Typically when you install a fresh SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and a user starts to connect to it through SharePoint WorkSpace/Groove he will receive the error: SharePoint Workspace was unable to interpret the SharePoint location. Please check and ensure the location contains no typing errors. The solution to this consists in adding a public facing URL and making sure the server has remote differential compression installed/enabled. Go to Server Manager > Features and take a look at whether the remote differential compression is enabled. If not, check and install. Next go to SharePoint Central Administration > Alternate Access Mappings and click the ‘Edit public URL’ . Once there, make sure that besides the default internal URL there is also a public [...]

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Typically when you start collaborating on SharePoint (Office365) with outsiders they’ll want to receive the notifications not on their Office365 mailbox but in their own box. In fact, the admin can disable the Exchange feature per user in Office365. Now, despite the fact that the Office365 forum and docs state outgoing mail is not possible, you can dispatch the notifications to addresses other than the “*.onmicrosoft.com” ones. Inside the Team site go to “Site Settings”   Next to “Users and Permissions >People and Groups”, select the user and change the “E-mail” field to the address you wish. By default this Email address will be the OnMicrosoft one but it works as well with any other. In fact, you can also [...]

  Rich, compelling interfaces: Silverlight is capable to produce a UX beyond what’s possible with standard HTML/JS constructs. Limit page post backs; Silverlight applications do their processing on the client, eliminating page post backs. Silverlight applications offload processing to the client Processing on the client reduces the load on the SharePoint server farm. Silverlight isolates processing on the client and creates a self-contained application Separation of design and code You can use the MVVM pattern to separate the presentation from the processing later.  This makes it easy to change the look and feel of Silverlight applications. Common .NET development techniques Silverlight applications are based on the .NET framework which makes it easy for .NET developers to create them.  The client [...]