Posted by jayb | Posted on 18-02-2010
Category : microsoft
Tags: facebook, microsoft, office
We are testing Office 2010 at work. I should have it by the end of next week along with windows 7. I’m currently running Office XP with outlook 2003. I was using Xobni, but it seem to eat up RAM and caused outlook to have issues closing. The social features of xobni where nice. But the performance hit wasn’t worth it. I uninstalled it and install windows desktop search. Windows desktop search was just as good if not better than xobni, but I was still missing the social integration. Well it looks like once I get outlook 2010 installed, I’ll be able to test microsoft’s new Outlook social connector, very nice….
In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector brings together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.
We are continuing to deliver on that vision today with two new announcements. First, we’re proud to announce the public beta of LinkedIn for Outlook, which will enable our millions of Office 2010 Beta users to connect the OSC to a public network for the first time. Second, we’re excited to announce partnerships with Facebook — the most popular social Web site in the world, and MySpace — a leading social platform connecting people through expression, content, and culture.
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To recap, here is what you can do today to get started with the Outlook Social Connector.
- Download the Office 2010 Beta at www.Office.com/beta
- Download the latest beta version of the Outlook Social Connector from the Microsoft Download Center.
- Get the LinkedIn download for the Outlook Social Connector at www.LinkedIn.com/outlook.
- Keep watching the Outlook team blog for availability of the Facebook and MySpace download for the Outlook Social Connector at http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/.
Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace
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Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT
Posted by jayb | Posted on 28-02-2008
Category : microsoft, technology, work
Tags: help, intranet, microsoft, office, sharepoint, windows, work, XP
At work we’ve discussed moving to sharepoint for our intranet and some of our internal applications. Here’s a nice document that help explains all the different versions of sharepoint.
Included in this document is a complete breakdown of the features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and a comparison between the different 2007 server editions and SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 products comparison download – Windows SharePoint Services – Microsoft Office Online
Posted by jayb | Posted on 13-12-2006
Category : Digg, Post from around the Net
Tags: Digg, News, office, work
It’s first thing in the morning and you’re at the office. You’re sipping your coffee and sifting through e-mail, but you’re not quite ready to delve into the real work of the day. So what are you gonna do? Fire up your Web browser and distract yourself by wasting time on the Internet.
read more | digg story
Posted by jayb | Posted on 15-07-2006
Category : Post from around the Net
Tags: money, network, office, storage, upgrade, work
I was going to order two buffalo tech 2TB pro units on Monday. but these devices look VERY interesting. I like the Nsync feature to auto replicate to another unit…. Which is what I need to do…I don’t look like these units are available until the end of this month…
I’m a storage junkie. I have 1TB in my Media Center, and it hardly seems like enough now. I have personally wanted to stick a NAS device on my home network, and it appears that if money were no object (it is), HEXUS thinks the Thecus N5200 NAS Appliance is not only worthy of being on my network, it is made for the enthusiast within me (the one that gets in money fights with my wife all the time). With 5 available, hot swappable SATA drive bays, the N5200 is not necessarily meant for the average home user. However, small to medium sized offices and enthusiast home users will definitely want to take note – the Thecus N5200 is a real winner. More…
– © eHomeUpgrade / David Walker
[Via eHomeUpgrade]
Posted by jayb | Posted on 15-10-2005
Category : News
Tags: china, lan, lions, network, News, office, work
I didn’t realize I hadn’t posted since last weekend. Well the Lions beat the ravens. The lions defense played great and the ravens defense blew up, 20 penalties and 2 ejections!
We only got a little christmas shopping done, but we found a lot of things for ourselves. That’s always the way things go, when your shopping for others you find stuff for yourself. But then you need to find something for yourself you never can. Oh well.
Big news at work. My manager got a promotion to Director and my group (network services) now is responsible for my company and the home office. Dan the IT guy from the home office will be joining my group. Plus we’ve have to take on home office’s China location, so now I get to deal with two different China sites.
This weekend the plan is to do our fall work in the yarn and get it ready for the winter. Hopefully I’ll only need to cut the yawn a few more times.
later,jb
Posted by jayb | Posted on 24-08-2005
Category : News
Tags: china, friday, help, lan, mac, office, sql, work, WSUS
Not too good. I started getting sick yesterday afternoon. My stomach had one of the worse pains I have every felt in it. I skipped dinner and just tried to relax and took some medicine to calm my stomach. But it didn’t help, I was up all night, trying to get sick just to get the bad stuff out of my stomach!
I ended up staying at the hotel today and helping remotely. The consultants where going to install the latest backup exec, which I guess using msde. but since we already installed WSUS (which also uses msde) they had all sorts of problems. I finally told them to remove WSUS and just use the msde for backup exec. Since I wasn’t there I had to take their word for it.
They still couldn’t get backup exec working correctly!!! So they wanted to reinstall the entire server!!! which meant setting up AD and everything else again!!!!! This project has to be done by Friday because our plane out is early Saturday. I told them to keep working to getting BE working without having to reinstall. They still couldn’t get it by 4:30 so I told them to just go ahead and reinstall.
SO tomorrow, I’ll be re-joining all the computers to the domain. Plus we found out today that only one machine has office 2003 and most computers hard drives are so full we can’t even load office 2003 on them!!
there’s been so many other little crazy things about this trip…I need to start posting them as they happen. Like, BE support telling the consutants to use full MS SQL instead of msde, so the consultant has if we have the SQL CD!!! (we are already packing a bunch of services on the one server they have) This one server is their AD server,DNS,WINS, DHCP,file server,print server, AV server,backup server,and I wanted it to be their WSUS.
Anyway, I’ll try to post more the last two days, but it sounds like we are going to be really busy trying to get done.
later,jb
