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...
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...
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...
This post is being written as it happens at the Office System conference because I won’t have any time to catch up with my note taking tonight, going out for a meal with the Partner Architecture group. Document management was essentially un-usable in WSS v2, for most real world business...
It’s clear from the keynote today that the impact of Office 12 is, as expected, going to be considerable. Here are some of the key points: The integrated value proposition “integrated innovation” is ever stronger with each release, it is very impressive with Office 12. There is no comparison between...
A few of the longhorn technologies seem great for branch offices which we can assume to lack physical security and the high levels of management required for enterprise class service integrity. if we string together Secure Startup (lack of security), read-only Domain Controllers (lack of service integrity, but resiliance to network outages)...
I have promoted the concept of standard corporate PC builds for over a decade, in fact my first standard PC’s were in fact Unix workstations back in the late 1980’s. However I have become increasingly unsure of the approach as we find more and more uncontrolled devices connecting to the network...
For years, in fact since the beginning, Microsoft have been critisised over the complexity of their serviver operating system and recently over the resulting large attack service. The response is Longhorn Server Core: Server Core is a new minimal server installation option for Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 1. Server Core...
I find it difficult to get excited by print management, however its an essential task. I am much more interested in Metro which will have a direct impact on the user experience. That said Longhorn definately looks like it improves on print management in a way that will allow service providers...
Boot volume security has previously relied on third party products, that have a lot of limitations for example support for suspend and hibernation, and general concerns over stability and management. Secure startup in Longhorn for the system volume combined with EFS for data volumes looks like a very promising solution...