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Springhouse Education and Consulting Services to Deliver Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services
By Jeff Tincher
8/15/2008 – Exton, PA: Springhouse Education and Consulting Services (http://www.springhouse.com), a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, has announced that it has been certified by Microsoft to provide SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) to its customers.
Springhouse’s SDPS accreditation means that it can help its customers to appreciate the benefits of this solution, running workshops on behalf of Microsoft to show users Best Practices on how they can maximize the collaborative technology to get the most from their staff and business. In addition to this, Springhouse can also assist with SharePoint deployment if required.
As a certified partner, Springhouse will deliver pre-packaged SDPS engagements to Microsoft customers. These engagements vary in length and services, ranging from 1 to 15 days depending upon the value of the enterprise agreement (Software Assurance Licensing) between Microsoft and the customer.
“Being a certified Microsoft partner for SDPS engagements strengthens our business and increases our value and offerings for our current customer base as well as any new customer,” said Neall Alcott, VP of Technology Services at Springhouse. “SDPS is structured in a way that benefits both Springhouse and our customers, allowing them to operate their business more effectively and efficiently through the collaboration of SharePoint.” Neall Alcott was a member of the SDPS beta team in Redmond, WA , he also has over 20 years of IT experience and is a MCT and MSCE.
Springhouse has completed one SDPS engagement with a global communications technology company and the client is currently using the SDPS deliverables as a roadmap for deployment of their SharePoint environment.
The Microsoft SDPS web page states: “As organizations of all sizes around the world deploy Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server, they are engaging with trusted partners to assist with the planning of this critical IT responsibility. SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) is designed to help organizations plan an effective deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server by partnering them with a qualified Microsoft SDPS provider and offering a broad range of planning tools and services that help optimize the effectiveness of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server’s core capabilities, lower the cost of deployment, and improve organizational productivity. Service areas include collaboration, portals, enterprise search, as well as web and portal content management.”
About Springhouse Education and Consulting Services
Springhouse Education and Consulting Services located in Exton, Pennsylvania, delivers Instructor-Led Training, E-Learning and Distance Learning to area businesses and individuals, as well as IT consulting services to the Greater Philadelphia market as well as Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Visit our web site at www.springhouse.com or our blog at blog.springhouse.com.
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Vista tip for end user
By Jane H
If you have recently bought a new computer, chances are pretty good that it has Windows Vista installed. The new look may confuse you, but there are some neat features. And if you miss the old features, there are ways to find them. For example when you click on the computer icon to view/find your resources, you’ll find that things have changed from the old Windows Explorer (My computer) layout. The folder tree is now the Navigation pane which provides access to commonly used folders and the Folders list (click image for larger view).
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Software Assurance Packaged Services
By Gerry V
In the “product off years” at Microsoft (no new OS, no new Office), internal focus often shifts to other components of Software Assurance that can add value to the investment since there is no compelling argument for upgrade rights. It is no surprise then that 2008 is bringing us new choices in what Microsoft calls “Packaged Service Offerings.”
In a nutshell, these are Microsoft-funded consulting packages provided to SA customers at no charge, with the goal of allowing those customers to explore new technologies for deployment at their Enterprise. The newest is SDPS – or –SharePoint Deployment Planning Services. SDPS provides the client with bundles of consulting days for anywhere from 1 to 15 days (length is driven by size of licensing agreement) where a certified Microsoft Partner will provide anything from Requirements Gathering for a SharePoint Deployment right up to a full-blown Pilot on site. Springhouse consultants are currently engaged in a number of these and the initial feedback has been outstanding. If SharePoint is anywhere on your radar, consider opening the discussion to see if your enterprise qualifies for SDPS.
Considering a migration to Office 2007? Springhouse is working with Value Prism and Microsoft to beta test Microsoft’s latest packaged Service, Office System Business Value Planning Services – or - OSBVPS. The idea of this bundle is to help customers identify, unlock, and capture the business value of Office System. This service will deliver a current state process analysis, future state process design, a high-level business case for the proposed solution, as well as a high-level adoption/implementation plan and a proposal for additional services to implement the solution. The Springhouse team will engage some candidate enterprises at no charge for this service in the coming months. Please reach out immediately to gvogler@springhouse.com if an Office 2007 migration/implementation is under consideration to learn more.
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Filed Under Microsoft, SA Benefits, SharePoint Designer, Software Licensing |
Simply Share Your Desktop Using Microsoft SharedView
By Jeff Tincher
How many times have you been either at your office desk, telecommuting or on the road but needed to see and discuss a document or spreadsheet with your coworkers? Or maybe you’re a member of a sales team and you are out on the road and need to touch base regarding a sales spreadsheet and update it with new revenue and sales data. The way most people in the past have dealt with these situations is to email the document out to everyone that needs to view it and then talk about it over the phone. To me, those days are behind us, with all the advances in technology why are we still operating as if it were 1999!?
