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Join me on April 22nd when I’ll share tips and tricks to help you succeed in your EPF migration project by ensuring high end-user adoption. REGISTER - https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/932286555 This webinar is for you if your organization has made the decision to move from Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint, but you're still wondering: ...

Come on down this Saturday, Feb. 27 to Red River College for the 3rd annual Winnipeg Code Camp and some good, ol’ fashioned, mind altering codin’ and learnin’ and figurin’!  My session will be on: Designing Outlook Applications For SharePoint and Exchange VSTO and other third-party development tools provide a powerful canvas to create ...

Yesterday, the Outlook Team at Microsoft unveiled via their blog (and by Kurt DelBene’s demo at PDC09) information about the release of the Outlook Social Connector (OSC).  I also briefly discussed it in my last blog, which was written before I even read their blog (thanks to my notes from a private demonstration by the Outlook Team at the ...

Today at PDC09 they finally announced a product that I’ve been itching to talk about for a long time.  In March at the MVP Summit, the Outlook product team gave us Outlook MVPs a private demonstration of the Outlook Social Connector (OSC).  For those of you running the Office 2010 Beta, you may have seen this and been wondering what it ...

I’d like to thank all those who came out to my sessions!  I had a great time last week and met some smart and interesting people. To recap, these were the sessions I delivered: HDV308: Enhancing Connected SharePoint Lists in Outlook 2007 HDV307: Building SharePoint Applications for Outlook and Exchange HDV101: Social Networking and ...

The webinar I presented September 30th on “How to Implement an Effective Email Attachment Solution in SharePoint” is now available on demand. In this on-demand webinar, you will learn: The advantages of managing attachments in SharePoint The requirements for a SharePoint-based solution Architectural and implementation considerations ...

How to Implement an Effective Email Attachment Solution in SharePoint According to industry analysts, attachments make up as much as 90% of all data stored in Microsoft Exchange, often clogging mailboxes with redundant and out-of-date information. Moving attachments to a content management platform such as Microsoft SharePoint provides the ...

For those of you who use Outlook heavily, you’re probably quite comfortable working with Views in folders and you may have even created your own custom Views.  These are great when you need you own specific column layout or require sorting and grouping your e-mails in a way that makes more sense for you. You may have even gone to the lengths ...

My fellow WSUG co-founders have graciously let me present again (it’s getting hard to find speakers), this time on a topic that includes something else I’m very passionate about – Outlook development.  So here’s the official description: Enhancing Connected SharePoint Lists in Outlook 2007 It's really easy to link an Events, Contacts or ...

The release of Outlook 2007 was a gift from the gods for Outlook developers. The number of new objects, properties and methods represented a nearly 50% increase in the size of the Outlook Object Model (OOM).  Kudos have to go to Outlook Program Managers Randy Byrne (former Outlook MVP) and Ryan Gregg for their hard work in implementing these ...