tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275556782024-03-14T14:51:20.090+11:00Ed on OfficeAnything I like to share with you about Office 365 Azure and Business productivityEd Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-2828020954026712702016-09-28T10:41:00.000+10:002016-09-28T10:41:33.108+10:00Exciting news from the Visio team at MSIgnite 2016 in Atlanta - the Visio Roadmap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is an important day in the life of </span><a href="https://products.office.com/en-us/visio/microsoft-visio-top-features-diagram-software" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visio</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Users. After a period of relatively small (but important) improvements to the product, the team shared their Roadmap for the very near and longer term future in a session at the Ignite conference in Atlanta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some very exciting features were announced and the goods news is that all are thing they are actively working on right now. We won't have to wait long either, pretty much every month improvements are being released into the wild!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly of course it is important to highlight the news that's live RIGHT NOW, Visio On-line just deployed to Office 365 First Release customers is the new way of publishing, sharing and consuming Visio diagrams on the web. You </span><a href="https://products.office.com/en-US/visio/visio-online" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">read all about that right here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Suffice to say that the experience is a huge improvement over the existing Visio Services in SharePoint (that still is live on your SharePoint tenant as well) and also works in OneDrive and Dropbox.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next great news is that there is now a native Visio viewer for iPad, it is still in preview too, so now besides the other </span><a href="https://products.office.com/en-us/mobile/office-mobile-apps-for-ios" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">office applications</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for iPad users can enjoy a very high fidelity and smooth viewing experience of Visio diagrams on those devices. You can </span><a href="https://microsoft.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3rWmGIP060pg4Zf&Q_JFE=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">go and register for this here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now for the highlights (for me) of the real news;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visio is to get back a way to generate database diagrams through reverse engineering a schema, the intent is to allow for a range database types, this feature was there, had been depreciated and will now be brought back, and as I understand it in a sophisticated way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visio has had smart shapes for a fair while, the team is now adding what they call Smart Diagrams and the great news about that is that these types of diagrams support a very dynamic and 'live' way of populating and rendering shapes. This will allow for scenarios where the data source can determine what the diagram looks like in a very dynamic way! These capabilities will be available, as I understood it now, as templates, at first for Process diagrams, the Org Chart and Network diagrams. Developers and Power users will also be able to develop their own, or extend the out of the box templates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little further on the roadmap the team announced they are working on improving the creative and editing experience to allow for example drawing a diagram using ink in OneNote and create a structured diagram in Visio from that. We can also look forward to an editing experience in the browser as well some time down the road. Last I'd like to mention is a way to embed selected portions of Diagrams in programs like PowerPoint which will be very easy and 'live' so not a copy but a linked 'snippet' that is updated when the source is updated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above is just a highlight of some of the things that stood out to me, I will keep blogging more detail as it comes to light ;-) You can also keep an eye on the official Office roadmap as that will get updated with this information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-41884599428541520382015-07-17T10:38:00.000+10:002015-07-17T10:38:17.883+10:00The penny has dropped, once again, faith has been restored #Gigjam<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've been wondering and worried for more than a year, friends in the know in Redmond have been trying to relax me and convince me something good is coming.... I've asked a lot of questions and vented a lot of frustration about direction and seeing so little progress in the area of end user productivity tools and apps - some exceptions noted like the incredibly impressive and significant release of PowerBI for example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There has been tremendous progress coming from Redmond, but a lot of was in the platform and services, useful but not very exciting for End users and business people. By the way if you have not checked out PowerBI, please do yourself a favor and get on to it. If you need any help or direction, let me know @EdRichard. We have some awesome demo's to show you how PowerBI can unlock a wealth of insights into your business performance. Using new systems, like ours for Distribution, Warehouse and Transport Management, or as a model and reporting dashboard on top of your existing systems (or a combination of the two). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So, ... now I know why they have been positive and relaxed .... and I am also relaxed, happy even .... the future is bright, very bright indeed. The Continuum that Windows 10 provides and the Microsoft Cloud services are a game changer in the way we get things done. This is already the case at <a href="http://www.hedgehogtechnology.com.au/" target="_blank">Hedgehog Technology</a> and some of our customers and will quickly get better and better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>"The past ten years have seen an unprecedented investment in technology to support business processes. With the rise of web service front-ends to existing applications, the adoption of new SaaS offerings, and the proliferation of mobile devices, the always-connected workforce is now real. </em><br />
