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Governance Needed for SharePoint Survival (Image and Data Manager)
There are three governance topics crucial to succeeding with a SharePoint rollout: organisational ownership, optimisation and solving SharePoint spread. Continue reading this entry »
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Office 14: Worth a Wait? (CNET)
Among the many tidbits in Steve Ballmer’s talk to financial analysts Tuesday was the fact that folks should not expect the next version of Office, code-named Office 14, to come out this year. “From a strategy perspective, the next big innovation milestone is Office 14, our next Office release, which will not be this year,” Ballmer told the Wall Street crowd. “There’s a version of SharePoint. There’s a version of Exchange. There’s a new version of Office Live.” Continue reading this entry »
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The Inside Story on SharePoint Security (Redmond Channel Partner)
Learn how to manage the data governance and compliance risks with Cisco’s policy management solution for Microsoft SharePoint in this webcast offered by Cisco, Avanade and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm. Continue reading this entry »
I don’t normally send updates in the middle of the day but I felt that this one couldn’t wait. While doing my morning news searches I have seen quite a few posts debating if Office 14 will ship this year. As of this afternoon we finally have an answer…
Ballmer Confirms Office 14 Will Not Ship in 2009 Continue reading this entry »
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Planning Global Enterprise SharePoint Deployments (SearchWinIT)
To distribute or not to distribute? The more centralized your SharePoint deployment is, the better it works— but your remote users might not be very happy. Before making any decisions about deploying your enterprise SharePoint globally, consider the priorities and preferences of your stakeholders. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft Visual Studio to Boost SharePoint (InfoWorld)
Developers building solutions based on Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration and business process platform will gain expanded support in the planned Visual Studio 2010 development environment, which will feature templates and an extensibility API, a Microsoft official said in a blog on Thursday. Continue reading this entry »
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Ballmer Stumps for Openness in Bid to Beat Apple (CNET)
Ralph Waldo Emerson once declared, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO and turgid (and very consistent) promoter of the software company’s longstanding agenda against open source, apparently wants to step out of his proprietary box every so often, as he did Wednesday at the Mobile World Congress. Continue reading this entry »
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Common Ground For SharePoint and Database Developers? (Redmond Developer News)
When I pointed last week to the potential conflict that Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) can have on database developers and DBAs, I apparently struck a nerve. Some said I hit the nail on the head, while one said I was oversimplifying the matter and creating FUD. But for some database developers and administrators — and in many cases even higher up in the IT food chain, the unintended consequences of SharePoint’s growth can lead to a lack of control for how data is kept in sync as more data ends up in MOSS. Continue reading this entry »
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How To: Connecting SharePoint (MOSS) to a CMIS Repository (CMS Wire)
Microsoft has played a major role in the development of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) that is currently in the hands of the OASIS working group. Committed as the team has been, they (including Microsoft) have not provided much information or examples of how CMIS will work with Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Until now. Continue reading this entry »
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Using Microsoft Excel with SharePoint 2007 (TechRepublic)
SharePoint lists are typically used to store the same types of data that exist in worksheets. So it should come as no surprise that Microsoft designed SharePoint 2007 to provide a high degree of interaction between SharePoint lists and Excel worksheets. In this article, I will show you how these two products work together. Continue reading this entry »
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