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  1. User Experience - Sharepoint, CRM and TFSWA Web UI
  2. SharePoint will have out of the box Live (was Passport) Integration
  3. Discussions - Make SharePoint Discussions work as well as Newsgroups in Outlook Express
  4. The subject will not change per thread because it ruins "Conversation View" in outlook
  5. Add a CheckBox to show entire message (rather than cropped message)
  6. Attachments are hyperlinks and will be underlined
  7. Extended Templates
  8. Add a note for multiple content types
  9. MOSS 2007 export to Excel to behave in the same manner as VSTS export to Excel
  10. Add TimeSheet to SharePoint 2007
  11. General List/Document Library Improvements
  12. Excel Services Improvements
  13. Business Data Catalog Improvements
  14. Differences between two versions of one document
  15. The default search experience will use yellow highlighting
  16. Hide the ugly URLs
  17. Please add a 'Move to another folder' to the right click menu
  18. Bug - SharePoint Record Center - Record Center Holds Report Doesn't Open
  19. Bug - SharePoint Libraries - Content Type item descriptions appear on some libraries and not others
  20. Bug - SharePoint Records Center - Routing Issue: default routing goes to wrong library, not "Unclassified Library"
  21. Why do I need to have an exact match?

  1. SharePoint will have out of the box Live (was Passport) Integration

    SharePoint is a great way of sharing information. However, I have access to a number of different portals around the globe, each with a different authentication system, meaning I have to remember heaps of different passwords. Out of the box Passport integration support is a perfect solution

    Sharepoint team Passport Integration
    Figure: Live (was Passport) authentication would enable access to all SharePoint Websites

    Note: There is an 'Extranet Collaboration Toolkit' for forms based authentication on Microsoft.com - then it is easy to create and manage accounts. This needs to be in the box.

  2. Discussions - Make SharePoint Discussions work as well as Newsgroups in Outlook Express

    1. How do I mark items as read?
    2. How do I flag threads I like as red? ie. Use Watch
    3. How do I read the threads offline? ie. travelling to and from work?

    Note: the solution is to come (any list) with an RSS reader eg. RSS Bandit.

    Discussions are not good enough... really they are aweful - Regular users need a rich client. Only irregular users prefer a browser. So add a button "Offline Discussions" using Click Once of course. I expect both choices... just like I use Outlook 2007 most of the time... but OWA when I am at someone else's PC.

    SharePoint Disuccsions
    Figure: SharePoint Discussions in 2003 needed lots of improvements
    SharePoint Disuccsions in 2007
    Figure: SharePoint Discussions in 2007 still need lots of improvements.
  3. The subject will not change per thread because it ruins "Conversation View" in outlook

    Bad: Subject: Why I HATE Lookups has been added by neilbl
    Good: Subject: Why I HATE Lookups

    SharePoint Conversation
    Figure: The subjects for SharePoint Alerts will only have the subject not who added it
  4. Add a CheckBox to show entire message (rather than cropped message)

    Add a checkbox
        [x] show entire message (rather than cropped message)

    Figure: SharePoint will have an option to show the entire message.
  5. Attachments are hyperlinks and will be underlined

    Read more about this on Rules to Better Websites - Navigation.

    Figure: Attachments are hyperlinks and will be underlined.
  6. Extended Templates

    Users think of Content types as Extended Templates?

    It would help to add a thumbnail of the .dotx or .xltx (if that is what you have assigned inside Advanced Settings)

    Figure: Extended Templates.
  7. Add a note for multiple content types

    When you see the last combo on this page it strikes the user as weird. They ask themselves an I only have one type??
    So add a note under the combo that says
        Note: You can add multiple content types later and workflows etc.

    Figure: Add a note for multiple content types.
  8. MOSS 2007 export to Excel to behave in the same manner as VSTS export to Excel

    In VSTS when you export work items to Excel, it is a 2 way sync (via the TFS add-in to Excel)

    In MOSS 2007 when you export a list to Excel, it is a 1 way sync (any changes made in Excel will be lost).

    Exporting to Excel from MOSS 2007 will be extended so that it behaves in the same way as VSTS and Excel, i.e. it will be a two way relationship. The main point is that all MS products will be consistent and behave the same way. We don't want to lose the two way behavior though as it is a good feature.

