Roberdan : MOSS 2007

Patrick Tisseghem

Roberdan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:13:58 GMT

It is with deepest regret that we have to announce the death of Patrick Tisseghem, co-founder of U2U. Patrick suddenly passed away on Wednesday 3 September 2008 around 18 hours in Gothenburg Sweden due to a heart failure. Our sympathy and thoughts go out to his wife Linda, their daughters Anahi and Laura, and to his family. We are all deeply saddened by this tragic loss. We remember him as caring father as well as a driven and warm hearted colleague and friend. We miss you Patrick.

http://www.u2u.be/

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I had a chat with Patrick last Saturday morning and was supposed that we have another call today. I’m so sad :-(

Italian Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008

Roberdan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:54:38 GMT

Ciao ,
con questa email ti annunciamo ufficialmente il lancio della Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008.

Da qualche giorno è online il sito dedicato all’evento dove puoi trovare agenda, descrizione delle sessioni, biografie degli speaker e modalità di iscrizione.

L’evento si terrà il 2 e 3 ottobre 2008 a Milano e vedrà riuniti in due giorni i massimi esperti di Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 e delle tecnologie collegate, per erogare 30 sessioni tecniche dedicate a Sviluppatori, Professionisti IT e Site Builder.

E’ un appuntamento unico di formazione e approfondimento tecnico, per condividere esperienze reali e riunire la comunità di persone che ad oggi lavorano con Microsoft SharePoint.

L’evento prevede un early bird che permette l’iscrizione a tariffa agevolata (480€+IVA anziché 600€+IVA).

L’early bird scade il 20 luglio 2008.Approfitta dell’offerta iscrivendoti subito.

Ti aspettiamo,

Il Team Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008

My Team, my extended family, my pleasure

Roberdan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:41:32 GMT

L’Arte di Imparare

Roberdan — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:21:29 GMT

[Contesto]: ieri (20.06.2008) ero a [Londra] per fare la review [valutazione FY08] col mio capo [JW]

[Evento]: parte di coaching del processo di review. Chiedete a Pierg se volete sapere nel dettaglio di cosa si tratta

[Conclusione]: [Definizione di “Management”] =

[“

Investire Tempo

sulle Persone

Gestendo

le Eccezioni,

massimizzando il ritorno degli investimenti di tempo

E

Riapplicando/Replicando/Delegando

gli insegnamenti quotidiani.

Quindi

L’ARTE DI IMPARARE.

”]

PS: e poi vi chiedete perchè la gente non mette i tag sui sistemi di collaborazione? perchè è una gran rottura di scatole senza beneficio a breve termine. Quindi pls smettete di lamentarvi che nessuno usa i tag e dormiteci sopra: si può vivere anche senza.

O, poi, ovviamente se volete comprarli (e quindi volete pagare anche per questo…) fate pure, li possiamo fare a prezzo molto contenuto, praticamente lo 0,1% di quello che spendereste comunque per giustificare le analisi sbagliate che qualcuno vi ha fatto…e voi gli avete pagato :-)
-come prima, se volete capire questa frase, Pierg ve lo può spiegare benissimo e poi potrete parlarne con Max per esempio, che ve lo confermerà e Bertrand, che è il più sveglio di tutti noi/voi messi insieme, vi dimostrerà che sareste potuti arrivare alla stessa conclusione 3 mesi fa, semplicemente fidandovi del vostro istinto. E mentre tutto ciò accade,qualcuno si godrà tutto questo spettacolo, ridendo delle umane vanità. Thx Magister ;-)

[Next steps: Actions, Ownership, Deadline, Risk Mitigation]

fare post di review del FY08 nelle seguenti versioni:

versione light, in Italiano. leggibile da chiunque da pubblicare sul blog msdn. stile novella 2000 perchè tanto questo è quello che la gente si aspetta da post di tipo generico.
tempo richiesto: 30 minuti. tool: Windows Live Writer. processo: quando c’ho voglia. priorità: bassa
considerazione: forse sto sottovalutando quanta gente legge questo blog….decisamente. sorry.

versione solid: formato Word/email, in inglese per la comunità. palloso fare report che non interessano a nessuno (e non ho voglia di fare :-)) e trasformarlo in alcune storie: questi account, gestiti da queste persone ci hanno ingaggiato e poi insieme abbiamo fatto. la vendita è costata x ed il valore è stato di y. storie, persone, fatti. esempio Reportage di viaggio: persone, emozioni, storie, foto.