In steps a free, lightweight collaboration tool that will enable you and your team to be more efficient in discussing documents and other issues. The application is called Microsoft SharedView. Read more
Filed Under Microsoft, Technology |
Windows 7 – Now a mid-2009 launch ?
By Gerry V
Recently Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft was aiming to deliver Windows 7 in mid-2009. This is even earlier than previously announced indicating what may be a less-than-enthusiastic acceptance of Vista.
Up until now, Microsoft’s official line has been that Windows 7 will ship three years from the date that Vista became generally available. Microsoft began offering Vista to its business customers in the fall of 2006 and to consumers in January 2007.
Redmond is citing the revised launch date is due to the holiday PC sales season. With Vista, Microsoft missed getting code to its PC partners early enough for them to preload it on machines they sold during the holidays and my guess is that Ballmer won’t let that happen again.
Filed Under General, Microsoft, Servers & Infrastructure, Software Licensing, Technology |
I just received word that the SharePoint team has announced a new program called SharePoint Deployment Planning Services today. I quickly jumped over to that post on blogs.msdn.com to learn more about this new and exciting service:
If you’re involved with SharePoint in some way, either as a customer or partner, I think that you’ll be excited to learn about a new program we’re announcing today called SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS). SDPS is a partner and Microsoft Consulting Services delivered offering designed to help our Software Assurance (SA) customers successfully plan and deploy SharePoint. Using field proven business and technical guidance, the program provides best practices and well defined results through 1, 3, 5, 10 or 15 day deployment planning sessions. The number of Packaged Service days that a customer can receive is determined by a combination of the number of qualifying Office licenses and the number of Core CAL (Client Access License) Suites and Enterprise CAL Suites. So, no additional investment is needed by the customer to take advantage of this tremendous program.
You can jump to the full post here > Microsoft SharePoint Proucts and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing SharePoint Deployment Planning Services SDPS
Catch up on some other SharePoint posts on our blog:
SharePoint Designer Governance - Robert Bogue (MVP)
Benchmark SharePoint Performace
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SharePoint Designer Governance - Robert Bogue (MVP)
By Jeff Tincher
Here is a great post I ran across on Robert Bogue, a SharePoint MVP, blog site. Robert discusses the need for governance with SharePoint Designer, a great tool for certain users, a dangerous weapon for others. Robert goes on to write:
I talked about what good users for SPD are and what bad uses for SPD are – but I never came right out and made any recommendations for how to put a governance framework around SPD in your organization.
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The primary challenge when looking at SPD roll outs and governance, in my experience, has been a misunderstanding of what the tool does. It’s a data view web part creator, a workflow creator, and an HTML/CSS editor.
The full article can be read here on ThorProjects.com
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Multiple sources, including Microsoft itself, have confirmed the next version of Office is currently designated Office 14 – interestingly, the next designation was to be Office 13, but Microsoft determined that Office 13 could be “construed as unlucky…” (You couldn’t make this stuff up folks).
The focus of the new suite is to create productivity tools that are more role-based in nature as well as “baking in” the web-collaboration pieces already apparent in MOSS 2007.
The thought is that the applications will be more web-based, ala Google-docs, however Microsoft is beta testing an adjunct to Office (and non-Microsoft office suites) known as Office Live Workspace, which adds document collaboration/sharing capabilities to Word, Excel and PowerPoint (the XP, 2003 and 2007 releases), but Workspace doesn’t provide online/offline sync for Access, OneNote, Publisher or other more business-targeted members of the Office product family… not yet anyway. Stay tuned.
Filed Under Desktop Education, General, Microsoft, Microsoft, Office, Web Accessibility, Web Technologies |
How to Skin Your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Site
By Jeff Tincher
I found this article posted on Michael Gannotti’s SharePoint blog. It’s very useful for those looking to skin and customize Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.
Read his post here:
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Late last week (February 01,2008), Microsoft posted an open solicitation for beta testers for what appears to be the upcoming version of Windows Media Center, codenamed, “Fiji.”
While Microsoft would not confirm that this solicitation was indeed for Fiji, the content of the survey associated with the solicitation asks directly about testers’ experiences with managing photos, video and music. Additionally some early participants have shared that the survey delves deeply into hardware requirements which might indicate that functionality will leverage multi-core processing.
Interested in applying to be a tester ? Visit Microsoft Connect at this link.
Filed Under General, Microsoft, Servers & Infrastructure, Technology, Windows Vista, Windows XP |
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