<?xml version="1.0"?><rss xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="2.0"><channel><title>MSDN Architecture Center. Office Architecture Center</title><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa699381</link><language>en-US</language><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:40:34 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:40:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><managingEditor>Diego Dagum</managingEditor><generator>Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team (MS AST)</generator><item><title>OBA Solution Patterns In The Real World</title><description>Large-scale systems such as SAP and PeopleSoft, and other comprehensive line of business (LOB) systems, are critical for the successful management of all types of business data and processes. However, not everyone in an organization has access to these systems, so the business data in them is often available to only a select few. Office Business Applications (OBAs) address this problem by using Office to bridge the divide between business data in LOB systems and the information worker.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337889.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Steve Fox</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Developing Office Business Apps with Visual Studio 2008</title><description /><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164242.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Steve Fox</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>OBA Composition Reference Toolkit</title><description>The OBA Composition Reference Toolkit brings to surface the underlying composition capabilities of the 2007 Microsoft Office system.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/cc196391.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Karthik Ravindran</author><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Standardize Data Management with Custom Content Types</title><description>Sharepoint 2007 makes it possible to standardize many aspects of content and lifecycle characteristics through content types. Site content types are metadata definitions that can be established independently of any specific site collection, site, list, or document library. This enables you to establish companywide properties, workflows, information management policies, and other elements consistently while also allowing individual departments to customize content types for specific purposes.</description><link>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc194408.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Pav Cherny</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>A Smart Approach to Gathering Data in the Enterprise</title><description>Enterprises gather vast amounts of information using a variety of methods. The data arrives via e-mail, surveys, Web forms and other data collection mechanisms. Data, usually, is a good thing. However, managing the array of data collection tools and all the disparate information is difficult.</description><link>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc194406.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Keith Deshaies</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Developing Office Business Applications: From Client to SharePoint and Beyond</title><description>Office Business Applications (OBAs) are a new breed of composite solution that leverage the Microsoft Office platform to integrate line of business systems, such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Microsoft Dynamics, with the Microsoft Office system. In this webcast, we address the why, what, and how in regards to developing and deploying OBAs, and discuss Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office version 3.0.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032367738%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Steve Fox</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Build Office-Based Solutions Using WPF, WCF, And LINQ</title><description>With Visual Studio 2008, you can build a solution that incorporates the native capabilities of an Office client application combined with the sophisticated UI capabilities of WPF that's connected to remote data and services via WCF and uses the RAD features of LINQ to manipulate that data.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/12/VstoNet/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Andrew Whitechapel</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Composite Application Architectures Using the 2007 Office System</title><description>The 2007 Office System isn’t just a great set of products; it’s an application platform that supports industry standards and provides key application and integration services via composite application architectures. Learn how the features in Office Enterprise 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 enable great solutions as part of overall composite application architecture. This session will cover common architectural patterns and the core services provided by Office and SharePoint.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/5/4/154c3243-7777-45e5-abf3-cd5adb893a63/5%20Composite%20Application%20Architectures.zip</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Scott Jamison</author><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>High-Performance Excel-Based Applications in Financial Services</title><description>This paper describes a comprehensive solution based on Microsoft and GigaSpaces technologies that addresses scalability and performance challenges with Excel-based applications in securities and capital markets industry. The solution combines the latest Microsoft technologies, including Office Excel, Excel Services and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 with GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform to deliver unparalleled usability, performance, and scalability.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb887539.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Alon Lahav,Nati Shalom,Dekel Tankel,Stevan Vidich,Shahar Prish</author><category>Mission Critical</category><category>Capital Markets</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Architect and Develop Search-Enabled Enterprise Applications</title><description>Until recently, many solution architects have treated search capabilities in applications almost as an afterthought. Many organizations now, however, view the actions that are involved in searching for information as a business process in its own right.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb887531.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Beat Schwegler</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Office as a Platform for Software + Services</title><description>The vision of Software + Services (S+S) is to create application architectures that maximally leverage edge resources -the resources of client devices- to provide end users with rich, intuitive experiences. Microsoft Office with its well-understood interface, rich service set, and established business user base, is a natural foundation for creating S+S business applications.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/bb906062.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Alan Josephson,Chip Wilson</author><category>Web 2.0</category><category>Software as a Service</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>2007 Office System Document: Digital Signing of Microsoft 2007 Office System Documents</title><description>Microsoft 2007 Office system provides many security improvements over its predecessors, including digital document signing. By digitally signing a document, you can confirm that you are the originator of the document and help prove that the document has not changed since the time you signed it. This white paper introduces the reader to digital signatures: what they are and how to use them.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=79d06e72-4b45-4669-9eac-0eca5821e8ff&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Security by Design</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>2007 Office System Document: User Interface Evaluation Design Guidelines</title><description>This information is provided to assist sofware developers in evaluating the scope of the UI Design Guidelines for the 2007 Microsoft Office suites.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ce9bec66-7cba-479b-8ab3-98518d6f531d&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast.TV - Office Business Apps @ Epicor (Part 3)</title><description>In this final installment with Epicor we discuss the challenges, the hard things about making this all work and take a look at a demo of the Epicor integration with Outlook 2007</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=341512</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Parsons,Bart Elia,Ron Jacobs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Runtime</title><description>The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition (VSTO 2005 SE) redistributable package installs the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime, which is required to run solutions built using VSTO 2005 or VSTO 2005 SE.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4468d8cb-b43e-4b09-82f6-8ba3f7b5e935&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor (Part 2)</title><description>What if you want to support multiple client front ends including office applications. How would you do it? What elements would you put in place to make it possible and what kind of problems would you run into? This was the challenge for architects Bart Elia and Mike Parsons. In this episode we drill into their solution for building Office Business Applications with Epicor.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=340224</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Parsons,Bart Elia,Ron Jacobs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor (Part 1)</title><description>When you build software you want your customers to get the most for the dollar. That means thinking outside the box when it comes to reaching customers. This is exactly what Epicor has done with their enterprise software by leveraging integration with Office. This sounds easy but there is a lot to think about.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=339628</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Scott Smith,Bart Elia,Ron Jacobs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Integrate Search Into Your Site With ASP.NET</title><description>How to choose a search solution? This article discusses that, and also how to build a search framework for ASP.NET, implementing a Live Search provider and a SharePoint one.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/09/WebSearch/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Marco Bellinaso</author><category>Data</category><category>Web 2.0</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Vishwas Lele on MOSS as an Application Platform</title><description>Vishwas Lele talks about thinking of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server as an application platform for .NET development. With all of the power and flexibility of MOSS, it can no longer be categorized simply as a web portal.</description><link>http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=268</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Richard Campbell,Carl Franklin,Vishwas Lele</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>This code sample shows how accessing and manipulating various SharePoint Server components programmatically with the built-in SharePoint Server APIs enable this type of business process automation. The automation was developed primarily by using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007 Second Edition and the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b6c8fb0-9b67-47db-8a09-bca76bc9a5d1&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Workflow</category><category>Identity and Access</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Office Business Applications Momentum Book</title><description>Read the success stories in this book to see how companies have created Office Business Applications (OBAs) to develop and strengthen customer relationships, create innovative products and services, improve operations, reduce costs, and build higher value connections with partners and suppliers.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8d2e670a-5104-4649-b213-bd84397023b9&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Solution Deployment with SharePoint 2007</title><description>While my May column focused on how to create, test, and debug WSS components, this month I’ll look at the deployment side.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/08/OfficeSpace/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ted Pattison</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Excel Services: Develop A Calculation Engine For Your Apps</title><description>In the past, if you wanted to implement a calculation engine, you needed to enlist the services of a developer who would use algorithms provided by your business analysts to design the code. Now, with the Excel Services technology in Office SharePoint Server 2007, business analysts themselves can implement the calculation engine formulas they need, reducing the cost of implementation and making maintenance of the calculation algorithms easier than before.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/08/Excel/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Pyush Kumar,Vishwas Lele</author><category>Mission Critical</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Office Apps: Extend Your VBA Code With VSTO</title><description>If you develop for Microsoft Office using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and have not yet made the jump to the Microsoft .NET Framework, Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) in the next version of Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas," makes the move easier and more compelling. VSTO brings you the full feature set of Visual Studio, including language-integrated query (LINQ), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) and the .NET Framework 3.5.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/08/VSTO/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Kathleen McGrath,Paul Stubbs</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>How to Use Information Rights Management in the 2007 Microsoft Office System</title><description>Information Rights Management (IRM) gives organizations and users more control over how information in Microsoft Office documents and email messages can be used by recipients. With IRM, the creator or sender of a document or message can specify who can open it and whether those allowed access can make changes to it, print, forward, or copy it, or perform other actions with the information it contains.