Dropbox is a new tool for file synchronization, still in beta phase. You have to register and install a small program (available for Mac OS X and Windows). On both platforms it will offer you a tray icon. By clicking on it you get either an Explorer window with your data or you get connected to the web browser view.

With drag and drop you can move your files to this drop box and they will be automatically synched on the next connection from another machine or online in case this machine is already connected. You get at this stage (beta phase) 2 Gigabyte for free. They announced that 1 Gigabyte space will keep beeing free of any fee after the official release.

The application offers to maintain copies of deleted files in the web frontend.

You can share your information by inviting people to your site or sending them the link.

If you want to have more space you have to buy their offers.

Obviously sometimes the datasheet view is not working for clients using Microsoft Sharepoint Server. The reasons are multiple, depending on the Office product and release. Symptoms differ from does just not work to the following error message:

“The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed, your browser does not support ActiveX controls, or support for ActiveX controls is disabled. ”

Microsoft states http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909506/en-us that this behavior is by design.

It is only available in Office Professional, not standard, not SBE.

If found some workarounds on the net:
http://wss.collutions.com/Lists/FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=253

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/2744888b-9f39-442e-89b3-73c1df10f702/

The following page gives an overview on the functions per MS Office package.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840024/en-us

It seems furthermore that the function to show a datasheet in Excel per default is not working anymore with Office 2007 installed. It seems to be the design of Microsoft to open any form in Access view only, once Office 2007 installed. It would be great if anyone can confirm or tell me about a known workaround for this.

Find more information on using Word, Excel, and Excel Services with SharePoint 2007 here: http://assets.devx.com/download/19873.pdf

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