Records Management Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736213.aspx
New Governance content for SharePoint published on TechNet:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/05/16/new-governance-content-for-sharepoint-published-on-technet.aspx
Governance Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb507202.aspx
SharePoint Governance Checklist Guide:
http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102306291033
Plan Governance:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263341.aspx
Joel Oleson’s Blog:
http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx (note the reference to the SharePoint Best Practices Conference: http://www.sharepointbestpractices.com/ )
SharePoint Governance and Manageability Tools on CodePlex:
http://www.codeplex.com/governance
Ted Pattison Group – SharePoint Training Resources:
http://www.tedpattison.net/
Microsoft Office System Showcase of ISV (Independant Software Vendor) tools. Click here
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How ISV's partners can create opportunities for themselves around the Office System Inc SharePoint 2007. Click here (must be signed up as a partner)
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Partner
Summary
ThoughtBridge
HR-in-a-box: ThoughtBridge developed a "HR-in-a-box" solution for OHC that uses SharePoint Online Web services, workflows, and Exchange Online and integrates through a proprietary framework with their hosted and on-premises line-of-business applications to provide information publicly on the Web.
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Neudesic
Sales library integrated within MS Word: Neudesic designed Document Canvas, a custom add-in for Microsoft Office Word, that integrates with Business Productivity Online Suite. SharePoint Online is used to host an online library of approved and versioned document fragments, and geographically distributed sales team in remote offices can work in Microsoft Word and access these online pieces of documents to quickly stitch together complete, pre-approved corporate documents.
PointBridge
Contract approval workflow application: PointBridge was hired to build a custom multi-step, multi-role contract approval workflow on top of the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite using SharePoint Online and Exchange Online. They integrated Microsoft Word with SharePoint Online to transfer metadata from Word documents into SharePoint Online to manage complex workflows.
Sonata
Project Management: Sonata Software collaborated with Aquent to design WorXpace, a customized solution that enhances the Business Productivity Online Suite to provide Aquent end-to-end visibility of all aspects of their projects. Solution features included collaboration tools such as blogs, wikis, a document store, project health dashboards, exception alerts, approval workflows, and audit reports to automate the company's entire project management process.
The KickStart courses have been so popular with partners, we’ve scheduled even more dates to meet the demand. Make sure you forward this email to your partners and ensure they book on. Feedback from previous courses showed 100% of the attendees were satisfied and benefitted from investing the time to attend:
“I could have done with this course 12-18 months ago when we first became a gold partner!” Alliance Systems, MBS Gold Partner.
“A very informative and worthwhile training event...I found it extremely useful, making over 5 pages of notes” MidlandHR, Certified Partner
The half-day course covers the following:
Using the Partner Portal
Navigating the Partner Membership Centre
Managing Your Competency Information
Making the most of your Programme Benefits
How to find Information more Easily
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Renewals Clinic
Given that the start of the year is our peak renewals time we have also plan to support your Partners by combining the Kick Start sessions with an opportunity to provide individual renewals support and guidance, the Kick Start + Renewals clinics training provide the opportunity for your Partners to talk through any renewal questions directly with the MSPP UK team. They will be able to log into your Partners account and help resolve any issues, along with explaining the process. The renewals clinic will run immediately after the Kickstart course, so encourage your Partners to come along to learn more about MSPP and get the support they need.
Visit www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/kickstart for further details and to register
Intended Audience:
Key partner dedicated administrators/partner managers within the business. Any other personnel who would like to be trained up on the tools and resources we offer on our partner sites, and the renewals process. All content will be aimed at Certified and Gold Certified partner levels.
Training Dates for 2008:
The Developer & Platform Group at Microsoft are pleased to announce a series of technical briefings, targeted at ISVs and Start-ups, focused on the cloud based Azure Services Platform, first announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in October 2008. This event will cover:
· Windows Azure – The operating system for the Cloud
· .Net and Live Services – Mesh, Service Bus, Access Control and Workflow.
· SQL Data Services and data access
· Next Steps
The briefings will consist of technical discussion, demos and interactive discussion and will focus on how Azure can be used as a platform for development. The sessions will be small, typically less than 25, to keep the flow of conversation going, and are suitable for Technical Decision Makers, Application Architects, Senior Developers and CTOs. There will be time after the event for more detailed one to one discussions on any topics related to this session.
For more information about Azure, please visit http://www.azure.com/
For any questions about the event and its format and content, please email ukdev AT microsoft.com
Dates
20 January 2009, Reading:
22 January 2009, London: