Category Archives: Random Stuff

Microsoft Release – E-Learning Editor

Remco Ploeg posted some great news to the Education Special Interest Group on the SUGUK web site announcing the release of the Microsoft Learning Content Development System (LCDS).  You can register and download the community edition from: https://www.microsoft.com/learning/tools/lcds/default.mspx This is … Continue reading

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MVP Summit – What it’s like to be a SharePoint MVP

I attended my first MVP Summit in Seattle this week and it has reminded me how lucky I am to be part of the SharePoint MVP family.   Lawrence Liu probably sums up the week best in his post. 

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Low mic volume in Vista 64bit

Having previously been an avid Skype user I decided to reinstall on my Vista ultimate 64bit laptop build.   Download and software installation (version 3.6) went without issue, but making a Skype test call I could hardly hear myself.   I made … Continue reading

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SharePoint Conference 2008 – Get the Buzz

Lawrence has syndicated so feeds to help people as he says ‘get the Buzz at SPC’ Go here for details http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/02/29/join-the-sharepoint-conference-buzzstream.aspx If you want to follow the buzzstream with your feedreader or syndicate it to your website, you can subscribe … Continue reading

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Heading out to SharePoint Conference 2008

Tomorrow I will be heading out to the SharePoint Conference 2008 ,  this is my first to Seattle and I’m looking forward to a great week.  There will be a plane load of people flying from the UK – some … Continue reading

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Not waving but drowning – dealing with the flood of blog posts.

In my quest for knowledge I had subscribed to numerous blog feeds, spent many hours in the SharePoint forums, and  subscribe to some very useful but verbose email distribution lists.  What I have found is that after a two week … Continue reading

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Search Server 2008 Express VPC essential tip.

Many of you will have downloaded (or plan to download) the VPC image for Search Server 2008 Express and will be keen to get going with the Federated Searching that is the cool new things in MSS (see my other … Continue reading

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My Take on the TechEd message

Silverlight 1.1 Much less push on the SilverLight front.   Even when it was presented we could not get anyone to commit to the things that are coming in in the next release or the timeframe.   So the lack of even a simple Silverlight TextBox means unless … Continue reading

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TechEd 2007 EMEA Key Note

Some areas from the Key Note that may have an impact on SharePoint in the future. Microsoft Sync Framework – CTP available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sync/bb821992.aspx Will this integrate into SharePoint?   talking SharePoint content offline – merge conflict, version control?   Will this … Continue reading

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Committed Traveler to TechEd

Flights and accommodation booked in August, taxi to the airport was left late but part form paying more for the taxi ride from home to the airport nothing too much to concern me. Early start on Sunday 4th,  taxi was picking me … Continue reading

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