Microsoft has announced that the next version of the the popular MS Office suite, Office 2010 will have a web version free of charge. Yes, similar to Google Docs !. According to PC world, Microsoft hosted office web apps will be free for users with Live accounts Customer hosted ...
Last week Microsoft released 3 videos allowing a sneak peek of SharePoint 2010 (Twenty Ten). You can view these here. There are 3 videos separately, Overview, for IT Pros and for developers. These are of course embedded in to a Silverlight web part so you need to have Silverlight installed to watch these. (You can download Silverlight from here) Detailed ...
Kofax announced the launch of a new scanning application Kofax Desktop, a tool that I have been waiting for a long time. This is a simple tool that integrates in to Microsoft Office desktop applications providing users with one touch scanning capability from office applications. As I mentioned in a previous post, it also supports direct scanning in to SharePoint. ...
When it comes to service packs and infrastructure updates I always recommend to wait at least 3 months to install in a production environment. This will make sure that enough real time testing will be done and bugs will be discovered if any. So that Microsoft can get ready with the necessary hot fixes for the same.SharePoint team blog reported ...
Vinoj, one of my friends currently working in Brunei has recently started a blog named Sharepoint Sri Lanka . I am sure this will definitely be useful not only for sharpeoint practitioners from Sri Lanka but for others as well.Well done Vinoj ! Keep up the good work. ...
Microsoft SharePoint team blog announced last week the launch of Microsoft SharePoint marketing website using SharePoint and silver light. Obviously this is something that should have been done long time back, without waiting for the last stage of MOSS 2007. Anyway the site looks nice and elegant with lot of content especially the videos. Visit and enjoyhttp://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/
While we await the release of SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has announced that Groove will be renamed as SharePoint Workspace 2010. According to the Groove team blog, Groove will be added to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, with the name of SharePoint Workspace 2010, together with One note.This gives a strong indication that Microsoft is paying serious attention to offline content ...
I am sure all of us have come across the phrase “devil’s advocate”. In general terms this is used to identify a person who keeps on arguing against the popular choice of the majority. In a decision making process if a person is keep on arguing in favour of another alternative, when there is an obvious ...
Starting from 1st of April, SharePoint Designer is available as a free download. Further MS announced that existing customers with Software Assurance will receive upgrade rights to Expression Web for the lifetime of their SA agreement.This will enable end users to customise SharePoint more easily and to design customised workflows. In SharePoint Page customisation is one major area which should ...
My new project has a requirement to scan the colour documents in DjVu format, so I thought of writing about this somewhat unfamiliar file format.Have you heard of “Deja vu”.? As i understood in French this means something like “familiar” or “already experienced”. This is used to explain the weird feeling that most of us have experienced, where we come ...
I am in Brunei working on an exciting new project. The project will run for around 1 1/2 years and involves conversion of files, photographs, maps, newspapers, microfilms, Audio and video tapes..... ... in to digital format. Once the formalities are done, I will write in detail later.More than the technicalities, it seems that managing the ...
Last week Kodak announced the incorporation of “direct scan to SharePoint” capability in to their smart touch button. There isn't any surprise with this move considering the fact that their main competitors have already implemented this sometimes back. Fujitsu was the first to incorporate direct SharePoint scanning in to all of their scanners, however other players also had this functionality ...
For two weeks, I was busy with exams, so couldn't write anything. Hopefully will do some posts this month.Friday night on week before last, two LTTE light aircrafts entered Colombo on a suicide mission. Unlike previous attempts this time they couldn't accomplish the mission and both aircrafts were gunned down by security forces. However one aircraft ...
Couple of years back I was handling a document conversion project for a well known multinational. There were two main obstacles that we had to face.1. The main document that we had to scan was in a non standard size. It was a bit longer than an A3 paper. This prevented us from using most of our scanners, since they ...
Microsoft Project 2010 suite consists of several products – Project 2010 standard, professional and project server 2010. This guide helps to understand the different products and the licensing requirements for each scenario.
When implementing a document imaging solution it is very important to select the processes that will bring the maximum ROI. Not all processes are suitable for document imaging. So we need to evaluate each process carefully in order to select the most relevant ones. Business needs will definitely vary from one process to another and a single product may not ...
As we know Yammer offers 2 types of networks, Enterprise and Basic. Most of the organizations start with the basic network since it comes free of charge. Most of the end user features are same in both networks. The main differences between these 2 types are the enterprise admin features. Here is a link that provides a comparison between these ...
To understand what Enterprise Information Management is and why we need it, first let’s see where a typical business user saves his content. There are several commonly used tools that a typical business user will use to save his content. 1. My Documents - This is probably the first option that an average user will use to save his content. ...
In a SharePoint Intranet with multiple sites and document libraries, sometimes it is required to display a list of documents from multiple libraries based on some query, As an example you may want to display all the documents that were added to the Intranet within the last 30 days. Or you may want to display all the documents added or ...
