Higher limits, fixes, and extras: updates you should know about

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I am delighted to announce the release of three updates significant to SharePoint Workspace customers:

  • Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
  • An SDK for SharePoint Workspace 2010
  • The June Cumulative Update (CU) for Office 2010

These updates provide significant fixes and enhancements that you have been asking for. Here are the details, by package.

 SP1 for Office 2010

Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) provides the following fixes and enhancements for SharePoint Workspace:

Extensions to the document download limit

Prior to SP1, SharePoint Workspace restricted its use of the Office Document Cache (ODC) to keep the cache at or below 1800 files, and would begin to warn the user about the impending limit at 500 files. SP1 increases the overall limit to 10,000 files. In addition, SharePoint Workspace SP1 displays ODC usage in an easy-to-read meter viewable at the time of workspace creation and from the File tab, providing relevant information to the user less intrusively than the pop-up warning.

Add-In tool API

SP1 provides an Add-In tool API for creating custom tools for Groove workspaces. The SDK for this API is available in a separate download. Note that these add-in tools can be used only in 2010 Groove workspaces. The new API does not provide programmatic access to SharePoint workspaces, Shared Folders, or the general application UI.

For more information on Office 2010 SP1, see this article -- Description of Office 2010 SP1

SDK for add-in tools

The Software Development Kit (SDK)  for SharePoint Workspace helps developers create add-in tools for Groove workspaces in SharePoint Workspace 2010, SP1.

Download the SDK from https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26642.

See the documentation at https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-US;2553023.

 The June Cumulative Update (CU) for Office 2010

The June CU contains fixes completed too recently to get into the service pack release. It resolves the following SharePoint Workspace issues:

  • When multiple SharePoint Files tools in a Groove workspace are set to synchronize automatically, synchronization may fail and remain inoperable.
  • If you have "/" or "\" characters in an account name, the Active Directory auto-configuration or Outlook auto-configuration fails.
  • Windows Firewall exception query returns an error if exception is not a local policy.

For more information on the Office 2010 June CU, see this article -- Office 2010 Cumulative Update for June 2011

 

 

We recommend applying SP1 and then the June CU.