Some of the benefits we receive from our internal Microsoft Unified Communications deployment include: •Reduced cell phone bills. •Reduced long-distance costs with toll bypass. •Reduced PBX maintenance at Catapult’s headquarters. •Elimination of PBX maintenance at branch offices. •Elimination of “physical” phones in all of Catapult’s cubicles. •A highly mobile workforce that can make &…
Thank you for everyone who attended the recent webcast on Windows Server 2008 R2 (https://www.catapultsystems.com/matthew/archive/2009/10/12/catapult-webcast-overview-of-windows-server-r2.aspx). The video for this is available at mms://videos.catapultsystems.com/Marketing/serverr2.wmv. There were several good questions asked which we needed to do additional research on and were going to write-up the answers for. This is the summary of the thoughts from a variety…
The SharePoint Fairy. She is the director of Marketing for her company and they bought two conference badges and she has been wearing a fairy costume. Talk about buzz. She is getting more attention then many of the booths getting her photo taken etc. Heck we even started a twitter hashtag for her #spfairy
So after day 1 and day 2 of the Conference I am ready to share some of my initial thoughts. In the work that I do there are two big issues that customers struggle with in making effective use of SharePoint inside of their organizations. Honestly there are many more then two, but I am…
So, I am off to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference to learn all about SPS 2010 and hang out with some great SharePoint peeps. I will also be tweeting as much as possible during the conference. Initially I was planning on just using my iPhone for tweets as the laptop will never make it through a…
By now the planet knows that the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference is sold out. Does that mean that you are going to miss all the good stuff? Not at all. You can attend the keynote address by Steve Balmer and Jeff Teper virtually. The keynote address will be streamed live at 9:00 Vegas time and…
I figured this was worth a quick post: while many of SQL Server’s aspects are cluster aware, SSIS is not. Why? My guess is that there is not a pressing business need for this to be a cluster aware service – while many companies have vital ETL processes to help run company business, the need…
The front-end service will not start, and the access-edge service will not start. The only fix is to uninstall KB 974571. For more info, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974571 Update (10/28/2009) – Microsoft released a fix to resolve this issue and it has been documented in KB 974571.
Following up on a previous post on setting schedule buffers, I figured it was about time to revisit the topic of buffers, this time with cost. This post will discuss best practices in setting cost buffers using the budget resource feature in Microsoft Project 2007. First off, why should we set buffers on a project? …
The biggest announcement about TFS 2010: "Price – We’re not quite ready to announce the pricing and licensing for 2010 yet but I can tell you that it will be at least as easy and cost effective to get as SourceSafe has been. Stay tuned for more info on this." great post. That means that…
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