versione executive: 5 righe massimo. perchè è stato un anno fantastico e quindi gli obiettivi aziendali raggiunti. vista da 10.000 m quindi importante capire l’impatto sul resto dell’organizzazione di quello che è stato fatto, in termini positivi e negativi. l’imperativo è: NO SORPRESE. se è 5 dimmi che è 5, se è 50 dimmi che è 50. se non sei sicuro dimmi: “non sono sicuro”. se devi andar piano stattene a casa, se devi andar veloce per rompere le scatole stattene a casa lo stesso

Versione intervista: all’evento del primo luglio bisogna fare foto, video, interviste. ci vorrebbe Paolo [interruzione quindi non mi ricordo più che altro dovevo aggiungere a questo post :(]. ho appena mandato una mail a Paolo, vediamo se può mandarmi qualcuno per il primo luglio. tempo, sempre una questione di tempo e di soldi. ma quelli di solito si rimediano, c’è sempre qualcuno pronto a comprar qualcosa…il problema è il tempo di vendita. mi ci vorrebbe una settimana per convincere Paolo ad investire in quest’idea…il problema è che son troppo stanco per trovare il tempo.

2. Deadline 1 luglio 08. tempo a disposizione 1 settimana, 5 giorni lavorativi, 40 ore da trovare on top al lavoro normale.

alto rischio. come mitigare: comunque andrà bene perchè già quello che abbiamo è molto e di valore

mitigazione: delegare.

3. Owner: Roberdan

4. Pro: Impatto

5. Costo: fatica

6. Soluzione Possibile? Si

[Saved on 21/6/2008. Draft 3.15pm. Words 598 excluding signature tag]

[Add-on e raccomandazione]: Domande frequenti quando si organizza un’evento: aeroporti, taxi, visti di ingresso, hotel, distanza dall’ufficio, tempi, orari, zero sorprese. stampabili. l’ho fatto abbastanza bene credo ma è stata fortuna.

Flickr keywords: Learning, Management, Il problema dei rifiuti!

Lawrence Liu on Social Computing

Roberdan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:45:35 GMT

good interview to our Community Zen Master

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/lliu/default.aspx

http://twitter.com/lliu

SharePoint To Run Enterprise 2.0?

Roberdan — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:03:16 GMT

Nine companies are saying "yes," having recently launched Enterprise 2.0 offerings that integrate with SharePoint technology.

read full article here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sharepoint_to_run_enterprise_2.php

Podcasting Kit for Sharepoint

Roberdan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:33:48 GMT

Yes, I’m a great fan of that! http://www.codeplex.com/pks

mainly because we use a lot internally at microsoft (as AcademyMobile) and (mos important :-) because my friend Paolo is behind that ;-)

that’s wonderful! Recent Crash

Roberdan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:25:31 GMT

thx Pierg http://pierg.wordpress.com

PierG

Recent Crash
PierG
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:03:08 GMT

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Continues to Emerge as Enterprise 2.0 Platform of Choice

Roberdan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:16:22 GMT

source: http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20080609/AQM51109062008-1.html

more cool news and details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/

BOSTON, June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp., a leading provider of social-computing tools and technologies, today announced ongoing commitment from partners and customers who continue to adopt Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as the platform for social-computing. In addition, Microsoft announced the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS), an open source initiative that helps partners and customers accelerate the development and deployment of podcasting solutions. Microsoft made the announcements today at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, an event that brings together the latest trends and practical information about Enterprise 2.0 in one place.

The need for social-computing tools is a natural extension of digital collaboration and is increasingly becoming incorporated into business productivity solutions. According to an April 2008 Forrester Research Inc. report, "Global Enterprise Market Forecast: 2007 to 2013," 56 percent of North American and European enterprises consider Web 2.0 to be a priority in 2008, and the market will increase from $764 million in 2008 to $4.6 billion by 2013. Microsoft is helping to lead that trend by providing the social- computing solutions and platforms today in SharePoint Server that balance end- user empowerment without sacrificing IT control.

"What we refer to today as Enterprise 2.0 will tomorrow just be considered a natural part of the way we all work," said Tom Rizzo, director of SharePoint Server at Microsoft. "SharePoint is leading the Enterprise 2.0 revolution by providing a comprehensive business productivity platform that combines traditional collaboration solutions with newer social-computing technologies in an enterprise-capable product. Using rich blog, wiki, RSS, mashup and social-networking solutions combined with the enterprise content management and search capabilities of SharePoint, SharePoint customers are well positioned to deliver real Enterprise 2.0 solutions today."