    Connect to SharePoint List
    Figure: Connecting to TFS in Excel is will be the same experience as connecting to a SharePoint List.
    Figure: Connecting to TFS from Excel is a 2 way sync ?will be like this when you connect to a SharePoint list.
  9. Add TimeSheet to SharePoint 2007

    Add a TimeSheet Application to SharePoint 2007 I think companies need a timesheet application built into Sharepoint that give a offline experience like Outlook and Access. Too many companies are building their own timesheet applications, Sharepoint is not Microsoft's only choice.

    • They could build it into CRM.
    • They could build it into TFS's work items. I don't think this would work as TFS wants you to use Microsoft Project. If they changed their mind and added to TFS work items, then they have another problem. The problem is that we don't want timesheets to only work for a programmer. It will work for accountants, lawyers and engineers.
    • They could build their own product using Silverlight and WPF (SSW would be happy to build this).

  10. General List/Document Library Improvements

    • Fix the scalability issues with Lists/Document libraries performing poorly with more than 2000 items. Evidence: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/07/25/scaling-large-lists.aspx.
    • Suppport file paths longer than 256 characters.
    • Add support to compare differences in document versions by visually showing the differences.
    • Ability to Save & Restore Custom Views on Libraries/Lists, or create View templates.
    • Support for richer Active Directory style security, so we can allocate additional Grant & Deny Permissions while retaining inheritance
    • Enable Multiple Inheritance of Content Types
    • Allow Lookup types to filter the list they are looking at (So you don't need to create a separate list for every lookup field)
    • Ability to edit advanced properties of Lists, Libraries, Metadata columns thought the UI.
    • Ability to filter available content types by client application or file format
    • Synchronisation of tasks with Outlook 2003
    • Two-way synchronisation of Calendars & Contacts with Outlook 2003
    • Ability to turn off UI features, such as RSS feeds.
    • Document Library Content types will allow more than one document template to be used. This is because different templates can sometimes have the same metadata, and we don't necessarily want to prompt the user to select from additional content types when they upload a file.

  11. Excel Services Improvements

    Excel Services will support for drop downs for parameters and other input validations methods.

  12. Business Data Catalog Improvements

    Business Data Catalog will have the ability to launch Winform applications as a BDC action - including command line parameters and/or recorded series of UI interactions.

  13. Differences between two versions of one document

    In Sharepoint2007, we can't see the differences between two versions of one document. While this standard feature is available in many version control systems.

  14. The default search experience will use yellow highlighting

    The default search experience will use yellow highlighting in the search results:

    Figure: The default search experience will use yellow highlighting like Outlook 2007 searching does.
  15. Hide the ugly URLs

    On below page, the ugly URLs will be hide and we would love to know the reason for the ugly GUID:

    The ugly URLs will be hide
    Figure: The above ugly URLs will be hide.
  16. Please add a 'Move to another folder' to the right click menu

    Please add a 'Move to another folder' in the right click menu.

    If this is not possible maybe because of security, then open a messagebox with instructions of how to move eg: "To move use click Actions | View in Windows Explorer. You can then copy/paste, drag/drop etc.".

    The menu without move item
    Figure: The right click menu needs a 'Move to another folder' option.
  17. Bug - SharePoint Record Center - Record Center Holds Report Doesn't Open

    When running the Holds Report in the Records Center, we get save file dialog:

    Open report
    Figure: Run report, but get save file dialog.

    After that get the 'Problems during load' dialog:

    After open report
    Figure: After the save file dialog, get the problems dialog.
  18. Bug - SharePoint Libraries - Content Type item descriptions appear on some libraries and not others

    Some document libraries show the description of the content type as shown below:

    Libraries Show Description
    Figure: The document libraries show description.

    And others don't show the description:

    Libraries Don't Show Description
    Figure: Other document libraries don't show description.

    There is no setting for this. How does SharePoint determine when to show the description?

  19. Bug - SharePoint Records Center - Routing Issue: default routing goes to wrong library, not "Unclassified Library"

    The routing table is setup correctly to route documents into different libraries in the records center. There is an "Unclassified Library", and the site is setup to route documents without a content type (or with an unknown content type) by default into this library.

    This functionality doesn't work. The documents are moved into a library called "Sales" for some strange unknown reason.

  20. Why do I need to have an exact match?

    When I input a name, it need to an exact match:

    Exact Match
    Figure: "No exact match was found".... come on....

Acknowledgements

Adam Cogan