Couldn’t stop myself from posting this photo of the view from our office here on Granville Island. If you are ever in Vancouver, come on down and enjoy it with us.

Wow, it’s an overwhelming week. Let’s see what next week brings…

Barry.

We sent out an email announcing version 2.0 today through MSD2D. A great group of people to work with, by the way.

If you are interested in requesting a trial of Version 2.0, downloading Reader, viewing a screencast or whitepaper, visit this page to learn more about the products.

Barry

As you may have noticed, Colligo Contributor 2.0 supports drag and drop of Outlook emails directly into SharePoint document libraries. This is a pretty cool feature because it means you can now use SharePoint instead of Exchange Server public folders to store project emails.

Here’s a little description of the problem and solution:

As an email sharing and collaboration solution, SharePoint document libraries offer many advantages over Exchange Server public folders, including ease of administration, ease of access, search, and content organization. Yet a number of mission critical requirements must be considered before integrating SharePoint with Microsoft Outlook email, such as:

I’ve been very remiss in not posting for the last couple of months. We have been crazy busy getting the next release of Colligo for SharePoint out the door.

Well, I’m pleased to report that today, the team released Version 2.0. The press release went on the wire this morning. So far the reaction has been very positive. Our friend, SharePoint MVP Dustin Miller of SharePoint Experts, called Contributor 2.0 a “killer productivity boost”. The 451 Group wrote a very flattering piece. Thanks to Tony Rizzo for that. We like you guys, too!

New versions of Colligo Reader and Colligo Contributor have just been released. Colligo Reader, a free product for viewing SharePoint content offline, can be downloaded now. Colligo Contributor is available for purchase from the Webstore.

Reader Version 1.9 has a bunch of new features, including:

• Enhanced Synchronization Experience :
• Background sync on startup and configurable intervals
• Internet Explorer button for site sync selection
• Drag & drop browser URL to launch site sync
• Systray icon with sync status and stop sync option

As Michael Sampson mentioned recently in a post on his Michael’s Thoughts blog, Colligo recently announced a partnership with Apptix. If you don’t know Apptix, they are a successful hosting provider that offers “managed messaging and collaboration solutions for small and medium businesses, serving more than 130,000 end users.” They have marketed their SharePoint hosting through SharePointSite.com and have provided an introduction to SharePoint to many early adopters over the years with their offers of 30 day free trials.

A new 7 minute flash demo of Colligo Contributor 2.0 is up on the Colligo site, but not yet linked through an info request page. It was done by none other than Dustin Miller, President of SharePoint Experts. It goes through the new features and user interface of Contributor 2.0 and then describes what’s coming in Office 2007 for offline support of SharePoint.

This demo video will be shown at upcoming launch events. But remember, you saw it here first!

For those that didn’t get a chance to attend the webinar yesterday on using Office 2007 and Colligo to take WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 offline, we’ve put it up on the Colligo website. You can request it here. Many thanks to Dustin Miller of SharePoint Experts for the terrifc job he did. In the 35 mins, he goes through a pretty thorough discussion of the capabilities and concludes with a comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.

If you have any comments or questions, just drop them here.

Barry.

If you’d like to learn from an expert how to use Office 2007 and the Colligo products to take SharePoint V3 offline, you may be interested in attending the upcoming webinar “How to Take SharePoint 2007 Offline”. It’s listed on the MSD2D site and you can register for it there. It’s scheduled at 8AM PST (11AM EST), Tuesday October 24th.

I’m hosting and our guest speaker is none other than Dustin Miller – President of SharePoint Experts, SharePoint MVP and well known blogger. It should be a very interesting session as Dustin takes us through the capabilities of SharePoint and shows how Office 2007 and the Colligo applications let you take V3 offline.

Best of all… it’s free.

Barry.

Engineering just released the first public beta of Colligo Contributor 2.0 – offline solution for SharePoint V3. A lot of new features have been added based on feedback from customers and prospects who are using the first version. If you are interested in becoming a beta tester, please fill out this form.

We are looking for Microsoft SharePoint MVPs, IT people, end users and consultants that are willing to kick the tires and tell us what they think. We plan to have a few beta releases over the next few months with progressively more features as Office 2007 GA approaches.

Barry.