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Remote Tools that Can Help You Save Gas (RedmondMag)
There was a book published last year entitled “Muzzle the Guzzle: 50 Fuel Saving Strategies” (I-Form Ink Publishing, 2007) containing 50 gas-saving tips and tricks intended to save you money on gas — something we sorely need right now. In chatting with various network administrators and consultants who drive to work, it appears that many are also taking whatever measures they can to save a little money. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft Poised to Offer SharePoint 2007 SP2 (CMSWire)
Microsoft Office SharePoint, the company’s enterprise content and document management system, is poised to receive its second service pack in the coming months. Microsoft plans to ship Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 in early 2009 and will focus on improving the end-user experience, rather than being aimed at improving the internal operations of the complex software product, which was an area of focus for SharePoint SP1. Continue reading this entry »
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What Ray Ozzie Sees in Azure’s Cloud (CNET)
In 2005, Ray Ozzie talked about the coming Live services push and what it would mean. He sent a big memo and held an event in San Francisco. Then he set to work and got pretty darn quiet. Sure, we got some hints along the way, especially earlier this year when Microsoft launched a preview of Live Mesh. Continue reading this entry »
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Are You Integrating Properly? (Information World Review)
I will stop harping on about SharePoint one of these days. Promise. But probably not until it ceases to become one of the most popular content management tools among enterprises. So you know what I’m going to say next: despite the hype, SharePoint cannot be all things to all people. It isn’t a one stop shop for your ECM needs, and if you think it is, you’re going to find pretty quickly that the add-on functionality required to make it so will blow your budget through the roof. Continue reading this entry »
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Make the Most of SharePoint (CIO)
Microsoft SharePoint’s complexity still puzzles many IT pros. Here’s how one company uses it to keep a project involving a large cast of players and documents on time and on budget. Continue reading this entry »
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Mainsoft Announces Sharepoint Integrator for IBM Lotus Notes (JDJ)
Mainsoft announced the release of its SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. This add-on to IBM Lotus Notes 8, an Eclipsed-based Rich Client Platform based on Java, provides point-and-click access to Microsoft SharePoint content, including Word documents, Excel worksheets, and PowerPoint presentations, from within Notes. Mainsoft professional services can also build composite applications across SharePoint data and Java or .NET line-of-business applications. Continue reading this entry »
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Office 2007 SP2 Due in Spring (VNUNet)
Microsoft has confirmed that the next service pack for Office 2007 will be released February-April next year. “Historically, we have waited to communicate details about service packs until their release (or very shortly before),” said the Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team in a blog posting. Continue reading this entry »
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Innovative-e, Inc. Managing Partner Publishes SharePoint Book to Help Companies Organize and Manage Complex Projects (MarketWatch)
Innovative-e, Inc. managing partner, Dux Raymond Sy, is helping companies across the globe increase productivity with a new SharePoint handbook, published by O’Reilly Media. “SharePoint for Project Management: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint” is a hands-on, non-technical guide that demonstrates how companies can manage complex projects more efficiently using SharePoint, a popular collaboration Microsoft software. According to the Info-Tech Research Group, adoption statistics indicated that 34 percent of companies in North America would deploy SharePoint or an equivalent tool by the end of 2007, with estimates of another 25 percent by 2008 and 19 percent between 2009 and 2011. Continue reading this entry »
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Boosting Business Relationships with SharePoint (WindowsITPro)
Although SharePoint has evolved into a first-rate platform for information sharing and collaboration among users, departments, and teams within an organization, much of what makes SharePoint so valuable is the ability to share information with people outside your company–partners, customers, vendors and so forth. Of course, opening up your collaborative environment to entities outside your enterprise opens a Pandora’s Box of security and compliance issues as well as presenting a tremendous amount of headaches for your IT department. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft PDC to Feature Various Technologies (InfoWorld)
Microsoft bills its upcoming Professional Developers Conference as a gathering of developers and architects and a chance to understand the future of Microsoft’s platform. From this backdrop, the Los Angeles conference, which begins on October 26, is set to feature insights on a host of technologies ranging from model-driven software development to cloud computing and the Windows OS. Continue reading this entry »
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