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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.

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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...
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...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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. Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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. Read More...
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 Read More...
Allow Facebook 'or staff may go'
CONSTRUCTION giant John Holland says allowing employees to access social networking site Facebook can play a role in attracting and keeping young workers. Allow Facebook 'or staff may go' | NEWS.com.au Business What I find interesting about the massive Read More...
Excel 2007 Display bug fixed
Unless you have been on a deserted tropical island, you would have heard about the Excel 2007 bug whereby =850*77.1 would display 100000 instead of 65535. The issue occured when displaying numbers in the ranges of 65534.99999999995 to 65535 and 65535.99999999995 Read More...
"Email to" links generated by SharePoint
I got a question last week about the "Email To" functionality in SharePoint - and the fact that it was generating an email in Outlook that contained a URL that had all the punctuation characters escaped (aka . became %2E and spaces become %20, etc, etc). Read More...
MOSS 2007: Disable forms pages for anonymous users
I thought this article was important enough to highlight: If you're running an anonymously accessible MOSS website, especially an internet-facing one, you may have noticed that your SharePoint Forms pages are also accessible to anonymous users. For example, Read More...
SharePoint and Office versions... huh?
I hear a lot of questions about which applications are included in which versions of Office. So, rather than rehash what is elsewhere, I'll point you to the Microsoft Office 2007 Suites page on Office Online. Each suite has a different set of products Read More...
Find out more about finding more
There aren't a lot of "Business 2.0" technologies that I use at least once every half an hour. But Enterprise Search is one of them. It flattens almost every information architecture to two clicks (if you're a good keyword cowboy like me). If you work Read More...
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