Partners Betting on Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Social-Networking Capabilities

Microsoft is tapping into the power of its network of partners to foster innovation that complements the existing social-computing technologies it delivers with SharePoint Server. As a result, more partners are turning to the productivity platform as the foundation for social-computing, as evidenced by a number of new social-computing technologies from the following companies:

    --  Atlassian Pty. Ltd. Microsoft partner Atlassian offers the SharePoint
        Connector for Confluence, a leading enterprise wiki. With the
        connector, Confluence and SharePoint Server integrate by providing
        bidirectional content embedding and linking, cross-product search, and
        single sign-on. More information can be found at
        http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint.

    --  Awareness Inc. Awareness integration with SharePoint Server allows
        SharePoint Server users to seamlessly engage with external-facing
        Web 2.0 communities from within SharePoint Server. More information
        can be found at http://www.awarenessnetworks.com/what/sharepoint.asp.

    --  blueKiwi Software. The blueKiwi SharePoint connector and blueKiwi
        OfficeAssistant, a set of components that enable the integration of
        blueKiwi's enterprise social software suite with SharePoint Server and
        Office, provide SharePoint Server customers with dynamic expertise
        identification, social-network visualization, and an aggregated view
        of all conversations happening across the entire enterprise.

    --  Connectbeam Inc. Connectbeam, a Microsoft partner, is announcing
        Spotlight Connect for SharePoint, a bookmarking and tagging add-on
        module to its enterprise social search-and-discovery application.
        A demo of Connectbeam's integration with SharePoint Server can be
        found at http://www.connectbeam.com/demo/sharepointintegration.

    --  Leverage Software. Leverage Software's innovative Web 2.0
        social-networking tools extend the reach of a SharePoint Server
        implementation and allow a company to connect with and learn from its
        customers, partners and corporate alumni, while maintaining the
        security and privacy demands of the enterprise.

    --  NewsGator Technologies Inc. NewsGator is announcing NewsGator Social
        Sites 2.0 plus Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which delivers
        positive and tangible social-computing business results.

    --  Telligent Systems. Through its REST API, mail gateway, shared
        authentication and single sign-on, Community Server Evolution provides
        deep integration and interoperability among Microsoft Office
        SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Active
        Directory and Telligent Community Server, an industry-leading
        social-computing and online-community platform built on
        Microsoft .NET.

    --  Tomoye Corp. Tomoye is delivering a SharePoint Server-ready offering
        to enable organizations to deploy communities of practice using proven
        process and technology.

    --  WorkLight Inc. WorkLight is announcing its new WorkLight for
        SharePoint, which enables SharePoint Server users to more securely
        view and update information from SharePoint Server through familiar
        consumer tools such as Windows Vista gadgets and Facebook
        applications.

Customers Benefit From SharePoint Server's Social-Computing Features

SharePoint Server also is rapidly becoming the collaboration tool of choice for many organizations. According to an April 2008 Forrester report, "Topic Overview: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007," 96 percent of enterprises are considering, planning on, in the process of or have already completed deploying at least some part of the Microsoft Office system server software. For example, Pfizer Inc., the world's largest research-based biomedical and pharmaceutical company, uses SharePoint Server blogs and wikis for collaborations among its worldwide employees.

"SharePoint gives us a powerful social-computing tool for collaboration," said David Biersach, Pfizer's associate director of Document and Collaboration Solutions. "We have teams distributed all over the world, and the ability to create wikis and blogs helps everyone stay on top of rapidly changing information and team dynamics in real time."

Podcasting Kit for SharePoint

Demonstrating its commitment to bring the latest innovating trends of social-networking technologies to its customers and partners, Microsoft today announced the release of the PKS, a free, open source initiative that provides organizations with a centralized, easy-to-manage solution to create, manage and distribute podcasts. Built on the SharePoint Server and Microsoft Silverlight platforms, and compatible with the Zune, Windows Mobile devices, PCs and other devices that play podcasts, the PKS provides a new medium to record and distribute video and audio information via the Internet and intranet. The Microsoft sales organization implemented the PKS internally over the past year.

    Additional features of the PKS allow users to do the following:

    --  Access audio or video podcasts on PCs, Windows Mobile devices,
        Zune devices and any other devices that play podcasts
    --  Share content by producing personal podcasts and publishing content on
        PKS
    --  Connect and engage with podcasters via integrated instant-messaging
        programs
    --  Find the most relevant content using a rating system, tags clouds and
        search functions
    --  Receive automatic podcast updates by subscribing to RSS feeds, fully
        compatible with Zune and other devices that play podcasts
    --  Play podcasts in real time using Silverlight and progressive playback

Many organizations are now using podcasting technology to provide company news, improve training and increase employee participation. Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, participated in the PKS pilot program, along with its client BT Group plc. Accenture is using and extending the kit's capabilities to offer Web 2.0-based learning and collaboration solutions, coupled with its experience in Microsoft technologies, to its global client base.

