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The SharePoint Reporter
The SharePoint Reporter is a site that aggregates postings from a number of SharePoint-related...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 01/05/2006
Northwest Connected Systems User Group - January 2006
The next meeting for the NW Connected Systems user group will be on Tuesday January 10th, 2005. It...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 01/05/2006
Office 12 and new interface
The information about Office 12's new user interface, which was announced and first presented to the...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 01/05/2006
NW SharePoint users group
Jason Mauer and I presented the debut session of a Office Server Workshop this afternoon in...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 12/07/2005
WSS and SPS Admin Guides Updated for SP2
I know this isn't the most current post, but I need to record it here for those that use this page...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 12/07/2005
List of Google Services
Wow. This is quite a list... Get these guys another soda.
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/27/2005
BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 2
BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 2 is available for registration and then download. Go to...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/26/2005
BizTalk Server support within a VM
Just to clarify... BizTalk Server 2004 is supported for production use with Virtual Server 2005...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/21/2005
SharePoint (and CMS) User Group in Pacific Northwest
We’d like to announce the resumption of SharePoint User Group meetings in the great Pacific...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/18/2005
BizTalk for .Net Developers
Aaron Skonnard titles a pair of MSDN columns he has written "An XML Guru's Guide to BizTalk". I make...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/17/2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 - Benefits for Virtual PC today
#1. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is in beta and is probably close to being released. One of the...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/11/2005
CMS 2002 SP2 Released
Stefan got it first - (why am I not surprised?) SP2 for CMS 2002 was released today. This is the bit...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/08/2005
NW Connected Systems User Group
Announcing... the inaugural meeting of the Northwest Connected Systems User Group will be held on...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/07/2005
Blog <> value?
This just about says it all... My blog is worth $0.00.How much is your blog worth? :-)
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 11/02/2005
The Schema IS There, Dam*it!
While reading Laurence Timm's blog today (err, catching up with it...), I noticed his spot-on entry...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/26/2005
Dangerous and Risky Blog
This is one of the most potentially dangerous blogs I've encountered this week. And this entry is...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/26/2005
PDC 05 Presentations
An update to my previous entry - the PDC 05 presentations are now available......
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/25/2005
More WF Items
I'm going to be on a WF kick for the next few days, I believe, while I'm attending some WF training....
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/24/2005
Windows Workflow Foundation and BizTalk Server
Brian Loesgen has a summary and comparison of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and BizTalk Server on...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/24/2005
Blogger's Guide to BizTalk
Well, I'm only a month behind on this one... I'm not sure how I missed this update, but I did. Get...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/24/2005
BizTalk Server futures...
So, I know that the Future of BizTalk Server is right around the corner, with BizTalk Server 2006...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/21/2005
BizTalk Server 2004 Online Training
I was speaking with some customers today about on-line training available for BizTalk Server 2004,...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/21/2005
CorasWorks Workshop in Seattle
CorasWorks is presenting a SharePoint "Workspace Workshop" in Seattle on November 14th. This is a...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/20/2005
BizTalk and Winfows Workflow, per Woodgate
Scott Woodgate has a response in this post to a question raised about Windows Workflow Foundation in...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/20/2005
SPS 2003 SP2
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2 was released today. Download here. SP2 introduces...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/18/2005
PDC 05 Content
The PDC 05 Recordings are going to be made available on the MSFT web site for 6 months. This is 250...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/10/2005
Down Under MVP
I had dinner earlier this week with a CMS MVP from Australia, Angus Logan (blog), and I had a great...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/08/2005
PDF Support in MS Office
Well, it's about time! It's good to see ourselves recognize that the PDF file format is in use by...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 10/03/2005
PDC - Pre-Session
Well, I made it to PDC this morning. I was going back and forth between choosing the .Net v2 and the...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 09/12/2005
Sharepoint Discovery Kit (Hands-On Labs)
Hey look! - More hands-on lab goodness from the SharePoint folks! Download here, and go get all...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/25/2005
CorasWorks workshop for Sharepoint Development
CorasWorks is coming to the Seattle area to deliver a workshop about SharePoint development using...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/23/2005
Indigo Roadshow in Seattle and Portland
You've heard the buzz about Indigo, Microsoft's unified programming model for building distributed...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/18/2005
Why does a .NET developer need or want BizTalk?
Somebody asked me the other day why he, as a .NET Developer, would be interested in BizTalk Server....
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/02/2005
Wrapping up July
What a great month July was. I was away with the family for the past two weeks, and a lot has...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 08/01/2005
Sammamish Blogger Meet-Up
Jeff Sandquist is looking for other Sammamish-area bloggers to get together for a meetup. I'm one -...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 07/11/2005
Free* VS05 and SQL05 E-Learning Training
For the next four months (approximately), MSFT is making a ton of E-Learning courses available...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 07/10/2005
Host file to block ads
Whenever I load up a new machine, it seems that I forget where this is and I have to go find it...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 07/07/2005
Roger Sessions on the Nov 7 Coordinated Product Launch
Roger Session's latest ObjectWatch newsletter addresses his view of the November 7 launch of three...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 07/06/2005
Chappell - Services as an Abstraction
David Chappell has posted an article titled, "Services as an Explicit Abstraction" In this article,...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 06/25/2005
TechEd 2005 Sessions and Slides
Even while sitting at Gnomedex, (on a Saturday), I have to keep up with my day job. This looks like...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 06/25/2005
Blogs - Public vs. Private
Wow. Julie Leung (https://www.julieleung.com) just finished a presentation at Gnomedex about Blogs as...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 06/25/2005
Gnomedex 5.0 - Post 2
Day 2 is about to start at Gnomedex. The broadband was terrible yesterday, and I couldn’t get a...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 06/25/2005
Blogger's Guide to BizTalk v1.6
Alan Smith has released the latest version of his compilation of BizTalk goodness found on the web....
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 06/20/2005
BizTalk Assembly Checker
Marty Waz announced a new tool that will save time and effort when deploying those assemblies that...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 06/15/2005
Tech Ed Withdrawal
I'm going through a little bit of Tech Ed withdrawal this week - I attended the last two years, and...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 06/08/2005
Tech-Ed Announcements
The Tech-Ed Keynote address on June 7 announced that Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 will RTM...
Author: Owen Allen1 Date: 06/08/2005