The wonder that is the Microsoft Office system : MOSS 2007 and WSS v3

Register 'Reads' for Office SharePoint Server 2007

SteveMarsh — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:48:01 GMT

The Register has compiled a list of suggested reading on MOSS. I can't endorse any particular book but the Register has provided a brief overview of each title.

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/06/20/register_books_june/

20 of the Fantastic 40

SteveMarsh — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:57:09 GMT

They're here!!! (Well some of them are anyway.)

A number of partners have been asking me recently about when the new SharePoint 3.0 templates will be available. The ggod news is that 20 of the fantastic 40 are available for download now!

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/wssapps/templates/default.mspx

Calling all Partners!!!!

SteveMarsh — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:00:00 GMT

The Partner Readiness Team is pleased to announce the release of the BPIO University - Partner Sales Readiness Workshop. The first delivery for this course starts on the 22^nd January so please sign up as soon as possible.

The Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) University - Partner Sales Readiness Workshop is a 2-day in-depth, instructor-led sales readiness workshop for enterprise and mid-market partners. This sales training helps partners to understand how to develop customer conversations around the new 2007 Microsoft Office system and how to sell using the Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization customer campaign tools. Focused on three main capabilities—Unified Communications & Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management, and Business Intelligence—this BPIO course features Microsoft marketing strategies, field priorities, and technology capability training. Partners will also learn how to execute their own BPIO customer campaigns and selling activities independently. This course is targeted towards Microsoft SI and ISV partners and sales and technical pre-sales support personnel.

The agenda for this unique 2-day course includes:

- Customer Campaigns, CES and BPIO Model, and Enterprise Search
- Unified Communication & Collaboration
- Enterprise Content Management
- Business Intelligence

Enrol your partners now using the new Partner Learning Centre

This course is the first to be released on the new UK Partner Learning Centre. This replaces the existing Training and Events Centre and UK Events Site with immediate effect. The new Partner Learning Centre will vastly improve the partner experience in helping them find, review and track attendance on all training courses (online and classroom).

To enrol:

All individuals wishing to access the UK Partner Readiness resources will need:

a. A Windows Live ID

b. To associate their Windows Live ID with their Partner ID :- instructions can be found here

This link to enrol can then be used, or partners can search on the course ID 44Wk001 or ‘BPIO’. If partners have any issues enrolling, please ask them to call the UK Partner Learning Centre Support number 0870 8509442 or mailto:ukplc@microsoft.com.

More Getting to Grips

SteveMarsh — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:51:00 GMT

Following on from my last post here is another link to more stuff that can get you up to speed with 2007 Office system. The e-learnings are broken down into training for Home and Office users, Developers and IT Pros.

I've not forgotten about going through the MOSS 2007/WSS v3 hands on labs and reporting back on what I think. I've been out and about speaking to a few partners about EVO (Exchange, Vista and Office) but hopefully I'll have some time soon. I hoped that on Bank Holiday Monday the need to go through the labs would get me out of furniture shopping but alas it did not and my wallet suffered accordingly.

Playtime!!!

SteveMarsh — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:40:00 GMT

The SharePoint team blog is once again sending us in the direction of some online labs. Have a look at Rich Riley’s post. I had a bit of a play around in a couple of the labs yesterday and the performance/response of the hosted VMs is pretty good and 90 minute allocation allows more than enough time to complete that lab and have a bit of a play around trying out other things. I also see that Rich made a change to one of the scripts to correct an error that I noticed when I was running through one of the labs in Seattle the other week, Sparky D may try to claim it but the messaging boy was just passing on the information from my discovery. It’s a proud moment for Marsh.

For those of you who want to get deep down and dirty with some other training, have a look at these Microsoft e-learning offerings. I’m planning to have a bash at them over the next few weeks and I’ll report back with my opinion but if you’ve already had a go at any of these then I’d be interested to hear your thoughts.

Want to ramp up for 2007?

SteveMarsh — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:24:00 GMT

I’ve been getting quite a few questions recently asking about various aspects of the 2007 release of SharePoint Technologies and as a result decided that it would be a good idea to compile a list of resources, a bit of a one stop shop, as a starting point for those that wish to ramp up their knowledge and readiness on this technology rather than sending an email each time with pretty much the same response. I was mulling over what I would put in this list during the course of the weekend but have returned to work this morning to find out that I have been beaten to a ‘Top 10’ by Arpan Shah in the Product Group. Oh well, best laid plans an all that. Link to Arpan Shah’s blog post, no re-inventing the wheel going on here!

Get ‘in the know’ with Office SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0

SteveMarsh — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:10:00 GMT

For those of you out there that like to get stuck in and get your hands dirty (come on, own up, you know who you are ) there are a number of new online trainings available. Details of these trainings can be found in this blog post from the SharePoint Product Group.