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=070d73cb-e2d5-467f-80b7-a3fd91ae4303&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>2007 Microsoft Office System Document Encryption</title><description>The 2007 Office system was built with security in mind, using Microsoft's new Security Development Lifecycle approach for software development, which provides a comprehensive framework of methods and tools to ensure that code meets or exceeds security demands. This paper discusses improvements in document encryption in the 2007 Office system and provides scenarios showing how document encryption is valuable to the user.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0444ea0e-3f62-4da0-8551-52349b70272e&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit and Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit</title><description>The SharePoint Server 2007 SDK is designed for solution providers and other developers to learn about the new SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise application and platform. It features conceptual and "How to" articles, sample code, and programming references. Also included in the SDK, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Starter Kit is designed to learn about how to extend the new ECM features and platform in Office SharePoint Server 2007.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Developing Windows SharePoint Services Workflows</title><description>Windows SharePoint Services provides excellent facilities for working with business processes. In this "webcast by request," we review the workflow development processes associated with Windows SharePoint Services. We look at the included workflows, modifying workflows in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, and creating and modifying workflows in the Microsoft Visual Studio development system.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032344819%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lynn Langit,Mike Benkovich</author><category>Tools</category><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics. Solution Architecture Deep Dive</title><description>This presentation provides a technical overview of the Microsoft OBA Solutions Architecture required for analytics in manufacturing operations.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/6/7/d6743a0b-05aa-4613-b519-4eeb6c1e463f/pf%20analytics%20oba%20rap%20-%20architecture.zip</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Karthik Ravindran</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>OBA RAP E-forms Processing in Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics. Business Enablement</title><description>To learn more about how this OBA RAP addresses business requirements and delivers value, view this presentation of the manufacturing applications landscape, the requirements and value of analytics in manufacturing operations, and the solution layers of an end-to-end Analytics Framework.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb643797.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Karthik Ravindran,Sam Youness</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>OBA Reference Architecture Pack E-forms Processing in the Public Sector. Business Enablement</title><description>This overview of the current processes related to forms processing in the Public Sector covers optimization opportunities, related enterprise concerns, and utilization of an automated solution framework to materialize process optimizations.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/6/7/d6743a0b-05aa-4613-b519-4eeb6c1e463f/ps%20e-forms%20processing%20-%20bdm%20deck.zip</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Karthik Ravindran</author><category>Public Sector</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>OBA RAP for Forms Processing in the Public Sector. Solution Architecture Deep Dive</title><description>This presentation provides a technical overview of an OBA Solution Architecture for the E-Forms processing solution framework.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/6/7/d6743a0b-05aa-4613-b519-4eeb6c1e463f/ps%20e-forms%20processing%20oba%20rap%20-%20architecture.zip</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Karthik Ravindran,Lamont Harrington</author><category>Public Sector</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Job Submission Developer Guide</title><description>The General Reference section of the Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 Job Submission Sample Developer Guide provides topics that demonstrate how you can increase the computational power and reliability of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks by using a high-performance computing (HPC) solution composed of Excel Services, Excel 2007, and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. This developer guide is accompanied by a sample download.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb462928.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Mission Critical</category><category>Common Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and Business Intelligence</title><description>In this webcast, we discuss business intelligence (BI) (advanced reporting) integration with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site. We demonstrate configuration of Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007, key performance indicators (KPIs), and more. We use the Report Center template and show you how you can easily integrate line-of-business (LOB) data into your site.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032342267%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lynn Langit,Mike Benkovich</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Under the Hood</title><description>This white paper describes how Microsoft developed the Application Templates, identifying best practices for how to work with core capabilities within both Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, with the goal of empowering customers and partners to create their own applications.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;p=101&amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dc49a6b00-e0aa-4102-b585-b25cd3cbb383%26DisplayLang%3den</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Office Business Applications (OBA) in Healthcare</title><description>Health care industry is facing many challenges ranging from increasing costs to inflexible and brittle applications. Clinics and hospitals have many solutions, however most of these applications function well and serve their purpose in fixed silos. Join us to learn more about the Office 2007 platform and how you can build better applications or how you can use this platform to extend and expand your existing applications.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032336405%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Healthcare</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>2007 Office Sample: Using the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags with the 2007 Office System</title><description>Learn how to build custom applications that use the business data catalog and smart tags. This code sample and white paper walks through a custom solution that integrates LOB data with Office. The solution uses product information to support the creation of a quote sheet.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=585dca89-c9fe-442f-91f6-cdaaa2e9939d&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture (CERA) for Health Plans</title><description>There are many barriers to engaging consumers in their health. Personal technology can bridge this barrier and help in reaching consumers. Utilizing the compelling office business application platform a reference architecture is created. This reference architecture demonstrates the use of building blocks to quickly assemble an engaging solution for consumers. It demonstrates many ways to collaborate with the consumers and coach them in improving their health.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb964538.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Hector Rodriguez,Keith Cox,Moin Moinuddin,Dennis Schmuland</author><category>Health Plans</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture (CERA) for Health Plans. The Business User Experience</title><description>This presentation provides the business challenges and benefits of CERA for Health Plans. It provides an overview of the business challenges in health plan industry and an explanation of how the Office application platform addresses these challenges. This presentation will also explain how other personal technologies such as Windows Live platform, Mobile platform, media center, etc can help in engaging members in improving their health and reducing health costs.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/9/a/59a883b9-3995-423f-8195-15e3bdb0dfc3/cera-bdm.zip</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Keith Cox,Dennis Schmuland</author><category>Health Plans</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture (CERA) for Health Plans. A Technical View</title><description>This presentation walks through the process of building a reference architecture. It demonstrates the steps involved in using Windows Live ID for authentication, collaborating between the health and wellness coach and the member, and building an OBA (Office Business Application) for health plans. It also outlines the technical challenges, solutions architecture, and the associated technologies.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/9/a/59a883b9-3995-423f-8195-15e3bdb0dfc3/cera-tdm_ppt.zip</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Hector Rodriguez,Moin Moinuddin</author><category>Health Plans</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Sites and Templates in SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio</title><description>In this webcast, we dive into how the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services can enable you to take Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 even further. We start with an overview of project types and show how you can add event handlers, site definitions, and more into your tool belt. We look at creating site templates and master pages for SharePoint Server 2007, and we provide an example of how to customize and replace templates.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032342258%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lynn Langit,Mike Benkovich</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Office Live Developer Guide</title><description>The Microsoft Office Live Developer Guide is intended for small business owners who want to customize the business applications and workspaces that are included with Microsoft Office Live. It is also useful for developers who are creating solutions on the Microsoft Office Live platform.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa973399.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Web 2.0</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology</title><description>In this session, we review the new search features available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We look at the challenges IT professionals face when trying to support disparate information repositories, and we explain how SharePoint Server 2007 can help you address these issues. We also explore the other new features and the enhanced architecture of SharePoint Server 2007, including a look at some specific usage scenarios.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032341244%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Matt Hester</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Select the Right Combination of SharePoint, Windows WF, and BizTalk for Your Orchestration Needs</title><description>Developing and deploying business processes will typically utilize some combination of: Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Communications Foundation (WCF), BizTalk, and SharePoint. While most of requirements can be met with some combination of the aforementioned tools and technologies, risk management should be the deciding factor for determining how a business process is designed, developed, deployed, and managed.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032340933%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Christoph Schittko</author><category>Messages and Services</category><category>Workflow</category><category>Methodologies</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Service-Oriented Architecture</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and SharePoint</title><description>Microsoft SharePoint provides a great infrastructure for quickly building intranet and Internet applications. ASP.NET AJAX version 1.0 provides a foundation for creating highly productive Web interfaces. Put them together and you can create great things! We cover the basics of working with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 inside of Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn how you can integrate ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint and use various ASP.NET AJAX tools.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032340725%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Ammerlaan</author><category>User Experience</category><category>Methodologies</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Web Parts and Workflows in SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio</title><description>In this webcast, we discuss and demonstrate the creation of Web parts and workflows for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services and the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0 workflow extensions to customize and create both Web parts and workflows. Join us to learn about the concept of features as they relate to SharePoint Server 2007 Web Parts.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032342261%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lynn Langit,Mike Benkovich</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Workflow in SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007: Out-of-the-Box and Creating Custom Workflows</title><description>In this session, we discuss the integration of Windows Workflow Foundation into Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0; how workflows are designed, stored, and used; and which capabilities are enhanced by taking advantage of client and server technology. We explain different authoring tools and techniques, including how to create no-code workflows using Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and provide guidance on deployment and management in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032340735%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ed Hild,Alex Starykh</author><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Guidelines to Design and Develop Acessible Web Sites</title><description>This white paper is intended to help readers better understand the issues involved in making Web sites accessible to people with disabilities, a legal obligation that also benefits all users of the Web. In this regard, we will examine using Microsoft products and technologies to design and develop Web sites that comply with accessibility guidelines.