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My colleague, Korby Parnell , recently decided to withdraw from speaking on the “Microsoft Blogs: Pioneering Corporate Transparency” panel discussion that’s been scheduled for the upcoming Business Blogging Summit conference on Oct. 25-27 in Seattle,
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The C9 video of the SharePoint Group Program Managers that I mentioned in my previous post is now online at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=196522 . Although I’m sure that you’d enjoy the entire 55 minute video, here are some timestops for
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My work on the SharePoint Community Advancement Initiative continues at a dizzing pace. Earlier this week, I helped launch the Records Management Team Blog , which is a blog about the business challenges we are all facing and the opportunities to address
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Here’s an interesting article from Fortune magazine – “ How I Work: Bill Gates ” – in which Bill describes his use of SharePoint (emphasis mine): “…Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the
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Yesterday, the 2007 Microsoft Office system preview site went live at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview . It’s so gratifying for me to see the deliverables that I had spent a few months working on finally being published on the Web and available
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This white paper describes features that are included in Windows SharePoint Services SP2 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP2 . It also provides best practices and guidance about how you can architect your solutions considering the current and future
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I just sent out an internal e-mail announcement to several hundred technical sales people re: the completion of my first major deliverable -- the Microsoft Office “12” SharePoint Servers and Windows SharePoint Services “v3” Technology Briefing slidedeck,
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Well, the Office “12” Beta 1 Technology Preview Program has officially started , and 10,000 lucky customers and partners are in the process of downloading the bits from our BetaPlace site. Already, the early press coverage has been very positive: PC Magazine:
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I had another EBC session today during which I presented and discussed the investment areas in the Office “12” versions of SharePoint products and technologies. The customer was extremely excited about the new features and improvements but was disappointed
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Yesterday’s all-hands meeting of the IWPMG (that’s Information Worker Product Management Group) was my first, and I was particularly impressed by Chris Capossela , who heads our organization. Chris reviewed our FY06 business objectives and Q1 scorecard
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I see that Arpan has just listed his Top 10. Well, here are mine: A "Global" Template that is applied/provisioned before any other template, and a Feature Framework that provides modularity for “additive” templates OOB document review/approval workflow
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Wow, it’s been almost 5 months since my last post here, and how quickly the time has gone by! In May, as I was trying to focus on closing a couple of large deals, I also started to pursue career opportunities in Redmond . While working in the “field”
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Forrester Research originally published its Trends 2005: Collaboration analyst report in December, 2004, which provided a succinct and objective assessment of the key trends in collaboration as the technology “enters the realm of the strategic.” Two of
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Looks like every enterprise server product group at Microsoft is trying to provide self-paced, hands-on labs via the TechNet Virtual Lab . Now, the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Virtual Lab is finally available, and -- quoting from its home page -- "it
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Building SharePoint Web Parts? Then this post (excerpted below) from Dino Esposito is a must read: WebParts: From SharePoint to ASP.NET 2.0 In the Windows world, SharePoint products and technologies simplify and support various forms of collaboration
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