Groove Solutions - Shipped by Microsoft (December 2007)

These tools can be found http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Browse.aspx?DisplayLang=en&nr=20&productId=20BE712B-2F07-4AC1-A9BB-E4CEF2AA331E&sortCriteria=date which is kind of useful - but there’s no RSS feed. You’d think they would be listed here http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/downloads/CD101759231033.aspx but they are not.

#1: The new Welcome Page Tool - a custom tool. Please use the discussion tool to let me know, if when you load the tool your CPU goes 100%!!

The tool, the documentation.

The link is to The Welcome Page tool template in the Microsoft Download Center:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6749C281-C78E-445D-AC12-07BCC917A2B7&displaylang=en

An enhanced version of this tool is a complete Rich Text editor, not dissimilar to this ‘Note tool’ but includes document security and other cool features. like integrated email, Silverlite and more.

#2: The new Groove 2007 Contacts tracker. This contacts tool was ported from a Groove 3 version into Groove 2007. This tool should be used in preference to a personal Contact list as this custom form tool can be linked into the Groove User Workspace Navigator.

The tool, the documentation.

The link is to the Contact Tracker tool template in the Microsoft Download Center:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D7109197-7E9B-44DE-AAF8-5A76D2A7F54D&displaylang=en

An enhanced version of this tool includes private contacts within a subset of the workspace membership, private to yourself and common favorites for all workspace members and support for XML data interfacing with Groove Data Bridge and other web services applications.

#3: This tool allows you to examine the all your workspaces, accounts, identities, tools and the data. This tool is provided within the Groove Developer Tool kit, but you may not have access to all the tools/software to enable you to compile into a useable executable.

Have fun using this tool as is comes with a very poor user interface (my view) but it does show what you can do with Groove web services and how you can acess all the ‘parts’ of your Groove dataset.

The application.

This tool is planned to be replaced by the ‘Groove Investigator’ which does essentially exposes the same Groove dataset but with a much improved user interface. I will post the new tool when I can.