Document Management Systems

Customer = Defra

The United Kingdom (U.K.) government’s Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) discharges its responsibilities through 3,000 core employees, dispersed throughout the country, who collaborate with a range of outside experts and stakeholders. Defra wanted a combined electronic document and records management (EDRM) system, and a tool set for 10,000 people to improve collaboration and comply with the government’s modernising agenda for e-government services. Defra chose Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to fulfil all three objectives with a standardised solution. Users are now creating records as part of their everyday work due to the automated workflows, without any extra burden. The department hopes to make significant cost savings by adopting a single system for records management and collaboration.

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The Content is now available on the partner portal from the ECM Partner Community Day.

https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/program/competencies/iwsolutions/iwecmandforms

We’re pleased  to announce the release of the “The Developers Guide to Web Content Management” course. This five day training course is designed to provide SharePoint developers with the basic and intermediate information and skills they need to extend, customize, and deploy a Web content management (WCM) publishing site implementation. The primary audience for this course is SharePoint developers who are responsible for the successful implementation of a WCM site.

Deliveries will take place on the 16^th  June and the 30^th June, at Combined Knowledge in Leicestershire.

For more information or to enrol, please use this link: Here is the link: https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=6d49d9f3-a95c-4f4d-8a30-da2c3299bec0&site=UK&lang=en-uk

If you have any problems enrolling, please contact our helpdesk on 0870 8509442, or by email on ukplcsup@microsoft.com.

Developing with SharePoint Server 2007 course.

This course explores the development opportunities with Microsoft’s most recent release of SharePoint Products and Technologies. The first half of the course focuses on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) where you will learn how develop fundamental WSS building blocks such as features, application pages, site pages, Web Parts, custom list types, site columns, content types and custom workflow programs. The second half of the course focuses on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS).

You will learn how to assemble and configure business solutions by using and extending the portal and web content management features of MOSS as well as other server-side services such as the Business Data Catalog, Forms Services, Excel Services and Report Center.

For more information or to enrol, click here. The cost is £640 per seat for Gold and Cert, and £800 per seat for Registered partners.

These are subsidised seats on public courses.

44WC003 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - Monthly LiveMeeting   This Live Meeting aims to update Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified Partners holding the Information Worker competency with the latest news about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

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Check out the UK Microsoft Partner Portal for details on SharePoint Training.

In particular I highly recommend Jeremy's new Live Meeting "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - What's It All About?" 

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Contribution from David Leigh - Thanks Dave! 

MOSS downloads include:

SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version (x64)

This is the x64 version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial for Standard and Enterprise editions.

SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version

This is the x86 version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial for Standard and Enterprise editions.

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

This solution accelerator is a collection of software and guidance that you can use to easily deploy a SharePoint-based environment for collaboration with people outside your firewall. The accelerator allows users to create collaboration environments that use the familiar SharePoint interface. Because the solution is easy to use, end users are more likely to use it rather than revert to e mail.

PerformancePoint 2007 Data Integration Toolkit

The Data Integration Toolkit is a set of software, documentation, and samples designed to enable partners and customers to expose data from financial source systems in a standardized, contextual format for use in reporting, planning, monitoring and analytics scenarios.

Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007

The Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 provides recommended topology diagrams and hardware requirements for an organization based on information you provide to the tool.

Microsoft Partners are invited to attend Groove Fundamentals & Technical Training.  Participating in this training will help prepare you for taking and passing the Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist Exam 70-555: Configuring Microsoft Office Groove 2007, part of the Portals & Collaboration Certification. All partners attending this class will receive the eLearning module and exam voucher, enabling you to become certified easily! This two-day course will outline Groove solutions in market, how SharePoint & Groove work together, and how to deploy and support Groove.  The training includes presentations, labs, and Q&A discussions.  The Hands on Labs will focus on the Groove client as well as installing and configuring the Groove Servers.  You will leave the class with a solid understanding of the Groove platform and its underlying services, including the unique aspects of a decentralized architecture, communications, security, data bridge, relay and management services.

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Developing with SharePoint Server 2007

More information here:

Delivery Schedule:

12/5 Hinkley

19/5 Leeds

2/6 London

9/6 Altrincham

The link to enrol is here: Partner Learning Centre

The cost is £640 per seat for Gold and Cert, and £800 per seat for Registered partners.

SharePoint Deployment in Financial Services - Alleviating the burden of compliance and TCF

Friday 2nd May 2008, Microsoft Offices - Victoria, London

SWORD's SharePoint Consultancy is chairing this forthcoming event in association with Contrast Training.

This free morning event, hosted by Microsoft, will address how Microsoft's SharePoint enables organisations to create, distribute and manage policies, procedures, rules, regulations and the Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) infrastructure using SharePoint.

Guest speakers include Roger Cotterill from Endsleigh Insurance and Gerry Morgan of City Capital Consulting.

Delegates will learn how, with SharePoint, they are able to improve compliance procedures, reduce the burden of compliance on senior managers and assist with managing the TCF infrastructure.

Great to see some of our new partners getting out there and making some noise!

Partner Bot – download and you could win £1,000 in Capital Bonds vouchers (https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/40043201)

Partner Bot is an Instant Messenger 'data digger', which quickly retrieves partner-related information and shows you where you can find the answers you need. Add Partner Bot as a buddy in your Windows Live Messenger contacts and it will always be available whenever you're logged in. Simply type in your question and Partner Bot will bring back an instant response.  Whether you're looking for support options, searching for competitive information or want to learn more about competencies, ask Partner Bot and it will point you in the right direction.

Currently, if you add Partner Bot to your contacts and then type this question in the conversation window: 'I want to ask Partner Bot the £1,000 question', you could be in with a chance to win £1,000 in Capital Bonds vouchers. Follow the link and submit your question.

Or simply enter here: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/botchallenge. The closing date of this promotion is April 28 2008.

Microsoft has recently updated the content for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) on the Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimisation (BPIO) web site.

Includes PowerPoint Slides for ECM, ECM ROI Spreadsheets, Records Management White Papers.

 It's certainly worth taking a look to update your content.

http://www.microsoftio.com/bpio.aspx#Qual

OpenXML has been approved as an international standard.

Press Release: Click the link below

ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard