Category Archives: Products

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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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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Small Business Server “Aurora”

Posted on December 28, 2010 by John

I saw an article, What You Need to Know About Small Business Server “Aurora,” the Great Windows Phone 7 Debate, IE 9, and More, by Paul Thurrow in the October, 2010 edition of Windows IT Pro magazine about the upcoming Windows … Continue reading →

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John’s Kindle

Posted on December 24, 2010 by John

I saw the current generation Kindle, actual size, and color on the back cover of Time Magazine in late Summer. Actual size – my paperbacks fit into that space but the Kindle is much, much thinner. It was cool! Flashback to … Continue reading →

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BPOS for ELAP … the results

Posted on December 22, 2010 by John

 Previous posts in the BPOS series, covered: Exchange Online, Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Web Conferencing (Live Meeting) and SharePoint. I’ve come to the conclusion that using Online services is beneficial to the Small/Medium Business (SMB) space. What then is the … Continue reading →

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BPOS for ELAP … SharePoint

Posted on December 22, 2010 by John

The previous post in the BPOS series, covered the steps to set up an Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Web Conferencing (Live Meeting) environment for testing. I covered setting up the Communicator client and configuring it to work with the Microsoft Online … Continue reading →

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BPOS for ELAP … the other communication services

Posted on December 20, 2010 by John

The Office Communicator is probable the most confusing part of the trial due to the architecture which allows for the incompatibility of the on-premise and online services. Also, depending the the previous steps that have been taken in the trial, the OS on the computer and the version of the .Net Framework currently installed, you will have to rely on intuition and your previous experiences to determine what steps you need to take to get Communicator function. Once installed and configured correctly, Communicator functions as expected. Continue reading →

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BPOS for ELAP … Exchange Online

Posted on December 18, 2010 by John

In the previous post in the BPOS series, I gave an overview of the service offering and covered the steps that I took to set up a 30 day free trial of the entire BPOS Suite: Exchange, Communicator, LiveMeeting and SharePoint. This post … Continue reading →

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