Tomorrow night the various SharePoint user groups around Australia and New Zealand are coming together for a combined Launch Party for the newly released Office, SharePoint, Project, and Visio 2010 products.   I will be hosting the all up live meeting from Melbourne’s event which will be at...

Canberra SharePoint User Group Wednesday 18th March 2009 at 17:30 – 19:30 – Microsoft Level 2, 44 Sydney Avenue, Barton InfoPath vs Lists The user group will discuss the pros and cons of both data entry methods supported natively by SharePoint and compare them. Scanning to SharePoint While Microsoft...

The Document Information Panel is a feature of Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint.  This feature is designed to allow users to enter information about the document they are working in.  This information can then be used as live fields throughout...

The Melbourne based Office System / SharePoint usergroup MOSSIG are running the Office System Forum on the 2nd May 2008 at the LaTrobe Microsoft Centre at LaTrobe University Research & Development Park. The Office System Forum is a unique chance to discuss and be informed on the present and future...

The MOSSIG End of Year Christmas party is on this Wednesday 12 th December 2007 at 5:30pm at Microsoft Southbank.  To register for the meeting/party please email register@mossig.net by COB Tuesday 11th December 2007. Agenda Ben Walters - Will be your MC for the night and will provide an overview...

MOSSIG Christmas Party 5.30pm on the 12th December @ Microsoft Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place Melbourne, Australia. MOSSIG will be having drinks and nibbles over the night for a casual end to the year topped off with some great presentations of the work done by our MOSSIG members over the year. For more...

The guys at MOSSIG have launched their new website .  The new site is powered by the Community Kit for SharePoint (User Group Edition) If you are a regular to MOSSIG, only been to an event once or twice or have never heard of it before, you should check out this site.  It has information about...

Just read that the new Groove developer portal on MSDN has gone live. This is a home for developers who want to learn more about Groove and how to develop solutions on the Groove platform. The site also links to relevant content on TechNet and Office Online, providing easy access to those materials....

This months MOSSIG meeting will again be at Microsoft Southbank, Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place Southbank on 28 March 2007 at 5:30 (pizza, drinks and networking), 6:00pm (presentation starts). Show and Tell Session - Outlook Asset Management add-in At last month’s meeting, Kevin Ramsey raised his...

I have just submitted my first Vista Sidebar Gadget, download it at Live Gallery . The Microsoft Office System Special Interest Group (MOSSIG) meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month in Melbourne and Sydney. This gadget is a countdown timer to next MOSSIG meeting, with the meeting agenda in flyout....

This months MOSSIG meeting will again be at Microsoft Southbank, Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place Southbank on 28 February 2007 at 5:30 (pizza, drinks and networking), 6:00pm (presentation starts). Show and Tell Session Willy Vloedmans has developed a simple add-in for Excel that enables rapid navigation...

An update on the content of this months MOSSIG meeting. Unfortunately Tim Wragg will not be able to present his "Effective meetings in OneNote" show and tell session this month. Ben Walters however, has kindly agreed to deliver a show and tell session on "SmartArt in Outlook". If...

This months MOSSIG meeting will be at Microsoft Southbank, Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank. The Pizza will arrive around 6:30pm. We will be having a Show and Tell session on OneNote presented by Tim Wragg and Grumpy Wookie will be presenting a combined business/technical session on Workflows in...

The MOSSIG team was able to raise $718 in donations for Movember. This amount will be matched by the company I work for SDM . So a total donation of around $1450 has been raised. I think this is excellent and enjoyed growing my mo. I have however removed it as it didn't really suit and the itchiness...

Today I am helping run the MOSSIG and Victoria.NET hands on development day at Cliftons in Melbourne. We are running two streams. Stream 1 is on the new .NET 3.0 framework and stream 2 is on Office 2007. Presenting in the Office stream are the MOSSIG team Ben Walters , Ed Richard , Tim Wragg and myself...

I am growing a mo for Movember get behind me and sponsor my mo for charity. The Movember initiative is a fund raiser to increase awareness of Men's health issues such as prostate cancer and depression. Please help change the face of Men's health by donating something ($1, $5 or whatever - some have been...

Knowledge Networks - Live Meeting 26th October 2006, 10am-12pm John Hand will be presenting to the Australian SharePoint and Office User Groups to generate interest as well as get early feedback. John works at Microsoft Redmond in the US and is one of the senior leaders of the Knowledge Network team...

Not sure if you have heard about the "Mo-vember" initiative. I briefly mentioned it at the last MOSSIG meeting. It was undertaken by Dave Lemphers , Microsoft, last year. This year MOSSIG are entering a team called “MOSSIG” and some of our members are keen to "grow-a-mo"...

The MOSSIG meeting on Wednesday evening was really interesting. Tim Wragg provided an informative rundown on the hi-lites and lo-lites of Tech Ed 2006 and Ben Walters re-presented one of his InfoPath presentations he gave at Tech Ed. The third presentation for the night was scheduled to be on Groove...

Next Meeting is at CITC, Level 1, 257 Collins Street on September 27th 2006 6:00pm . It has been a very busy month. Tech Ed 2006 was run in Sydney and there were a substantial number of breakout sessions along the Office stream. TechEd 2006 - Highlights Tim Wragg, Professional Advantage Tim will be presenting...

A fellow MOSSIG member Tim Wragg has written an article about my spoils at the recent TechEd event in Sydney. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight that the spoils have all but been given to charitable homes, my son Ethan, daughter Jayde and fellow colleagues at SDM are all enjoying the...

Last month we launched the Microsoft Office Special Interest Group of Victoria.NET (MOSSIG).  The event was met with much enthusiasm! We’re happy to announce that we have now organised our regular monthly meeting to run every 4 th Wednesday of the month, starting next week, 26 July . Thanks...

Last night was the launch of the Microsoft Office System Special Interest Group (MOSSIG), which was a huge success. We had around 50 people registered for this inargural event and about 40 people turned up. This shows that there is a great interest in the new Ofice System. At the end of the night we...

27 JUNE, 6PM The 2007 Office release is the most significant release of Office for a decade, adding further servers, applications and services to expand and enhance the Office System. The challenge for us, our businesses and our clients is to collectively know and apply the features that the Office System...

I along with three other colleagues Tim Wragg, Ed Richard, and Ben Walters are starting a new special interest group (MOSSIG - Microsoft Office System Special Interest Group). The SIG will be dedicated to the pursuit of all things Office 2007. The launch evening will be held on the 27th of June at Microsoft...