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• The Knowledge Network for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Preview is now officially closed.

  Well the time has come to bring our Knowledge Network Technical Preview to a close. We thank all of you who tried it out and provided us with great feedback and accolades. It is rewarding to work so hard on something and to see the fantastic results that Read More... Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:13 PM by KNBlog | 9 Comments

• What's New in RC0?

  The question came up, "what's new with this release of KN?" And so here's the answer, in addition to being more stable, which is the main goal of most subsequent releases, it adds the list below. As a Release Candidate, hence the designation "RC0" this Read More... Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 7:18 PM by KNBlog | 5 Comments

• The Download Page is now open and the KN RC0 is ready for you.

  Hello KN fans, this is a bit of a mea culpa, in our enthusiasm for having an RC0 build we rushed to put it up on our download site and unfortunately it caused some difficulty for people downloading this awesome technology. Well here’s the good news, not Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:14 AM by KNBlog | 7 Comments

• Knowledge Network first release candidate (RC0) is now available for download!!!

  It's me again, the Marketing guy from the Knowledge Network for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 team. We have released our first candidate (RC0) for our final build of KN. To access the new build login to the Microsoft Connect site ( https://connect.microsoft.com/knbeta Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:57 AM by KNBlog | 17 Comments

• Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!

  To paraphrase the great writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!” Okay, so I am the guy who is responsible for bringing Knowledge Network (KN) to market. KN will be released as a technical Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:43 PM by KNBlog | 6 Comments

• Hoody and Footballs by Matthew McDermott, IW Practice Director and SharePoint MVP

  So…we’re not a big company, but we’re bigger now than we were before “the crash.” We have offices in 5 cities and we’re actually two companies under one parent. But we’re not BIG, like Microsoft big, I mean, on a good day, I can still hit Hoody in the Read More... Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 4:28 AM by KNBlog | 4 Comments

• Updating the KN Release Plan

  We’ve updated the KN release plan and wanted to post some details. We’re planning on releasing KN in the first half of calendar year 2007 as a Technical Preview rather than as a supported product feature of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. As a Technical Preview, KN will still be available to customers as a web download at no additional cost and will include documentation and community support. It won’t, however, be supported or covered by standard product support services or warranties. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:54 PM by KNBlog | 8 Comments Filed under: KN, Knowledge Network

• SW and HW Requirements for KN Server and Client

  Read this blog entry to see the software and hardware requirements for KN on the client and server ends. Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:19 PM by KNBlog | 9 Comments Filed under: KN, Knowledge Network

• KN TR on the new Microsoft Connect site

  We have now opened availability of the Knowledge Network Technical Refresh (KN TR) for selected organizations on our new Microsoft Connect site. The KN TR bits are available for self-support only which means the KN team is not available to support you in your evaluation. If you are interested in the KN team considering your organization for gaining access to the KN TR, please use the Contact Us button at the bottom of this blog and we’ll get back to you with a set of questions. Read More... Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:42 AM by KNBlog | 3 Comments Filed under: KN, Knowledge Network, Technical Refresh, TR, Connect, Evaluation, Beta

• Customer Experiences

  Highlights from customers' and strategists' experiences including how KN can help manufacturing customers. Read More... Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 1:48 PM by KNBlog | 12 Comments Filed under: Network, Collaboration, Manufacturing, Automotive, ECM, KN, OEM, Supplier Network, Knowledge Network, KM

• Knowledge Network Technical Refresh Now Available on Betplace

  We are pleased to announce the availability of the Knowledge Network (KN) Technical Refresh for those organizations that already have access to the Microsoft Betaplace site. The software, as well as related documentation, is available for download from Microsoft Betaplace. Once you get to the main page on Microsoft Betaplace, you can follow the link for Knowledge Network that can be found by following the “Other Files” link under the “Beta Downloads” node in left navigation bar. From there you can follow the instructions to download the actual files for the software and associated documentation. This latest release comes with a number of new enhancements and features. This blog entry contains a quick rundown of the key areas that been enhanced in this release. Read More... Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 3:37 PM by KNBlog | 12 Comments

• Getting Ready for KN Technical Refresh

  For those of you whom already have access to SharePoint 2007 Beta 2 on the Microsoft Betaplace site (and therefore also have access to KN) here are some deployment considerations for the upcoming KN TR: As you get ready to deploy the Knowledge Network Read More... Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 7:35 AM by KNBlog | 8 Comments

• The Network Effect of MOSS plus KN

  To address the the challenges of a network-effect product like KN, MOSS+KN offer a great deal of value to enable expertise location and people search scenarios automatically. Without a single user uploading a KN profile or manually touching their My Sites, MOSS already contains a very rich set of data about people from mining the Active Directory including employee titles, departments, and Distribution List memberships and determining who knows who by mining the organizational hierarchy. Read More... Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 4:51 PM by KNBlog | 2 Comments

• KN Evaluation Guest Blog

  The KN team has been gathering feedback from KN customers who are evaluating the KN beta within and outside Microsoft. We asked one of the many insightful evaluators, Patrick, a Software Development Engineer in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft (who we did not know before he joined the beta) to write a guest blog entry. Patrick shares some of the good, the bad and the ugly from his KN evaluation experience. Read More... Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:55 AM by KNBlog | 5 Comments

• KN Channel 9 Interview is Live

  Don Cambell of Channel 9 interviewed me (John Hand) and Glen Anderson about KN. We talk about “big brother” but more importantly I demo KN. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=231223 Read More... Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:22 PM by KNBlog | 7 Comments