Personal blog
I have decided to try again with MSN spaces rather than mix up my business and personal blogs. If you want my personal blog, which will be much more of a photo blog then have a look at: http://spaces.msn.com/members/seasidelife/
Monthly Archive: August 2005
Security threats and counter measures
All too often as an Infrastructure Architect I found myself subject to lobbying by security professionals and product vendors to provide ever stronger security counter measures into my solutions. Inevitably these counter measures had a detrimental effect on end user experience so I was always keen to see evidence of...
Monad – Exchange 12 Example
Monad is the next generation of the Windows Shell, I was expecting it to ship in Windows Vista but there seems some doubt about that now. However it is expected to ship as part of Exchange 12. The Exchange team have taken Monad the engine and more importantly the “concept...
Treo 600 Info
Treo™ 600 is a small, simple to use smartphone with a built-in QWERTY keyboard. It seamlessly combines a full-featured quad-band GSM/GPRS mobile phone and a Palm OS® organiser with messaging applications such as email, SMS and MMS, a web browser, and even a digital camera–to simplify both your business and...
The last two weeks
Wondering why there have been no blog posts for the last two weeks? Well in fact there have been lots, on Office 12 and Office System but they are covered by a non disclosure agreement and so won’t appear until the PDC next month. That’s one of the best features...
Office 12 and Beyond – Real time collaboration
Main themes: Reduce cost, including travel and communications expenses Time to market, how to get breakthrough ideas to market faster Distributed teams, how do I get a global organisation to act in concert Connect people, especially customers and suppliers Access to information and people 4 key capability areas, which are...
Groove positioning and Office 12
Mac Olsen is the Group Program Manager for Groove integration Key points about Groove: Best for people who need to work with each other when they don’t share a common infrastructure Need to work off-line Need robust security A few extra services have been created to make Groove more acceptable...
Project 12 and Project Server
Project Standard improvements are very uninspiring basically it is focussed on the following areas: Easy to get started Great looking reports Connected to your business, eg integrate with accounting system Enterprise Project Management seems more driven around issues with previous product: Resolve existing pain points Scale up to programmes, shared...
Office 12 – Finalising and Protecting Documents
Four main areas: Inspect the document, to make sure comments, review, meta-data etc is not left in by accident Mark as final Signatures Digital rights management Document inspector, replaces the “remove hidden document” tool which is a free add-on and optionally removes the following: Comments and revisions Document information, document...
Office 12 Workflow
This post is being written as it happens at the Office System conference Workflow was essentially un-usable in WSS v2, for most real world business scenarios, so this session is key to positioning the role of Office System 12. This is the process they are trying to support: Create Edit/review Ready...