<em>What has not changed much is the time and effort these connected users have to spend, unaided by their business apps, to work with others to get things done."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The above is a quote, taken <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/gigjam/archive/2015/07/13/gigjam-unleashing-the-human-process.aspx" target="_blank">from a blog post published this week</a> it marks, in my opinion an acknowledgement and vision for a game changing direction, and I love it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The future is bright and e-Agility and HedgehogTechnology are on the cutting edge and passionate about delivering the solutions that re-define the way you, we work - using the awesome power the Microsoft eco system provides us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Be part of that journey and feel free to reach out to us <a href="https://twitter.com/HedgehogLog" target="_blank">@Hedgehoglog</a> let's discuss how we can enable your business to become a modern, efficient and most importantly 'happy' place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">PS. If you'd like to read a quick overview and recap of GigJam - I'd recommend </span><br />
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"Gigjam is the latest in the serious of moves that Microsoft is making as they focus on personal and team productivity. Customers, partners and competitors should pay close attention as the concepts in Gigjam could play a large part in shaping the future of way people work." </div>
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Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-57395069957143456282015-05-22T16:45:00.000+10:002015-05-22T16:47:22.774+10:00The Right Tool For The Job - making sense of data PowerBI rocks!The Right Tool For The Job <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take a moment to scroll down this site and look at some of the quick videos, trust me you'll be inspired. Once that's done, download and install the latest </span><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=521662" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PowerBI Designer</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - and let me give you a quick getting started tip. Don't get distracted by wondering how to connect to your company data sources just yet. You have or can easily create some Excel spreadsheets with lots of data you are likely to be pretty familiar with.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start with using those as a data source and get to know the power of the designer; there a tremendous amount of </span><a href="https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/471664-getting-started-with-power-bi-designer" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">help and videos already available on-line</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It's easy to get lost in the options; in my opinion you should start with a simple excel data source (a .csv file will do), create a report with the PowerBI designer and then go into the PowerBI.com environment to load the report you created and play around with the Dashboard functionality. From there you can save and share the results with anyone in your organization and quickly become <strong><span style="color: orange;">the BI hero</span></strong>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I kid you not you won't believe how easy this is, and how much this enables you and you co-workers to make much more sense of data in ways you've never had imagined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft PowerBI is a cornerstone to the Reporting and Dash boarding solutions we deliver at </span><a href="http://www.hedgehogtechnology.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hedgehog Technology</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, a solutions provider for the logistics industry on a mission to <span style="color: orange;">transform the businesses of our customers</span>.</span></span></div>
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Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-43252445304889158832015-05-22T16:11:00.000+10:002015-05-22T16:11:12.815+10:00The Right Tool For The Job<h2 align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">T</span>he <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Right</span>
<span style="color: orange;">T</span>ool <span style="color: orange;">F</span>or <span style="color: orange;">T</span>he <span style="color: orange;">J</span>ob<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">TRTFTJ - Launching a new Acronym today post 1 of 2</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Productivity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> - a buzz
word on every Office Worker's mind these days.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I'm in
the thick of it - people working in offices, warehouses and the likes, all
stressed about 'getting the job done'. <span style="color: orange;">Picking the right tool</span>, and making the
most of collaborative environments and attitude - yes attitude! is an important
step towards better Productivity. And keep the goal in mind; It's about the<b> <span style="color: orange;">best outcome</span></b> for the <b><span style="color: orange;">Business</span></b>, not the individual!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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so much we can do right now, don't wait for the all fixing magic bullet, take
action right now.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I'll
start posting examples of <b><span style="color: orange;">TRT</span></b> - <b><span style="color: orange;">T</span></b>he <b><span style="color: orange;">R</span></b>ight
<b><span style="color: orange;">T</span></b>ool - from now on, on this blog as
I'm convinced business who <b><span style="color: orange;">embrace</span></b>
collaboration and innovative tools - challenge the status quo - will be the
businesses making money and thriving in the connected world we live in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Most of
these examples will be based on real life observations - but I'll try to
protect the innocent - if you do recognize yourself don't feel bad, feel
privileged by the opportunity to contribute and inspire improvement and
productivity!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I
witnessed an email conversation yesterday - a topic for another post, our
stubborn reliance on this ancient, inefficient way of communicating - here's
this developer that realised a team member would need a source file. In
this example a JavaScript file (.js) and he decided to attach it to an email
and send it - a noble thought. Sadly Outlook blocks certain file types, .js
being one of them and so the recipient mailed back that he cold not save the
file, and requested the sender to go and rename the file and re-send it....
Now that you read it and think about it, you can probably see how much time was
wasted and a number of ways this could have been avoided.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">First of
all what's the file doing in a local place?, that requires copying and mailing.
