October 2004 - Posts
Couple of days late but anyway...
LCS 2005 Trials should be avail. late Nov 2004, General Avail. 1 Dec 2004
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/oct04/10-26MSDeliversLCS2005PR.asp
Microsoft has released the Virtual Server 2005 Migration Tool Kit - grab a copy of it from
here. It allows you to migrate applications from physical servers into virtual servers -
very cool.
29/10/2004 14:23:54
Sydney – 28, October 2004–– Microsoft Australia has won the Employer of Choice Award (greater than 500 employees category) at the Australian Human Resources (HR) Awards for 2004.
“Organisations are defined by their peop“e,“ said Mr Mark Newton, Regional Director, HR Microsoft Australia and New Zealand.
“HR, with its increasing focus on people as well as process management, has an extraordinary and vital contribution to make to the economic life and the wellbeing of the contemporary workplace.
“We have a strong focus on an inclusive management style through which we aim to give our people a strong connection to the company and its dire”tion,” he said.
Mi’rosoft’s win was based on a number of innovative and leading edge HR practices including:
- flexible work arrangement policies - paternity leave - creative solutions for mothers returning to the work force
The success of these initiatives is reflected in the’company’s maternity leave return rate which is in excess of 90 per cent.
Another reason for ’icrosoft’s HR leadership lies in its commitment to employee participation in philanthropic activities.
“Microsoft currently has several community initiatives in place, an example of which is the Unlimited Potential”programme,” Mr Newton said.
“Our people can take up to three days per year as paid volunteer leave. This encourages them to contribute their skills and time to one of our Unlimited Potential partners, like The Smith Family. This is a great way for Microsoft and our people to contribute to and strengthen local”communities.”
The annual Australian HR awards recognise excellence across the entire range of human resources practices. Aside from winning the Employer of Choice Award, Microsoft Australia was also a short listed finalist in th‘ category of ‘Best HR’Strategic Plan’.
Microsoft Australia is currently actively recruiting for a range of positions in the marketing, sales and technical areas. These can be found at: www.microsoft.com.au/careers
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About Microsoft Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realise their full potential. For further information: Samantha Herron Corporate Communications Manager Microsoft Australia Ph: 02 9870 2316 or 0412 589 951 sherron@microsoft.com
Kieran Moore Howorth Communications 02 8281 3830 or 0415 335 057 kieran@howorth.com
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See the original article in ComputerWorld here.
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This highly visible position is responsible for leading the SharePoint Technologies business in the US subsidiary. The scope of this role spans product management and marketing for SharePoint Portal Server (SPS), SharePoint Portal CAL, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), and Content Management Server (CMS). Collectively, these products represent over $185M in sales in Fiscal Year 05. Given its focus on portals, collaboration, and content management technologies, this position has a significant impact on the overall Information Worker business and the company as a whole.
Key responsibilities include the following:
1. Business Strategy - drive strategy in the US to ensure revenue and license growth to realize business targets; lead fundamentals of “product, price, place, and promot”””””””” to holistically manage portfolio of products.
2. Collaboration Strategy - lead development and delivery of all-up collaboration strategy in the US by engaging BG, BPSG, USPG, and other stakeholder teams; support CP, Portals, BI GTMs in areas like BDM-targeted FOSH activities to drive alignment around collaboration story; support partner teams in helping SI and ISV partners build businesses around SPS and WSS.
3. Field and Partner Enablement - provide field/partners with assets and programs to support SPS evaluation, close, and development; provide field/partners with product sales support.
4. Marketing Execution - plan and execute sales and marketing campaigns to drive net-new revenue, i.e. server upgrades; perform opportunity analysis to identify short- and long-term growth opportunities; engage field, solution partners, and resellers to deliver revenue-generating campaigns in enterprise and mid-market.
5. WSS Trials - design a Windows SharePoint Services evaluation program and execute through Connected Productivity GTM and incremental trial efforts targeted at selected verticals and roles.
6. Business Management - track the health of these businesses by measuring leading indicators such as sales performance, revenue pipeline, and CPE; prepare monthly revenue reports and quarterly forecasts; provide product feedback to the BG as appropriate; effectively and persuasively present to senior executives; communicate plans WW so that other subsidiaries can learn and leverage from US execution.