"Corporate and public-sector learning organizations have traditionally only addressed 20 percent of how employees learn," said Tom Hoglund, global lead of Accenture's Collaboration and Knowledge Management Practice. "The PKS, combined with Accenture's learning and collaboration experience, enables our clients to facilitate and accelerate learning exactly when and where it is needed, independent of location or device. That's a huge advantage."

Customers can download the PKS at CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project hosting Web site at http://www.codeplex.com/pks.

More information about SharePoint Server social-computing is available at http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/capabilities/collaboration/overview.mspx.

More information on Enterprise 2.0 Conference is available at http://www.enterprise2conf.com.

Repost: how we did NewsGator Social Sites 2.0 - Enhanced Social Computing on the SharePoint Platform

Roberdan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:42:07 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/06/08/how-we-did-it-newsgator-social-sites-2-0-enhanced-social-computing-on-the-sharepoint-platform.aspx

K2 BlackPoint

Roberdan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:23:56 GMT

http://blackpoint.k2.com/en/index.aspx

Increasing Business and IT Agility with SOA and Microsoft

Roberdan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:18:18 GMT

I'm happy to share with you these recorded sessions delivered by my CATM collegue Thomas Reimer ( :-) ) about our SOA proposition. Enjoy it!

Thomas Reimer works at Microsoft in the role of an Enterprise Technology Strategist for Microsoft EMEA. His particular focus is the Microsoft Business Process platform to deliver solutions for business process management, service orientation and application integration. Prior to joining Microsoft, Thomas held a management position at RESCO (Acando Group), a systems integrator, where he was responsible for a consulting team. Thomas has a strong background in Microsoft and other enterprise technologies like IBM and SAP. Thomas is based in Germany and holds a Master of Business Administration degree.

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=353#

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=354#

I reccomend also that sessions:

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=355#

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=356#

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=357#

SharePoint as platform (and welcome to Ilija into the blogsphere)

Roberdan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:24:15 GMT

Hi there, today I reccomend 2 things:

1. read that great post from Arpan: SharePoint = Platform (and Application).

Because SharePoint is revolutionary, different people (and sometimes our partners and competitors) view its value in different ways. Unlike commodity and vertical applications that serve a very specific purpose, SharePoint is a 1) platform and 2) application that drives strategic and immediate business value.

2. welcome Ilija Lazarov into the SharePoint blogsphere: http://blogs.msdn.com/ilija/. Ilija works in Finland and is one of our best people across EMEA. In his first post he create a mindmap on MOSS as a Solution Platform, enjoy it!

thx, Roberdan

Get SharePoint training on your desktop

Roberdan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:55:34 GMT

Explore Office SharePoint Server 2007 with training from Microsoft experts, right from your desktop. Download a simple file to get the grand tour of the latest features and changes, including automated workflows to track approval cycles, business dashboards showing how well you are performing on your goals, and syncing documents to Outlook. The training, which includes articles, videos, and interactive tutorials, will lead you step-by-step through the rich features of Office SharePoint Server.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102488011033.aspx

Download now

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UC (OCS) Presentations and Demos

Roberdan — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:42:51 GMT

Repost from http://blogs.technet.com/brettjo/archive/2008/02/14/uc-ocs-presentations-and-demos.aspx

Now the dust has settled after the global UC launch the event presentations and demo's can be located Here

As well as all the case studies there are following decks:

Administering within a UC environment
(PPT 2003, 4.3 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 1 MB)

Deploying Office Communicator 2007
(PPT 2003, 10.9 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 1.8 MB)

Embedding UC in your applications
(PPT 2003, 13.2 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 5.82 MB)

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 overview
(PPT 2003, 8.16 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.34 MB)

Security and governance in UC solutions
(PPT 2003, 10.8 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.41 MB)

Solutions for mobility and anywhere access
(PPT 2003, 8.94 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.43 MB)

Unified communications and the end user
(PPT 2003, 8.66 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.43 MB)

User-focused approach to optimal VoIP quality
(PPT 2003, 7.89 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.46 MB)

VoIP Topologies and interoperability
(PPT 2003, 12.7 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 4.16 MB)

Web conferencing solutions
(PPT 2003, 12.4 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.93 MB)

UC (OCS) Presentations and Demos
Brettjo
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:22:26 GMT