And why use email?, don't we have Lync, Twitter, Yammer as examples of much
better ways to 'share' the information. It's very likely you know that someone
else in the team will face the same issue and might need the same file - or use
it as a basis for solving his problem. Using a more open, social platform
allows that transparency between team members and creates an automatic history
of what problem was resolved, and how. Very valuable information that will
certainly save someone else time in the future. I'm sure you can think of many
examples just like this.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The same
is true for many business documents, as soon as they are sent out via email,
they are by definition stale, how many times have you sent out 'updates' ,
reviews, and had to consolidate changes to a "master" version? And still
do?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The
obvious solution is to create a central place, in this day and age clearly in
"The Cloud" where the life of a file starts and ends - and
stakeholders can collaborate, manage alerts and access the information from
anywhere, on any device. Add to that the powerful capabilities to search and do
things like version management and set permissions and you wonder<b><span style="color: orange;"> "Why don't we do that for all our files?" </span></b><span style="color: black;">Don't be inert and start the transformation process right
now!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/business/office-365-file-sharing-online-collaboration-tools-FX102997013.aspx"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Office 365 file sharing</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a great way to get
started and "The Right Tool For The Job" for the above scenario or
even </span><a href="https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/business/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OneDrive for Business</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a great way to be more
productive.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">One
closing thought, the above tools work great inside your business boundaries,
but also provide easy options to work with external parties - so no excuses -
no more sharing PDF's over email. you can have real collaboration, with added
enterprise security at a very low cost of entry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to know more, feel free to contact </span><a href="http://www.hedgehogtechnology.com.au/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hedgehog
Technology</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for guidance and advice on becoming more Agile, more
Productive and <i>"Getting The Job Done".</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">"Work
the way the Cloud works - A-Synchronously "</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Office 365 tip of the day - </span><a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Top-questions-about-check-out-check-in-and-versions-7e941339-e972-4c7a-a79a-80a1fcf84076?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#__toc362505655" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">read all about Check-in and Check-out<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></a></div>
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Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-91282053024073981882015-03-04T08:36:00.003+11:002015-03-04T08:36:46.342+11:00Presenting Powerful new Office 365 techniques for business users in Melbourne<h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making you world pop at Lightning Speed with SharePoint and Office - yet another exciting MBUG >> CloudBug presentation</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making your Intranet POP with Design and Stakeholder Engagement</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/au.linkedin.com/in/katrinarose"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Katrina Rose</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> – Head of Digital EBOS</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When EBOS wanted to improve employee engagement and provide new efficient business processes they embarked on developing a new Intranet with SharePoint 2013. This session will include a live demonstration of the intranet solution and key learnings for building an intranet using agile and digital skills.</span><br />
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Project Siena – breakthrough technology that enables your business experts, analysts, and imagineers to create transformative business apps.</h4>
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Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-75007136348842921482014-12-30T12:35:00.000+11:002014-12-30T12:35:17.287+11:00Developer nuggets for Office 365<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Office 365 is your platform ; SharePoint workflows, Lightswitch and AngularJS should be your friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Have a browse <a href="http://lightswitchhelpwebsite.com/Blog/tabid/61/BlogDate/2014-12-31/DateType/month/Default.aspx" target="_blank">here</a> !</span>Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-90027233161830529282014-12-19T15:34:00.001+11:002014-12-19T15:34:47.605+11:00Overcome Logistics Management Stress<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's that time of year, going at a million miles per hour, out of control logistics processes. If you, again are suffering this year, it is time to make a move for the better. Hedgehog Logistics Solutions can help by applying process improvement, modern touch enabled devices and applications and Microsoft cloud hosted solution for Transport and Warehouse management hosted in Microsoft Office 365.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take control now, and make 2015 a better year for yourself, contact us! see the video for details or browse to </span><a href="http://www.hedgehoglogistics.com.au/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.hedgehoglogistics.com.au</span></a> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's about doing things in a new way, a better way, a more productive way - and obviously all in the cloud. So if you can do things right in the browser, from any device, that should be your initial, preferred way. yes, desktop app, rich clients apps you will need, but only for more complex tasks. So explore the power of the cloud model from the browser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Have a look at some of these, re-vamped getting started page to get your head around working with email, calendars, tasks and documents on Office 365 in the Web Apps.</span><br />
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You are invited to the first Mbug for 2014. We will be joined by two talented speakers who will share with you how to get modern and design a user experience that users will love.</div>
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<strong>Building Modern Applications with SharePoint & Windows 8</strong></div>
