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(Relatively) New blog with lots of great Visio content

Somehow I had thought that I had already pointed people to Saveen Reddy's blog , but looking back through the archives I realized that I hadn't. Saveen doesn't work on the Visio team, but is a power user and knows a ton about visualization. I'm a huge Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:51 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments

Visio Conference 2008 - Agenda now posted

We've posted the agenda for the upcoming Visio Conference . This conference will be expanded significantly from the last one, which was more focused on partners. This version will include a lot more end user content. One major note: we will be disclosing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:42 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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Announcing (a bit belatedly) the Visio Conference 2008

This has already been mentioned on some of the other Visio-related blogs, but I wanted to make sure that people are aware of the Visio Conference 2008 , taking place here in Redmond in February of next year. The last conference (held in February 2006) Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:20 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Visio Active Directory Topology Diagrammer

One of the most common requests I get from IT users of Visio is for a way to draw out an Active Directory topology map. Visio has Active Directory shapes, but until now it didn't have the ability to actually go out and create a diagram from AD. We've Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:24 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Exchange Server 2007 Shapes

A download is available on Microsoft.com containing a stencil and template for Exchange Server 2007 . If you do Exchange deployment or management this is worth grabbing. It works with Visio 2003 or 2007. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:00 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Upcoming webcast

I'll be presenting a webcast on the Data Visualization features in Visio on Tuesday, August 7th. Here is a link to the details and registration information . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:18 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments

Security updates for Visio 2002 and Visio 2003

If you haven't already, make sure that you update any copies of Visio 2002 or 2003 with the security updates that we released last month. If you use Microsoft Update or Office Update (highly recommended) then you will already be updated, but if not you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:54 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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New book -- Visualizing Information with Visio 2007

Somehow I missed the fact that Visualizing Information with Microsoft Office Visio 2007 , a new book by David Parker, has been published. I knew that the book was coming out, but somehow the actual release slipped by me. I've had a number of people ask Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:58 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments

More about launching a Remote Desktop session from a hyperlink

A few people have asked me if the remote desktop hyperlink creator is Visio-specific. The answer is no. It creates hyperlinks that can be used anywhere. If you publish your network diagrams using Visio's Save as Web feature it will work there too. Here's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 5:11 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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(Relatively) New Visio Blog

Our Visio MVPs are in town right now, and that reminded me that I've been remiss in mentioning Chris Roth's Visio Guy blog . Chris did a great presentation on XML at the Visio Conference last year , and has a wealth of other visio knowledge. Make sure Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:39 AM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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DXF, DWG & Visio

Now that Visio 2007 is out the door (mostly -- the consumer launch is coming up soon) we are looking at future versions. Do you ever open, save or use AutoCAD files (DXF/DWG) with Visio? If so, the Visio product team would like to talk to you. Send me Read More...
Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 5:18 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments

Meet a ShapeSheet Function: SETF

With this post I'll start a new series designed to give a little more detail behind some of the more interesting ShapeSheet functions. As the documentation for SETF says , this function is designed to let you set the value for a specific cell in the ShapeSheet Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:39 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Announcing the Visio Customer Council

We're always looking for ways to better understand the needs and concerns of Visio customers. To that end, one of the tools we use is the Visio Customer Council. Council members are uniquely positioned to have their voices heard by the designers and developers Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:06 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Visio at the Worldwide Partner Conference

If you are at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2006 in Boston, make sure to head to the Data Visualization session since it will heavily feature Visio solutions. It is happening tomorrow afternoon at 4: IW008 Scale Up Your Business with Data Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:45 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Designing the floorplan of a personal 767

I've been following this story with great interest since it first broke in the Wall Street Journal . While I don't currently have a 767, you can never be too prepared. With that in mind, I whipped together a Visio version of the airplane floorplan from Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:20 PM by wmorein | 6 Comments
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