October 2004 - Posts

• RTF or WordProcessingML and Office Solutions continued!

  I am glad so many people have chimed in on the topic of RTF or XML, and more specifically the markup in Microsoft Word called WordProcessingML (WordML for short). If you want to catch up on the total thread, click here for my original post. My last post Read More... Posted Friday, October 29, 2004 7:43 AM by johnrdurant | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• RTF or WordML for Office solutions?

  I thank Gabe for posting this question : If you are not converting, why not just generate an RTF file? Let me put it another way: which is better, RTF or XML? I think it's pretty clear that XML is the winner, and it has the most mind-share. By using XML, Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:44 AM by johnrdurant | 8 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Follow-up: Microsoft Office 2003 and Server-Side

  Somone posted feedback to my last post saying that I had offered little thought or direction. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. In any case, I agree that more information is needed, and my original post was really just to jot a few thoughts. Read More... Posted Monday, October 25, 2004 11:48 AM by johnrdurant | 6 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Microsoft Office 2003 and Server-based Solutions

  As I was coming into work today, I was thinking about the kinds of solutions I have created or seen created with an Office aspect to them. I could think of only a handlful that did not have a server-side element to them. I look at the kinds of questions Read More... Posted Friday, October 22, 2004 12:18 PM by johnrdurant | 5 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Set the Microsoft Office Username to the Windows Networking Username

  I was going through my inbox looking for messages that I have not properly handled. Regretfully, I overlooked this gem from one of the best IT minds I ever encountered in my years as a consultant, Mike Meinz . I met Mike when I worked at General Mills Read More... Posted Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:22 AM by johnrdurant | 4 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Microsoft Office 2003 Research Services and the RSDE

  The Research Services Development Extras are a gift that just keeps on giving. In writing an article for an up-coming issue of MSDN magazine I wanted to call attention to the RSDE. I think the Research Service task pane is one of several key reasons why Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 20, 2004 8:44 PM by johnrdurant | 3 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• ActiveWords and Microsoft Office

  I met with Buzz Bruggeman , evangelist extraordinaire for ActiveWords this morning. (I knew we would hit it off when I told him I wanted to meet at 7am!) I have a few thoughts about ActiveWords . I have mentioned before that I know this product saves Read More... Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:20 PM by johnrdurant | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Architectural Overview of Windows SharePoint Services

  The managed object model for WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) is one of the great advances made in the release for Windows Server 2003. I am actually using it for an article I am authoring for MSDN magazine. One of my colleagues here, Les Smith, authored Read More... Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:41 PM by johnrdurant | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System