First thoughts on SharePoint 2007

After wrapping up that class, I'm still not sure what I really think about the new version. The new version is signficantly better that before but I'm not sure if my clients will actually care about it. The portal version - Microsoft Office Server - has so many bells and whistles that might be useful but that version is pretty expensive.

Here are some of the good things:

• The workflow systems that trigger actions based on new events could really be the "killer app" for small businesses.
• The search options in the portal version are significantly better than before. You can index and search against existing NTFS shares
• Groove's "offline SharePoint" effect would be great but you have to by Enterprise Office to get Groove
• The Content Management System of the portal makes editing the site collection quite a bit smoother

I think a deep exploration of the differences are needed.

SharePoint 2007

Right now, I'm taking one of the MS/IT Mentor SharePoint 2007 boot camp training courses and I'm really impressed. I think the new V3 version of SharePoint is significantly better than the previous versions and could be heavily used by even small clients.

I'm going to have to work on more deployment ideas, though.

Remote Support for the Mac - Finally

CoPilot (www.copilot.com) from Fog Creek Software seemed to be paying attention to a suggestion that I (and probably several others) suggested. CoPilot works on Macs!