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Another day in the Office


A blog about Microsoft Office, Groove, SharePoint, Software Development, Business Productivity, Social Computing, Cognitive Science and anything else that comes to mind.

This stream of conciousness brought to you by Alistair Speirs, Office Technology Specialist @ Microsoft Australia.

June 2008 - Posts

Interesting comic from the exchange team…
  Comic Strip : exCHANGE your Career The comic is good… not sure it makes me want to work on the exchange team though. Toaster Printers -  Really? Maybe if we renamed it Outlook Bread Access, but then we already have an OBA acronym. Read More...
The iceberg button
I love this feature, but it is very easy to forget. Once you have added a document, you can expand the Attachments chunk to see the attachment options task pane. Read More...
Demos Happen Here - Microsoft National {Community} Demo Competition
So there is about 6 weeks to go to enter the Microsoft National {Community} Demo Competition . This is an opportunity to strut your funky stuff with Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008. To sweeten the deal there is some very serious Read More...
Why Outlook 2007 rocks for RSS
Rules! I like to have any case studies or blog posts that interest me on hand to fwd to other people. However, Some RSS feeds (and some bloggers) post way too frequently for me to follow everything. The problem can be solved by rules! Read More...
If you only see 2 Tech.Ed sessions this year…
…you are probably hanging out on the Hands On Labs too much. Previously I talked about what to expect at Tech.Ed and shed some infoporn on the Office System track . As we approach the pointy end, lets talk about speakers and sessions. So the first international Read More...
New SharePoint resources for .NET Developers
Check out this new SharePoint development site (full of silverlighty goodness):   Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint. Read More...
Cohorts @ Microsoft
No man is an island, and an Office Technology Specialist like me never works alone. Allow me to introduce some of the team that makes up our BPIO ( Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimisation ) specialist team.  (and their blogs): Gayan Peiris Read More...
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