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=35487ef8-8e92-4f3b-96bf-2dfd7f4602d2&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category><category>Web 2.0</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>2007 Office System: Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats</title><description>The new Open XML file formats in the 2007 Microsoft Office system are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. Open XML files are accessible as part of the WinFX technologies in the System.IO.Packaging namespace. This SDK is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb448854.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>2007 Office System: Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats</title><description>The new Open XML file formats in the 2007 Microsoft Office system are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. Open XML files are accessible as part of the WinFX technologies in the System.IO.Packaging namespace. This SDK is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ad0b72fb-4a1d-4c52-bdb5-7dd7e816d046&amp;displaylang=en</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Credit Suisse Develops and Deploys SOX 404 Compliance Solution using SQL Server 2005</title><description>Credit Suisse, based in Zurich, Switzerland, provides investment banking, private banking, and asset management services to clients in more than 50 countries. Because its shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the company had to comply with regulations specifying internal controls introduced by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) Section 404. Credit Suisse needed a solution scalable and integrable with its line of business operations.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b0d4a6fe-c644-4bbb-b421-d920c280368c&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Banking</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Business Data Catalog Overview</title><description>Join this webcast as we explain the concepts surrounding the Business Data Catalog (BDC), a new business integration feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We demonstrate the use of an application definition file (ADF) to create the connection between your Windows SharePoint Services site and a custom data source, and we show you how to use an ADF creation tool. We conclude this webcast with a discussion of the various ways we have worked with the BDC in production.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032340880%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lynn Langit,Mike Benkovich</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Optimize Your Business Productivity Infrastructure with the 2007 Microsoft Office System</title><description>Join this webcast to learn how the correct business infrastructure can enable your people to communicate and collaborate more effectively with customers, partners, processes, and information using the familiar desktop and server software. Discover how optimizing your business productivity infrastructure can provide teams across the company with faster, easier access to the information they need using powerful and pervasive search capabilities from Microsoft.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032337312%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Stephanie Doakes</author><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Office Business Application Reference Application Pack for Price Management</title><description>This paper walks through a solution that plays itself many times in real-world enterprises. The reference application pack (RAP) provides a basic reference for solving price-management challenges. However, the solution highlights a very capable platform that is appropriate for use in solving a wide variety of business challenges around line-of-business (LOB) augmentation and integration.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb508937.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Joseph Fultz,Michael Riley,Moin Moinuddin,Ellen Terry,Laura Preslan</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Transform Your Business With SharePoint</title><description>Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a business productivity server that brings information management and access, collaboration, and people-driven processes into the familiar environment where people do their work every day. With SharePoint Products and Technologies, your organizations can more easily leverage their knowledge capital of enterprise data, human expertise, process knowledge, and content to operate with greater agility in a dynamic and complex world.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf5bb5e2-909d-4910-a8bb-3f4718bee8f7&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet Webcast: Controlling Your SharePoint Server 2007 Sites with IT Governance</title><description>In this session, we show you how to manage shared service providers, including using profiles, personalized sites, and audiences, to deliver customized content to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 users. We demonstrate the security, policy, and auditing features available to you and other administrators of your SharePoint sites. We explore the powerful auditing capabilities that enable you to see who does what throughout the SharePoint Server 2007 farm.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032338675%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Kevin Remde</author><category>System Management and Services</category><category>Mission Critical</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of Forefront Security for SharePoint</title><description>Forefront Security for SharePoint includes multiple antivirus scan engines from industry-leading security firms integrated into a single solution to help you protect SharePoint Products and Technologies against the latest viruses and other malicious software. Forefront also provides a content control solution that offers comprehensive collaboration security using layered defenses and corporate content policy enforcement to help keep document libraries secure and available.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032338141%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Blain Barton</author><category>System Management and Services</category><category>Mission Critical</category><category>Common Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Windows SharePoint Services and Forms Services</title><description>In this webcast, we explore InfoPath 2007 as a form tool and describe how you can host forms centrally via the InfoPath Forms Services feature of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. We demonstrate both how to customize an included template form and how to create a custom form that connects to SQL Server. Next, we illustrate how to configure the Windows SharePoint Services administrative Web site, required to set up appropriate permissions (and other settings) to use InfoPath Forms Services.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032341105%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lynn Langit,Mike Benkovich</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Hosting</title><description>This technical white paper details the deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007 within Microsoft, including the benefits and lessons learned, which may be helpful to other enterprises considering a large-scale implementation of Office SharePoint Server 2007.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ac03b947-7fe8-4c0b-91dd-083de40e07d7&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Windows SharePoint Services and Content Types</title><description>We review the concept of content types as they relate to Windows SharePoint Services sites. We explain the included content types first. We then discuss why you may want to update the built-in content types or create your own. We demonstrate how to create custom content types and provide several business examples of why and where you might wish to do this. We conclude this session by showing some of the newly created content types in action on a Windows SharePoint Services site.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032341101%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lynn Langit,Mike Benkovich</author><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Using Visual Basic to Create an Excel Chart Based on SQL Server Data</title><description>Join this hands-on lab to learn how to copy data from the Microsoft SQL Server Express Northwind sample database into its own page in a Microsoft Office Excel workbook, format the data for display, and create a chart based upon the data. We start by creating an Excel workbook project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and laying out the spreadsheet. Then we code, hook up event handlers, and add code to import the data. Finally, we add the chart to the spreadsheet.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032333235%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Bryan Baker</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Site Collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0</title><description>Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes a powerful new infrastructure for auditing user access to list items, and documents and pages. In Windows SharePoint Services, auditing is configured on a site collection-by-site collection basis. It just takes a few lines of code to fully enable the auditing for an entire site collection. When you do this, Windows SharePoint Services writes an audit entry to its audit log each time a user views or modifies a list item, document, or site page.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb418729.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ted Pattison</author><category>Life Sciences</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Office from the Experts: Paul Ballard</title><description>Join this webcast as we interview Paul Ballard, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System expert and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Learn from the experiences Paul has had using Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office and see an example of the solutions he builds. Finally, learn the top three things Paul thinks you should know when you work with Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032337933%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Hernandez,Paul Ballard</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services</title><description>Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes a powerful new infrastructure for auditing user access to pages, and document and list items. You can enable auditing for an entire site collection, but it can be more efficient to enable auditing with more granularity. For example, you might want to enable auditing for one specific list or document library. You can go even further and just enable auditing for one specific list item or one specific document.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb418730.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ted Pattison</author><category>Life Sciences</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Applied business intelligence and reporting with SoftArtisans OfficeWriter</title><description>In this webcast we will review how several companies in banking, insurance and capital markets are applying Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, Microsoft Office and SoftArtisans OfficeWriter to gain business insight and improve the design, creation and deployment of powerful reporting tools. By simply using common Office knowledge, you�ll see how financial service companies throughout the world have been able to avoid expensive reporting solutions while exceeding their users� business needs.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032336393%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>Financial Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>SharePoint Server 2007 Templates: All Role-Based My Site Templates</title><description>Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites are custom templates designed for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the My Site functionality and tailored to address the unique needs and requirements of specific roles within an organization. The templates extend the standard My Site functionality, providing a personal portal and dashboard with data relevant to your job role and displaying information in a way that is familiar, easy, and built around the way people in the company work.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=516b95c5-9133-46c4-a01f-d7598780dc17&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Workflow and Windows SharePoint Services</title><description>In this webcast, we discuss the ability to use, update, and create custom workflows that you can employ in your Windows SharePoint Services site. We show the built-in workflow capabilities in Windows SharePoint Services, and we also demonstrate what customizations are available. In addition, we describe how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to open, view, and modify included workflows.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032341098%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lynn Langit,Mike Benkovich</author><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Office Straight from the Experts: Tim Huckaby</title><description>Join this webcast as we interview Tim Huckaby, expert in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO). Tim shares some of his experiences with using VSTO and provides an example of the types of solutions he has built. Finally, learn the top three things Tim thinks you should know when working with VSTO.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032334210%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Tim Huckaby,Mike Hernandez</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Guided Hands-on Lab: Building a Word Document Using Visual Basic and SQL Server Data</title><description>Join this hands-on lab to learn how to take advantage of data in a more traditional data store using a Microsoft Office Word document. We create a Word document that uses bookmarks as locations for inserting text retrieved from the Microsoft SQL Server Northwind sample database. We use ADO.NET to connect and retrieve the data, and then we insert the data in the Word document at the specified bookmark.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032333202%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Peter Thok</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>MS Office Customer Evidence: Corgi Case Study</title><description /><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ef0dc398-259a-4eaf-9713-c447aa4c09fd&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>SharePoint Products and Technologies for Developers: Site Conversion to Windows SharePoint Services</title><description>Do you have a portal site that you would like to host in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? In this third installment of our series on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for developers, see what is involved in the process of moving a portal site to Windows SharePoint Services. Topics we cover include: using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to customize the master page, creating new content types, and working with workflow.