Friday, October 30, 2009
'Learning Snacks' for SharePoint 2010 Now Available
Learning snacks are now available for SharePoint 2010. They are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each free presentation, you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topic, or visit a related Web site.
Developing Solutions with Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 enables developers to build rich solutions easily, rapidly, and efficiently. This Learning Snack demonstrates how you can use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to create and deploy your solutions. It also demonstrates how you can build Silverlight applications using the SharePoint 2010 client object model and use LINQ to SharePoint to create SharePoint entities
Experiencing the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 User Interface
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 includes an enhanced user interface that provides IT professionals with a streamlined administration experience. This Learning Snack describes the features of the SharePoint 2010 user interface. It demonstrates how the new Central Administration console enables you to perform several administrative tasks from one central location. The Learning Snack also describes how Shared Application Architecture can be used for flexible deployments in SharePoint 2010
Managing and Troubleshooting with Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 facilitates administration by providing several tools that help IT professionals efficiently manage data and troubleshoot any issues. This Learning Snack describes the Large List Resource Throttling feature, which helps you manage large lists. It demonstrates how a SQL Server logging database can be used to log SharePoint events. The Learning Snack also demonstrates how the SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer can be used to detect and automatically fix common issues
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Business Productivity at its Best - White Paper
A new whitepaper has been made public ...Very much like the Fair Good Better Best white paper for 2007, but updated for Office 2010.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
SharePoint 2010 videos
Missed the SharePoint conference - check these videos that give a great overview of whats new for 2010.0 comments
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Microsoft's Compliance Framework for Online Services
As Microsoft's online, live, and cloud services ramp up - there is an increased demand for more Cloud Infrastructure Security content.- GFS Security Team Blog
- White Paper ... readers of this paper will gain an understanding of the framework Microsoft developed in order to more efficiently utilize existing staff and resources, and to establish and maintain online services compliance. The Microsoft Compliance Framework for Online Services allows the company to better meet complex obligations through reducing risk of operational disruptions and increasing confidence in service stability, and by obtaining third party verifications as proof of continuing adherence to compliance requirements.
- Webcast ... this webcast explains how the service delivery and operations teams at Microsoft adapted their compliance practices to address the changing landscape of regulations, statutes, and establish industry best practice standards for online services.
- White Board Session ... this short white board session (5 minutes) will introduce you to the key learnings covered in Microsoft's Compliance Framework for Online Services white paper.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
SharePoint 2010 book from SPC09
During the SharePoint Conference attendees got a SharePoint 2010 book.It was actually a combination of three eval guides - TDM, IT Pro, Developer - and the content is coming online :
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Windows Virtual PC / Windows XP Mode download
Microsoft have announced the availability of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 (Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate)0 comments
SharePoint 2010 Virtual Conference
If you couldnt join the party in Las Vegas ...SharePoint 2010 Virtual Conference & Expo
Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Windows 7 Launch Keynote
In a keynote from New York, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the worldwide availability of Windows 7 ... starring Kylie0 comments
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Bing integrates with Twitter / Facebook
Microsoft have confirmed today that it has integrated Twitter tweets and Facebook status updates into the Bing search resultshttp://www.bing.com/twitter?setmkt=en-US
Latest Tweets from the SharePoint Conference - Tweets SPC09
(Currently have to set country to US)
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework Beta 2 is available to MSDN subscribers immediately, and general availability from October 21st.
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Mount ISO files as drives
Using Virtual CloneDrive, DVD image files (such as ISO, BIN, CCD) can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.Useful when you download ISO files from MSDN.
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Register for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2
Register today and get notified when SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 becomes available in November.0 comments
Monday, October 19, 2009
Halo Waypoint
Launching late 2009, Halo Waypoint is a new destination on Xbox LIVE for Halo fans around the world. It will inform fans of the latest Halo news and activities, and grant access to content ranging from interviews, trailers and screenshots, to exclusive video footage and community content that you won't find anywhere else.0 comments
Top SharePoint 2010 Resources
The moment has come that many have been waiting for - full disclosure of SharePoint 2010!From Arpan ...
