Steve's Seaside Life Blog

Seamless windows comes to Windows Terminal Server

One of the big plus factirs for Citrix Presentation Server has always been support for seamless windows, well longhorn server will have a simillar capability: Remote Programs are programs that are accessed remotely through Terminal Services and behave as if they are running on the end user’s local computer. Users...

Terminal Server proxy – wow

This has existed in Small Business Server for a while, and I considered deploying SBS in my home lab for this reason alone,  but this is a grown up implementation.  It will take a bit more reading to see how it compares to Citrix and Tarentella’s alternative solutions.  For more...

Whats New in Windows Server – Longhorn – Offline Files

For anyone who has fought – and in my case given up trying – to use offline files, Longhorn seems to have made some major improvements.  I use RoboCopy for all of my synching because it lives up to its name “Robust” but easy its not!  Here are some of the...

Office 12 – Information Worker Related Topics

Information Worker The new Office user experience (Presenter: Jensen Harris) Office 12 introduces a substantially redesigned user interface designed to make the core Office programs easier to work with.  This session will review the design principles behind the new user interface and explore in depth how it will make it...

Office 12 – Enterprise Content Management Topics

Enterprise Content Management Document Management in Office System (Presenter: Rhae-Christie Shaw) Most companies are suffering from information overload including challenges finding or sharing corporate knowledge. This session will include topics aimed at helping you understand how Office can assist in meeting your corporate content management needs. Applying Office workflow solutions...

Office 12 – Developer Related Topics

 Developer What’s new in Office 12 and WSS v3 for developers (Presenters: Joe Andreshak/Mike Fitzmaurice) This will be a detail-oriented “what’s new” assuming that the attendee knows something about developing in Office 11 and WSS v2. Creating Office application customizations with Visual Studio Tools for Office v3 (Presenters: Drew Lytle/Andrew...

Office 12 – Data & Business Intelligence Related Topics

 Data & Business Intelligence Office 12 Business Intelligence overview (Eran Megiddo) This session will introduce the Business Intelligence investments we have made in Excel, Visio, and SharePoint and explain how they integrate with the overall Microsoft BI platform and strategy. Analyzing and visualizing data using Excel 12 (Presenter: Allan Folting) Learn how...

Office 12 – Client Deployment Related Topics

 Client Deployment Understanding a language-neutral/multi-MSI design & multilanguage deployments (Presenters: Brad Corob/Amanda Hartin) This session will cover:· Benefits of a language-neutral architecture· The multi-MSI design· Using the Office 12 setup controller and admin drag-and-drop· World-wide deployment of multiple products and multiple languages Tools and strategies for getting through Office 12...

Welcome to my CSC private blog

A number of people within CSC who read my public blog have started to ask me how we go about improving communication around emerging technologies and concepts within CSC. At the moment too much knowledge is locked up in peoples heads, and where it is briefed it is to a...