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032340027%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Benkovich</author><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet: SharePoint Products and Technologies Security from Service Accounts to Item-Level Access</title><description>In this session, we describe effective techniques that can help you secure Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn about the benefits and limitations of several different authentication methods, in addition to the management and role of permissions in SharePoint groups. We also discuss different permission levels and highlight the new levels that are available in SharePoint Server 2007.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032338340%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Matt Hester</author><category>Identity and Access</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Office Straight from the Experts: Robert Green</title><description>Join this webcast as we interview Robert Green, expert in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO). Robert shares some of his experiences with using VSTO and provides an example of the types of solutions he has built. Finally, learn the top three things Robert thinks you should know when working with VSTO.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032334207%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Robert Green,Mike Hernandez</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Explore New Mobile Messaging Capabilities with Exchange 2007</title><description>Mobile messaging has changed the way people work, and this change has made the security of mobile devices a greater concern. Get an overview of how Exchange Server 2007 improves the user experience and helps you manage an increasingly mobile workforce.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/05/Mobility/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Yee-Chen Tjie</author><category>Common Services</category><category>Mobile Computing</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Better Compliance with Exchange Server 2007</title><description>The need to protect corporate assets and ensure regulatory compliance imposes a significant burden on IT departments. Find out how new features in Exchange Server 2007 can help you safeguard data and maintain regulatory compliance.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/05/Compliance/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Alan Maddison</author><category>Financial Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Infrastructure Optimization: Empower People to Find Information and Expertise with Enterprise Search</title><description>Join this webcast to see how enterprise search solutions empowers you with familiar, integrated user interfaces (UIs) to help you meet the business challenges associated with finding, using, and sharing information across your enterprise. Learn how enterprise search solutions can help reduce the time your people spend looking for information by providing business-ready search capabilities that quickly, securely, and seamlessly locate the most relevant business information.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032329270%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>David Swanson,Karl Kuhnhausen</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery Strategies for SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>In this session, learn about the available tools and methods to help protect your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments. We discuss content recovery and offer proactive strategies for disaster recovery planning. We also provide recommendations for achieving and maintaining high availability with your SharePoint Server 2007 farm.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032334638%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Bryan Von Axelson</author><category>Security by Design</category><category>Mission Critical</category><category>Common Services</category><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats</title><description>Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Office Straight from the Experts: Ken Getz</title><description>Join this webcast as we interview Ken Getz, expert in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO). Ken shares some of his experiences with using VSTO and provides an example of the types of solutions he has built. Finally, learn the top three things Ken thinks you should know when working with VSTO.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032334195%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ken Getz,Mike Hernandez</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages Enterprise Search with SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>In this presentation, we describe how Microsoft manages enterprise search services within the corporate intranet. We examine how the Microsoft IT team has run Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in production for over a year. Learn how the IT team planned for the move from Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007 and implemented the migration.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032334379%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lauri Ellis,Mark Swenson</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Get the Facts on Reporting in SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>Attend this session to learn how these capabilities include: Cross-site and cross-list reporting support; Prebuilt reports; Flexible report building; Easy report sharing with scheduled e-mail; Dynamic reporting links with Microsoft Office Excel and; Rich data analysis with Excel and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032334193%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Eamonn McGuinness</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Momentum Webcast: Financial Management and Business Intelligence Solutions for a High-Performance Wo</title><description>We share insights, demonstrations, and road maps for financial management and BI solutions that integrate seamlessly with the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Register now to learn how other companies have used innovative strategies, combined with these powerful, easy-to-implement business solutions, to gain a competitive edge, improve financial performance, and solve everyday business challenges.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032332572%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Sherril McLeod</author><category>Data</category><category>Financial Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2007</title><description>In this second installment of our series, we look at Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, a new product for creating standards-based Web sites. See how you can build powerful applications on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies platform to enhance your productivity and deliver rich-looking sites. Join this session to learn how you can use SharePoint Designer 2007 to take advantage of ASP.NET 2.0, Web Parts, and integration with SharePoint Products and Technologies.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032334735%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Benkovich</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Sahil Malik on Sharepoint 2007 Part 4</title><description>Sahil returns this time with a great introduction to the Business Data Catalog. The BDC lets you integrate data from multiple sources into your Sharepoint website using ADO.NET or web services. There is even a full-featured search engine.</description><link>http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=62</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Sahil Malik</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet Webcast: Extending Search Capabilities with Office SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>Discover how you can deliver a better search experience by: Tuning the relevance engine based on search queries and usage; Using scripting to managing keywords and best bets; Customizing the search results page and; Integrating search into existing line-of-business (LOB) applications.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032325469%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Stefan Nilsson,Karl Kuhnhausen</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>SharePoint Server 2007 as a Development Platform</title><description>We cover the basics of SharePoint Server 2007, and we show how you can use this new product to simplify collaboration, development, and management of your software projects. Learn what it takes to set up SharePoint Server 2007, customize the master pages, and how you can use other tools to develop custom applications.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032334733%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Benkovich</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>South Holland District Council uses the 2007 Office to improve collaboration and measure performance</title><description>South Holland District Council uses the 2007 Microsoft Office system to improve collaboration and measure performance. The South Holland District Council (SHDC) needs to upgrade and automate its current information and records management technology. SHDC would also like to calculate progress against key performance indicators more accurately.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dd3085d7-63d6-42f4-86c2-693bd0fea320&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables</title><description>Microsoft Office Excel 2007 takes advantage of most of the features in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. To take full advantage of these features, it is important to keep in mind the end-user experience in Office Excel 2007 when you are designing cubes.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2d779cd5-eeb2-43e9-bdfa-641ed89edb6c&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of Excel Services</title><description>Attend this session to learn how you can reuse spreadsheet models with Excel Services through a scalable server-based calculation service. We illustrate how Excel Services provides a Web-based UI for browser-based access and a Web services API for programmatic access, both of which have robust options for controlling data available to users and applications.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032330083%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Matt Hester</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: MSDN Unwrapped for Financial Services: the 2007 Office System Business Platform</title><description>Join this webcast to learn about the 2007 Microsoft Office system as a business architecture platform. We discuss how the 2007 Office system can help you meet the top financial services challenges, such as workflow management, regulatory compliance, and document management (auditing, routing, and approvals). In this session, we review a mortgage loan origination scenario to highlight how organizations can apply these concepts in the financial services industry.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032334180%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Walker</author><category>Financial Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>InfoPath 2007 Document: Developing InfoPath 2007 Managed-Code Solutions</title><description>Learn about some of the extensibility options that are available in Office InfoPath 2007 when you use managed code. This document provides guidance for working with both InfoPath-only and browser form scenarios and identifies some simple code functions that are common to many custom forms solutions.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=db1d99d9-0a31-45de-8efb-16c75e194dc3&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>SharePoint Server 2007 Presentations: Enterprise Search Deep Dives</title><description>This download presents packaged presentations and videos of the following conference sessions: Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities; SharePoint Search Extensibility; Protocol Handlers and IFilters; Customizing and Extending Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007; Business Data Search and; SharePoint Search Deployment Scenarios</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2751D5CD-8690-44B5-AE5C-D2769B227929&amp;displaylang=en</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Extending SharePoint Server 2007 Search Capabilities by Exposing Data with the Business Data Catalog</title><description>In this webcast, we show you how the Business Data Catalog (BDC), a new feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, enables you to index and present business data securely from a variety of sources and applications throughout your organization, without the need for complex coding.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032325420%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Karl Kuhnhausen</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems</title><description>Developing and modifying products in an agile manner enables banks to be highly competitive and adaptable in key markets. To achieve these objectives the Office Business Application (OBA) Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems (OR-LOS) will provide: Architectural Guidance and Application Building Blocks.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb265266.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Kannan Iyer,Mike Walker</author><category>Banking</category><category>Identity and Access</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems</title><description>Developing and modifying products in an agile manner enables banks to be highly competitive and adaptable in key markets. To achieve these objectives the Office Business Application (OBA) Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems (OR-LOS) will provide: Architectural Guidance and Application Building Blocks.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032287588&amp;amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Kannan Iyer,Mike Walker</author><category>Banking</category><category>Identity and Access</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>2007 Office System Document: 2007 Office System Logical Architecture Diagram</title><description>This diagram illustrates the relationship between the different client and server applications within the 2007 Office system as well as the related technology and development tools.