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Last wednesday, Patrick Tisseghem, a great icon in the SharePoint community passed away. This is a big loss for the community. My condolecenses to his wive, children, family and friends. http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/09/05/patrick-tisseghem-passed-away.aspx
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Search administrators can improve the relevance and presentation of search results by carefully planning the end-user search experience. The goal of such planning is to create a search experience that enables users to quickly find the information they need. This article contains information that can help Shared Services Provider (SSP) administrators and site collection administrators optimize the end-user search experience. The first section of this article discusses: The search user interface for...
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This movie created by e3unlimited gives you a great view on how the world is changing in behaviour, people, and work. To be part of that world with your organisation you need to change together with that world. Your employees over ten years have other demands and use other ways to communicate. They are not related to your office place and need freedom to work. By closing your eyes for the future and not anticipating on the demand you could become out dated. its time to think differently. Thanks to...
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On TechNet there is finally a resource center available for SharePoint Server 2007. This is great news!!! A lot of information you will need in your projects comes from your own experiences and those from others. This place on TechNet will give you that information you will need to fullfill the needs of your customer. Some of the subjects are: Operational Excellence Team Collaboration Sites Publishing Portals Search My Sites http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx...
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The Microsoft SharePoint Team has announced the availability of the latest updates to the online MSDN Library + the downloadable SDKs for both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0. Download the MOSS SDK 1.4 Download the WSS SDK 1.4 As stated: " In our never-ending efforts to improve the customer and partner experience, we are announcing the sim ship of both the online MSDN Library and the downloadable SDK! No more confusion about what’s the latest version: August is August !" I think thats great news...
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Microsoft Volume Licensing has released a document describing the licensing of Microsoft Server Products in virtual environments. As stated in the document: " The purpose of this white paper is to give an overview of Microsoft ® licensing models for the server operating system and server applications under virtual environments. It can help you understand how to use Microsoft server products with virtualization technologies, such as Microsoft Hyper-V ™ technology , Microsoft ® Virtual Server...
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Microsoft has released a whitepaper "How to get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft". The whitepaper discusses the value of social computing for business, citing 2 customer references of large scale enterprise deployments, and the technologies that enable successful results from social computing. The whitepaper also addresses the business and technical benefits from using SharePoint Products and Technologies and how the platform differentiates compared to other...
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Finally....at Microsoft TechNet, a resource center is setup for performance and capacity planning for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. There is a lot of content written about these subjects but never was there a focused area on these subjects. Not it has changed. :) You will find a lot of articles regarding: Planning Recommendations Estimate performance based on test results (Yes!!!!) Demos Tools from Microsoft Tools and Papers from Partners and the Community Community Resources http://technet...
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PhotoSynth makes it possible to create from photos from different angles 3D views of objects, places, buildings and more. Finally people can create their own Synth by uploading photos. How does it work? Photosynth is a potent mixture of two independent breakthroughs: the ability to reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and the technology to bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet. Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines...
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On Microsoft Technet there are two new articles available for managing Shared Service Providers within a farm and between farms. Also how to manage a Shared Services inside a Shared Service Providers. It gives a detailed hand-out explaining how to configure the SSPs in farm or between farms. The other article describes the number of different Shared Services are available and where they are used for. It also describes parts of Shared Services like: Configuring Excel Services Managing Audiences Usage...
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A quick update about some downloadable books, whitepapers and technical diagrams for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. A must read :) Downloadable book: Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007 This guide provides prescriptive guidance that can help you and your team build custom enterprise sites by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 — such as company-wide portal sites or Internet presence sites. Custom sites based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 combine coded elements...
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As mentioned on the blog of Bart Wessels , the newsbrief of Microsoft voor Ondernemers shows that Microsoft has a number of dutch site templates for WSS 3.0 made available. The package contains 20 dutch site definition for a lot of procedures and functionalities. Follow the installation instructions on the download page. The package contains the following (in dutch): Afwezigheidsverzoek en vakantieplanningsbeheer Meerdere projecten begroten en bijhouden Foutendatabase Callcenter Beheer van wijzigingsverzoeken...
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The Microsoft SharePoint Team has announced that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 now fully support SQL Server 2008. They have updated their documentation regarding this support: Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288751.aspx Office SharePoint Server 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx Some of the new benefits are: Improved Managebility High Availability Enhanced Data Security Thanks...
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One of the most underestimated areas when implementing Portal technology with SharePoint is governance. Governance is a set of roles, responsibilities and processes that are used to provide a guide for development, adoption and the use of solutions. More and more companies involved with IT are in need of such guideness. Rob Silver, one of the writer covering SharePoint Products and Technologies for the IT Pro Audience at Microsoft, has announced tow new articles about governance. These articles are...
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Microsoft has launched, last thursday, a blog about engineering Windows 7 . The developers/designers of Windows 7 wants to go into a dialog with Windows users. Windows 7 is the new operating system of Microsoft to be released in 2010. As they stated: " Welcome to our first post on a new blog from Microsoft—the Engineering Windows 7 blog, or E7 for short. E7 is hosted by the two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky . Jon and Steven, along with...