It’s all about Groove and SharePoint Workspace

SB  Chatterjee, Groove MVP, was speaker last week at the Western Mass .NET Users Group. He provided attendees with a global overview of Groove development capabilities, covering Groove Forms, Web Services, Databridge and SharePoint integration topics.

His presentation is available for download here :

http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee/archive/2008/12/09/groove-for-developers-in-stereo.aspx

Attending TechED is a right opportunity to do a web review and list new articles published on Internet and related to Groove. Of course, most of these items will / would be covered during the session dedicated to Groove next Friday. (As a reminder, for TechED attendees : Friday14th – 9 AM – Room #131 : “How to extend and integrate Groove”)

- Matt Shanon wrote an article related to InfoPath integration with Groove : In this article, he explains all required steps to prepare an InfoPath Form to be injected in a Groove workspace:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd185656.aspx

- You use Groove Forms or InfoPath Forms. Read this article to learn how to improve Forms Performance. This article was written by Josh Goldman:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc984181.aspx

- Also, this very interesting article regarding Groove and Sharepoint integration issues:
http://blogs.technet.com/weeklygroove/archive/2008/11/10/understanding-and-troubleshooting-the-sharepoint-files-tool-in-groove-2007.aspx

- And also this video by Ian White and Mark Ryan, explaining how to use Groove to improve network security and operationnal effectiveness:
Use Groove to improve Network Security and Operationnal effectiveness 

- Finally, my colleague and friend, Jean-Michel Davault, is finalizing a book about Groove. Have a look to his blog. At this stage, the book is available in French but is currently being translated:
http://jeanmicheldavault.blogspot.com/2008/11/microsoft-office-groove-la-confiance.html

“Office Ultimate 2007 for Student” operation allows students to get Office 2007 for 52€.The great news is that Groove is included in Office Ultimate !

But, this operation is also an opportunity to provide students with complementary resources, useful for studies.

For example, students benefit from Groove workspace templates they can reuse and adapt to fit their daily needs: project management, group management, former students network… Made of specific tools, these templates provide students with a quick start.

>> Download available shortly <<

Students can also benefit from a specific offer on the GrooveIT! products line. This range contains products that offer integration between Office components and is more precisely focused on Groove. For example, GrooveIT! for Outlook provides a link between Outlook and Groove to easily transfer emails, tasks, contacts, RSS feeds and events from Outlook to Groove workspaces. Sharing information with friends or colleagues, archiving, synchronizing several computers… there are several use cases…

With the same idea, GrooveIT! For My Documents enables documents to be stored in a Groove workspace directly from within Word, Excel or PowerPoint. It also provides search and SharePoint integration capabilities. As a summary, a full set of features to work more effectively with Office products.

>> Learn more about GrooveIT! for students operation (FR) <<

Then, because life is not only made of work, a funny application to integrate your WIFI Rabbit Nabaztag with Groove is available. Define some alerts on incoming messages or on workspaces updates, you will bo notified by your rabbit !

It’s NabazGroove !

>> Learn more about NabazGroove <<

Finally, game is also available. It’s developed using SilverLight – the new Microsoft technology to create rich and dynamic content – and integrated into Groove workspaces. Staying with Nabaztag, this interactive game can be played with several users. The goal: Align the rabbits!

It’s NabazGame !

>> Learn more and download NabazGame <<

To learn more:

- NabazGame presentation : http://blog.fbarbin.com/nabazgame

- NabazGroove presentation : http://blog.fbarbin/nabazgroove

- GrooveIT presentation: http://www.grooveit.biz

- “Office for students” operation  : Office for students (FR)

- Hommes & Process : http://www.hommesetprocess.com

- Nabaztag : http://www.nabaztag.com

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Wednesday 7th, from 17:30 to 18:45 a session will be dedicated to Groove Development : “OFF202 : Building Custom Groove 2007 Solutions”

Matt Shannon and Mark Ryan will present capabilities provided by Groove to customize or integrate data stored in Groove workspaces. These topics will be covered : Groove Forms vs InfoPath Forms, Web Services API (and Helpers) and finally Groove DataBridge usage.

I will do a short demo of GrooveIT! for Outlook V2 to illustrate their presentation (GrooveIT! for Outlook use both Groove Forms and Web Services…)

Photo : Matt (on the right) and Mark (on the left) finalizing the session presentation

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