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<a href="http://mbug.createsend1.com/t/r-l-pyukuud-l-t/" style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;">Shailen Sukul</a> Senior Consultant at Readify will demonstrate SharePoint apps interacting with Windows 8 and show the immersive experience across devices.</div>
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<strong>Balancing user experience with an out-of-the-box design in SharePoint 2013</strong></div>
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Having a great user experience is an success factor for any intranet. To ensure success with their intranet redevelopment Melbourne Water has included usability testing throughout the development of their SharePoint 2013 intranet. What they found was that what their staff thought was a good user experience was at times in conflict with maintaining as much of the out-of-the-box functionality as possible. <a href="http://mbug.createsend1.com/t/r-l-pyukuud-l-h/" style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;">Rebecca Jackson </a>will discuss their approach to user experience testing, findings from the sessions and their approach to getting a balance</div>
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With a vision to empower the business community to understand the benefits of the strategic use of technology MBUG is focused on the business issues of collaboration tools.<br /> This user group established in 2011 discusses the business issues of SharePoint projects, specifically for content publishers, content owners and content creators. MBUG engages with SharePoint power users in organisations. ie knowledge managers, intranet managers, community managers, business managers, etc.</div>
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<strong>WHEN</strong> Friday 28th of February, 11.30 to 1pm includes Networking Lunch</div>
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<strong>WHERE</strong> Microsoft Melbourne, Freshwater Place</div>
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Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-8995742877886553902013-04-09T14:56:00.000+10:002013-04-09T14:56:00.144+10:00Visio 2013 and the new VSDX format<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visio 2013 introduces a new OpenXML based VSDX format which offers great new possibilities for developers. Combined with the native rendering on SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 there is a whole new world of solution opportunities available.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here's a post with tips and tricks for developers on the new Visio blog.</span><br />
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<a href="http://blogs.office.com/b/visio/archive/2013/01/29/10-tips-for-developers-working-with-the-visio-vsdx-file-format.aspx">http://blogs.office.com/b/visio/archive/2013/01/29/10-tips-for-developers-working-with-the-visio-vsdx-file-format.aspx</a>Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-71366291521161900262012-05-11T10:04:00.003+10:002012-05-11T10:04:41.204+10:00The Visio 2010 MVP Sessions - highkly recommended<div>
For those of you looking for some guidance and Visio How To:</div>
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'The Visio 2010 MVP Sessions'</div>
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In twenty-four self-contained Sessions ranging from five to seven and half
minutes, each week the Visio MVPs discuss and demonstrate the basics of how to
use and apply some of the most important features and capabilities of Visio
2010. Each Visio MVP Session should provide the understanding needed to get
started in using Visio 2010 to solve a specific challenge or apply a specific
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<span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">In addition to the videos, the sample diagrams
used for each topic are published through Visio Services and </span><a class="ms-rteFontSize-2" href="http://visio.microsoft.com/en-us/Samples_and_Downloads/Diagrams_and_Templates/Pages/default.aspx?Filter1=Sample+Diagram+Templates|a37176ad-3309-4715-a814-37c68e08f729;Diagrams+and+templates|b21839e4-b8a2-458d-8538-7e99e23a90ed"><span style="color: blue;">freely downloadable</span></a><span class="ms-rteFontSize-2">,
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Well done Scott, Chris and David!</div>
<br />Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-15914606187193806712012-02-07T14:21:00.000+11:002012-02-07T14:21:20.865+11:00BPM Demo for MBUGIn a 20 minute live demonstration, Ed will do a lap around the Business Process solutions that can be delivered through Microsoft Visio and SharePoint 2010.<br />
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<div class="ms-rteFontFace-5 ms-rteFontSize-3"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><strong>Business Process Visualisation </strong></span></div><br />
<div><span style="font-family: calibri;">This session will show how Business Process Visualisation can be used to manage Policies and Procedures in a process context. It brings policies, procedures and people together. </span><span style="font-family: calibri;">The methodology will be based on the Business Process Modelling Notation ( BPMN). This session will allow users to get a taste for the Business Process Visualisation Coaching that MBug is offering to its' members. The session will show how</span><span style="font-family: calibri;"> following simple process functions end users can create their own visual business processes.</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let’s face it! You know you’ve been putting it off over and over. Many small and medium sized organisations are dealing with their policies and procedures in an unstructured and hap-hazard way. You are only making it worse by not doing anything about it. It’s time to bite the bullet in 2012 and start using the powerful tools you have invested in, such as Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 and implement a managed, structured, compliant and easy to use repository for policies and procedures (P&P).<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The advantages are numerous, to name a few;<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In this post I’ll try to identify the various capabilities and features of Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 that make it such a great platform for a managed P&P repository. In following posts we’ll dive into the details and provide more information on the use of each one in the context of the entire solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #17365d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Centralised and secure- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">where better than in SharePoint can you implement your central P&P repository?