SharePoint Dragons

This morning, we received an e-mail that Colligo is trying to bridge the world of SharePoint and IPad:

Workplace use of iPads is skyrocketing – be they corporate-sanctioned or personally-owned.  For companies, the security, compliance and legal challenges involved in having employees store corporate data on their iPads cannot be ignored.

Colligo just released a product that addresses many of the security and deployment issues that organizations are encountering as they try to provide support for the iPads that users are bring to work.

Colligo Briefcase Pro provides secure access to SharePoint on the iPad and I was hoping you’d be interested in reviewing the product.

Here are some product highlights:

• Colligo Briefcase lets users easily store, view, find and share files, lists, images, documents and emails, including Outlook .msg files, in SharePoint.
• SharePoint content is automatically synchronized to the iPad, providing instant access to that content, even when offline.
• Colligo Briefcase enable organizations to leverage their secure SharePoint infrastructure to sync content to an iPad, rather than having users rely on consumer-grade file sharing services such as Dropbox
• Colligo Briefcase works seamlessly with all of Colligo’s enterprise SharePoint solutions for desktops, laptops and smartphones.
• An Enterprise version of Colligo Briefcase is available, that enables organizations to centrally manage iPads, push out configurations, and set a number of additional security features, including remote wipe

We were expecting a product like this, and look forward to give it a test spin!

This blog post provides an excellent overview of the differences between the two of them:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infopath/archive/2010/04/22/comparing-list-and-form-library-forms.aspx

When you call the ContentDatabase property of an SPSite instance, it actually uses a composite key consisting of the web application id and the path of the site collection. Execute this SQL query in the SharePoint config db to see it:

select * from sitemapvisible

In the object hierarchy of the config db, things are a little different though, and it looks like this:

content db [child of] sharepoint database service instance [child of] spserver [child of] config database.

When will you be using this info? Uhm, probably never, that’s the esoteric part about it.