Recent Blog Posts
Learn Windows Azure LIVE Today!
Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event today for developers. It should prove to be a great way to learn about the Windows Azure platform and the capabilities it provides. This should prove to be a great online session for attendees to learn how to build cloud-based applications using Windows Azure. An [...]
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SharePoint 2010 Search Best Practices
Just came across an interesting article that cites good practices (I never say “best” because that’s really subjective and based on the environment in which you’re deploying ) for deploying SharePoint 2010 search technologies within the enterprise. The article focuses on the following: Deployment Planning Starting with well-configured infrastructure Security and access management Search database [...]
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Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice, but don’t be misinformed… (Part 5)
This is last installment of a multi-part blog series (read Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4) where I review an article entitled “Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice” where I provide a different perspective in this ongoing battle for dominance in the cloud between Google and Microsoft. Let’s round [...]
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Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice, but don’t be misinformed… (Part 4)
This is fourth installment of a multi-part blog series (read Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 5) where I review an article entitled “Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice” where I provide a different perspective in this ongoing battle for dominance in the cloud between Google and Microsoft. Here we [...]
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Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice, but don’t be misinformed… (Part 3)
This is the third installment of a multi-part blog series (read Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 4 and Part 5) where I review an article entitled “Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice” where I provide a different perspective in this ongoing battle for dominance in the cloud between Google and Microsoft. Now, [...]
Category: Technology, Thoughts and Opinions
Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice, but don’t be misinformed… (Part 2)
This is second installment of a multi-part blog series (read Part 1 and Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5) where I review an article entitled “Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice” where I provide a different perspective in this ongoing battle for dominance in the cloud between Google and Microsoft. So, let’s [...]
Category: Technology, Thoughts and Opinions
Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice, but don’t be misinformed… (Part 1)
This is first installment of a multi-part blog series (read Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5) where I review an article entitled “Google Apps vs. Office 365: your choice” where I provide a different perspective in this ongoing battle for dominance in the cloud between Google and Microsoft. We all [...]
Category: Technology, Thoughts and Opinions
My “Big” Announcement
It was recently brought to my attention that I didn’t really make the big announcement (or “big” from my perspective A little over a year ago, I posted about a project I worked on to redeploy a highly visible governent website built on top of SharePoint Products & Technologies and hosted on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud [...]
Category: Thoughts and Opinions
My thoughts on the question of whether Microsoft SharePoint can support Social Networking
I was recently asked to comment on a blog post written by independent blogger, Ken Graetz, who is the eLearning Officer and Director of the Winona State University in MN, who pointed out some key distinctions between SharePoint Produdcts & Technologies and the popular social networking platform, Ning. In Mr. Graetz post, he calls out [...]
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Windows Azure Appliance Announcement
Yesterday during our Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) being held in Washington, DC, Bob Muglia, President of our Server and Tools Division at Microsoft, announced the limited availability of our Windows Azure Platform Appliance. Windows Azure™ Platform Appliance is a turnkey cloud platform that customers can deploy in their own datacenter, across hundreds to thousands of [...]
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