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December 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:03 PM

Installing Business Scorecard Manager with SQL Server 2005

OK, I spent the better part of today putting together a Virtual PC image of a BSM/SQL'05 installation. I've received a few questions about this configuration and wanted to make sure I got the steps right. Below are my notes and comments. 1. Created a
Posted by Mauro | 17 Comments
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:00 PM

Speaking at SharePoint Connections in April

There's a great SharePoint conference coming in April -- SharePoint Connections ( http://www.devconnections.com/shows/SPDSpring2006/default.asp?s=79 ) -- and I'm honored to be a speaker. I'm doing three sessions (see below). Orlando in April? I can't
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Monday, December 19, 2005 6:22 AM

eLearning Tools from Microsoft on VS and SQL 2005

Last week, I had the honor of being in the “Ask the Experts” section of the SQL'05/VS'05/Biztalk'06 Boston launch. There was definite interest and excitement about what the presenters showed. Interestingly, the majority of folks that I spoke
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Saturday, December 17, 2005 5:02 AM

Essential Microsoft Project Add-in: PPT Generator

As a Project Team Leader, how much time have you lost trying to take information from Microsoft Project and drop into to PowerPoint presentation? If you are like me, you've probably done a few 'Print Screen' and Pastes... I stumbled upon a new add-in
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Friday, December 16, 2005 5:12 AM

Building SharePoint-based Blogs -- Realizing the "Community" Vision

One of the big buzzwords in the portal space these days is “community”. Often in intranet/portal planning sessions I'll here comments like “we need to start building communities” or “we need to capture the information flowing
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:35 AM

Interesting Read -- Conversation with Ray Ozzie

ACM Queue has an interesting Q&A session with Microsoft guru Ray Ozzie ( http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=349&page=1 ). Lots of great tidbits on Mr. Ozzie's view on key technology challenges. Well worth
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Monday, December 12, 2005 5:55 AM

Talking to Business Executives About Portals

I led a session last week on portal “vision” with a number of senior executives at a client site. The objective was to “extract” the goals for the corporate portal... with the usual caveats: (1) these are very senior (very busy)
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Sunday, December 11, 2005 5:46 AM

Business Scorecard Manager FAQ's

As with any new product, it seems that installation/deployment instructions and best practices around Business Scorecard Manager are slightly leading any documentation. I've had a number of folks write me about problems installing BSM, especially with
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:04 AM

Weird SharePoint Document Versioning "Feature"

This is an interesting “feature” with SharePoint document versioning. Many might actually call it a bug. It's one of those scenarios where the software is working “as designed”... but the design is bad! I haven't come up with a
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Saturday, December 03, 2005 5:42 AM

Enterprise Search and SharePoint

I never claimed to be an expert on Enterprise Search... but when you talk about a subject every day you tend to become very “knowledgable”... Part of my job is to help clients design, build, and deploy portals. I've had a lot of experience
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Thursday, December 01, 2005 6:28 AM

Dashboards versus Scorecards

I've been talking to a lot of folks about the new Business Scorecard Manager. It demos well and has a very strong “business impact” story. One of the questions that is asked early in the BSM discussion is “what is the difference between
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