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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:43 PM

How we deployed Office 2007

I've always been amazed at how well we do large scale deployments. Any deployments that I've been a part of have been beset with various challenges, and after the project was over, all of us were keen to get away from the pain as soon as possible. I was
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:34 PM

Old to new reference guides

Oh heck - why didn't I find these months ago when I was scrabbling around trying to work out where the new commands were in Word and PowerPoint. One thing everyone agrees on is that the new ribbon interface in the 2007 release is quite a bit different
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Monday, January 29, 2007 6:29 PM

Lots of SDK's

I noticed that we're ramping up with our release of software development kits. There's one for SharePoint 2007 (with the additional benefit of getting an enterprise content management starter kit - whatever that is!). We've also brought out an SDK for
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:38 AM

From passion to profession

Yesterday at Microsoft in the UK I think we held a first for a product launch 5 user groups in the UK - Nathan Winters - Messaging and Mobility , Nick Swan - SharePoint , Arthur Pounder – Unified Communications , Jim Moffat - Groove user group (site under
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:50 PM

Daylight Savings Time - what you need to do...

Ali is having a total nightmare with the changes to Daylight Savings time in the US and mailed me for help, so I started digging around for information. We'd mentioned DST in our last TechNet newsletter (register here by the way). Here's what we said...
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Monday, January 22, 2007 9:41 AM

Office Webcasts for February

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Essential Tips and Tricks for Project Standard 2007 (Level 100) Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Robert Happy, Senior Consultant/Partner, PM Practice http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032324156&Culture=en-US
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Monday, January 22, 2007 9:39 AM

SharePoint Webcasts for February

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages the World's Largest Windows SharePoint Services Deployment (Level 300) Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Scott St. Jean, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032324073&Culture=en-US
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Friday, January 19, 2007 2:42 PM

Managing people at Microsoft

...is different to managing people anywhere else I've ever worked. In some ways it's frustrating, with all of the processes, forms, meetings, templates and review forms to fill out. In other ways, this structure means that your career history, performance,
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Friday, January 19, 2007 1:15 PM

Get into the Groove

We've had a lot of interest in Groove since we ran our "Introduction to Groove" TechNet session last month. Groove is an interesting phenomena. Until you've actually been part of a Groove workspace and seen how effective it is, then you don't tend to
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:35 PM

Thank goodness I was right

I was confidently chatting to one of the attendees at the BETT show last week , answering her questions on Office and Exchange when she asked when the next version of Office for the Mac would be released. The current edition is Office 2004, so I launched
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Friday, January 12, 2007 9:36 PM

Vista and Office and the SharePoint Learning Kit

My team has been manning the technical helpdesk this week at the BETT show at Olympia . More than 30,000 Teachers, Network Administrators, ICT Administrators, Headmasters, and some very strange unidentified people wandered around for 4 days. Microsoft
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:01 PM

UK TechNet roadshow

I've been busy recently and have totally forgotten to mention that we're going on the road with this years TechNet Roadshow next month. We're going to Nottingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Harrogate and London. We're talking about Exchange, Vista and Office (but
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Friday, January 05, 2007 6:53 PM

SharePoint resources...

Well here are even more resources on Sharepoint and WSS after my blog post the other day. See, I'm still swotting up on things and have a fair bit of reading to do... Perhaps I just need to hire a Sharepoint / Office evangelist instead... - any takers?
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:35 PM

Shortcuts for Windows and Outlook

I'm glad Ewan has started blogging again. He has loads and loads of unique and off the wall hints and tips - information that techies love. Well, this post totally blew me away... I had no idea there was so much useful shortcuts hidden in Windows (why
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:24 PM

Thinking about SharePoint 2007?

I've been getting up to speed with SharePoint 2007 and have been trawling round the resources. I started by listening to Tom Rizzo talking about SharePoint 2007 . Tom is the director of SharePoint Server here. There's also an audio file on the site about
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