Outlook 2010 to become Facebook for the enterprise Microsoft today announced a plugin for Office 2010 that let's users access third-party social networks through Outlook.The tool is dubbed Outlook Social Connector. While it's a great concept to turn e-mail into a social network, it may suffer the fate of many cool ideas from Microsoft: iffy execution. Google Chrome OS - Web Optimized Browser On Steriods Google's laying it all out on the table with Chrome OS. My editor posted an excellent article about Chrome OS and we're already expecting a Chrome OS update from Google. Despite the distraction of a bank robbery and shooting in our city last week, I managed to dig my paws into Chrome OS to try and really understand what Google's up to. MDX Union? Use Subreports... Another interesting question came up in a recent SQL Server Business Intelligence class: "Can I perform a UNION in MDX similar to SQL?". There is a UNION operator but it's not quite the same, so we had to think outside of the box for this one... The question came from a student who was trying to switch a complex report from running against the relational Data Warehouse to produce the same results... Sneak Peek at Outlook 2010 So another set of common questions I get is "Do I need to run Outlook 2010 after I migrate to Exchange 2010?" or "What don't I get if I'm still on Outlook 2007 in an Exchange 2010 environment" or "Can I still use Outlook 2003 against Exchange 2010?" or "Which Outlook 2010 features work against an old Exchange 2003/2007 Environment?" Here are answers to these and Capture SSIS Progress tab... An interesting question came up in a recent class regarding testing SSIS in Visual Studio: "How can we capture the information in the Progress tab after a debug session?". My immediate reaction was to implement package logging but the answer lay elsewhere... How to capture your Progress in SSIS... An interesting question came up in a recent class regarding testing SSIS in Visual Studio: "How can we capture the information in the Progress tab after a debug session?". My immediate reaction was to implement package logging but the answer lay elsewhere... Enterprise 2.0: Great Advice on How to Get it Wrong from Andrew McAfee I just returned from the 13th annual KM World conference this week and listened to a really interesting keynote from Andrew McAfee (the "king of Enterprise 2.0" according to KM guru Tom Davenport). McAfee summed up his talk with a list of basically how to get it Enterprise 2.0 wrong: November giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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