SharePoint 2010

Renamed Groove to go into SharePoint Pro Plus license

With the Sharepoint 2010 release, Microsoft will take the Groove client, newly renamed SharePoint Workspace, into the SharePoint Pro Plus license and out of the enterprise SKU. Tom Rizzo director of SharePoint talked up the news today at the SharePoint Technology Conference in Cambridge, Mass. the move means those Pro Plus licensees will get their Groove.

It’s unclear if a standalone Groove client license will still be available going forward.

SharePoint 2010 to join 64-bit only club

The next release of Microsoft SharePoint will leave 32-bitness behind. Microsoft dropped the news that  SharePoint 2010 will be 64-bit only in its blog and at a TechEd 2009 session. The new SharePoint will also require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 and 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005. Continued »