Office2007, MOSS2007 – CRM OBA

I’ve been skimming the book 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007.

There is an inspiring chapter about a CRM app, that uses outlook for forms generator and offline functionality. Sharepoint is used for workflow engine and doclib and MS CRM as backend.

Some slides from SalesOutlook CRM gives a little similar idea, but the book gives you the complete idea.

But the book Programming Microsoft Office Business Applications (Pro – Developer) even provides two online chapters:

• Chapter 4: Integrating Web Services into Your Office Business Applications
• Chapter 7: Managing Complex Business Processes with Custom SharePoint Workflow

More samples available on Office Business Applications Developer Center.

The late Patrick Tisseghem also has some nice OBA slides. His blog on the OBA subject contains several postings.

Finally there is the OBA homepage to explore.

SP2010 and Office2010 – My first preview

I must admit that I am impressed.

Going to Win 2008 R2, Exchanserver 2010, Office 2010 and SharePint 2010 alltogether really makes a difference. I am usually not easy impressed.

I’ve attended Campus Days 2010 in CPH – DK. The program was designed for IT Pro’s, but had great first view tracks and a lab, where you could try it all out.

VSTO: Intro

Draft….

Michell Cronberg made a presentation of VSTO 3.0 SP1 intro at Microsoft 17/09-2008.

It was the first time I saw him live, so the expectations were big. And he didn’t disappoint – only the opposite. He knows his stuff and he presented it, so you got the feeling that this is a nice toy you want to play with.

With the easiness it has become to write office addins (and docs) and deploy them, then you only need to tell the customers that such a possibility exists.