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=14c6b1c1-ad26-4ed0-87b8-b691ebdd9662&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Office Open XML Formats: Retrieving Excel 2007 Cell Values</title><description>Imagine that you need to retrieve information about a specific cell within an Excel workbook or set of workbooks. The ability to perform this operation without requiring you to load Excel 2007 and then load the workbooks, one after another, can be an incredible time saver, and the Office Open XML File Formats make this task possible.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb332058.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ken Getz</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Office Open XML Formats: Retrieving Lists of Excel 2007 Worksheets</title><description>Imagine that you need to retrieve a list of all the worksheets within an Excel workbook or set of workbooks. The ability to perform this operation without requiring you to load Excel 2007 and then load the workbooks, one after another, can be an incredible time saver, and the Office Open XML File Formats make this task possible.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb332456.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ken Getz</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technical Drilldown</title><description>In this webcast, we review the new Search features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We look at the challenges you face supporting disparate repositories, and we illustrate how SharePoint Server 2007 can help you address those issues. Discover the new features and enhanced architecture of SharePoint Server 2007 as we explore some specific SharePoint Server 2007 usage scenarios.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032330508%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Matt Hester</author><category>Common Services</category><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>TechNet Webcast: Business Intelligence Using the 2007 Microsoft Office System</title><description>Discover how the 2007 Microsoft Office system can deliver the power of business intelligence to people across your organization. No longer limited by expensive and complicated tools, all of your employees can now benefit from the power and flexibility of business intelligence delivered through products, which your users are likely to be familiar with, Microsoft Office programs.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032327293%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Alex Payne</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Sahil Malik on Sharepoint 2007 Part 3</title><description>Sahil is back and this time he's getting deep down into .NET code in sharepoint for things like profile management and making custom ASP.NET webpart editors.</description><link>http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=55</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Sahil Malik</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Architecting Enterprise Loan Workflows and Orchestrations</title><description>This article will serve as a guide for architects who want to design, enhance, or augment existing workflows from within the loan-origination channel. It is part of a series of articles that describe the Loan-Origination Reference Architecture Pack (RAP). This article will focus solely on the workflow and orchestration capabilities of the RAP.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb330937.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Walker</author><category>Workflow</category><category>Banking</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System</title><description>Learn to create a development environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System. See examples of common application solutions that you can create using this system.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb330848.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Keith Bunge,Bryan Hart,Alex Hart</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Extend The 2007 Office System With Your Own Ribbon Tabs And Controls</title><description>This article discusses: an introduction to the Ribbon; RibbonX controls and features; upgrading add-ins to use RibbonX and; building add-ins for Word and Excel</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/02/ribbonx/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Eric Faller</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Develop Add-Ins For PowerPoint And Visio Using VSTO</title><description>This article discusses: extensibility for Microsoft Office applications; PowerPoint object model and Visio object model</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/02/OfficeAddIns/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Stubbs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>Building Office Business Applications</title><description>The 2007 Office system provides a set of servers, clients, and tools to make it easier for enterprises and software vendors to build and deploy composite applications in the enterprise. These solutions, called Office Business Applications (OBAs), are quick to build and deploy; empower end users through extensive personalization capabilities; and are easy to change when business needs require. This paper shows how to architect 2007 Microsoft Office composite applications.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/bb266337.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Context-Driven Access via Microsoft Office</title><description>Aggregating document-centric content from heterogeneous systems is an ongoing challenge for system architects—as it is for the information workers who require that content. It is a major challenge to help customers improve the efficiency of their sales and customer service operations. Open Text solved this problem using Microsoft Office and the Information Bridge Framework.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/bb266331.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Thomas Demmler</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Building Custom Search WebParts with SAP NetWeaver Portal for SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)</title><description>Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) introduces an enterprise-level server for Compositon of Applicatons, Aggregation of Information, Collaboration and Document Management including Search as a significant evolution of the SharePoint Server platform. It supports strongly the unification of enterprise data across unstructured documents, structured business data, and people to enable federated search across them.</description><link>http://www.microsoft-sap.com/pdf/MOSSEnterpriseSearch_NetWeaverPortal.pdf</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lei Liu,Tilo Böttcher</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Sahil Malik on Sharepoint 2007 Part 2</title><description>Sahil takes us further into Sharepoint 2007 showing us how to create and manage content types.</description><link>http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=48</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Sahil Malik,Carl Franklin</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) in the Datacenter.</title><description>This presentation focuses on some initial MOSS 2007 infrastructure architectural areas, for infrastructure architects interested in understanding this productivity platform and how it operates in the datacenter.  This presentation investigates seven core areas for the infrastructure architect: Components,  Business Data Catalogs, Deployment, Availability, Capacity Planning, Search Architecture and an Enterprise Layout example</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/media/MOSS-in-Datacenter.asx</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lewis Curtis</author><category>Capacity and Performance</category><category>Mission Critical</category><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Sample Composite Applications in the Enterprise</title><description>This paper is the fourth in a set of composite applications. This one will provide more specific guidance for building enterprise applications, with a focus on enterprises that manufacture goods and get them to retail outlets through distribution networks.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb245763.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>The 2007 Microsoft Office System and Other Platform Technologies for Building Composite Applications</title><description>This paper first will walk through the capabilities of various platform technologies that make up the Microsoft platform, and then will discuss the various containers provided by these platform technologies. Note that these composite business applications are called Office Business Applications (OBAs), as most user interactions are through client and server components of the 2007 Microsoft Office System.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb220802.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Office Business Applications: Building Composite Applications Using the Microsoft Platform</title><description>This book is about composite applications and how they can be developed as OBAs using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. It provides an overview of the technologies available in the 2007 Microsoft Office System, and gives several examples from various industries to build OBAs using composition at the presentation, business-logic, and data layers.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb220800.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Moin Moinuddin,Mike Walker,Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>Retail</category><category>Composite Applications</category><category>Financial Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Service-Oriented Architecture</category></item><item><title>Office Business Applications: Building Composite Applications Using the Microsoft Platform</title><description>This book is about composite applications and how they can be developed as OBAs using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. It provides an overview of the technologies available in the 2007 Microsoft Office System, and gives several examples from various industries to build OBAs using composition at the presentation, business-logic, and data layers.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=736b9708-a332-4aa7-a4d9-5971c486b9e1&amp;displaylang=en</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Moin Moinuddin,Mike Walker,Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>Retail</category><category>Composite Applications</category><category>Financial Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Service-Oriented Architecture</category></item><item><title>Financial Services OBA</title><description>This white paper will walk you through a loan-origination scenario. This scenario is tailored for the banking industry. It will provide guidance for making architecture decisions around real-world business and technology issues that plague the banking industry.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb245764.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Walker</author><category>Composite Applications</category><category>Financial Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Deploying Composite Applications in the Enterprise</title><description>This paper drills down into architectural patterns for deploying composite applications in the enterprise. These patterns will then be leveraged in subsequent articles to provide guidance that is specific to particular industry verticals.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb220801.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Retail Industry OBAs</title><description>Retailers are faced with the enormous challenges of globalization, regulation, growing costs, and demanding customers. In addition to these changing market conditions, there are now multiple channels to reach customers. All of this increases the need for flexibility and agility in the business applications.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb245765.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Moin Moinuddin</author><category>Retail</category><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Programming Outlook 2007 (Part 2 of 2)</title><description>What application is the first one you start in the morning? What is the one you are looking at all day? What application pops up messages that grab your attention instantly and cause you to switch context so you can reply to that mail right way? People know Outlook, they live in Outlook so why not build business functionality in the Outlook platform? Previously the answer was "It's too difficult" but now with Office 2007 the Outlook programming model has been vastly improved.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=265855</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Randy Byrne,Ron Jacobs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>2007 Office System Document: Bringing Web 2.0 to the Enterprise with the 2007 Office System</title><description>This white paper explores how the 2007 Microsoft Office system allows enterprises to adopt Web 2.0 ideas and technologies to create high-value, user-driven applications for the Internet and intranet.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b48bd31-f043-4ab4-96eb-c6e958fe4ec9&amp;DisplayLang=en</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Web 2.0</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Programming Outlook 2007 (Part 1 of 2)</title><description>What application is the first one you start in the morning? What is the one you are looking at all day? What application pops up messages that grab your attention instantly and cause you to switch context so you can reply to that mail right way? People know Outlook, they live in Outlook so why not build business functionality in the Outlook platform? Previously the answer was "It's too difficult" but now with Office 2007 the Outlook programming model has been vastly improved.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=265520</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Randy Byrne,Ron Jacobs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>Windows Vista and Office 2007 for Architects</title><description>This one hour session discusses the capabilities of Microsoft Windows Vista and 2007 Office System from the perspective of solution architects; it provides a brief overview of how the new technologies can assist you in areas like security, interoperability, agility, workflow and SOA through slides and demonstrations. Finally, it demonstrates through real-world solutions how companies have started to architect the next generation business systems leveraging .NET 3.0, Vista and Office 2007.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/media/VistaAndOfficeForArchitects.asx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mohammad Akif</author><category>User Experience</category><category>Workflow</category><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item><item><title>2007 Office System Document: Compliance Features in the 2007 Microsoft Office System</title><description>This white paper showcases compliance-related features and extensibility opportunities with the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and demonstrates how the Office system can help you meet the demands of regulatory compliance. By focusing on a few core products, including SharePoint Server, Office client-side applications, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, this paper introduces built-in features of the Office system that address compliance requirements.