It’s all about Groove and SharePoint Workspace

Sorry, this entry is only available in french.

Sorry, this entry is only available in french.

Sorry, this entry is only available in french.

TechED 2007 is now closed… It was a really great opportunity to meet Microsoft experts working on several technologies and discuss with customers and developers about Groove technologies…
 
See you next year at Barcelona

As said in a previous post, a training dedicated to Groove was planned on Sunday 11th and located in an hotel closed to CCIB. A great opportunity for about 30 attendees to discover Groove technologies. The training covered several items from basics – usages, client configuration and features – to advanced topics such as architecture, Groove domain management, or enterprise deployment.

As said in a previous post, I demoed last Wednesday GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook Release 2 during the session dedicated to Groove development.
 
Demonstration use case:

I just received an email from one of my customer asking me to start a new project with him and who would like to set up a collaboration workspace to share project documents and follow-up. Using GrooveIT for Microsoft Office Outlook, in Outlook, i click on the “Send to Groove” button, choose a Groove identity. I can then choose an existing workspace or create a new one. As we are starting a new project, I decide to create a new workspace. I enter a name and choose emails recipients I would like to invite to join this new workspace. I’m also able to select contacts coming from my Contacts list in Outlook. I then customize invitation text and validate. A new workspaces is automatically created, invitations to join are sent by email to selected contacts and 2 new tools are added to my workspace : The first one will be dedicated to emails management – threads of discussions, filtering… – and the second one will allow me to store attachments. I finally choose attachments I would like to publish and validate.
That’s all it take!…
In few seconds, I new workspace dedicated to my project is ready to be used…
 
As i guess I will probably receive other emails related to this project, I aslo choose to create a

GrooveIT! rule. A create an Outlook folder and launch the “New GrooveIT! rule” wizard to map this folder to a Groove workspace. When new emails will arrive in my Inbox, I will only need to drop them into my mapped Outlook folder to have them automatically sent to Groove.
 
Finally, I would like to share some news related to a specific technology and useful for my new project. I subscribed to a RSS feeds in Outlook. I create a GrooveIT! rule to automatically publish new RSS articles into my workspace. Only few clics to transform my personal competitive watch to a team one!

If you would like to discover extra use cases or give a free trial to GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook, visit GrooveIT! website

You will also find below few photos taken during the presentation (Thanks to Nay for these photos)

Jim Moffat, from ElasticTime (UK), was also on the Groove both this week. What you maybe do not know is that Jim is the creator and administrator of GrooveUser.org, a community website dedicated to Groove.Visit this site to discover resources, blogs, “country forums”, etc…
 
And congrats Jim for these great idea !

As already said, a lot of Groove fans are this week on the Groove booth at techED.
Na-Young Kwon is for sure one of them ! She’s a Microsoft TSP in France and focused on Office Enterprise.
 
Do not forget to visit her blog !

 Do you know FrogZ ?
This french well-known froggy attended this week at TechED and visited the Groove booth.
A good opportunity for her to discover Groove and GrooveIT! solutions…

I spend most of my time this week on the Groove booth. It is a good opportunity to meet several people, coming from several countries, and working for or with Microsoft on Groove technologies. Bart Weesels is one ot them. He’s “TSP” for Microsoft in Netherlands.

I invite you to visit his blog (NL and EN). You will find several articles dedicated to Groove but also some great humoristics postings like this one