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SharePoint Showcase Presentations Available

05/06/2008

Last week the Education team hosted a SharePoint Showcase Event at Microsoft in Reading. The idea was to present a different partner solution for SharePoint every 12 minutes. There were 23 partner presentations on a wide variety of solutions, which are being uploaded gradually to a Sky Drive at http://cid-2fbbe67743d5177d.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/SharePoint%20Showcase%20May%202008?uc=6

05/06/2008

Free Podcasting Kit for SharePoint

23/06/2008

The Podcasting Kit for SharePoint has recently been released on CodePlex (Microsoft's open source project hosting web site). It's an easy way to start using multimedia in a controlled environment - meaning, you can control who has access to the podcast files by linking it to your university’s user management through Active Directory.

It's also free!

For more information, check out http://blogs.msdn.com/ukhe/archive/2008/06/20/free-podcasting-kit-for-sharepoint-2007.aspx

23/06/2008

End User Training

30/06/2008

Another useful site to make end users aware of is

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR102146081033.aspx

Site contains some useful short task based training materials.

30/06/2008

Additions to SharePoint Learning Kits

24/07/2008

New management tools have been added to the SLK and are available from Codeplex. The tools allow users to manage more effectively the information within the learning kit.

24/07/2008

MOSS Accessibility

04/08/2008

Given the large rise in the number of SharePoint sites being rolled out accessibility is and may become a huge issue. Here is a link to a white paper which discusse accessibility and SharePoint.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668367(TechNet.10).aspx

There is also an accessibility kit available which can assist you when working in this area.

http://www.hisoftware.com/press/10-5-07RNIB_AKS.html

04/08/2008

WSS3 Workflow Tools

08/08/2008

Developers should check out the new tools released on codeplex. For anyone who does not already know Codeplex provides many great examples and tools for use with SharePoint.

http://www.codeplex.com/wss3workflow

08/08/2008

Microsoft announces changes to Application Server Licence Mobility

20/08/2008

From 1st September Microsoft is updating its software licensing policy on server applications to allow for greater mobility of licences across servers within data centres and server farms.

In the past, Microsoft server software and EC licenses have had to be assigned to a specific server for at least 90 days before they could be reassigned to another server. So, for example, if you wanted to move running instances of software from one server to another more frequently, you needed to assign licenses to both servers.

With the new Microsoft terms, for certain products, Microsoft waives the 90-day reassignment rule, allowing you to reassign licenses from one server to another within a server farm as frequently as you need to. This allows you to freely move both licenses and running instances within a server farm from one server to another.

Visit the Library to download the Microsoft Application Server Licence Mobility Brief.

30/09/2008