Deploying the Perfect SharePoint
There is an upcoming series organized by Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro on the best practices for deploying SharePoint. They are coming to 8 cities namely:
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There is an upcoming series organized by Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro on the best practices for deploying SharePoint. They are coming to 8 cities namely:
Read the rest of this entry »WindowsITPro is sponsoring a PC on demand training for SharePoint Migration.
The speaker is Andrew Yeung, Director of Product Management, AvePoint.
Read the rest of this entry »For those planning to take any Microsoft developer or dynamic certifications; Microsoft Second Shot Promo is back. This is especially useful for exam takers as it allows you for one retake of a failed exam for free. The vouchers would be valid until July 31, 2009 and as such; you can register for multiple exam vouchers and use it for the next year.
The Second Shot Promo is found here.
Someone from the audience of Hungary’s University of Economy got angry and started to talk violently at Steve Ballmer. He topped his performance by throwing eggs (?) at him.
Paul Andrew (Microsoft Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform), Andrew Connell (SharePoint MVP) and Rob Bogue (SharePoint MVP) are working together to provide a series of SharePoint developer ramp-up webcast starting May 20 until June 18. The schedule are as follows:
Web Parts, Rob Bogue
Tues, May 20 : 12-1p
National SharePoint Experts would be in Nashville to speak at the world’s business-oriented conference on SharePoint and Microsoft Office System called The SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008 from February 4-5, 2008. The conference is designed for business web and application professionals who needs to stay on leading edge technologies on MOSS 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services business applications.
More of the conference news found here.
A study conducted by Network World results in SharePoint being the de-facto standard for enterprises. More than half of organizations who have deployed Exchange Server are already using SharePoint and additional 12% of them would be deploying SharePoint in the next year.
Read the rest of this entry »It is too bad that Knowledge Network was already dropped. Several months back, I worked for a few months on the beta version of Knowledge Network; but unfortunately it was canned before we could implement that in the enterprise level.
Read the rest of this entry »This is a quote published at ComputerWorld about Chevron Oil’s SharePoint implementation.
Integrating SharePoint at Chevron Oil is being done with care, said Louie Ehrlich, CIO for Chevron’s global downstream operations, which primarily involve refinery functions. “We’re playing with things and being cautious,” he said. “We don’t have a clear strategy.” Ehrlich said the challenge becomes finding ways to integrate such new technologies into Chevron’s overall budget imperatives.
It is definitely challenging to integrate SharePoint in the overall budget imperatives if you do not have a strategy.
Comments from ComputerWorld.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released by Microsoft.
Overview
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