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Microsoft Interactive Classroom

Bart Wessels — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:24:51 GMT

With Microsoft Interactive Classroom, students participate like never before while staying up-to-speed on instructor notes. It gives educators the power to add in-class polling and to share lessons over a wireless network. If a teacher updates a presentation, students capture the notes in real-time via Microsoft OneNote.

Overview

Microsoft Interactive Classroom helps interaction and collaboration between educators and students by enabling the creation of classroom polls using PowerPoint, and sharing content with students using OneNote. Educators can insert a multiple choice, yes/no, or true/false polling questions to lessons using PowerPoint. Students who have laptops running Microsoft Windows and OneNote receive the polling questions and teacher annotations in real-time within their OneNote Notebook. In addition, students can add their own notes to the slides using the features provided in OneNote. They can also respond in real-time to the questions during the lesson. Students without laptops can participate in polls using hardware clickers. This gives educators real time feedback on how well their students are grasping their lessons.

download it here

User Readiness and Training for Office 2010

Bart Wessels — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:16:34 GMT

Readiness and training materials that can help you when deploying Office 2010 are posted on Technet:

Create a Training Plan

Use the following resources to help ensure that your end-users are aware, excited about, and trained on Office 2010.

Getting Started resources

The Getting Started resources on Office.com can help your users transition to Office 2010 from an earlier version of Office, learn what’s new, or find basic instruction for first-time use.

Self-paced training on Office.com

Users can learn individual products with self-paced training.

All training on Office.com

By product: Access | Excel | OneNote | Outlook | PowerPoint | Project | Word

Training from Microsoft Learning

Get training for Office 2010 from the Training Catalog.

E-Learning for Microsoft Software Assurance Customers

Get E-Learning courses for your users based on the type of licenses you have with Software Assurance.

Provide Reference Materials

Office ribbon guides

Find new locations of commands in Office 2010 in the menu-to-ribbon reference workbooks. These Excel workbooks contain tables that list the old menu commands and show where in Office 2010 those commands are located.

All Office 2010 ribbon reference workbooks

By product: Access | Excel | InfoPath | OneNote | Outlook | PowerPoint | Project | Publisher | SharePoint Designer | Visio | Word

Interactive guides

Interactive guides for Office 2010 help users find commands or get a printable list of Office 2010 commands and buttons.

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SharePoint and Exchange online

Bart Wessels — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:55:30 GMT

Steeds meer producten van Microsoft zijn online af te nemen:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Online

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Online is a collection of Web-based tools and technologies built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that help you store, share, and manage digital information within your company.This white paper describes the services and features that are included with the Standard offering of SharePoint Online.

Microsoft Exchange Online Standard

Microsoft® Exchange Online is a hosted enterprise messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Exchange Online services include advanced e-mail features as well as calendaring, contact, and task management capabilities. This white paper describes the services and features that are included with the Standard offering of Exchange Online.

2010 Server Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010

Bart Wessels — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:13:54 GMT

Language packs voor onder andere SharePoint zijn beschikbaar:

Brief Description

Overview

Language packs enable creation of sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010. Multiple language packs can be installed on the same server. Application of a Language Pack will not change the language of the installed Microsoft server product, or the language of the administrative features.
Notes

You do not need to download a language pack for the language you installed, these language packs are to support creation of additional languages.

Click here to download.

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Microsoft Access 2010 Runtime

Bart Wessels — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:37:09 GMT

De Access runtime voor 2010 is beschikbaar:

Brief Description

The Microsoft Access 2010 Runtime enables you to distribute Access 2010 applications to users who do not have the full version of Access 2010 installed on their computers.

Overview

Microsoft Access 2010 provides a rich platform for developing database management solutions with easy-to-use customization tools. If no end-user customization is required (including report modifications), you can choose to distribute those Access 2010 solutions so that they run without requiring a full installation of Access 2010 . To do so, you must package and distribute your application with the Access 2010 Runtime.

Click here for the download.

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Office 2010 Developer Training Kit

Bart Wessels — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:18:44 GMT

Brief Description

Training kit that provides developers with collateral to get started quickly developing for Office 2010.

Overview

The Office 2010 Developer Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, source code, and instructor-led videos, that are designed to help you learn how to develop for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Click here for the download.

Microsoft Office Developer Center

Office 2010 Developer Training Course

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SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Kit

Bart Wessels — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:16:15 GMT

Brief Description

Guidance that provides developers with advanced guidance on how to develop for SharePoint.

Overview

The SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Kit provides developers with deep guidance on how to develop for SharePoint 2010. Through PowerPoint decks, Hands-On Labs, Source Code, and Instructor-Led Videos, the developer kit walks you through an array of important developer topics--including Developer Roadmap, Visual Studio tooling, Workflow, Business Connectivity Services, and much, much more.

Click here for the download.

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2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM)

Bart Wessels — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:13:59 GMT

Hij is er! Een demo omgeving voor 2010:

Brief Description

This download contains a two Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010.

