We've officially launched a new website dedicated to providing invaluable information around building Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions using the Microsoft platform. As a part of this site , we've released...

I just received the slide decks from the other presenters and published them all to my SkyDrive : Keynote - Increasing Agency Capabilities: Enabling data access, visualization, analysis and insight with Microsoft Virtual Earth Speaker: Kevin Adler Vexcel...

It was announced today on the Windows Server Team Blog that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will return to being available via a separate download for Windows Server 2008 customers. In early betas, WSS 3.0 was included as a component in the Windows Server...

The question that I get most often when I talk to developers about SharePoint Document Workflow is on Sending and Tracking tasks for the people participating in a document workflow.  So, in this 4th part of the series that I am doing on "Building...

I'd been racking my brain trying to remember the configuration steps for configuring a Virtual PC -based VM that's running as a Domain Controller (with DNS enabled) to access the internet. I've done this many times in the past and just couldn't remember...

I was recently presented a scenario by a gentleman who wanted more control over a MOSS 2007 site, list, and item settings. He wanted to essentially "track" changes that were made to these artifacts within a given site collection. In addition, he wanted...

One of the biggest challenges I feel that we ( Microsoft ) face in showcasing the "value" of architecting/developing Office Business Applications is providing what I'll call "solid reference implementations" along the lines of Duwamish Books , Fitch and...

Please find the deck + demos from the event in this link . Thank you for attending and for asking many good questions. Good Luck! Joel

Argh, I just beat my head against a wall trying to do this for the last couple hours:(. After a bit of web searching, I finally found this . So if you try to run the SQL Server 2005 installer to install the full version of SQL Server Management Studio...

This is an interesting and very useful article for those of us who program against the SharePoint Object Model. The author spends much of the article talking about the impact of how we as developers can have on the SharePoint server and some suggestions...

In this 3rd part of the series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007, I am demonstrating one of the more widely used functions in document workflow: Sending Emails. In this scenario, I have a SharePoint List configured...

Sorry for the technical glitches today. I know it's not the most exciting thing to watch my desktop sharing screen in complete silence as I scramble to figure out why my phone stopped working. The deck and code are available here . A recording should...

When: November 7, 2007 - 6:00PM – 8:00PM Where: Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 Register today for this FREE Seminar! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032357997&Culture...

This is a 2nd part of a series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007 that I am producing. You can find the freely downloadable workshops that accompanying these videos on my blog here . The scenario is a company has created...

This is a first part of a series of "How to Videos" that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007 that I am producing. The scenario is a company has created a portal which will accept resume's for job postings, and that via workflow...

Thank you all for attending my Charlotte Code Camp today session on VSTO! As promised, below is a link to a zip file with the PPT and Sample Code also here is a list of references to VSTO. VSTO Forum http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID...

Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe). I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA "issues" it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio...

John O'Brien has put together the best walkthrough of what's new in v6 that I have seen. Check it out here . - Marc Technorati Tags: Virtual Earth

Co-worker and Microsoft Architect, David Chou went to the IT Architect Regional Conference 2007 event in San Diego. A discussion about the myriad of conflicting issues in planning and designing security for enterprise SOA efforts, and some suggested approaches...

Details here . One of the things that may not be obvious is that the new control is backward compatible with v5. If you have a built your solution on v5, then you can update your script reference to get all the perf enhancements in the new control! All...

October 25th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) were released in 2006 as part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 with separate extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. These...

One of my colleagues and fellow Developer Evangelist, Michael S. Scherotter has recorded and made available a screen cast that shows you how to embed a Virtual Earth technology into a Groove Workspace. Click here to go to the video. ~ Robert Shelton

Thanks to everyone who attended the webcast today. The deck and code are available here . The recording should be available soon. You can get to the recording by clicking the original registration url here . - Marc

Harnessing the Power of High Performance Computing in the Government Disaster response and toxin dispersion modeling, weather prediction, weapons simulation, risk analysis, financial modeling, image analysis, data mining, and genomics research are just...

Date Time Location Registration Link Oct. 23rd 6:00-8:00P EST Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 Click here to register Oct. 25th 6:00-8:00P EST Microsoft Office 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 500, Washington...