Top SharePoint 2010 Resources
- http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint ... check out Jeff Teper's final installment of SharePoint 2010 where he describes many of the features that make up this release.
- http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint ... demo videos, feature descriptions, pre-beta evaluation guides.
- http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com/ ... the place for developers to get started with SharePoint 2010.
- http://www.mssharepointitpro.com/ ... the place for IT Professionals to get started with SharePoint 2010.
- http://www.mssharepointforums.com/ ... the place to ask the Microsoft and SharePoint community questions
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SharePoint Conference 2009 Keynotes
Tune in at 9 am (Pacific) on October 19th for live webcast of Steve Ballmer and Jeff Teper keynotes:
Follow the event on twitter at #spc09
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Master PowerShell - free eBook
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Elumenotion SharePoint Skinner
SharePoint theme creation tool that exports plain old CSS as well as wsp files for both WSS style themes and MOSS publishing site style library features. All you have to do is deploy the packages and activate the features!0 comments
Sky News - Silverlight - broadcasting live 24/7
Sky News has gone live with Silverlight broadcasting live 24/7 on the home page.- Sky News Live (UK / RoI only)
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Friday, October 16, 2009
SharePoint 2007 Records Management book
Professional SharePoint 2007 Records Management Development: Managing Official Records with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007There may be books available on how to develop solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, but this is the first book to provide step-by-step guidance for designing and building records management solutions on the SharePoint platform.
You'll learn the five core services of any records management system-confidentiality, information integrity, high availability, adherence to policy, and audit ability-then explore the tools and techniques needed to implement them in SharePoint.
Code is available for download here
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
UK Accessibility Roundtable for SharePoint Server 2010
The UK Accessibility Roundtable session will discuss the new accessibility features in making SharePoint 2010 achieve a broader level of compliance on a world-wide basis while incorporating tools and techniques to improve and achieve greater levels of end-to-end compliance in a customized environment.It will also give participants an opportunity to voice their feedback on the enhancements.
4 November 2009 - London Victoria
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Microsoft WebsiteSpark
The Microsoft WebsiteSpark program is a community-based initiative designed to jumpstart business development for small professional Web development and design companies, through tools, technologies, support, training and networking opportunities.Check out Microsoft WebsiteSpark to see if you qualify
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Britain Works
Given the issue of rising unemployment in the UK, Microsoft is dedicating itself over the next three years to helping get Britain back to work. Through a series of partnerships with nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), community learning centres, and public authorities, we are aiming to help half a million people into jobs in the areas of the economy that will lead the recovery. These will be digital jobs, requiring the use of computer skills, and will be in a range of industries from manufacturing to services and the IT industry itself.
Britain Works
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Enable Sleep / Hibernate with Hyper-V
From Virtual PC ...When you enable the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2008 support for sleep /
hibernate will be disabled.
Q. Is there some way that I can "hack" the system to re-enable sleep /
hibernate with Hyper-V? A. No.
I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 as my primary laptop with Hyper-V ... I have a partial solution to this problem.
You can have Hyper-V installed but not started by the following registry setting:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\hvboot]"Start"=dword:00000003
Now, when I start my laptop i have full access to the power management fucntionality.
If I need to demo a VM, I can start Hyper-V with the command
net start hvboot
Power management is then disabled again until the next reboot.
Sleep command line tool: sleep by Greg Wittmeyer
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Dare2Share - SharePoint Podcasting
BT have implemented the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint - YouTube for the Enterprise0 comments
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Join the Invite-only Office Live Web Apps Preview Today
From lifehacker ...Microsoft Office Web Apps will bridge the gap between your desktop Office documents and the web, but it's currently in an invite-only preview. However, the always clever Amit Agarwal at weblog Digital Inspiration discovered a simple trick that'll score you an invite.
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Note - you need a Live.com account
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology - Gartner Research
Microsoft is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s 2009 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology.This Magic Quadrant assesses vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a range of technologies. Their capabilities include: search; federated search, content analytics, such as content classification, categorization and clustering, fact and entity extraction, taxonomy creation and management, information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop search to address user-controlled repositories to locate and 'invoke' documents, data and e-mail.
