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Monday, August 17, 2009 11:44 PM

Using InfoPath to add twitter-like functionality to SharePoint

The philosophy of many technical folks that I talk to is “Lock it down and save the user from themselves”. While this may seem great from a helpdesk or risk perspective, in reality it means that your users will have to ask you to make the change everytime,
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:58 PM

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is in the wild

There are plenty of good posts on this: Gray Knowlton’s post goes into a lot of interesting detail about some of the under the covers changes and the Office Sustained Engineering team blog is a font of knowledge. What is most interesting to me in SP2?
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 2:53 AM

New OBA (Sales Forecast)

The OBA guys are doing some really , really cool stuff. As someone that works with salespeople every day, I know how tough and time consuming (but business critical) forecasting can be. Any time that an organisation can save from time consuming processes
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Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:20 AM

Ports Company tracks forms and business processes with InfoPath

An Australian InfoPath case study has been published on microsoft.com: Microsoft Case Studies: DP World Their solution uses SharePoint, InfoPath, CRM and Nintex workflow (a workflow tool that sits on top of MOSS and WF to provide WYSIWG workflow creation).
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Friday, August 15, 2008 4:32 AM

Confluence 2.9 - now with extra Office Support

Those cool (well, for java guys) dudes at Atlassian have beefed up their Office support in Confluence, their enterprise wiki system. From their press release: Confluence users can now edit wiki pages directly from Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint,
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:00 PM

The SharePoint family tree

There is a lot of SharePoint buzz in the IT industry these days - even SharePoint 2003 was attracting a lot of interest. However, I think this image is a great description of the many branches of the SharePoint tree - more of a hedge than a coconut tree
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:29 AM

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.
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Monday, June 02, 2008 11:25 PM

New SharePoint resources for .NET Developers

Check out this new SharePoint development site (full of silverlighty goodness):   Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:36 PM

3 Office System Whitepapers you need to know

For all you collabronauts out there, whether you are architecting, developing, maintaining or consuming information - it these three whitepapers should be a required text and on hand for any snappy business cases you need to put together. Collaborative
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:40 AM

What is an Office Business Application?

Is it a macro? A sharepoint customisation? A mashup? What is important, in my mind, is that the user is shielded from the complexity (or lack of it) in the process and the application can just stay out of their way so they can do their job and keep using
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Monday, February 25, 2008 9:28 PM

Macroview WISDOM v6 released

Macroview WISDOM is a great tool from one of our partners here in Sydney. WISDOM extends the document management experience in Outlook, making it easier to do enterprise document management and records retrieval right from windows explorer or Outlook.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:01 AM

Frequently Answered Questions

Being a Technology Specialist at Microsoft generally means that you know some stuff about some of our products. And sometimes, that great power comes a great responsibility... answering technical questions. Most of the time, the trick is to be able to
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:57 PM

Upcoming Office Developer Training

Office development has really come of age since the days or "record new macro". Good developers know that for best results, they'll need to deliver their solutions right to users Office Client applications while still employing the Office Server
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 11:04 PM

SharePoint Governance and Manageability project on Codeplex

I just saw this codeplex project - it looks like an essential set of tools for any serious SharePoint administrator: Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 - Simply captures sites that are deleted by end users and backs them up to disk using the event model.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:31 PM

Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express is free

Well, MSS has been announced now, the artist formerly known as S2. The best news? Search Server 2008 Express is free (ala WSS).  The release candidate is available now. Enterprise Search from Microsoft The second best news (and more interesting to
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