Weekly News - 4 march 2007

Roberdan "Weekly News" is a weekly selection of news, stuff and conversations I'd like to summarize from the past week. This is the first one, so please consider just a beta and give me as feedbacks as you can :-). In the next I'll publish also a PDF version of that. THX and have a good surfing on these interesting (I hope) news and tools.

Weekly News #0 - March, the 4th, 2007

• BDC Meta Man is the first application that provides the ability to create Application Definitions for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) Business Data Catalog (BDC) without writing a line of code.   No programming experience is required to take full advantage of the BDC Meta Man.  As long as you know how to use a mouse and a keyboard, you can easily generate Application Definitions with BDC Meta Man!

• BDC Meta Man makes generating Application Definitions easy due to the many features it offers.  Mouse over the features to see screen shots.
  - Easy to use Windows application makes the process easy to do!
  - Visual design tools speed up your development efforts!
  - Easily browse through your data sources.
  - Visually inspect your application definition and edit any part of it.
  - No need to know how to write XML or SQL
  - Integrated Shared Service Provider administration web site makes deploying Application Definitions a fluid experience.
  - Saves ENORMOUS amounts of time and effort
  The BDC Meta Man is offered in two different versions, Developer and Professional.  For a comparison of the different versions, see this document. Developer and Professional Version 1.2.0.2 Beta Released 

• The Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) is a collection of tools that enables you to prepare for migration to the Microsoft 2007 Office system. OMPM checks for, and reports on, file properties to help you analyze your environment. You can download OMPM from 2007 Microsoft Office System Migration Guidance: Microsoft Office Migration Planning Manager (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkid=75727). For the most part, documents created in Office 2003 and earlier open and behave the same way in the 2007 Office release. However, there might be instances where files require manual intervention or analysis to ensure consistent behavior. For example, a custom solution built in Microsoft Excel 2003 might require modification because it relies on legacy Office features that are no longer supported in Excel 2007.

• Microsoft Corp has released a new service pack for its SQL Server 2005 database that will enable business intelligence customers to take advantage of new capabilities in the Vista operating system and Office 2007 desktop suite.
  Key enhancements provided in the SP2 include new data mining add-ins for Office 2007 and tighter integration between SQL Server Reporting services and Office SharePoint Server 2007. The performance and scalability of SQL Server's OLAP engine has also been fine-tuned.
  Read more here: https://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=719175FA-AEAE-484B-A523-2532837AAA37

• Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center
  Beginning in 2007, daylight saving time (DST) will be extended in the United States. DST will start on March 11, 2007, which is three weeks earlier than usual, and it will end on November 4, 2007, which is one week later than usual. This results in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than in previous years. Unless certain updates are applied to your computer, the time zone settings for your computer's system clock may be incorrect during this four-week period. In particular, you must make sure that both your Windows operating system and your calendar programs are updated.
  https://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst

• Best SharePoint Stuff:
  How to integrate Live Search results into MOSS Search results: https://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=222.

  How to integrate Live Search box into a SharePoint site: https://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/11/02/sharepoint-community-search-now-embedded-on-this-blog-using-a-custom-live-search-box.aspx.

• WebSite of the week: https://www.digg.com and https://www.newsvine.com
• Blog of the week: Doretta82 (https://doretta82live.spaces.live.com/)
• Video of the week: Bruce Lee and BMW (https://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=9612a9f9-f6e5-4195-979c-d303f12a6101)
• Funky WebSite of the week: Todos Por Un Pelo (Fantastico!!!)(https://www.todosporunpelo.com.ar/arnet/site/index.php maggiori info in italiano qui: https://battiweb.blogspot.com/2007/01/todos-por-un-pelo.html)
• Tool of the week: https://www.xfruits.com/
  read my latest post in pdf here: https://xfruits.com/roberdan/?id=17012

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 04, 2007
  PDF is a wrong format, I absolutely prefer XPS ;-)