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Just in time for your summer viewing pleasure Microsoft is unveiling some of the new workloads for SharePoint 2010. Head over to the newly revamped Microsoft SharePoint Product site and catch Tom Rizzo, Paul Andrew and Richard Riley as they demonstrate just a few of the new capabilities of SharePoint 2010. Each video has a…
I found this great video explaining Azure. What is Windows Azure? http://blog.smarx.com/posts/what-is-windows-azure-a-hand-drawn-video I love the hand drawn approach to teaching. Just goes to show that the simplest teaching techniques are sometimes the most powerful. The key to his success IMO is the 5 hours he spent up front. Clear, concise and clever. Very memorable. Enjoy!
Register for our first EPM Webinar – Maximizing Your Investment in Microsoft Project Professional and Project Server 2007. This session will be held on Wednesday, July 29 at 11:00 a.m. Central. As a reminder, this is the first in a series of three EPM Webinars we will be conducting in July and August. You can…
Well, I promised to post this information here at the Houston MPUG meeting last week. Looks like Dale Howard beat me to it today. Rather than recreate the wheel, I provide this link to his excellent blog post: http://www.projectserverhelp.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=f884b43f%2D61db%2D4c4e%2D94a3%2D38f21a8efdad&ID=77
Earned Value is certainly one of the most powerful project management tools out there. Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server provide a wealth of options for implementing and reporting on Earned Value – and wherever native functionality is lacking, a multitude of third party vendors have stepped in to fill the gap. Earned Value is…
I just found a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that posts updates to Twitter when you publish a new post to your blog. Twitter Notify lets you format the tweet and prompts you when you publish a post.
I love BEING organized…I hate GETTING organized. I made a promise to myself (dare I say a resolution) in January that each month I would take one step closer to getting myself organized. Actually this was a good time for me because I have been planning on updating my home computer infrastructure so it made…
It is pretty well known how to add custom extensions to the Configuration Manager hardware inventory using sms_def.mof and configuration.mof. What isn’t well-known or documented (at least not that I could find), was how to check-up on or remove a custom extension from ConfigMgr manually. There are two tools that can help you with deleting…
At Catapult we recently implemented Unified Communications all the way to our phones. I love the functionality and reach provided by the UC solution. I love getting voice mail in my Inbox. I have to be more careful about my Communicator Status, but that is easy. We needed an easy way to enable calling and…
Today, I was honored with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for System Center Configuration Manager. I am humbled, excited, encouraged, enthusiastic, and truly honored. A big thank you to anyone and everyone who has supported me over the past years and enabled me to achieve this level of recognition from the company…