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New Technical Webcasts for Deploying SharePoint Search

IW UK Partner Team — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:34:13 GMT

Saw on Mike Pallot's blog that some technical webcasts for partners and customers have been launched covering:

Planning and deploying search across the Enterprise
Installing and configuring Microsoft Search Solutions
Extend the search capabilities of Microsoft Search Solutions

Plan and deploy search across the enterprise

14th Feb: Webcast 1: Microsoft Search Solutions for the Enterprise – Technical Overview
21st Feb: Webcast 2: Microsoft Search Solutions for the Enterprise – Security, Performance and Compliance Considerations
Webcast 3: Planning for and Deploying Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (28th feb)

Install and configure Microsoft search solutions

7th Mar: Webcast 4: Installing and configuring Desktop Search in the Enterprise
14th Mar: Webcast 5: Installing and configuring basic search with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Search 2007 (Search-only SKU)
21st Mar: Webcast 6: Installing and configuring search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Extend the search capabilities of Microsoft search solutions

28th Mar: Extending search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Exposing line-of-business data with the Business Data Catalog
4th Apr: Extending search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Exposing data sources using the SharePoint Protocol Handler architecture

Office system Training for SI/VAR Partners

IW UK Partner Team — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:49:13 GMT

The Partner Readiness Team is pleased to announce the release of five classroom courses for the 2007 Office system. Deliveries for most of these courses start in December, so please sign up as soon as possible. The courses are:

2007 Microsoft Office System Core Training: This two day technical course explores the core of the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Students will interact with the client-side technologies that drive information worker productivity locally and the server-side components that extend productivity to teams, divisions, and partners. For more details and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007OfficeCore

2007 Microsoft Office System ECM and Forms Workshop: In this one day course you will learn how to use Office SharePoint® Server 2007, SharePoint Designer 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 to customize and extend solutions for the Web site of a fictional company called Litware Incorporated, an enterprise chain of retail tennis gear and apparel store with an online presence. For more details and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007ECM

2007 Microsoft Office System Performance Management Workshop: The goal of this two day training course is to give you an in-depth look and hands-on experience of the capabilities of both ProClarity and Business Scorecard Manager. you will explore how both of these technologies to provide a unified solution that address BI challenges, including the need to help businesses effectively communicate and analyze performance. For more information and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007PerfManagement

2007 Microsoft Office System Portals and Collaboration Workshop: This course utilizes new and improved features for Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2007. With the practical application of these new features, attendees will be able to see a portal site implemented post-installation to production. For more information and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007Portals

2007 Microsoft Office System Unified Communication Workshop: This one day course focuses on the knowledge transfer of critical elements of Unified Communications, including: Unified Messaging, Real-time Collaboration (including Microsoft® Office Live Communications Server, Microsoft® Office Communicator and Microsoft® Office Live Meeting), Microsoft® Speech Server, Microsoft® Office System, Windows Mobile®, and the telephony piece of UC. For more information and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007UnifiedComms. (Please note – at the moment only December, January and early February dates have been scheduled. More will follow.)

Exchange Server 2007 Ignite Technical Training Workshop – a two day course that covers the architecture, installation and configuration of Exchange, as well as providing information on security, compliance, archiving and remote access. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/exchange2007ignite

Office for Developers Training – This three-day course with Hands-On Labs will take you through the process of building solutions on the Microsoft Office 2007 platform and services. The course will focus on the growing service opportunities and the new features of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of applications. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/officedevelopers

Coming soon: 2007 Microsoft Office System Enterprise Search Workshop: This course will train Microsoft partners about Microsoft’s Search strategies and solutions—Windows Live™ Search center, a single application from which to search—consolidating their favorite Microsoft Search technologies (Desktop, SharePoint®, and MSN/Windows Live search on the Web). Live Search gives you the tools needed to easily and consistently harness the explosion of information in your organization, right from your desktop.

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Knowledge Network for Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007

IW UK Partner Team — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:52:00 GMT

I was asked today if I had any information on Knowledge Network, which is a new add-on for MOSS 2007. It automates the discovery and sharing of undocumented knowledge and relationships, enabling you to quickly locate who knows whom and who knows what within your constantly changing organization.

Mark Harrison blogged about this last month, highlighting a Channel 9 video which explains more... otherwise more information may be found at the Knowledge Network team blog on MSDN: http://blogs.msdn.com/kn/ and the Knowledge Network Preview Page at http://www.microsoft.com/kn.

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New HPC & Search Blog

IW UK Partner Team — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:20:00 GMT

Allow me to introduce you to a colleague's (Mike Pallot) blog, on HPC and Search... including a recent blog on resources for iFilters... . Head over to http://blogs.technet.com/mikep/ to check it out.

Microsoft Search Technologies: Join the Quickstart Programme

IW UK Partner Team — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:31:00 GMT

Join Quickstart for Microsoft Search to learn how to take our integrated search capabilities for desktops, enterprise environments, and the Internet to market. Upcoming webcasts to get you ready to capitalise on the estimated US$13 billion information management opportunity. And help you gain visibility with customers and the Microsoft sales force.

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