Overview

Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Office Web Applications
Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
Microsoft Project Server 2010
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
Microsoft Visio 2010
Microsoft Project 2010
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

Virtual machine “b” contains the following pre-configured software:

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, joined to the “CONTOSO.COM” domain
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Active directory has been preconfigured over 200 “demo” users with metadata in an organizational structure. All of these user profiles have been imported and indexed for search within SharePoint Server 2010.
SharePoint Server 2010 has been configured in a “Complete” farm using the default SQL Server 2008 R2 instance. A default site has been created using the Team Site template at http://intranet.contoso.com/ and a FAST Search Center at http://intranet.contoso.com/search/.
As shipped virtual machine “a” requires image “b” for email. Running image "b" is optional.

click here for download

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Laser Pointer in PowerPoint 2010

Bart Wessels — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:58:31 GMT

In PowerPoint 2010 we added a function that allows you to use a Laser pointer during your presentation:

In presentation mode press CRTL and the left button on your mouse and move to what you want to point out..

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What's New for IT in Microsoft Office 2010

Bart Wessels — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:03:07 GMT

On the TechNet site there is a ton of material already available for IT Pro’s on Office 2010. It is the starting point for people that want to build an image to roll out office 2010:

Feature Changes by Application

Accessibility Checker

Office Customization Tool (OCT)

Virtualization Using App-V

Volume Activation

New Outlook Hotmail Connector released today

Bart Wessels — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:24:58 GMT

repost from outlook blog:

After several months of beta testing, Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 has officially been released as a replacement for Outlook Connector 12. Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 is compatible with Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010.

Why use the Outlook Hotmail Connector?

If you have been using Outlook Connector 12.1, you already know that it enables you to manage your Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages, calendar, and contacts from within Outlook.

Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 introduces several improvements. For example, you might notice after upgrading that the connection to Hotmail is more reliable than before, and issues such as blank messages being synchronized to Outlook have been fixed.

Even better with Outlook 2010

With Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 and Outlook 2010, you see these additional benefits:

Junk filter settings. Your safe sender, blocked sender, and safe recipient lists are synchronized between Outlook and Hotmail.

Integrated Send/Receive. Send/receive works just as it does for your other Outlook accounts.

Integrated connection status. The Hotmail account status appears in the Outlook status bar.

Rule support for secondary accounts. Rules can be applied to the Hotmail account in Outlook, even if that is not your Outlook primary account.

Synchronize your drafts. The Outlook Drafts folder synchronizes with the Hotmail Drafts folder.

full article here

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Office 2010 Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool

Bart Wessels — Sun, 02 May 2010 10:42:32 GMT

Overview

This download includes Group Policy Administrative Template files and Office Customization Tool files for use with Office 2010 applications. It also includes an \Admin folder with an Office Customization Tool, and ADMX, ADML, and ADM versions of Office 2010 system Administrative Template files. For administrative template files, you may use the ADM files for any Windows operating system, or the combination of ADMX and language-specific ADML files on computers running at least Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. This download also includes a workbook (Office2010GroupPolicyAndOCTSettings.xls) that provides information about Office 2010 Group Policy settings and OCT settings.

Click here to download.

Related Resources:

Group Policy settings reference for Microsoft Office 2010

Enforce settings by using Group Policy in Office 2010

Office Customization Tool in Office 2010

Opschonen van email met Outlook 2010

Bart Wessels — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:41:04 GMT

Een van de nieuwe functies in Outlook 2010 is opschonen. Hiermee kan je discussies in je mail opschonen, maar nog veel leuker hele mappen.

Je vindt het in de Start tab in je menu:

In combinatie met de nieuwe conversatie view kan je goed zien wat dat opschonen doet. In onderstaand voorbeeld zie je dat iedereen in volgorde op de voorgaande mail gereageerd heeft. in dat geval staat dus in de onderste mail alle info van de mailtjes erboven. Die worden door opschonen dus naar verwijderde items verplaatst.

Het voorbeeld hieronder werkt anders, daar zie je een splitsing van de discussie en hier zullen dus minder mails opgeschoond kunnen worden:

Zeker als je een paar dagen weg bent geweest is het opschonen dus een goede optie om de mail overload te verminderen. Daarnaast gebruik ik het zelf op folders waar mail via regels op binnenkomt ook regelmatig. Je houdt alle informatie, maar je mailquota wordt minder snel bereikt!

UPDATE:

Matthijs stuurde mij de resultaten van het opschonen van een tweetal folders:

Before: 1.7GB 12966 items
After: 990MB 7279 items

Before: 121MB 904 items
After: 46MB 332 items

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Office 2010 Reaches RTM!

Bart Wessels — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:37:42 GMT

Het is zover! Office 2010 en SharePoint 2010 zijn klaar!

Op 12 mei wordt het officieel gelanceerd via http://www.the2010event.com.

Zie hier de blogs van de productteams:

Office 2010 Reaches RTM!

SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM!

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Jeff Raikes, the man who made Office

Bart Wessels — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:29:24 GMT

On the Office blog I found these interesting interview video’s of Jeff Raikes on the history of Microsoft Office!

Part 1:

and Part 2:

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