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d64dfb49-aa29-4a4b-8f5a-32c922e850ca&amp;displaylang=en</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life Sciences</category><category>Manufacturing</category><category>Financial Services</category><category>Healthcare</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Exchange 2007 Architecture and Deployment</title><description>This session introduces new architectural and deployment features in Exchange 2007, including improvements in the installation process, the existence of new server roles specific to E12, and upgrade and migration paths from Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003. It also describes architectural changes to message routing and administrative group design.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=291</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jim McBee</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Delivering Anywhere Access: Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging</title><description>Exchange 2007's Unified Messaging server role allows you to unify voice, fax, and message data into a single inbox that users can access via the web, through Outlook 2007, or on Windows Mobile or Macintosh clients. This session describes the Unified Messaging server role, introduces the new Outlook Voice Access component, and explains how to integrate it into your existing telephony infrastructure.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=293</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lasse Pettersson</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Exchange Server 2007 Management</title><description>This session describes new management and monitoring features in Exchange 2007; it presents the new ESM interface, explains and demonstrates the Exchange Management Shell, and highlights some of the new management, reporting, and monitoring capabilities delivered in E12.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=292</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jim McBee</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Enhancing Messaging with Real-Time Communications</title><description>Messaging and calendaring are important, but sometimes what you need is instantaneous, real-time communications. This session describes how to extend your communications environment with Live Communications Server 2005 and Office Communicator to take advantage of enhanced presence, call control, and Voice over IP capabilities alongside your messaging system.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=294</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lasse Pettersson</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Plan for availability (Office SharePoint Server)</title><description>This article describes the availability options for the server roles included in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm. After reading this article, you will be able to identify and record the availability options that are appropriate for your environment.</description><link>http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9ccfb27f-ecba-4b7d-b9a0-88fac71478a31033.mspx?mfr=true</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Capacity and Performance</category><category>Mission Critical</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Hosting the InfoPath 2007 Form Editing Environment in a Custom Windows Form Application</title><description>The Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form editing environment can be hosted in a custom Windows Form application by using the Form Control. Learn how to incorporate this control into your application, work with the XML data generated by the Form Control, and use IOLECommands to replicate functionality of the Office InfoPath 2007 form editing environment.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa701079.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Talley</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Hosting the InfoPath 2007 Form Editing Environment in a Custom Web Form</title><description>InfoPath Forms Services, as part of either Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, renders the XmlFormView ASP.NET control in a custom Web page. Learn how to use the XmlFormView ASP.NET control, together with InfoPath Forms Services, to create custom Web pages to render browser-enabled, interactive InfoPath forms.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa701078.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Namita Sheokand,Mike Talley,Boris Rivers-Moore</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Sahil Malik on Sharepoint 2007 Part 1</title><description>Sahil Malik introduces us to Sharepoint 2007 in the first of several shows getting into the heart of the product. The focus in this episode is on configuration.</description><link>http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=43</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Sahil Malik,Carl Franklin</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Understanding Workflow in Windows SharePoint Services and the 2007 Office System</title><description>Businesses depend on business processes. While those processes often involve software, the most important processes in many organizations depend on people. Automating interactions among the people who participate in a process can improve how that process functions, increasing its efficiency and lowering its error rate. Using software that supports this kind of human workflow can make organizations more effective.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=DBBD82C7-9BDE-4974-8443-67B8F30126A8&amp;displaylang=en</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>David Chappell</author><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System</title><description>Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (also known as �Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition� or �VSTO 2005 SE�) is an add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 that enables you to build application-level add-ins for applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and the Microsoft Office 2003 System.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5E86CAB3-6FD6-4955-B979-E1676DB6B3CB&amp;displaylang=en</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Office 2007 Open XML Format (Part 2 of 2)</title><description>Have you ever wanted to read/write a word document or an excel sheet from a program? Now in Office 2007 the Open XML format allows you to read and write office documents as XML. How cool is that? Well stick around and listen to my guests today Brian Jones and Doug Mahugh as they give us the scoop on the new possibilities.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=247408</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Doug Mahugh,Brian Jones,Ron Jacobs</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Office 2007 Open XML Format (Part 1 of 2)</title><description>Have you ever wanted to read/write a word document or an excel sheet from a program? Now in Office 2007 the Open XML format allows you to read and write office documents as XML. How cool is that? Well stick around and listen to my guests today Brian Jones and Doug Mahugh as they give us the scoop on the new possibilities.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=246549</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Doug Mahugh,Brian Jones,Ron Jacobs</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>2007 Microsoft Office Suites Managed Object Model Poster</title><description>Download this poster to view a developer roadmap for the 2007 Microsoft Office system programs, tools, services, and servers.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=771AEB45-9D27-4D1F-ACD1-9B950637D64E&amp;displaylang=en</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Javed Sikander: Office 2007- Office Business Application</title><description>Javed Sikander is the Director of Industry Architecture for DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism). Recently, it was announced that Office 2007 provides a new type of application model for collaboration: Office Buisness Application (OBA). What's OBA? Tune in.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=245040</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:13:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Javed Sikander</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Building Better Business Applications Using the 2007 Microsoft Office System</title><description>The 2007 Microsoft Office system provides a set of servers, clients, and tools to make it easier for enterprises and software vendors to build and deploy Office Business Applications to connect current line-of-business systems with the people who use them through the familiar Microsoft Office user interface.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa905315</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>Retail</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>OBA Reference Architecture for Supply Change Management: Exploring the User Experience</title><description>This presentation gives a feel for what the user experience will be like for end users, as they use an Office Business Application.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/d/d/add69a7c-4eae-4ff1-80a7-97f0f3061970/Business%20User%20Experience.ppt</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>User Experience</category><category>Retail</category><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>OBA Reference Architecture for Supply Change Management: Exploring the User Experience</title><description>This presentation gives a feel for what the user experience will be like for end users, as they use an Office Business Application.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/media/ObaRap4Scm-Ux.asx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>User Experience</category><category>Retail</category><category>Composite Applications</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>OBA Reference Architecture for Supply Change Management: Understanding the Development Model</title><description>This presentation provides very detailed information on how the OBA Reference Application Pack for SCM was actually built. There is guidance around roles and responsibilities as well, to get a feel for the development model required to build these kinds of applications.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/d/d/add69a7c-4eae-4ff1-80a7-97f0f3061970/Developer%20Experience.ppt</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>Retail</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Office Business Applications: Reference Application Pack for Supply Chain Management</title><description>An example of building OBAs in your own organization, or even use this as a starter kit to jump start building your own OBAs.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=35409d4f-6d3d-4c1c-9390-cc0d70422ad6&amp;displaylang=en</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Manufacturing</category><category>Retail</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management for Content Owners and Authors</title><description>Join this webcast to learn how to use these new content management tools for creating and editing content pages, working with page and document versions, and building content workflows. We also describe the functionality of the reports list in SharePoint Server 2007 and how to set up alerts when newly submitted content awaits your approval. The presentation concludes with a look at authoring SharePoint Server 2007 content using Microsoft Office Word and InfoPath 2007.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032307695&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Andrew Connell</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Build Serious Applications Using SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>The many advances in each of the products in the 2007 Microsoft Office system together create an optimum platform for building applications and products. Enhancements in SharePoint Server 2007, Project Server 2007, and Windows SharePoint Services make the 2007 Office release a compelling platform for faster application development. We explain some of these new capabilities in this webcast and provide details of how you can take advantage of them, complete with demos and examples.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032308703&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Eamonn McGuinness</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Business Data Catalog (Part 2 of 2)</title><description>Wouldn’t it be cool if you built a middleware piece that could aggregate and expose business data to web portals, office applications like Word and Excel and even to custom business apps? Imagine power users able to search business data like they search documents in SharePoint. These are the things that are soon to come true with the Business Data Catalog in Office 2007. Mike FitzMaurice is here to give us the details on this episode.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=238622</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Fitzmaurice,Ron Jacobs</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Business Data Catalog (Part 1 of 2)</title><description>Wouldn’t it be cool if you built a middleware piece that could aggregate and expose business data to web portals, office applications like Word and Excel and even to custom business apps? Imagine power users able to search business data like they search documents in SharePoint. These are the things that are soon to come true with the Business Data Catalog in Office 2007. Mike FitzMaurice is here to give us the details on this episode.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=238151</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Fitzmaurice,Ron Jacobs</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Workflow Development and Modifications</title><description>In this webcast, we explain the concepts behind workflows in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and show how you can enable users to modify the workflow while it is running on an item. We demonstrate how to create two workflow modifications in Microsoft Visual Studio System, adding approvers and updating all tasks. We also cover how you can use the Contact Selector, an ActiveX control included with SharePoint Server 2007, to select users in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 forms.