Posting has been a bit slow this week as I am at an internal Microsoft event all week called TechReady. I have been meeting with a ton of folks all around the world and seeing the great stuff we are doing. Here are some of the more interesting nuggets...

This past week seems to be the week for the call to action for Enterprise Architects to start blogging. James McGovern called out that there should be more EA blogger's. More blogger's came into the fold such as Brandon Satrom who would like to see more...

77% How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Someone call a medic...

I ran across a series of really funny architect videos that are similar to the ones my team published some time ago with Skyscrapr . We only did one video but it was really popular. At any rate, Greg the Architect is pretty funny and is really accurate...

I am writing an MSDN article called "A Day in the Life of an Enterprise Architect" that hopefully addresses the many challenges an EA faces every day. The article is in the final stages of publication so it should be available on Enterprise Architecture...

Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve published four new VSTO Beta hands-on labs to MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/aa740390.aspx We featured these at TechEd 2007 in Orlando (and they will be available at TechEd EMEA), and they...

TechEd Australia and New Zealand are coming up quickly! I have speaking slots at both events. Architecting Next Generation Business Applications The way we architect solutions today is very different than in the past. There is an increased focus on the...

Recently at the UK Search Awards event the main announcement was the launch of the first ever Microsoft based Search Appliance. SCAN Technologies have partnered with us to use their expertise and our technology to build on MOSS 2007 and deliver a very...

Microsoft has just released the Office SharePoint Server 2007 VM for free . The Microsoft VPC is an evaluation version, however it gives developers a chance to poke around the environment and even do small proof of concepts for their internal IT departments...

Office Business Applications (OBA) are really starting to take off. I am happy to see that the OBA development is being leveraged by our partners to take their existing product assets (Office 2007 and more specifically 2007 Microsoft Office System) and...

The Australian Government Architecture (AGA) is intended to assist in the delivery of more consistent and cohesive services to citizens and support the more cost-effective delivery of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services by government...

Cisco, EMC and Microsoft are providing the core commercial off-the-shelf technology that makes up SISA to ease the sharing of information contained in disparate IT infrastructures. Through its industry-leading networking solutions, Cisco provides network...

And you thought going away to college was the first step to freedom. Au contraire, students (and faculty, no less) entering Pennsylvania's Slippery Rock University will actually be faced with an RFID tag made for their handset, which will "allow them...

Ever wonder what it’s like to build and test a Web site which has to scale to over 260 million customers? This technical case study details how the Windows Live Hotmail team used the testing capabilities of Visual Studio Team System to ensure that the...

http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Patrick/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1753 Tags: OBA

I ran across an blog posting by Brandon Satrom called " Is Enterprise Architecture Declarative or Imperative? ". It was an interesting read. I agree with some of the concepts that EA's should interact regularly, however I don't really like using the terms...

I got an e-mail from one of my teammates Simon Guest last night. It looks like folks are selling our Architecture Strategy Pens on E-Bay. http://cgi.ebay.com/MICROSOFT-ARCHITECTURE-STRATEGY-PEN-NEW_W0QQitemZ160133062278QQihZ006QQcategoryZ967QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem...

The EA assessment will be used to evaluate each agency’s EA as part of the 2006 President’s Management Agenda Scorecard. Version 2.0 assesses how well agencies are using EAs and the results. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/a-2-EAAssessment.html Tags...

Great find on Van Wiles Blog on ITIL and Enterprise Architecture that shows yet another framework is moving more to an Enterprise Architecture style. It stimulated some thought around the new framework. I think overall this is a good thing. However, by...

We do it too :) Nick has a small write-up on some of their challenges and how we communicate EA to our internal business divisions and IT (i.e., product teams). Obviously an EA operational model at a vendor such as Microsoft is a bit different than a...

It just goes to show you security controls in the software isn't enough, it needs to be backed into the process as well. The latest massive data leak comes from Certegy Check Services, a Florida company that provides check-processing services. Personal...

My team just released two more OBA's. We are really starting to pump these out! OBA RAPs (Reference Application Pack) are reference architectures that illustrate how to use OBA development techniques within a real-world business context. Each OBA highlights...

A good friend of mine wrote an excellent article in the wake of the HP acquisition . He highlights on his experiences with Mercury (minus the Interactive). Scott highlights on what software testers should be concerned with as Mercury goes through the...

I received an e-mail about EA and Change Management and I thought I would share my high-level thoughts on the subject. I will Definition – Change Management is a structured approach to change in individuals, teams, organizations and societies that enables...

I am a little delayed on this but wanted to make sure I let those of you that didn't know that on June 11th 2007, IBM announced it will buy Telelogic for approximately $745 million. The deal is expected to close in 3Q07. Telelogic will become part of...