An opportunity to speak with Sabrena McBride, Senior Product Manager for SQL Server, provided a lot of insight into what's new in R2. Some of the highlights: Among other things, SQL Server 2008 R2 is ...

Microsoft offers a Web version of Excel. But there's an important difference from competitors like Google and Zoho: It's tied to SharePoint Server and Office 2007. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Microsoft today outlined some finer points for organizations wanting to test business intelligence (BI) capabilities enabled by the latest Excel 2013 and SharePoint 2013 previews. Last week, Microsoft ...

In the SharePoint consulting I do, I try to look beyond just basic uses of SharePoint, where SharePoint acts as a basic replacement for shared folders on file servers. SharePoint can of course do ...

SharePoint Server 2016 is planned for product release this quarter, but its improvements mostly will be of interest to IT pros. During the Q&A portion, he recommended upgrades for those organizations ...

I’m setting up Project server and it uses Excel Services for some reporting. I’ve followed MS documentation on this. I’ve setup the Project library containing the reports as a trusted location in the ...

One of the questions I get frequently is “What’s the difference between the Windows SharePoint Services that comes with Windows Server and the Microsoft Office SharePoint Service (MOSS) that you pay ...