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Offtopic - Humour and Irony - Laser ice levelling - nice!
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Have to love the technology used to level the runway in Antarctica for the first regular link down there from Oz.....cannot help thinking about the irony of landing a plane on the ice in order to study the environment....lol Good weekend all...
Free SharePoint Events for Legal and Professional Services!
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Two events coming up from Content and Code focusing on the Legal Industry and the Professional Services business. They both look well conceived ran by a good partner Content & Code. Here's the spiel: Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2007: The Opportunity...
Back by popular demand - Enterprise Search Deep Technical Training!!
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Back by popular demand is the Level 400 training - great news 'cos only yesterday I was with a customer and partner who were after just this! Click on the picture below to be taken off by magic to the registration site: Enjoy!
Hot news - Microsoft to buy FAST!
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over 7 years ago
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Looks like the Guardian were the fastest with the news - click on the logo above! Long history of working together with items in the news back to 2007 like this. We will be tightly working with FAST teams so stay tuned for news on how you as Microsoft...
Microsoft Enterprise Search - one day workshops!
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Enterprise search doesn't have to be complicated. In fact Microsoft recently announced that quick, easy and powerful search will soon be available for FREE in the form of Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, a fantastic addition to the Microsoft Enterprise...
Faceted Search in SharePoint....here's how!
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over 7 years ago
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A colleague of mine pointed out this cool post on the Enterprise Search blog on how to get faceted search in MOSS 07 - I missed it so just posting it here in case you did too! How to: Enable Faceted Search in Search Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007...
MOSS in call centres - gotta love this quote!
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Sometimes I love the pure simplicity of how MOSS 07 can help a business, I met yesterday with the folks at Trinity who spoke about some of their great work at North Yorkshire County Council - it echoed a very similar conversation I had with our Director...
Host of New Year articles on HPC from Microsoft - channel 9 and TechNet!
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Click on the above image to head straight to the HPC Show! Getting Started with Windows HPC Server 2008 New OGF Web Service Interface with Windows HPC Server 2008 New Job Scheduler Features with Windows HPC Server 2008 New Network Direct RDMA Interface...
Fast plan to get into High End Enterprise Search...!
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Here are some more stories all around the FAST announcement yesterday - you have to love the manner in which the story is reported differently in the different media - Hats off to the IHT for using a picture of Bill Gates with Slash from Guns 'n' Roses...
Free one day workshops - first 2 sold out - sign up quick!
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So a few days ago I blogged about the new free Microsoft Enterprise Search workshops we are doing. These are simply fab in terms of content and this is a warning to those of you that want to go - the first two are nearly sold out so sign up quick or you...