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SHAREPOINT FOR SEARCH:
SharePoint Integration with Outlook 2007, Part 3
With Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, you can download a
read-only copy of your SharePoint contacts. Outlook 2007
combined with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 or
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 gives you
full read/write access to SharePoint contacts—you can
even modify them offline. Let's see how using shared
contacts can help you to retire your old public folder
contacts. In previous columns, I explained how you...
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INTEROPERABILITY:
Standards and Microsoft Office: Why OOXML Matters
Traditionally, document formats were tethered to the
authoring tool. But today information needs to be more
fluid. Microsoft has been one company that has taken the
initiative to open file formats, designing an
interoperable document format named Office Open XML (OOXML).
In this article, we discuss why OOXML is important not
only to Microsoft, but also to the enterprise. An
Evolution Prior to Microsoft Office 2007,...
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TECH TALK:
Wireless Best Practices
Chances are, you've got a wireless network that you're
not entirely in control of. Or perhaps you've carefully
deployed wireless in your environment, and you've
mistakenly believed that you could just set it and
forget it. You can do that with many computing
technologies, but beware doing it with wireless! I spoke
recently with Charles Thompson, manager of sales
engineering at Network Instruments, and he gave me some
best practices to share...
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POLL:
Do you use Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration platform
in your organization?
Yes, we've been using it for a couple of years
27%
Yes, we deployed it within the last year
21%
No, but we plan to in the near future
25%
No, and we don't plan to
28%
Commentary: Of the 383 IT Pros who responded, 27%
have been using the platform for a couple of years while
21% have deployed it in the last year. In addition, 25%
have not deployed it but plan to in the near future and
27% don't plan to at all.
TECHNOLOGY DECISIONS:
7 Months with Ubuntu
About a year ago, Microsoft released Windows Vista, its
most ambitious desktop platform to date. It's a great
improvement over Windows XP primarily because it brings
better security to the overall OS. Makers of Linux
platforms are improving their desktop OSs too. One
company making huge leaps forward is Canonical, the
company behind Ubuntu. In April 2007, Canonical released
Ubuntu 7.04, code-named Feisty Fawn. Prior to the
release of...
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INDUSTRY PULSE:
Will XP SP3 Slow Your Migration to Vista?
As many enterprises begin to consider migrating to
Vista, recent news has added some drama to an already
complex issue. In late November, Devil Mountain Software
tested pre-release versions of Windows Vista SP1 and
Windows XP SP3 with OfficeBench, a testing script that
utilizes Microsoft Office to gauge system performance.
During their tests,...
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