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  • Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML

    I'm not feeling my best, so no comments, but below was an article I found very interesing: Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:41 am Market researchers with the Burton Group have issued a 37-page study– not commissioned by Microsoft or any other tech vendor...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Tue, Jan 15 2008
    Filed under: Office System, Office 2007, Open XML, Open Standards
  • How to Disable Internet features of Office 2007

    I saw this go around on a thread at work and I have seen it requested for those security conscious partners, so here is the answer (courtesy of Eric Ellis): 1) Via the Office Customisation Tool (OCT) and a custom MSP: — or — 2) Via Group Policy: The difference between the two is that using the OCT will...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Fri, Dec 21 2007
    Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Security, Office 2007, Documentation, Internet and Web
  • WSS v3 Search and Search Server - how to mix the two and fix the error "The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service"

    I got this e-mail the other day: Hi David,From your posting "How to install Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express - including how to install on Windows Home Server" it seems that you had some similar problems that I am experiencing regarding running wss3 and ssx on the same server. In my case...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Tue, Dec 18 2007
    Filed under: Office System, Windows SharePoint Services, beta, Tips, SharePoint, Search
  • Do you want a Microsoft Architecture Poster?

    I saw this at Chris's site and thought I would share: Chris Bowen's Blog : Got Tech Posters? There are plenty of technology posters and charts for developers available on MSDN. I didn't realize just how many until I searched for "poster" on MSDN downloads . Here's a list of...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Sat, Dec 15 2007
    Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Developer, Fun, Office 2007, Documentation, Silverlight, Windows Server 2008, WPF, Visual Studio
  • Office 2007 SP1 is here and it does more than just update the desktop - SharePoint gets AJAX for example

    I'm sure you have heard that the Office 2007 Service Pack is here. Darren Strange has documented what is in it and how to get it at Office 2007 sp1 ready for download today and OfficeRocker! : More detail about sp1 . In answer to Susanne's post at here , hopefully this post has some more info...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Thu, Dec 13 2007
    Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Windows SharePoint Services, Developer, Security, VoIP, Office 2007, Documentation, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Service Pack, SharePoint, If you only read one post today, ISV
  • SharePoint continues to grow - now being considered "viral" in it's take up and what you can do about it.

    From a Microsoft and Microsoft Partner point of view the press article below is great news. IT departments are finding users who are deploying SharePoint to get the benefits and the easy of use that SharePoint offers as well as developers who are building on SharePoint as an application Platform. I recently...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Wed, Dec 12 2007
    Filed under: Office System, Business, Windows SharePoint Services, Office 2007, Documentation, SharePoint
  • Things that have fixed peoples problem running Office on Vista

    From the blog entry I published on How to get rid of the installer / configuration dialog when running Office 2007 and Office 2003 on the same system - for Vista and other versions of Windows I still get people e-mailing me with problems. While I have not been able to solve them all, but here are some...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Tue, Dec 4 2007
    Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Community, Office 2007, Outlook, Tips
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