</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sure, lots of Intranets using SharePoint have some way allowing access to policy and procedure documents. In reality though, management is often delegated to (sub) site owners, departmental solutions or simply by ‘migrating’ files into SharePoint based document libraries with an attempt to assign metadata and usually a rudimentary form of access permissions. More often than not some users in the business use those SharePoint document libraries and others have not made the leap and still access the old file shares or have their own copies of the documents stored locally. Typically I’d say although the intention is good, the end result only makes things worse as there are now even more copies floating around unmanaged.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The challenge for the business is to provide a structured well organised repository that all users will use and trust, arguably the key success factor is to make it friendly, easy to use and offer business users a managed change process that will ensure they trust the new facilities and feel confident it is a better solution and saves them time and effort. For this to be successful, a project would certainly need to look at the existing content and provide a migration option into the new repository. I think all of us have at some point in time thought about this and considered what that would mean for our organisation, our documents typically being in binary word format (.doc) or even pdfs making this a daunting task to see the least. There is light at the end of the tunnel though, Microsoft has definitely made platform changes such as the OpenXML fiele format (.docx, .xslx etc.) and Enterprise Content types that will allow you to migrate to greener pastures and at the very least make these tasks easier in the future and ensure re-usability of the structured information that is hidden now in your existing policy and procedure documents. So it is for sure worth your while to improve the situation so that the organisation will benefit going forward and not keeps digging deeper and deeper holes. You owe to your employer and successors and need to make steps in the right direction now. This brings me to the next topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #17365d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Standardised, consistent and easy to update – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">how to turn bits and bytes into structured information that can be used from various angles?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></h2><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Much of the information captured in policy and procedure documents is only truly accessible by humans reading the documentation, at the very best relevant pieces of information such as a review date, a process owner, a description will have a set style but seldom is it structurally stored and accessible (and therefor manageable through automation) by computers or workflow processes. Because of this, it’s hard to ensure changes are consistently implemented which leads to problems with documents not being accurate or only partially accurate.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let me give you an example of how SharePoint 2010 and Word 2010 could help solving these types of issues. SharePoint 2010 introduces a concept called Document Sets, basically a folder on steroids. The steroids being not just the ability to manage a set of documents as a whole, but also the ability to add behaviour (implemented as workflows) and metadata that can be managed at the set level. So, for example a document set for a business process would store the process diagrams, the related policy and procedures and retain consistent versioning so all the elements are all ‘in sync’. Also metadata would be managed top-down making it very easy to manage, a chance to the Business process owner at the set level would also change that information in all contained documents, completely transparently so instead having to open and change all documents a user would just update a value in one place. Structured documents written in Microsoft Word based on SharePoint content types and using content controls would contain and display those metadata elements and would automatically be updated. These documents would be saved using the OpenXML file format so that the structured information not only shows up consistently in the documents but can also be accessed by automated processes such as custom applications or workflows. Content controls can also be protected and have logic so that editing a document will be more like an electronic form (as a whole or partially) easily ensuring consistency and compliance. It does require an upfront investment in creating the right templates and content types but individual users will benefit immediately by the ease of use and efficiency and the organisation will directly benefit from happy users, consistent documentation and a better manageable central repository.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #17365d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Browser enabled, with access to search, taxonomies, metadata <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">– making SharePoint earn its keep.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></h2><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once you have invested in designing a structured repository and structured documents, it’s time to make all that richness available to your users, pick the low hanging fruit so to speak. One of the interesting features worth being aware of is that SharePoint 2010 and it’s Office Web Applications make all this functionality available right from within your browser, and not just with Internet Explorer, SharePoint 2010 is compatible with a range of industry standard browsers and keeps improving that compatibility with updates and service patches. So it is important to keep you SharePoint environment updated and in good shape.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another aspect of empowering your users and improving the acceptance and usage of the repository can be achieved by making the most out of managed metadata, taxonomies and improved search capabilities. It is also very important to make use of search monitoring and analysis that is a standard component of SharePoint 2010 and augments the site statistics. Synonyms, keywords and best bets are essential to making the user experience a rewarding and fun one, A happy, satisfied user contributes positively to the organisation and is not wasting time on the hunt for important instructions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #17365d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Automated, supported by workflows and reporting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">– delivering the true return on investment.