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Dec-102007

OK, I need to book more time for personal projects.

Lots of people have been asking me about Silverlight in SharePoint, and I've been meaning to work something up (I still will - that's the whole reason for running my own server.)  But Mark Brown has a nice writeup on putting a streaming media player on your SharePoint sites.  We did this with Flash back before Silverlight was announced (and had some definite fun getting it to work) but I always knew it would work better with Silverlight.

Anyway - go have a look and try it out.  I know Carlos and the other training groups can have a field day with this.  http://www.liveside.net/blogs/developer/archive/2007/12/05/add-silverlight-to-sharepoint-2007.aspx


Published: Dec-10-07 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
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Dec-102007

Looks like the Office Live Workspaces beta is open to the public.

http://workspace.officelive.com/

Now I need to see if I can start putting presentations and documentation up there so I can stop hunting around to see which computer I left them on. 


Published: Dec-10-07 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
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Dec-82007

Strategic Architect Forum sessions now online

If you missed SAF07 like I did (too many events, too few days) then you'll be happy to know that sessions are now online.  I can't say if they got every one, but it looks pretty complete from my first glance.  Video, slides and transcripts are up, you can pull them down at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb267380.aspx


Published: Dec-08-07 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
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Dec-72007

End user SharePoint training.

I can't remember how many times I've been asked about end user training for SharePoint from organizations and admins.  There have been some good books and trainers around, but now the Office guys have put together some self-serve training for users. 

Grab it up here - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102488011033.aspx

Training topics included

Collaboration

  • Finding your way around a team site
  • Understanding permissions
  • Customizing a team site
  • Linking calendars to Outlook
  • Adding Web Parts
  • Collaborating in libraries, lists, and workspaces
  • Using blogs and wikis to share information

Enterprise Content Management

  • Document management
  • Protecting files
  • Using workflows
  • Records management
  • Creating and publishing Web pages
  • Improving compliance and support litigation discovery

Search

  • Finding files, Web sites, information, and people

Portals and personalization

  • My Sites
  • Targeting content to specific audiences
  • Managing access to your My Site

Business processes and forms

  • Streamlining business processes with forms and workflow
  • Gathering information with browser-compatible forms
  • Designing custom workflows using SharePoint Designer

Business intelligence

  • Sharing Excel workbooks as interactive reports
  • Working with a Report Center site
  • Using dashboards to drive decisions
  • Understanding Filter Web Parts
  • Integrating external data

Published: Dec-07-07 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
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