Bank holiday always throws me so this is sneaking up on me quite quickly. This Thursday, (6th May), Microsoft are holding a regional Partner Business Briefing in Birmingham to promote the upcoming changes to the Microsoft Partner Network, showcase the current wave of Microsoft products and facilitate inter-partner collaboration (we promoted the event on the
SharePoint as a Twitter Client. Sort of – Part Two
I intended to follow on from part one a bit sooner but it’s been really busy at the office! In part one I gave a brief overview of what I was trying to accomplish and how to get a rough prototype working. While it did the job I highlighted the following limitations. It only fetches
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Spring Cleaning – Feedback wanted
Was thinking of having a revamp of the blog I’ve been using the current template for quite a while now and while i think it’s very geeky cool it’s quite heavy, not to everyone’s taste and isn’t 100% user friendly If you consume this site via RSS feeds you probably have no idea what I’m
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McAfee False Positive
You may or may not of heard about the massive mistake McAfee made last week. On Wednesday 25th April they released a virus definition file (5958 – April 21st) that incorrectly identified svchost.exe as a threat and deleted it on systems running Windows XP SP3. Svchost is used for launching services (full description here) and
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SharePoint as a Twitter Client. Sort of – Part One
This is going to be quite lengthy so I’ll split into a couple of posts. Back in March, Mark Wilson of MarkWilson.co.uk (if you’re not reading his blog….go check it out now!) asked the following on Twitter. Does anyone know how to read XML (i.e. Twitter updates) into a SharePoint List (not the XML webpart
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InfoPath – Errr! What?
I got an email earlier this week from Richard Tubb asking a couple of questions about InfoPath. This is also the same Mr Tubb who has been “nagging” me to post more about InfoPath and SharePoint. I do take his point as I’ve posted very little on the topic since I spoke about it at
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Get them while their hot! ZDTM Workbook special offer
In my last post I gave details about the upcoming event at AMITPRO featuring Karl Palachuk and Richard Tubb I just wanted to share a special offer Karl has kindly put together Time-limited offer for attendees of the April 6th AMITPRO meeting! Karl has offered a massive saving of $120 (£80) off the cost of
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April AMITPRO meeting – Must Attend Event!
Just wanted to do a bit of shouting about our next AMITPRO meeting. It’s one we’re really excited about! First, we’ve changed the date. Our meetings are usually on the second Tuesday of every month but we’re rearranged to accommodate one of our speakers. This means the date of the meeting is 6th April So,
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MSN Video Player vs iPlayer
I saw this article last week on the Times Online website, Microsoft challenges BBC’s iPlayer with its new MSN Video Player The recently launched UK MSN Video Player will show full series of various popular shows (there is even some old Doctor Who stuff on there!) This is all powered by Silverlight of course 😉
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Bye Bye EBS!
You’ve more than likely heard that Microsoft are ending development of EBS with immediate effect. If you browse to the website you’ll see this (eventually…I got this and the regular product page randomly on each page load) There is also an an announcement on the official SBS blog “New IT Trends Bring Change to Mid-Market
