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50% of 'Fantastic 40' ready for download but 100% cool

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:19 PM by alogan
The 20 of the Fantastic 40 are live ! Go Grab them here . Board of Directors Business Performance Reporting Case Management for Government Agencies Classroom Management Clinical Trial Initiation and Management Competitive Analysis Site Discussion Database Read More...
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Microsoft Office Live Code Sample: Contact Map

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:16 PM by alogan
Office Live Contact Map This download will install a sample code mashup for Microsoft Office Live which is designed to map the addresses of all contacts included in an Office Live Business Contact Manager application. This sample code creates a map displaying Read More...
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Download: SharePoint Server 2007 Code Sample: Item-Level Auditing

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:14 PM by alogan
This code sample shows you how to create an item-level auditing view programmatically in three different ways: using a custom SharePoint list, through the Excel client, and by manipulating the open XML file format to display auditing history using Excel Read More...
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Download: Virtual Earth for Government Brochure

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:11 PM by alogan
Microsoft Virtual Earth for Government brochure that highlights an integrated set of products and services that provide a robust platform for building cost-effective, flexible and accurate intelligence solutions that take advantage of the power of location. Read More...
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The Hybrid Provider (AD and SQL) for MOSS

Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 9:10 PM by alogan
Check out this great article from Christopher V. Domino. (I first read Christopher vs Domino...) "One of the greatest leaps that SharePoint 2003 has made to its 2007 release is the fact it is now built entirely on top on ASP.NET 2.0. SharePoint can now Read More...
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Securing MOSS For Internet Sites (informal list/ideas)

Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 7:45 PM by alogan
You need to hit all the PLANNING FOR SECURITY (beta link) sites – available in the planning architecture content on TechNet. You then want to review standard ASP.NET securing architecture: - Machine.config lockdown; - Sql lockdown; - ISA to lockdown only Read More...
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Accessibility issues or just want to define the Style of Every Page? IE7 can help

Posted Sunday, January 28, 2007 12:20 AM by alogan
One of the great improvements in IE7 is the accessibility features. I found under Internet Options --> General --> Accessibility you can define your own CSS which will be applied to every site you visit. This is a killer feature for a few reasons: Read More...
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Brand that MOSS Site! - Heather Solomon's base Master Page file for MOSS

Posted Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:51 AM by alogan
I've blogged about Heather before. She isn't any normal nerd. She is a designer! Making sites look good and usable is her gig. Heather has released a "base Master Page" for MOSS 2007. From Heather's Blog entry : Click the link below to download a zip Read More...
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What were you doing today? Australia Day - Upload your photos

Posted Saturday, January 27, 2007 12:30 AM by alogan
Microsoft Australia has been running a project called Look Up and Smile . it was ran to get some updated high resolution photos for the Virtual Earth maps over Sydney & Brisbane. As part of it there is a competition for the best photo. You can upload Read More...
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Microsoft Partner Training - Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimisation (BPIO) University

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 9:09 PM by alogan
The BPIO University is a 3-day, in-depth, instructor-led sales readiness workshop for Microsoft Partners. Focused on three main capabilities, Unified Communications and Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management and Business Intelligence, this BPIO Read More...
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Random thoughts about Outlook and SharePoint - Better Together

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 8:56 PM by alogan
A customer contacted me and asked for a summary of how Outlook complements SharePoint. People love Outlook – it has become the “default communication tool” Emails, Contacts, Calendars (tasks to a lesser degree) SharePoint allows you to store information Read More...
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The final Software Development Kits (SDKs) are availble for download now.

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 5:48 PM by alogan
Download them from: Windows SharePoint Services v3 SDK (CHM) Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK (CHM) Technorati tags: SharePoint , SDK , Development , WSS , MOSS Read More...
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OMG! Nintex Workflow 2007 (for SharePoint)

Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:48 PM by alogan
This morning the guys over at Nintex held a private Live Meeting for myself and the Microsoft guys to check out what they have been building. I haven't got much time now and I will follow up this blog post but basically here are some of the cool things: Read More...
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Embedding the Live Search within MOSS 2007

Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:14 AM by alogan
Ian Morrish (MCS NZ) has posted an article (back in December) which talks about how to integrate Windows Live Search into MOSS 2007. Basically - sign up for an appID, download the Web Part; add the appID to the .webpart file; it will call the web service. Read More...
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Lots of Microsoft Shared Source Projects

Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:59 PM by alogan
I've recently made a foray into Shared Source / Community Projects (see them here ). One thing that I found is the Shared Source website on Microsoft.com . It lists all the projects that are going on and have been opened up for community involvement on Read More...
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design @ microsoft

Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:21 AM by alogan
I was just cruising around MSCOM (what else do you do on a Sunday) and found a very sexy site. http://www.microsoft.com/design/ Read More...
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Windows Live Live Contacts Control addes Presence to your site.

Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:55 PM by alogan
Danny Thorpe over at the Windows Live team has blogged about an update to the Windows Live Contacts control. To see the official documentation pop over to dev.live.com for more info on Contacts Control . Here is one of Danny's old blog post on some background Read More...
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I'm certified in WSS 3.0 Configuration (71-631) & MOSS 2007 Configuration (71-630)

Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:47 PM by alogan
I rarely do "released" exams because I get special invites exclusively from the Sharepoint Blog (no they aren't exclusive - just watch the SharePoint blog). Anyway because they are "beta" and I'm not paying I usually turn up to see if there are any crazy Read More...
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TechNet Radio: Collab w/ MOSS 2007: An Interview w/ Arpan Shah

Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:28 PM by alogan
John just told me about this. --- Check it out here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/archive/shah.mspx --- January 2, 2007 Collaborating with Sharepoint Server 2007: An interview with Arpan Shah Matt Hester speaks with Arpan Shah, Group Read More...
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All SharePoint Case Studies

Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:14 PM by alogan
There are some for SPS 2003 but most are MOSS 2007 - on MS Downloads. Check out the goodness here . Read More...
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3 x SharePoint audio interviews with Tom Rizzo, Jerome Thiebaud & Manish Sharma

Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:42 PM by alogan
Michael Gerth (MVP) posted this : Microsoft Office Audio File: Interview with Tom Rizzo about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 These audio files contain an interview with Director of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Tom Rizzo about Microsoft Read More...
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Free to download eBooks - Planning, Architecture & deployment (MOSS and Search) - 916 pages!

Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:35 PM by alogan
Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (7Mb and 916 pages) This book provides information and guidelines to lead a team through the steps of planning the deployment of a solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Read More...
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Deployment Tool: MOSS 2007 Import and Export Search Configuration

Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:53 PM by alogan
This is a repeat blog entry because I'm so proud of this tool. For all the background on this tool check out Sahil's article on it . What is this utility? This is a command line utility that will allow you to export and import user profiles between two Read More...
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Deployment Tool: MOSS 2007 Utility to Replicate User Profile Schemas/Structure

Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:49 PM by alogan
As Sahil mentioned on his blog we've built (Sahil rewrote my dodgy presales code ) a tool to Replicate the structure of MOSS 2007 User Profiles - very similar to the Search deployment tool. What is this utility? The "SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider Read More...
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Deployment Tool: MOSS 2007 Utility to Import/Export User Profiles

Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:46 PM by alogan
As Sahil mentioned on his blog we've built (Sahil rewrote my dodgy presales code ) a tool to Import/Export User Profiles for MOSS 2007. What is this utility? The SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider User Profile Importer has been designed and developed Read More...
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Where has Angus been? Virtual Earth integration.

Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:20 PM by alogan
A while ago an AWESOME Microsoft Partner in Perth, Power Business Systems , built a cool system which tracks my mobile (cell phone) position from Telstra . You can see the Realtime Angus Stalker here . I've recently been doing stuff with Windows Live Read More...
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TechNet Magazine article on Enterprise Search

Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:02 PM by alogan
At a Glance: · Architecture of an enterprise search solution · Indexing and querying business data · LOB data and people knowledge Check it here . Technorati tags: Search , Enterprise Search , SharePoint , MOSS , MOSS 2007 , Windows Desktop Search , Vist Read More...
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Records Management & Workflow Technical Case Study

Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:32 PM by alogan
The Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) Records Management team created an efficient inventory tracking solution that gives Microsoft employees easy access to physical records information and eliminates the need to handle inventory searches manually. Read More...
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Australian MOSS 2007 Case Studies: Example "BT Financial Group streamlines information gathering and saves A$540,000 per year."

Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 7:59 PM by alogan
BT Financial Group Case Study (PowerPoint) PowerPoint Word Komatsu Case Study (Word) Word BDO Case Study Word Technorati tags: Case studies , Australia , SharePoint Go Australia!!! Read More...
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r.a.d.Editor for Office SharePoint Server 2007 public beta

Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 6:26 PM by alogan
From the Telerik site . r.a.d. editor for Office SharePoint Server 2007 extends the web content authoring environment of Office SharePoint Server 2007 by providing cross-browser compatibility and support for the Macintosh platform. The product offers Read More...
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Short video about US Air Force using SharePoint

Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:44 PM by alogan
John Hodgson pointed this - a neat video about how the US Air Force are using SharePoint for AFSO 21. Very neat little video - check it out here . Read More...
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MOSS 2007 Search Evaluation Guide - download now.

Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:21 AM by alogan
From Mark Harrison This evaluation guide is designed to present a solid understanding of the search capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It provides an overview of Enterprise Search solutions from Microsoft, gives a hands-on tour of Read More...
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Ishai's PRINT LIST functionality - sexy.

Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:55 PM by alogan
Check it out here . Add a menu print list item... Sexy print only view. Read More...
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Sahil's back at it with his unique style of training - MOSS 2007 2 parts on DNRTV

Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 9:07 PM by alogan
My buddy Sahil Malik has been on DNRTV talking about SharePoint 2007 and making it funny during the way. anyway check it out here. . Read More...
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SPSkin 2.0 is released!

Posted Sunday, January 07, 2007 8:55 PM by alogan
James Milne just emailed me - and that his SPSkin 2.0 is released!!! Check it out here . Read More...
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I've been Tagged - five things you might not know about me

Posted Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:14 PM by alogan
Arpan Shah and Andrew Connell have tagged me in this fun game that has hit the internet. I'm really really busy so I'll keep this short - and I haven't thought too much about this or vetted it :) I eat Kangaroo's Kangaroo Meat is actually really really Read More...
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Vote in the .NET Readers' Choice Awards

Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:46 PM by alogan
I see that the annual .NET Readers' Choice Awards are on again - I also see one of my favorite ISVs because of their attitude and innovation is there - Telerik . Anyway to cast your vote click here . (enter your email address and vote!) Technorati tags: Read More...
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How to install Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Step by Step by Cornelius J. van Dyk.

Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:59 PM by alogan
Cornelius has written a killer article how to install WDS 3.0 step by step. Check it out here . Technorati tags: Search , Windows Desktop Search , WDS , Installation , WDS 3.0 , Cornelius J. van Dyk Read More...
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AUSTRALIA: Super Microsoft Partner Training stuff coming up.

Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:46 AM by alogan
Sharmilla who is our Partner Readiness Manager just sent me a bunch of new training things we are doing for Microsoft Partners . Check them out: Overview Sales & Marketing Technical ( RSS ) The ones that caught my eye were: Enterprise Search This Read More...
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