Slowly but surely more details are emerging from a variety of different types of implementations using Microsoft's new SharePoint, "MOSS 2007." I hope you can join us in Washington, DC this June for a couple of very useful MOSS sessions based on practical field experience.

Today we announced research that finds Microsoft Office SharePoint Server ("MOSS") 2007 coming up a bit short when it comes to traditional web content management

AIIM Expo and Conference 2007, Boston...what a week for CMS Watch!

Today we released The Web CMS Report - 2007. That's Version 11 if you're counting.

In an interesting commentary, Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet discusses whether MOSS 2007 is the next big operating system from Microsoft.

We continue to look closer at the intersection between web content management and web analytics.

Or really just a few useful (hopefully) sips from the firehose of MOSS 2007 information:

The estimable Colin White has recently deconstructed how Web 2.0 in your enterprise portal can mean different things, specifically newfangled user interfaces versus newfangled collaboration approaches.

A recent posting on the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group's official blog provides some estimated release timeframes for SharePoint 2007 Language Packs. At least 10 official European Union languages remain unavailable, with the latest coming in June

This morning finds me in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at a 3-day seminar with the above title. While flying here I was reading some German management literature arguing that successful organizations all transform into "Single Purpose Tools" focusing on fewer and fewer things. The author made the parallel to famous people, who typically focus on just one thing. It suddenly struck me that in our marketplace we formerly had one such a tool -- an important one.

A few very early adopters (LloydsTSB, Corgi and Ministry of Sound) have gone live with public websites using the new MS SharePoint 2007. Unlike the old SharePoint 2003

Microsoft SharePoint is famous for its ease of creating -- and abandoning -- local workgroup portals.

An interesting article on Windows Account Management about the need for 3rd-party support for provisioning and managing new users in Windows SharePoint Services confirms our speculation in the Enterprise Portals Report that Microsoft will continue to rely on third-party suppliers for what we consider basic functionality.

It seems that the world is almost slowing down a bit as Microsoft readies a final version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, the quite substantial upgrade to a nearly ubiquitous SharePoint 2003.

One of the trickier tasks in any Web CMS is publishing a new area of a site in its entirety, e.g., multiple content items, new template components, and perhaps some additional business and display objects.