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Gartner Magic Quadrant Season

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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Yeah, I know that the Gartner group publishes magic quadrant reports all around the year, but ‘tis the season for the Enterprise Content Management magic quadrant, and I wanted a season to celebrate in. First of all, get your own hot and handy copy of...
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SharePoint at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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The SharePoint team will have a presence at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008 . Are any of you awesome and incredible SharePoint ISVs going to attend? If you are, let me know, and let’s see if we can get you hooked up with the SharePoint leadership...
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AvePoint Roadshow for DocAve

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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Many of you are probably familiar with DocAve , from AvePoint . They’ve been around for a while, but I’m just starting to get to know them a little bit better. Their suite of products looks like fun – SharePoint Backup & Recovery...
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The First Partner Webcast

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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Well, this will be interesting… It seems that the invitation has been out for a while, and the Webcast is going to happen on Oct 2. I’m going to be joining Syntergy and Colligo , two good SharePoint partners, in a joint partner webcast. I...
Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden

SharePoint VPC for Download

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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A quick heads up that the SharePoint evaluation VPC that is currently available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/vhd has an expiration date at the end of September 2008. An renewed version of the VPC with an extended expiration date (March...
Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden

Portland Great Urban Race

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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My wife and I had an amazing experience last Saturday. We ran as a team in the Great Urban Race , in Portland, Oregon . This is a variant of The Amazing Race that is run within city downtown areas around the country, and where no private transportation...
Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden

the <head> conference

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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I was pointed to what appears to be a great web conference coming up the days prior to PDC. The <head> conference . (hat tip – Anna Ullrich ) “the global web conference” All online – no traveling. Sounds interesting...
Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden

Sometimes private communication is a better approach than a public one

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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I’m flying back home this morning from a MSFT-internal training conference that was very good. Orlando is an interesting place, but the weather wasn’t so muggy this time, and the venue (Gaylord Palms Resort) was great. Nice job, event organizers...
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Enterprise Mashups on the SharePoint Platform

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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I had a customer ask me today about what SharePoint had in the way of Mashup support. He had seen the new and cool IBM Mashup Center, and (had forgotten?) couldn’t remember how SharePoint would fit into this concept of mashup applications. ...
Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden

MSFT and RIM, Searching Nicely Together

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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MSFT and RIM announced a strategic partnership today to use Live Search on RIM blackberry devices. Interesting that AT&T signed with Yahoo last week for mobile search. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a99FIfUGfQ6U Search...
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Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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No, I know that the coincidence of this announcement, on Day 4 after I’ve started in the new role of working with SharePoint Partners, has many of you wondering what I could possibly have up my sleeve for the following week. Well, I’m not in the...
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Inbox Zero

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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Well, all the excitement about starting a new job and letting ideas start to sift through areas of my brain that I haven’t used for ten years has caused me to think about what bad habits to throw out and where I can start anew with some good habits...
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Tending a New Garden

Posted over 5 years ago

by Owen Allen1
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For two years, I experimented with other sites to host my blog. I am now back to this hosting address. I experimented with www.canaltown.net , and wanted to mix some personal and some professional together in my blog. That didn’t seem to work so well...