Category Archives: Reviews

Application Server Evaluations – Domain Preparation

Posted on June 22, 2011 by John

This is the first part of a new series on application server evaluations of CRM and SharePoint. In this series, I’m primarily interested in the Infrastructure required to support the application. A later series will concentrate on the application from … Continue reading →

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Eastside Legal BPOS … Follow-up

Posted on May 21, 2011 by John

As a follow-up to the BPOS onboarding project in January, 2010, I recently asked Stan Kehl, the Executive Director of Eastside Legal Assistance Program, for an assessment of how things are going now that the entire organization is using the … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Posted on March 10, 2011 by John

This particular exercise happened over a year ago. Nevertheless, I thought it might make a good read and so, here it is. The Level 7 Technology Group was considering a move to the Chicago area during the summer. In December … Continue reading →

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eLearning – System Center Operations Manager 2007

Posted on February 1, 2011 by John

John takes on the oldest product in the series, SCOM 2007 as prelude to his next foray into System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Continue reading →

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eLearning – Exchange Server 2010 Collection

Posted on January 28, 2011 by John

This course is delivered in the same manner as other eLearning Infrastructure courses. The problem with this one is that the Labs don’t work. Continue reading →

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Lynda – SharePoint 2010 Essentials

Posted on January 26, 2011 by John

One of my many interests has been Microsoft’s SharePoint product. I’ve deployed team sites using Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (used to be called Windows SharePoint Services) for a few organizations where they needed a more robust method of sharing files … Continue reading →

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Lynda – SQL 2008 Essentials

Posted on January 18, 2011 by John

As a follow up to my Microsoft eLearning SQL 2008 Administration course review, I decided to explore what Lynda.com had to offer in the SQL Server arena. The only offering was the “SQL Server 2008 Essentials Training course“.  I’d like … Continue reading →

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BPOS for ELAP … the conclusion

Posted on January 9, 2011 by John

This is the concluding installment of a series of blog posts describing my experiences in presenting Microsoft’s Business Productivity OnLine Services (BPOS) Standard Suite to Eastside Legal Assistance Program. You can refer to my previous blog entries from the topics … Continue reading →

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eLearning – Configuring Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008

Posted on January 2, 2011 by John

I recently completed a short Microsoft eLearning collection 6319 Configuring Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008. This collection consisted of five 2-hour courses. This was the shortest collection that I’ve completed to date. The other ones in the series to date … Continue reading →

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eLearning – Implementing & Maintaining SQL 2008

Posted on December 29, 2010 by John

Just completed a Microsoft eLearning course collection: Implementing and Maintaining SQL Server 2008. It’s a great skills tuneup and introduces enhancements and additional features from SQL 2005.

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