Redmond Channel Partner By Scott Bekker, Editor in Chief REDMOND – December 4, 2012 – Microsoft on Tuesday launched Cloud Deployment, a program for systems integration (SI) partners that is designed to drive successful Office 365 implementations with large customers. To qualify for the program, partners must belong to Microsoft’s Cloud Accelerate program and have…
Ok now that we’ve had a little more time to digest the conference, here are a few non-SharePoint-specific thoughts from the conference. Twitter is still the preferred social network of the SharePoint Community For an entire week we heard all about Yammer and its successes as an enterprise community builder and social networking tool.…
Some organizations have a mobile device policy where they only permit company-owned phones to connect to their email server. They want to prevent employee-owned or rogue devices from establishing an active-sync connection. Exchange 2010 and Office 365 provide the ability to quarantine phones that attempt to enroll in an active-sync relationship. This permits an…
After an unsuccessful attempt to deploy Lync Server 2010 internally, an Arizona-based charitable organization searched Microsoft PinPoint for a trusted partner that could help, referring them to Catapult Systems. The Catapult team came in and redeployed their Lync implementation from scratch, installing Enterprise Voice for all 500 users. With every feature of Lync now at…
The next meeting of the Office 365 International User Group meeting will be December 19th. Click the link below to add this to your calendar. The initial plan is to have a recap of the SharePoint and BUILD conferences as they relate to Office 365. Please join us for this meeting and pass this along…
I like to blog about installing a product so in the future I can review the screenshots and prepare the service accounts, IPs, or anything else that is needed for an install. Today I’m going to take screenshots while installing Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator SP1 Beta. SCORCH is going to be installed on a…
Bolder County Business Report By Heather McWilliams LONGMONT — November 23, 2012 — A proliferation of devices with touch-enabled screens spurred customer use and familiarity with a technology once employed only in certain peripheral markets. Now well-entrenched on personal phones, tablets and music players, some businesses are making the transition to touch for the office, too.…
Last week was very busy and this week is starting off the same way; my bosses, and I have many, don’t pay me enough! J We, Catapult, won a project to help a company that got a little lost and went from an on-premises Exchange messaging system to Google! I will be able to reveal…
All the new changes in SharePoint 2013 pretty much boil down to two things: Search and the App model If you look at all the marketing material for SharePoint 2013, accessible pretty much everywhere, such as the Microsoft website, you’ll see a lot talking about the SharePoint “pillars:” SHARE, ORGANIZE, DISCOVER, BUILD, MANAGE. Ultimately…
For those of us still actually supporting ADO.NET applications, I thought I would jot this one down. J I wanted to convert a DataRow[] to a DataTable. While DataRow[] are nice, unfortunately they do not support all of the nice features of a DataTable, such as filtering and sorting. Since I needed to further…
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