Random Office and SharePoint info

Office SharePoint Technologies

· FAST meets SharePoint - What's Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010 There are two main enterprise search options coming with the SharePoint 2010 release.

· October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 The server-packages of October 2009 Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download.

· SharePoint 2010 Developer Center The SharePoint 2010 Developer Center is now live on MSDN. This new sub-site includes Getting Started modules, as well as a Beta version of the SharePoint 2010 SDK.

· SharePoint 2010 An overview of SharePoint 2010.

· Engineering SharePoint This blog post is about how the broader Microsoft Office team designs and builds SharePoint highlighting improvements for the 2010 cycle.

Microsoft Office System

· UI Extensibility in Office 2010 When introducing the Ribbon UI in Office 2007, we also introduced the RibbonX (Ribbon extensibility) model, a new way to programmatically customize the Office UI. RibbonX enables 3rd party developers and solution providers to build on top of the Ribbon by authoring custom tabs and groups, targeting scenarios unique to and optimized for their customers.

· The Magic of Background Removal Background Removal is a new feature in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook that makes the process of selecting and removing portions of an image quick and easy for any picture.

· Enabling password rules for Office 2010 This post introduces the new password rules feature in Office 2010.

· OCS: Office Communications Server Resource - User Forest Topology Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communications Server R2 have two multi forest topologies that have been tested by and are supported by Microsoft.

· Speech Server (2007) runtime support on Windows Server 2008 The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Speech Server (a.k.a. Speech Server (2007)) runtime is now officially supported on Windows Server 2008, in addition to the originally supported Windows Server 2003 Platforms(listed at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb813400.aspx).

· Configuring XMPP Gateway with Jabber XCP 5.4 This article walks you through setting up the XMPP Gateway and configuring it to work with Jabber XCP 5.4.

· Excel: Introducing PowerPivot PowerPivot is the recently announced name of technologies this blog previously referred to by its codename, Gemini. This article describes why there is a need for such a tool, and briefly what PowerPivot provides.

· PivotTable Named Sets in Excel 2010 When working with PivotTables, you often come across scenarios where you want to work with the same set of items from the data over and over again.

· Outlook: Unified Messaging Improvements In Outlook 2010, we’ve added some cool new features to Unified Messaging, including Voice Mail Preview, protected voice mail, and Call Answering Rules to make the UM experience even more compelling. All of the features described below require an account on an Exchange 2010 server, and work with both Outlook Web App and Outlook 2010.

· Multiple Exchange Accounts in Outlook 2010 If you’ve worked with more than one Exchange account in Outlook 2007 or earlier, you may have resorted to using multiple Outlook profiles to access your additional accounts. No more, as Outlook 2010 supports connecting to as many as three Exchange accounts from a single profile.

· PowerPoint: PowerPoint on the Web: A New View of Your Presentation Today I’m going to give you a little background into the PowerPoint Web App Reading View.

· Introducing Broadcast Slide Show PowerPoint 2010 makes it easy to present on the fly to anyone, anywhere. Just send a link, and in one click everyone you invite will be watching a synchronized view of your slide show in their browser. You’ll never again need to email bulky attachments or make an announcement every time you change slides.

· Project: Project 2010: Introducing Web Based Project Editing Have you ever wanted to make edits to a project plan far away from your desktop installation of Project? Perhaps you were in a meeting and pulled up Project Web Access to show project status but hoped to capture updates directly in PWA as the meeting progressed. Maybe you have multiple stakeholders on a plan who want the ability to add tasks even if they aren’t responsible for the entire project schedule and don’t have Project on their desktop.

· Project 2010: Introducing User-Controlled Scheduling In Project 2010, we have introduced a new concept called "User-Controlled Scheduling". It's a collection of features designed to make Project a more flexible planning and schedule management tool. The idea is that you, as the project manager, can have complete control over when a task should happen.

· Visio: Introducing Visio Services At the SharePoint Conference, the Visio team unveiled Visio Services – a new feature of SharePoint 2010 that extends the reach of diagrams considerably.

· Using a Visio Process Repository We frequently speak with Visio users whose organizations need to manage collections of process diagrams. Many of these users are employing basic methods such as storing these documents on network file shares.

· Automatic Page Sizing in Visio 2010 When you start a new diagram, you typically begin with a single drawing page that is the size of a standard piece of printer paper.  Many diagrams grow beyond the size of a single printed sheet.  Visio 2010 adds a dynamic page sizing capability that responds as you draw, so you no longer have to manually adjust your page size to your diagram.

· Word: Introducing Word Automation Services We've heard from many customers trying to perform server side conversions of Open XML files (.docx) into fixed formats (PDF and XPS) using the Word desktop application, and that's what motivated us to create Word Automation Services.