The remaining videos in my quest to show 12 cool free things that you can use form Microsoft have been made by good friend Viral .  Viral is the Office and Sharepoint evangelist so it is entirely appropriate that he shows you PPTPlex, a PowerPoint add-in to pimp your presentations. It really comes into its own if you have to give a more unstructured presentation or tutorial, and you can get from the OfficeLabs site here . Technorati Tags: PowerPoint , presentations , pptplex

BIWUG organizes another session around different topics see below. 18:00 - 18:30 Registration and welcome 18:30 - 19:30 How to do branding in MOSS 2007 with master pages and themes by Joost Feyen Join this session to get a walkthrough of the different customization and branding options in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. What effort does it take to brand SharePoint? What about accessibility? When to use SharePoint Designer?  This is an interactive

Installing, administering and working with SharePoint 2007 Topics of the day: Some background on SharePoint and intranet sites installing SharePoint 2007 configuring SharePoint 2007 administering SharePoint 2007 backup / recovery on SharePoint 2007 ... Speaker: Bart Bultinck & Tom Vandaele When: Saturday Sept 8 - 2007 This event will start at 10:00 and finish around 17:30 Where: TBD Do you want to register for this event? Send a mail to Tom@decaluwe.eu , be fast seats are limited. Check out the

The Belgian community has a very strong reputation internationally with many individuals making their mark in their fields of expertise. Lots of individuals, like yourself, are hungry for more information about the many Microsoft products and technologies. In addition to the technical information, there is also very often the need to just socialize with other persons within the same domain of expertise. Five belgian usergroups, BIWUG, VISUG, SQLUG, IT-Talks, and Pro-Exchange , have decided to combine

Watch the latest recorded funcasts: Implementing messaging policies using Exchange 2007 Exchange Server 2007 provides new tools for coping with a growing number of legal, regulatory, and internal policy and compliance requirements that relate to e-mail. Most organizations must be able to filter e-mail delivery based on several different criteria and manage e-mail retention and deletion. This funcast provides details on how to configure the Exchange Server 2007 e-mail policy and compliance features.

While I think most of the IT Professionals (who are not developers) probably don't care about the Office Open XML (OOXML) vs ODF discussions that are going on. Until now I did not read a lot about what the biggest differences are and why people were against on of the other format. It's now clear to me why IBM is against the Fast-Track ISO certification of OOXML. If they succeed in there objection than the OOXML ISO certification will take about 2 Years instead of the 6 months Fast-Track , which means

Today we will have our big consumer launch event where we will officially launch "Windows Vista" and "Office 2007". Because I am traveling to Seattle tomorrow morning I will not be able to join some of my colleagues at this event. During the day there will be some press conferences and tonight there is a big party going on in the Atomium. Only a few of you where able to get an entrance ticket. But don't worry there is another opportunity for you here. What will happen tonight is really cool and it's