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Office Starter 2010 Replaces Microsoft Works on new PCs
Announced via the Office 2010 Engineering blog ...- There will be an ad-supported Office 2010 "Starter" edition that can come loaded on new PCs (Word and Excel) - designed as a replacement for Microsoft Works.
- Product key cards can be purchased which will unlock the consumer versions of Office 2010
- Office 2010 will support "Click to Run" streaming download model - instead of waiting for the whole product to download, users can click a button and start using the software as soon as some of the basics are downloaded - the rest of the product then gets downloaded over time.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Exchange Server 2010 RTM
Announced via the Exchange team 'EHLO' blog, Exchange 2010 code is now complete and has been released to manufacture. More
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Microsoft Office Web Applications 2010
As part of the upcoming release of Office 2010, Microsoft are extending Word, Powerpoint, Excel and OneNote to the web browser.The Web Apps will offer the same high fidelity as the desktop versions, so documents, graphs, images and slides will appear exactly the same in the Web Apps as they do in Office 2010. Making edits with the Web Apps will not cause any loss in the quality of the document.
For consumers, there will be a free version on Skydrive with 25Gb of storage.
Businesses can use them with either SharePoint or the Microsoft Online Services.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Bingtones
Three Bing-branded ringtones for your mobile device0 comments
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Windows Phone
Microsoft have announced the availability of a new line of Windows Phones around the world that are available in a broad range of styles and prices.No longer are our phones just for business use - they are focussed on work and play.
The new Windows Phone will keep you connected to your business e-mail, calendar and contacts, as well as help you stay in touch with friends and family with voice, messaging, photo and video sharing, and social networking. Key new features for Windows Phone include:
- An upgraded touch user interface that was designed for finger touch and the ability to cut through clutter to accomplish what you want.
- A powerful browser that makes Web sites look the same on your phone as they do on the PC, so it's easy to check in for a flight, get directions or pay a nagging bill from wherever you are.
- Upgraded email including support for Exchange 2010 and integrated Hotmail client.
- Microsoft My Phone, a new service that offers free automatic backup and online access to phone contacts, calendar, texts, photos, browser favorites and more. In select markets, My Phone also offers a Premium Package that helps users find, lock or erase a lost device.
- Windows Marketplace for Mobile, a new marketplace with fun and useful high-quality mobile applications. For customers, Windows Marketplace offers easy access to quality tested applications. For developers, Windows Marketplace presents a new opportunity to reach up to 30 million devices.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Danielle Harrison - Lord of the Dance
Dannii age 9, skating her programme 'Lord of the Dance' at the Swindon Opens 2009 competition. 2nd place, NISA Level 6.www.danielleharrison.co.uk
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
SharePoint in the cloud
Just returned from a Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) architects boot camp in Seattle.One of the highlights was a tour around one of the Data Centers which are hosting the BPOS cloud services.
Was interesting to learn more about the next Generation 4 Modular Data Centers design. Think of it like 'building blocks', where the data center are composed of modular units of prefabricated mechanical, electrical, security components, etc., in addition to containerized servers.
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Microsoft Security Essentials download
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.It is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It's easy to tell if your PC is secure - when you're green, you're good. It;s that simple.
Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want - without interruptions or long computer wait times.
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Friday, October 2, 2009
SharePoint 2007 Overview - Presentation Slides
Latest version of my SharePoint overview slide deck.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
SharePoint Ads
SharePoint is in demand! SharePoint administrators, users, developers, knowledge workers are all information-hungry. They consistently look for content that helps them plan, deploy, grow, use and manage SharePoint.SharePointAds.com is a dedicated affiliate program that bridges SharePoint Advertisers and Publishers. It allows vendors to expose their products and services to the most targeted audience within the SharePoint Publisher Network, which includes top visited SharePoint-related Web sites and blogs.
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Mark Harrison 2004 to 2009 - blog archive
My blog content from 2004 to 2009 comprises of approx 2000 items - since so many items are now outdated, ive archived the content toSo a fresh start / new blog skin for 2010.
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