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032307359&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Eilene Hao</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Open XML Format for Architects</title><description>In this webcast created especially for architects, we provide a detailed look into the Open XML Format architecture. Join us as we dive into the various aspects including standardization, reference and sample implementation, and compatibility with existing Office documents. We then spend the remainder of the session discussing interoperability with Open Document format and programming using the Open XML format.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032306990&amp;EventCategory=4&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Doug Mahugh</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Integrating Line-of-Business Data and Applications into Your Enterprise Portal</title><description>The Business Data Catalog in SharePoint Server 2007 provides immediate integration benefits by allowing you to register Web services and data sources from a variety of systems. In the first half of this two-part webcast, learn how to use BDC-registered metadata for a wide range of tasks, such as auto-provisioning Web Parts, importing and exporting data into and out of editable lists, importing user profile information, and indexing structured business data for use in enterprise search queries.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032306984&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Fitzmaurice</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Extending the Web Content Management Features of Office SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>Find out how to extend the Web content management authoring and rendering features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Topics we cover in this webcast include extensions to the navigation system, creating new document to page converters, and creating and using custom fields and field controls.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032304828&amp;EventCategory=4&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Infrastructure Architecture</category><category>Management</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Building Collaborative Applications Without Code Using Office SharePoint Designer 2007</title><description>Learn how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to build productive and efficient solutions on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. In this webcast, we explain how you can use SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and deploy interactive Web solutions—without writing any code. We also describe how to build reporting and tracking applications and collaborative workflows, and show you how to customize Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services application templates.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032303794&amp;EventCategory=4&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Rob Mauceri</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>Ted Pattison Shows Us SharePoint (#189)</title><description>Ted Pattison brings us up to date on SharePoint technologies including SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/en/20060816TPattison/dotnetrocks_0189_ted_pattison.asx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Richard Campbell,Carl Franklin,Ted Pattison</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Developing, Deploying, and Hosting Rich Office InfoPath 2007 Client and Browser Forms</title><description>Did you know that you can design a single Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form for both the rich client and for the browser? This webcast presents this design-once process, provides best practices for debugging and deployment, and explains how to improve forms performance and scalability. Learn about hosting the InfoPath 2007 rich client in other applications, tightly integrating InfoPath 2007 forms into Web pages, and using the hosted form control to build powerful but easy-to-use solutions.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032304479&amp;EventCategory=4&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Pradeep Rasam</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Workflow and Sharepoint 2007</title><description>Sure Windows Workflow Foundation is a very cool part of .NET Framework 3.0 but there is something else that I find very compelling and that is the great work that the Office 2007 team has done to add support for Workflow in Sharepoint 2007. On this episode of ARCast we are going to be speaking with David Chappell who has been doing some writing on this topic so tune in and keep up!</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=224539</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>David Chappell,Ron Jacobs</author><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Integrating Your Solutions with the 2007 Microsoft Office System User Interface</title><description>In the UI of the 2007 Office system, the Ribbon is a region at the top of the screen that presents an easy-to-browse main set of commands for a particular program. This webcast describes and demonstrates how to work with Ribbon Extensibility, or RibbonX, to integrate your solutions into the Ribbon. Learn about the new feature set and control types that enable you to present rich entry points to your 2007 Office solutions. We also offer best practices for integrating your solutions.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032303792&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Savraj Dhanjal</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Introduction to Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System</title><description>In this webcast, we introduce Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office for users of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Learn how to create application-level customizations (add-ins) for many of the applications in the 2007 Office system, how to customize the look and feel of an application created with Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office by extending the Ribbon feature of the UI, and how to create a custom task pane with only a few lines of code.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032303790&amp;EventCategory=4&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Eric Carter</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>Accessing Pocket Outlook in Your Windows Mobile 5.0 Application</title><description>Using the Windows Mobile 5.0 Managed APIs in combination with the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 it's very easy to access Pocket Outlook information on your Pocket PC or Smartphone device. Microsoft Embedded MVP Maarten Struys shows how to do this using Visual Studio 2005.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060803MobileMS/manifest.xml</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Maarten Struys</author><category>Messages and Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>New Dev-Centric Features In Office SharePoint Server Keep Your Apps Rolling</title><description>Learn how to build portal sites with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. This article covers Shared Service Providers, user profiles, and portal search; integration with the Business Data Catalog and back-end systems. Strategies for managing Web sites, business intelligence, and enterprise data.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/08/GatheringMoss/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ted Pattison</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>What You Need To Know About Using Office As A Development Platform</title><description>You are formally invited to discover the fundamental elements of the Office platform. This article offers a brief look at the object models of Office, its extensibility points and the development toolset.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/08/BusinessApps/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Andrew Whitechapel</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>MSDN Architecture Webcast: Designing Collaborative Business Processes with the 2007 Microsoft Office</title><description>2007 Microsoft Office system is designed from the ground up to enable new levels of collaboration among departments and the software they use. Using examples of typical business challenges, this webcast demonstrates how the 2007 Office system can be used to design collaborative business processes.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032303502&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Developing SharePoint Workflows Using Visual Studio 2005</title><description>This webcast covers the basics of workflow development for Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 using the Microsoft Visual Studio development system and the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation. Learn how to model your workflow with SharePoint tasks in the Windows Workflow Foundation designer, create and bind data to Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 forms, deploy to SharePoint sites, and debug on the live server.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/webcasteventdetails.aspx?eventid=1032301595&amp;eventcategory=4&amp;culture=en-us&amp;countrycode=us</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Eilene Hao</author><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Hey Architects! Meet the Office 2007 System</title><description>You are familiar with Microsoft Office as a collection of productivity software for word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, and presentations, but get ready to meet Office all over again. Listen in on this conversation with experts from the Office team as they discuss how Office has grown up.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=236236</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ron Jacobs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Hey Architects! Meet the Office 2007 System</title><description>You are familiar with Microsoft Office as a collection of productivity software for word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, and presentations, but get ready to meet Office all over again. Listen in on this conversation with experts from the Office team as they discuss how Office has grown up.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-us&amp;EventID=1032301878&amp;CountryCode=us</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ron Jacobs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast: Hey Architects! Meet the Office 2007 System (Part 2)</title><description>You are familiar with Microsoft Office as a collection of productivity software for word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, and presentations, but get ready to meet Office all over again. Listen in on this conversation with experts from the Office team as they discuss how Office has grown up.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=236871</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jay Paulus,Ron Jacobs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Overview of Developer Technologies for Windows SharePoint Services</title><description>This webcast provides an overview of the latest enhancements to developer technologies for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3). We begin with an examination of the changes to the Windows SharePoint Services data store and content management capability. This is followed by a discussion on changes to pages and the user interface of Windows SharePoint Services, focusing on integration with ASP.NET 2.0. We conclude with a look at improvements to provisioning and code deployment.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032301589&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Ammerlaan</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Amplify the Impact of Your People</title><description>This strategic briefing provides an overview of the new 2007 Microsoft Office system, an integrated system of programs, servers, and services. In particular, the session covers innovations in the client-side user interface and XML-based file formats, as well as investments in new SharePoint server-based capabilities around workflow, content management, search, forms and Excel services.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=200</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:16:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Chris Capossela</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Seven Development Projects with the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows SharePoint Services</title><description>This guide highlights architectural underpinnings, the latest enhancements for developers, and code samples for building custom applications and solutions.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/2/f/02f0f661-88e1-43c2-b523-88d2e9e6802f/7%20Development%20Projects%20with%20the%202007%20Microsoft%20Office%20System%20and%20Windows%20SharePoint%20Services%202007.pdf</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Fitzmaurice,Ted Pattison,John Pierce</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Enterprise Search Technical Drilldown on SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>Simulcast from Microsoft Tech·Ed 2006 in Boston, MA. This webcast explains how to work with the new search technology in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We demonstrate how to crawl different types of content sources and view the Gatherer Log for troubleshooting purposes. We also recommend best practices for developing a search strategy and illustrate how to implement a search strategy using different farm scenarios.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032298160&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Bill English</author><category>Common Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Service-Oriented Architecture</category></item><item><title>Office Business Applications: A New Breed of Applications on the 2007 Microsoft Office System</title><description>See how 2007 Microsoft Office system can be used to develop Office Business Applications (OBAs): a new breed of customizable solutions that address real-world business problems. This article identifies a "results gap" that contributes to reduced productivity in today's business environment, and shows why OBAs are an effective approach to achieve the "last mile of productivity."</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa479072</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Javed Sikander</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Microsoft Office Open XML Formats</title><description>Previously, binary formats meant that Office documents were treated like a "black box," but now the open XML formats allow documents to serve as a first-class source of data as they travel through workflow and other business processes and solutions. Document content can now be integrated directly with systems old and new. Generating documents based on business data for up-to-date, accurate, and rich content is now possible throughout your own solutions.