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></h2><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once the information management is in place and the repository is populated you’ll need to ensure the content is kept up to date and reviewed. Your compliance relies on having a process around that. Obviously now that we have everything in the SharePoint environment this becomes a relatively straight forward exercise. Using the managed metadata, workflows keep track of review dates, manage and monitor the running workflows and report through SharePoint based dashboard so business process owners and senior managers can at a glance assess progress and compliance according to self-applied policies. Microsoft Visio is a great tool to visualise the processes and workflows and provide business intelligence in a visual context.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #17365d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Always the correct version and access to previous versions – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">document management tools in action.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></h2><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This one comes ‘for free’ doesn’t it? It’s straight forward to enable versioning, approvals and use the version history, combine this with new 2010 features such as Document IDs and better policies for records management and the low hanging fruit is just dangling in front of you. Basics that are extremely valuable and don’t require a lot of effort, just a little careful planning and some good instructions to your users.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #17365d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Relevant and presented in context – how to make it easier for users.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For sure, SharePoint has great search capabilities and makes it easy to create views, still it can be difficult for users to find what they, when they need it. This is where knowing your users and making use of that information adds value, and the use of pictures or other graphical user interfaces can make a world of difference. In SharePoint 2010 we now have Visio Services at our disposals allowing us to create appealing diagrams that can be made to interactively filter lists or navigate to the right policy or procedure, based on for example the current users’ role (stored in the profile) we can further present relevant documents easily. This would allow you to present only the documents a specific user needs in the context of for example a particular business process, modelled off course by a Visio BPM diagram.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I hope I’ve made you think a bit about going beyond merely storing your documents in SharePoint, I will follow up this post with posts going into some detail for each and very feature I have touched on above. Please stay tuned and check out the bog in the following weeks and subscribe to the RSS feed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.mbug.net.au/" target="_blank">MBUG</a> is keen to help our members on this journey, please feel free to let us know how we can help you.</span> <br />
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If after reading all this you can’t wait and don’t have the time or resources to seriously approach this challenge, please don’t hesitate to contact e-Agility. We have a vast experience in custom solutions using Microsoft Office and SharePoint and a framework to get your organisation off to a flying start. Alternatively we can provide coaching and training sessions to get your staff up to speed with building and maintaining a P&P repository by themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">© <a href="mailto:EdR@e-Agility.com.au" target="_blank">Ed Richard</a> – e-Agility Pty Ltd – </span><a href="http://www.e-agility.com.au/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.e-Agility.com.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-66061776973460629302012-01-11T11:59:00.000+11:002012-01-11T11:59:27.047+11:00Announcing our first MBug Meeting for 2012<span style="color: #333333;">This is your opportunity to share in the power of business users discussing Microsoft Office SharePoint as Business Strategy. This month we delve into Azure, explore a case-study from Australia's Largest Technology Consutling Organisation Oakton who have recently launched Ozone and a look at a demonstration of Business Process Visualisation.</span><br />
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<div class="ms-rteFontFace-5 ms-rteFontSize-3"><span style="color: #333333;"> The focus will be on live demonstrations and again a 20 minute challenge to our speakers. </span></div><br />
<div class="ms-rteFontSize-3"><strong class="ms-rteFontFace-5 ms-rteFontSize-3"><span style="color: #333333;">Here is the agenda:</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica", "sans-serif";"><span class="ms-rteFontFace-5 ms-rteFontSize-3"> </span> <div> <div class="ms-rteFontFace-5 ms-rteFontSize-3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div class="ms-rteFontFace-5 ms-rteFontSize-3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Business Process Visualisation </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This session will show how Business Process Visualisation can be used to manage Policies and Procedures in a process context. It brings policies, procedures and people together. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The methodology will be based on the Business Process Modelling Notation ( BPMN). This session will allow users to get a taste for the Business Process Visualisation Coaching that MBug is offering to its' members. The session will show how</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> following simple process functions end users can create their own visual business processes.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Speaker: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/edrichard">Ed Richard</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div><span class="ms-rteFontFace-5 ms-rteFontSize-3" style="color: #333333;"><span><strong>SharePoint 2010 creating a vibrant culture and competitive intelligence.</strong></span><span><strong> </strong></span> <div> <div>When Oakton wanted to address their need for real-time collaboration and information sharing via a secure and private company wide information platform, the solution was a SharePoint 2010 platform now known as “Ozone”. It allows Oakton staff from different teams to be constantly connected, and communicating across functional and location boundaries to solve the more complex problems. With over 1100 staff in Australian and 160 in India, Ozone has proven to be improving the quality and timeliness of information. This presentation will show a live demonstration and provide supporting ROI for the solution.</div><div>Speaker: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rarrigo">Rita Arrigo</a></div><div> </div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>What SharePoint Business & Technical Decision makers need to know about Windows Azure Cloud Platform? </strong></span></div></div></span></div></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> <div> <div> “Social, Mobile, Cloud and Information”describes top IT Priorities for 2012 and beyond that will transform IT landscape for many businesses. </div><div>Microsoft Cloud Landscape consists of Two Cloud Offerings broadly categorized as Software As a Service (SaaS) and platform as a Service (PaaS). What’s does this means to you as a SharePoint technical or business decision maker? </div><div>This is a no code big picture session to show why you should care about Windows Azure Cloud Platform and what opportunities it brings on to the table to bring SharePoint Application’s reach to the Cloud.