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May 06

Online Collaboration Software; Hidden Cost of Google Apps; WP7 Shipments by the Numbers

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A Guide to Online Collaboration Software (Small Business Computing)
There are close to 25 million small businesses in the U.S. alone, and that group is extraordinarily diverse in terms of industries, numbers of employees and their day-to-day activities. There is a common thread, however. “The one thing everybody in every small business does all day is collaborate,” said small business technology analyst Laurie McCabe of the SMB Group. It’s true. We all spend our days talking to and working with colleagues, suppliers, partners, customers. “If you can streamline that process, make it easier for people to collaborate, that’s obviously a good thing,” said McCabe. Continue reading this entry »
May 03

SharePoint Zero-Day Flaw; SharePoint Deployment Challenges; HP Drops Windows 7 from Slate

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Microsoft Warns Of SharePoint Zero-Day Flaw (ChannelWeb)
Microsoft issued an advisory Thursday warning users of a cross-site scripting, zero-day flaw in SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0. Microsoft said that the vulnerability opens the door for hackers to launch elevation of privilege attacks within the SharePoint site — as opposed to an elevation of privilege attack within the workstation or server environment — but didn’t provide details on other possible types of attacks, or the severity and implications of the vulnerability. Continue reading this entry »

Feb 23

Microsoft To Buy Cell Phone Maker?; Enterprise 2.0 Technologies to Watch; US to Unveil Broadband Plan

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Microsoft Ties SharePoint into Application-virtualization Play (The Register)
Microsoft’s application virtualization software – App-V – has been updated to fully support the up-coming next edition of Office. On Monday, the company delivered App-V 4.6, the first release of its application virtualization software engineered – it claimed – to work closely with Office. App-V is a component of Microsoft’s Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). Continue reading this entry »

Feb 12

SharePoint Daily for February 12, 2009

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Microsoft Bolsters SharePoint’s Enterprise Search (Redmond Developer News)
Microsoft rolled out two new enterprise search products on Tuesday at its FASTforward’09 event in Las Vegas. The company unveiled FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business. Both products use search technologies from FAST Search & Transfer, an Oslo, Norway-based company that Microsoft acquired in April for an estimated $1.2 billion. FAST apparently had good search technologists but lousy accountants. Norwegian authorities raided FAST’s Oslo office in October over accounting irregularities. Continue reading this entry »

Nov 14

SharePoint Daily for November 14, 2008

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Microsoft SharePoint Security Concerns Surface (VNUNet)
Most business managers have little visibility into their Microsoft SharePoint environments, and believe that the collaboration tool could put them at risk of data theft, according to new research from enterprise provisioning firm Courion. Continue reading this entry »

Nov 05

SharePoint Daily for November 5, 2008

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The Sharepoint Sessions Revisited – Part Two – EMC Documentum and SharePoint (FastForward)
This is part two of a four part series on AIIM’s Automating Document-centric Processes – Is SharePoint Enough?” Seminar. In each case I will start with the title and quote the session description before going into my notes. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 23

SharePoint Daily for October 23, 2008

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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 »

Oct 22

SharePoint Daily for October 22, 2008

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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 »

Sep 26

SharePoint Daily for September 26, 2008

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Three Continents, One SharePoint Story (CMSWatch)
SharePoint has been on my mind a lot recently, not least because we have been undertaking more research on the product and its usage in an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) context. I’ve also had the unusual opportunity to speak to integrators, resellers and buyers on three continents over the past couple of weeks. The questions I asked may not have been scientific, or statistically meaningful, but they have at least been consistent. Continue reading this entry »

Sep 25

SharePoint Daily for September 25, 2008

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Chesapeake Energy Deploys Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Meet Growth Challenges (Your Communication News)
Helping one of the nation’s leading energy companies meet the challenges of rapid growth while boosting worker productivity, workflow and collaboration, Microsoft Corp. today announced that Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. has deployed an extensible and scalable enterprise solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 across its entire enterprise. The new solution integrates the company’s intranet, extranet and Internet presence and, through its extensibility, streamlines collaboration across project teams — including teams with remote employees — creating a foundation for business intelligence applications, stronger content management and consistent communications with external stakeholders. Continue reading this entry »

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