I wrote a short article for SharePointProConnections magazine on how to surface Business Connectivity Services (BCS) data in Microsoft Outlook. It has been published now and is available in electronic format here: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/556a09e7#/556a09e7/68

One of the biggest pieces of SharePoint 2010 that has taken the industry by storm is its ability to display data from external systems. And not just display the data, but letting you interact with it, changing the views of the data and also modifying the backend data directly from SharePoint’s presentation layer. All this power comes packaged within Business Connectivity Services (BCS).   We are holding a webinar on this Thursday, 1/27/2011 at 2pm Eastern to show you exactly how this functionality works. If you have attended any of our previous webinars, you know that we dive straight into …

We just released the new SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows DVD. The complete information on this DVD package is available here: http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sharepoint-designer-2010-workflows-training-dvd/ There are four ways to implement workflows in your SharePoint sites: 1) Use the browser and built in workflow templates – A great way to start making simple workflows. Doesn’t require any other tools other than the browser. 2) Use SharePoint Designer 2010 – SharePoint Designer 2010 is free and lets you create powerful and robust workflows using a variety of built in activities (such as sending an email, creating list items, copying documents and a whole lot more). …