</div><div> Speaker : <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/nalakawithanage">Nalaka Withanage</a></div><div> </div><div>All about MBUG <a href="http://www.mbug.net.au/Pages/default.aspx">http://www.mbug.net.au/Pages/default.aspx</a> </div></div></span></div>Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-31044505522272276842011-11-10T16:34:00.000+11:002011-11-10T16:34:27.605+11:00A few more sleeps and the book goes on saleExpert SharePoint 2010 Practices<div class="product-name"> By <a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/2109">Sahil Malik</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3545">Dan Bakmand-Mikalski</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3656">Razi bin Rais</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3659">Darrin Bishop</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3663">Matt Eddinger</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3655">Brian Farnhill</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/2079">Ed Hild</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/1860">Joerg Krause</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3662">Cory R. Loriot</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3660">Matthew McDermott</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/2210">Dave Milner</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3658">Ed Musters</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3665">Tahir Naveed</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3661">Mark Orange</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3664">Doug Ortiz</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3408">Barry Ralston</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3657"><strong>E. Richard</strong></a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/3666">Karthick Sethunarayanan</a> <span class="comma">, </span><a href="http://www.apress.com/author/author/view/id/2267">Steve Wright</a> </div><!-- end of product-name --> <br />
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<div class="short-description std "><em>Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices</em> is a valuable compendium of best practices, tips, and secrets straight from the most knowledgeable SharePoint gurus in the industry. </div><div class="short-description std "> </div><div class="short-description std ">Learn from the experts as you dive into topics like multitenancy, solution deployment, business intelligence, and administration. Our team of carefully chosen contributors, most with Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) designation bestowed upon them, shares with you the secrets and practices that have brought them success in a wide variety of SharePoint scenarios.<br />
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Each contributor is passionate about the power of SharePoint and wants to help you leverage the capabilities of the platform in your business—but in the proper way. Go beyond procedures and manuals, and benefit from hundreds of years of combined experience, which the authors of <em>Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices</em> provide in these pages. </div>Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-35737096653301735862011-11-03T19:14:00.000+11:002011-11-03T19:14:04.466+11:00Workflow for SharePoint using Visio - How to overcome validation issuesToday, I'd like to make a bit of a point about the technical content on Office.Microsoft.Com <br />
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I was looking for some info on how to circumvent some issues with Workflow design for SharePoint using Visio 2010 and found <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/sharepoint-workflow-validation-issues-in-visio-HA101893811.aspx" target="_blank">this article</a> Very useful information from the Office team. Amongst other things presenting a good workaround for using Custom Actions and Conditions.<br />
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"When exporting a SharePoint Workflow from Microsoft Visio Premium 2010 to Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, the diagram must first be validated. If the workflow diagram is not valid, an Issues window appears which includes a list of issues that must be repaired before the workflow can be exported. For more information about creating and exporting SharePoint workflows in Visio, see <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/redir/HA101888007.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA101893811">Create, import, and export SharePoint workflows in Visio</a><a href="" id="_GoBack" name="_GoBack"></a><br />
This topic includes a description, example, and suggested action for each of the workflow validation issues that you can receive in Visio Premium 2010. If you receive notice of an issue during validation, find the issue name in the list below, use the example to help identify where the problem is, and then follow the suggested action to resolve it."Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-40661231506233066822011-10-19T10:50:00.000+11:002011-10-19T10:50:04.699+11:00PLease join me for the MBUG Learning Session 26th Oct<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mbug.net.au/SiteAssets/Images/mbug-logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="96" src="http://www.mbug.net.au/SiteAssets/Images/mbug-logo.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 15pt; width: 311.25pt;" valign="top" width="415"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 18.0pt; mso-outline-level: 5;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 19.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your Invitation to our Second MBUG Learning Session<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">and share in the power of business users discussing Microsoft Office SharePoint as a Business Strategy. Our Lunch Presentation 2.0 will be held at Pitcher Partner's Theatrette, 15 William Street Melbourne Wednesday 26th October.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">You are invited to join us for our second learning session with a 20 minute challenge to our speakers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Knowledge Management and Collaboration @Telstra</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://mbug.cmail1.com/t/r/l/tkkdbk/ckrjktjhj/t/"><span style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sharon Brennan</span></a>, Manager Collaboration & Knowledge Telstra Enterprise & Government will be discussing the Our Knowledge enterprise collaboration portal. The presentation will focus on the way the knowledge collaboration portal was developed and the learning's along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Delivering an Integrated Intranet and Internet Service using SharePoint</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://mbug.cmail1.com/t/r/l/tkkdbk/ckrjktjhj/h/"><span style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Brett Coster</span></a> will present a client case-study. Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE used SharePoint 2010 as an opportunity to dramatically improve their online presence and deliver a new integrated intranet. A simpler streamlined approach to content management was achieved as well as:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Prospective students to see multimedia examples and student testimonials of the experience of students who have studied with Bendigo TAFE.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">An online course application form which is processed internally by Bendigo TAFE staff using a specific Student Journey Management System using SharePoint 2010 on their intranet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Building Mobile SharePoint applications</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">With so much talk about the cloud, how can you leverage it to build real world applications, <a href="http://mbug.cmail1.com/t/r/l/tkkdbk/ckrjktjhj/k/"><span style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joshua Haebets</span></a> will present a live demonstration and show how you can utilise the cloud capabilities of Nintex Live and Nintex Forms to build applications in SharePoint available anywhere and on any device.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Q&A Networking Lunch</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">including plenty of chat about SharePoint for Business Intelligence, Business Process and Collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">11 am start followed by Networking Lunch</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 18.0pt; mso-outline-level: 5;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 19.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">About MBUG<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">All business is looking for efficiency - ways of ensuring continuous improvement and innovation in information management for both employees and customers. Today SharePoint and Office fulfil many of our productivity and innovation needs and provide a platform for collaboration and knowledge management.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The new user group with a focus on business issues of SharePoint projects specifically for content publishers, content owners and content creators. MBug will engage with SharePoint power users in organisations, ie knowledge managers, intranet managers, community managers etc..<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 15pt; width: 138.75pt;" valign="top" width="185"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">WHEN</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> 11am- 1pm Oct 26th 2011 & Networking Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">WHERE</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> Pitcher Partner's Theatrette, Level 19, 15 William Street Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">JOIN </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">MBUG at<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://mbug.cmail1.com/t/r/l/tkkdbk/ckrjktjhj/u/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.mbug.net.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">RSVP </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">YES to<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="mailto:admin@mbug.net.au" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">admin@mbug.net.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><img alt="Twitter: " border="0" height="20" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://i7.cmail1.com/ti/r/CB/E25/6D5/122815/twittter.gif" width="17" />@melbbug<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Directions</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://mbug.cmail1.com/t/r/l/tkkdbk/ckrjktjhj/o/"><span style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://tinyurl.com/3n5h6af</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><img border="0" height="82" id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://i6.cmail1.com/ti/r/CB/E25/6D5/122815/beeee.gif" width="126" /><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
</tbody></table></div>Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27555678.post-58408405388292215662011-10-19T08:58:00.000+11:002011-10-19T08:58:28.860+11:00Presenting at SharePoint Saturday Melbourne<div>Most of the Melbourne crowd would have noticed, but if you haven't. Mossig has been dismantled and split up in two new user groups.</div><div></div><div>One for a technical audience, <a href="http://mspuginfo.wordpress.com/">MSPUG</a> and the second for a Business Oriented approach is called <a href="http://www.mbug.net.au/">MBUG</a>. Please have a look and sign up at both groups so we can keep in touch with you.</div><div></div><div>This month, the regular Wednesday night meeting for MSPUG is being skipped (would normally have been on 26th Oct). Sorry ‘bout that – you can have the night off !Instead, we’re having a FULL DAY of top-quality presentations, both for a technical as well as a business oriented audience. I'll be doing an introduction to Visio 2010 and Visio Services.</div><div></div><div>This coming Saturday (Oct 22nd) is “<a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/melbourne/default.aspx">SharePoint Saturday Melbourne</a>”.<a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/">SharePoint Saturday</a> has become an institution around the globe, with the community very strong and active – and always a meeting happened somewhere.In fact – there are meetings this Saturday in far-off places, not just Melbourne – Manila, Belarus (near Russia), and Minnesota.Instead of the normal 1-2 sessions at MSPUG – SharePoint Saturday Melbourne has 15 sessions – and the best bit, is that it’s FREE to attend (including lunch !)</div><div></div><div>There are 15 sessions – across BUSINESS, DEVELOPMENT and IT PRO tracks – as well as an ASK-THE-EXPERTS panel – and then a prize draw (and THEN SharePint !)<a href="http://sharepointsaturday.org/melbourne/Shared%20Documents/Schedule.pdf">Here’s the schedule (PDF) – make sure to have a look and ‘plan your day’.</a></div><div></div><div>Many thanks to Brian Farnhill (Canberra) – and our own Elaine van Bergen for organising the speakers, venue, sponsors, catering – and all the other bits that will make it a great day.It’s looking like it will be a great day – so make sure you RSVP – don’t miss out.</div><div></div><div>There are only a few tickets remaining – so click <a href="http://spsmel11.eventbrite.com/">here to register</a>. </div><div>See you there Ed </div>Ed Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13730013745552165044noreply@blogger.com0