS Groove Discussion. I am as frustrated as you are with the MS monopoly that is taking place and the degredation of exceptional...

We've done it again... first Juval visited our shores to deliver the WCF Master Class - the most in-depth class that we've seen on WCF to date. In April Ian Griffiths delivered the WPF sibling - Applied WPF and next on the Readify Industrial Strength Master Classes’ schedule is Patrick Tisseghem delivering...

Groove is getting a new name - SharePoint Workspace 2010. More info at the MSDN Groove Development blog post here… This is a major shift for Office Groove – having worked with it for a long time ( MVP Award and MSDN Developer Network postings ), this is certainly good for business!

I am presenting at The Humanitarian FOSS (H-FOSS) Summer Institute at Trinity College (Hartford CT) on July 2nd . The H-FOSS Project is primarily for undergraduate computing students who want to get involved in building free and open source software for use by humanitarian organizations. Details below...

I presented at the Western Mass .NET Users Group last Tuesday (Dec 2nd) and it went very well! This session gave an overview of Groove and showed it from a .NET developer’s perspective. The use of the Groove API – GWS (Web Services), CodePlex’s GWS wrapper, DataBridge & SharePoint integration. All...

I tried to create my own virtual machine to test and play with SharePoint 2010 but I was unsuccessful every time due to some errors and finally it became frustrating and I gave up. Now, Microsoft has released the Virtual Images for it so you don’t need to worry about installation, pre-requisites, etc...

My thanks goes to Microsoft for the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2012 - 5th time in a row since 2008! The award is based on SharePoint WorkSpace 2010 – find out more about it at the Office 2010 website . I have been working with the CTDOTNET/CTSPUG developer community and also actively...