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Microsoft Southwest Business Productivity Blog

By Babar Batla (Principal Business Productivity Specialist in Orange County, CA). It provides Microsoft enterprise customers latest information on SharePoint and Office suite.

July 2008 - Posts

SharePoint Training in Irvine, CA (Aug 2008)
As many know, The Ted Pattison group is one of the leading training organization for SharePoint applications. They focus more on the application and development side than the pure infrastructure training. I have received good feedback on their courses. Read More...
Community Clips (Office System Help Videos)
This library of web videos can be used for training and discovering functionality in Office and SharePoint server. Content is posted from the community. http://communityclips.officelabs.com/Default.aspx Read More...
SharePoint Online Information Now Available!
Our customers will soon have the ability to purchase and use SharePoint environment that's hosted by Microsoft. User identities can be synchronized with corporate Active Directory and SharePoint Online. This will make the online SharePoint act as if its Read More...
Office Business Application Catalog
Office client is an excellent user interface due to 1) Familiar interface - Reduces training costs, increases user adoption. 2) Provides a framework for UI elements. Reduces development time. It can help your organization improve your organization’s productivity Read More...
Storage Planning for SharePoint
White paper: Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices This paper provides key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Read More...
Announcing: Availability of Infrastructure Updates (Search Features)
The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers contains the new Enterprise Search features that were shipped in Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express that were are not already in SharePoint Server 2007; this includes Federated Search Read More...
SharePoint 2007 and Web 2.0 Technologies
Out-of-the-box SharePoint 2007 presently supports basic Wiki, Blog and RSS functions and while it is unlikely that SharePoint Service Packs between now and the next version will change that significantly, we can expect the next version to expand SharePoint's Read More...
Podcasting Kit for SharePoint 2007 Tech Preview Released!
SharePoint site template that lets you organize and manage podcasts. This solution is used internally by Microsoft and is going to be packaged up for our customers. http://www.codeplex.com/pks Read More...
Application Templates for SharePoint
Microsoft has over 40 Application Templates for SharePoint available for download. These can be used as is or customized to provide additional out of box functionality to end users. This is a great example of how SharePoint functionality can be packaged Read More...
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