Craig Swartz on Microsoft

Views and News for the Northern California Financial, Legal, and ISV Community

December, 2008

  • Roundtable for Carbon Footprint reduction

    The roundtable device is a 360 degree camera with conference phone. When 2 are placed in conference rooms far apart, people who normally would have to travel quite a distance can meet, talk, and see each other thru this high fidelity device. At what cst...
  • Ramp up- for SharePoint developers and the developer community

    The Microsoft developer community has put together a community based training vehicle to help developers gear up on Microsoft tools and technologies - Ramp-up http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx In addition, a specific training site...
  • Windows 7 information

    Lots of discussion revolving around Windows 7 lately, especially since the Developers conference. I've included alink to one of my favorite information sites for Windows 7 - the engineering site :). Want to discover the new toolbar, UI, etc, its all there...
  • Better customer relationships now, pay later

    Microsoft CRM, home of the CRM which has the Outlook interface ( a true happy point for those who arent thrilled at dual data entry CRM systems), has announced a 36 month zero percent financing program in the US and 10 other countries. For those not...
  • Mainframe to Cloud migration

    Microfocus has announced their support for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform. In short, the new path of Mainframe Cobol application migration is to use Microfocus cobol on the Azure services platform to migrate the Mainframe cobol to a cloud...
  • Client interactions in the Branch via Surface

    I've written previously regarding Surface capability for client interaction, as well as the Sphere for interaction. This article describes ho NCR has transformed the Surface device into a transaction oriented forms completion and transfer mechanism...
  • Customizing Exchange Mailbox Quota messages

    A question recently came up as to how customization would be done to a message going out to notify a client of an impending mailbox quota barrier. There is a very detaled writeup in Technet on how this is done, so I have provided the link here should...
  • Marketing to Millenials

    The 80 million strong marketplace known as millenials is a demographic which has known technology and it use since childhood, and prefers WEB 2.0 capability, IM, Chat, and Facebook style interaction. Althought the title of this Fox news segment is Banking...
  • Microsoft Rights Management adds RSA as partner

    To add to the capabilities of the Rights Management Serices in Windows2008 server, Microsoft has entered into partnership with RSA to add RSA's Data Loss Prevention capabilities. Just today I was having a conversation regarding the need to add ights protection...