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of product management, sales, and marketing experience - preferably in a high-tech industry - and should have demonstrated ability to drive non-reporting groups to perform. This person will have demonstrated knowledge of general business management skills as well as experience with customers, partners, and field sales force. An MBA is preferred. Top Microsoft competencies include Strategic Thinking, Business Revenue and Customer Insight, Integration Marketing Planning and Delivery, Drive for Results, Cross-Group Collaboration, and Making Others Great. |
Interesting... now the SPS/MCMS/WSS jobs are all going under the SharePoint categories
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Content from http://sharepoint.advis.ch - if you aren't signed up to the newsletter do it !
With the Active Directory User Manager you will be able to manage users of your organsation from within a Sharepoint Site or Sharepoint Area. This feature is especially useful if you use Sharepoint as an Intra- and Extranet.
The web part is released for beta testing and will be generally available in the first half of November 2004!
You can download and test the beta 1 version of AD User Manager here |
Via Scoble
This is way cool - watch the video next time you log a bug with Microsoft and see if they 'save it or let it die'.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=26641
I take my RSS reading very seriously (as any geek should) but I change RSS aggregators all the time - i'm not attached.
My latest favourite is SauceReader but once I hit something like 200 feeds it started only updating a few and I would miss some good scoops.
So I want to try out some other ones and I want to evaluate them against a set of test cases...
Requirements
Integration
- must be able to post to .TEXT
- must be able to post to Blogger
Capacity
- must be able to handle 500+ feeds
Looks
- Must be dead sexy - I show this stuff off to clients so i want it to look good.
Post some comments
From Patrick - Get that PDF icon on your SharePoint Sites!
Chad has a good posting and an automated fix for making the PDF icon available on your SharePoint sites.
I just downloaded
BlogWave - It rocks! -
I want to have its baby! Anyway, it got me thinking about some cool CMS/SPS integration I could do...
Here are some screen-grabs:
From Roberdan
Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to SAP R/3 demonstrates how organizations can make the business information they store and manage in SAP applications available to users in an intranet portal site displayed in a Web browser. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4a581c05-4a3f-4daf-b96d-804b83f34868&DisplayLang=en#filelist
PRIME Minister John Howard has handed Finance Minister Nick Minchin and his new junior Minister for Human Services Joe Hockey the keys to the biggest IT budget in the Federal Government, wrapping six major agencies into a new super department.
The Department of Human Services - incorporating Centrelink, the Health Insurance Commission, the Child Support Agency, Health Services Australia, the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service and Australian Hearing - will handle $80 billion a year in services.
See the full article here.
Microsoft has set a firmer date for the release of its desktop search software, after Google launched a test version of its rival program for scouring a PC's hard drive.
See the rest of the article here.
I just installed the Partner Pack for Windows - lots of cool little apps.
Download it from here.
If you wanted to setup email alerts on MCMS workflow events here is the correct order from Stefan.
Author --->save--->Author submit --->email to editor--->editor
approve--->email to Moderator& editor--->Moderator approve --->email to Author and editor -->Publish.
Authors will do the submit and Editors will do approve.
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Want to be part of a dynamic team working on a fast-growing server product with lots of potential and visibility? Want to work on the latest technologies and help build the next generation of a server product used to host many of the world’s largest, best known and most demanding web sites? If so, then the Content Management Server (CMS) team is the place for you.
Content Management Server is one of the newest members of the SharePoint family of products. CMS enables business users to easily manage content for large, high-volume web sites. CMS is an enterprise ready server product built on top of the latest generation of technologies from the .Net, IIS, SharePoint and Windows teams and has a strong emphasis on security, scalability, reliability, and performance.
Experience in commercial software development using C, C++, C# or Java is required. Very strong coding and design skills are a must as well as the ability to debug at all layers of the server stack. HTML/DHTML/ASP.NET skills are desirable. The ideal candidate has experience developing scalable, secure, high-performance server applications and also has passion for innovative thinking and problem solving, a drive for results, and excellent communication and cross-group collaboration skills
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Microsoft have released a help file that covers most of the WSS standard functionality see it here.
Via Patrick and Jan
Aparently
MCMS 'Gets Rapid' 30th November '04 - read more
here
Similar to what Scoble has done with his Link Blog I've now created my own link blog over at http://anguslogan.blogspot.com get the RSS feed directly at http://anguslogan.blogspot.com/atom.xml
So anything cool I come across I'll drop onto this blog - check it out - I will continue to drop more 'targeted / filtered' content onto this blog.
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