Mark Harrison

SharePoint 2010 release dates

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:52:00 +0000

From Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering ....

In addition to the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee, were excited to confirm that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will release to manufacturing (RTM) next month.

For businesses, we will launch the 2010 set of products, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 worldwide on May 12. To find out more about the Worldwide Business Launch, visit http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx .

For consumers, Office 2010 will be available online and on retail shelves this June. Until then, you can get the Office 2010 beta at www.office.com/beta .

Hungry Beast ... Meet Google

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:27:00 +0000

Meet Google (.WMV)

Give with Bing

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:05:00 +0000

For every 10 searches made, Bing.com will donate 5p to Sport Relief 2010, enabling you, and your friends and family, to raise money just by searching with Bing until the end of March.

SharePoint Productivity Hub

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:50:00 +0000

The Productivity Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that comes packed with over 300 pieces of content, including videos, documents and PowerPoint slides. This gives you a great start at building a learning community behind your firewall.

The Hub centralizes Microsoft end user training content while providing a great use case for using SharePoint Server throughout your organization. It removes the need for you to have to find, centralize and publish Microsofts free end user training to an internal site.

You can customize the Hub to fit your branding and needs. The flexibility and rich feature set of SharePoint Server 2007 allows you to add web parts, remove web parts, and add your own content to the Hub.

Download

HTC HD2 - a Windows Mobile better than the iPhone ??

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:42:00 +0000

The HTC HD2 - ths first Windows Mobile phone with a capacitive touch screen, and the glass display measures 4.3". The HD2 runs Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC's Sense UI which is their new version of TouchFLO 3D. It has a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 488 megs RAM, a 5 MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash, WiFi, Bluetooth and a GPS.

More expert reviews

DigitalVersus Score 10
With a powerful capacitive touchscreen and an intuitive user interface that's attractive and fast, the HTC HD2 is clearly a star at the end of 2009. This is a multifunction phone that has as much to offer professionals as it does to ordinary consumers, something which is increasingly rare in the world of smartphones. More

Mobile Choice UK Score 10
The best Windows Mobile handset we've laid our hands on. There's so much going on under the bonnet of this eye-catching device it's frightening. More

Stuff.tv
HTC's Sense sheen and sharpened multimedia skills mean the HD2 is well placed to battle the smartphone big guns More

Best Mobile Contracts
Verdict The HTC HD2 has the largest touchscreen of any smartphone in the current market and this offers a lot of pluses. You can view images on the screen in bright colours and the on-screen keyboard is so comfortable to use, in both portrait and landscape views, that texting, emailing and writing documents are effortless. The phone also has some great features which can be accessed from the mammoth screen, including a 5-megapixel camera, FM radio, GPS, Google Maps,... More

What Hi-Fi? Score 8
It certainly has an immediate impact. If you're after something a bit different from an iPhone or BlackBerry, the HD2 is well worth a look More

Information provided by TestFreaks.com

Outlook - the hub for social networking

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:06:00 +0000

Two announcements re the Outlook Social Connector - the set of new features that bring together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.

The LinkedIn download for the Outlook Social Connector is available today at http://www.LinkedIn.com/outlook.
Integrations with Facebook and Myspace are on the horizon

Windows Phone 7 Series - Office Hub

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:34:00 +0000

Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the next generation of Windows Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series.

The new interface also has a series of 'hubs', which bring together the most important related content from the web, applications and services into a single view. The six hubs are people, pictures, games, marketplace, music and office.

Halo Reach - Once More Unto The Breach

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:53:00 +0000

Halo: Reach is poised to become the definitive Halo and it's Bungies most ambitious game yet. Get your early, inside look with this brand new ViDoc.

Dip into SharePoint - free private trial site

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:27:00 +0000

ICS Solutions are providing Dip into SharePoint 2010 - this is access to a free private trial site to simplify the evaluation of SharePoint 2010. Furthemore, there is access to over 600 items of additional vetted and categorised items that will further assist in the evaluation and deployment process.

Dip into SharePoint 2010

Free Silverlight eLearning Courseware player

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:04:00 +0000

Point8020 have decided to give their Silverlight eLearning Courseware player away for free. It allows you to display videos and other training resources (such as PPTs, PDFs, Docs, etc in a nice format like the following: http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx )

The free software is called Point8020.CourseViewer and you can grab it from:

http://www.point8020.com/services.aspx

SharePoint 2010 VM Download

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:13:00 +0000

Want to demonstrate the latest beta of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in an information worker scenario to customers? Download the two newest virtual machines (VM) with pre-configured versions of Office 2010 Beta and SharePoint 2010 Beta from the Microsoft Download Center.

In order to run this demo you will need the following hardware:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
- Intel VT or AMD-V capable processor
- 8 GB or more RAM
- 50 GB of NTFS-formatted hard disk space required for install

Download

SharePoint eMagazine

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:45:00 +0000

SharePoint eMagazine ... lots of great SharePoint 2010 content .

KODU Game Lab download

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:46:00 +0000

KODU is a visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone.

Originally designed as a learning tool for youngsters using Xbox 360, KODU is now available in a public beta for the PC.

KODU download

2010 CES Keynote Address

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:59:00 +0000

Watch video of Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach delivering the opening keynote address for CES 2010.

Free End-User Training - SharePoint 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:14:00 +0000

From Point8020 ...

50 end-user/site admin training videos for SharePoint 2010. The training is completely free, and configured into a 9-module course at:

http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx

They plan to extend this by RTM to include approximately 250 end-user videos, effectively covering every single task an end-user or site admin performs in SharePoint 2010.

Windows 7 - God Mode

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Go to your desktop, create new folder and call it ...

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

... yes you must name it with the full stop and guid.

update - try these ...

{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
{62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0}
{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}

EntityCube - Microsoft Research

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:39:00 +0000

EntityCube is a research prototype for exploring object-level search technologies, which automatically summarizes the Web for entities (such as people, locations and organizations) with a modest web presence.

Steve Ballmer

In the News

Bing Maps beta - with Photosynth and Silverlight

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:56:00 +0000

Bing Maps is launching features that give users a new view of the planet, including a Streetside and enhanced aerial view. The new features incorporate key Microsoft research and technology such as Photosynth and Silverlight.

http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/

Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 R2 - November 2009 CTP

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:09:00 +0000

Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 code name "R2" November 2009 Community Technical Preview is now available ...

Download

SharePoint 2010 Public Beta - Download

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:52:00 +0000

SharePoint 2010 Beta is now available. Download today!

Next Wave in Business Productivity

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:43:00 +0000

Today, at PDC in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced the public beta release of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010, Outlook Social Connector, Office Web Apps for business customers, and Office Mobile 2010.

SharePoint / Office 2010 Beta 2 download - on MSDN & TechNet

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:16:00 +0000

Microsoft have posted SharePoint / Office (Professional Plus) 2010 Beta 2 on MSDN & TechNet subscriber download areas.

Removing ghost Network Adapters from VHDs

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:54:00 +0000

Can happen when you recreate Virtual Machines from the VHD files (rather than export/import).

Solution:

At a command prompt, enter the following:

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start devmgmt.msc

Click Show hidden devices on the View menu in Device Manager.
The ghost NICs then appear and can be uninstalled.

SharePoint 2010 Developer videos / presentations

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:42:00 +0000

From channel 9 ...

Microsoft Access 2010 - The Access Show

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:39:00 +0000

The latest news about Microsoft Access 2010 from Channel 9 ...

The Access Show