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032297834&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Brian Jones</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>Mail That Speaks to You: Unified Messaging in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007</title><description>See how Exchange can take voice mail and fax messages and how you can call in over any phone to access your voice mail, e-mail, calendar, or contacts. Exchange Unified Messaging also supports a speech-enabled corporate directory service (an automated attendant) right out of the box, so that you can customize a highly professional telephone presence for your company.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032303085&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>David Howell</author><category>Messages and Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Overview and What's New</title><description>This webcast provides an overview of the features in SharePoint Server 2007, and covers technical fundamentals, new sets of server functionality, and other factors developers and IT professionals must consider. Since Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, it is recommended that you attend the "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Overview and What's New" webcast first</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032298079&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Fitzmaurice</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Deploying Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System with Business Desktop Deployment</title><description>The next version of the Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) will provide tools and guidance for deploying Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. This session explores the enhancements in BDD for Vista and shows how the Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office system deployment tools are used together for a great deployment experience.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032301258&amp;EventCategory=4&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Michael Niehaus</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Getting Started with Exchange Server 2007: Simple Installation, Setup, and Admin Scenarios</title><description>Built on a standard Microsoft installer so that you can take advantage of patching services such as the Software Update Service. New server roles so that you can flexibly deploy the topologies you require. The power to automate installation. These are just some of the new advancements in the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 setup experience. This is a must-see webcast if you are looking for an overview and walk-through of how to deploy Exchange Server 2007.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032298081&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Charlie Chung,Alexander MacLeod</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Lewis Levin on Office Business Applications</title><description>Lewis Levin, Corporate VP, discusses the Office Business Applications Strategy.   He talks about how to use Office as a way to integrate with back end ERP and CRM systems, and what is coming for developers to help them build new types of applications using Office as a platform.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=203593</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:21:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Lewis Levin</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>The 2007 Microsoft Office System Clients Applications: Overview and What's New</title><description>This webcast provides an intensive tour of these enhancements, including demonstrations of the most important new capabilities in each of the client applications; insights into migration and coexistence with the new Microsoft Office Open XML file formats; examples of client integration with the new Office SharePoint Server 2007; and a fast-paced overview of the new, streamlined Office UI.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032303078&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mark Alexieff</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Introducing System Center Operations Manager 2007</title><description>This session outlines the future of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). The majority of the session covers the next major release, MOM version 3. The session is intended both for attendees who are currently MOM customers, and for those considering a MOM deployment.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032306234&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Dhananjay Mahajan</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Next Generation of Exchange</title><description>Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the next major version of Exchange Server, represents a leap forward. Information workers can now access larger mailboxes, and e-mail administrators have a more manageable and secure e-mail infrastructure than in the past. In this webcast, we provide an overview of the Exchange Server product direction and look at some of the new features that are included in the product</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032303079&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Terry Myerson</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>The Future of Visual Studio Tools for Office</title><description>KD Hallman, Visual Studio Tools for Office team General Manager and Eric Carter, Development Manager, talk about "Cypress", a fully-supported add-on for Visual Studio 2005 that enables developers to build solutions that target Office 2007. The features and goals of this release and how it works with Office 2007 and Vista.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=201396</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>KD Hallman</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Brian Randell Checks In on Virtualization (#179)</title><description>Brian Randell talks about Virtual Machines today and tomorrow, and boasts a bit about his new monster of a machine. The discussion also touches on the rift between Microsoft and Adobe over PDF support in Office "12".</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/en/20060607BRandell/dotnetrocks_0179_brian_randell.asx</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Richard Campbell,Carl Franklin,Brian Randell</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Generating Office Documents using the New Open XML File Formats</title><description>Office 2007 provides new integration opportunities with the Open XML File Format which make it possible to generate, read and modify Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents without going through the object model of the hosting Office application. This tutorial steps through how to use the WinFX Packaging API to generate a Word 2007 docx file from scratch.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=197663</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ted Pattison</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Integrating SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Outlook, and Exchange</title><description>This webcast demonstrates how to configure key Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003, and Office Outlook integration points, such as search, e-mail in documents, and Outlook Web Access (OWA) Web parts. Learn about some of the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office Outlook 2007 integration points, such as e-mail-enabled discussion lists, two-way Outlook offline SharePoint list synchronization, and E-mail document as link features.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032298065&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Scott Jamison</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2</title><description>Preview the 2007 Microsoft Office system and gain first-hand experience with the new look and feel, features, and functionality of the 2007 Microsoft Office release.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/overview.mspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Building High-Grade Applications Using Office SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>There are many advances in each of the products in the 2007 Microsoft Office system that make it an awesome platform on which to build applications and products. Enhancements in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Office SharePoint Portal Server, and Office Project Server in particular have made this a compelling platform for faster application development. This webcast explains these changes and details how they can be used with examples.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032299275&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Eamonn McGuinness</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Policy Enforcement and Regulatory Compliance with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007</title><description>Many companies struggle to meet the changing interpretations of "compliance," while others have created new business opportunities by implementing tighter controls and increasing the transparency of their business processes. This webcast explains how the new features in the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server, code-named Exchange Server 2007, can help your company to enforce policies and comply with regulations.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032294625&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Shawn Thomas</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>The 2007 Office System Platform</title><description>How has the Office Suite evolved over the last ten years?  Mauricio Ordoñez demonstrates the capabilities of 2007 Office, a collaborative and extensible platform with many impressive features including content management and business intelligence.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/media/2007OfficeSysPlat.asx</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mauricio Ordonez</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Next Generation Industry Solutions</title><description>Atanu Banerjee talks about next generation industry solutions that will take advantage of new capabilities in the 2007 Office System, the .Net framework 3.0, and SQL Server 2005. He then discusses how the architecture and approach for building industry solutions is evolving as the platform evolves. He discusses this in the context of real world scenarios like trading partner collaboration, and integrating the plant floor to the enterprise.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/media/NextGenIndSol.asx</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Atanu Banerjee</author><category>Manufacturing</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Pairing Exchange Server 2007 with Outlook 2007 for Powerful, Secure Messaging</title><description>This webcast describes how end users in your organization can benefit when you pair the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server, Exchange Server 2007 with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Learn about the new scheduling assistant that automates tedious calendaring tasks. End users can also schedule and customize their out-of-office communications and use managed folders to facilitate regulatory compliance.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032295248&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Michael Khalili</author><category>Messages and Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Forrester: "Developers, Get Ready: 2007 Microsoft Office Is A Serious Application Platform"</title><description>The prospect of business applications that employ Outlook, Excel, and/or Word as their user interfaces is very exciting to developers who want to focus on business processes, transaction processing, content management, and other back-office value rather than building user interfaces.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/c/5/7c51c83b-d873-40ce-9405-7f792927eeca/Forr%20060522%20Rymer%20-%20Developers,%20Get%20Ready%202007%20Office.pdf</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>John R. Rymer</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office in Outlook 2003</title><description>Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System now makes it possible for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 to do many of the things that the IBM Lotus Notes client can do. Functionality such as replications to an offline store, powerful forms execution, and a first-rate development environment make it all possible. We start this webcast with a Hello World example and then demonstrate what you can do with this solution.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032294678&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>John Durant,Gary Devendorf</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Developer Introduction to Workflows for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>Get a high-level overview of how Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 implements the workflow capabilities of the Windows Workflow Foundation, and how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 extends those capabilities with symmetrical Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 forms.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa830816.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Andrew May</author><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Introducing the Microsoft Office (2007) Open XML File Formats</title><description>Learn the benefits of the Microsoft Office (2007) Open XML Formats. Users can exchange data between Office applications and enterprise systems using XML and ZIP technologies. Documents are universally accessible. And, you reduce the risk of damaged files.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/ms406049.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Frank Rice</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Developing Solutions Using the Consolidated Outlook 2007 Object Model</title><description>Learn about new platform features in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Randy Byrne and Ryan Gregg give an overview of the unification, security, performance, and forms improvements in this release. Watch a code demo of three sample add-ins that leverage the new platform capabilities.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060511OutlookRB/manifest.xml</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Randy Byrne,Ryan Gregg</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell and Scripting</title><description>This webcast focuses on the command-line and scripting interface (based on Microsoft Windows "Monad") in the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server, code-named Exchange Server 2007. See how to convert your multiple-page Microsoft Visual Basic and component object model (COM) scripts to a single line in Exchange Server 2007. We cover the basics of the management shell along with the underlying design and key concepts.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032293396&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Vivek Sharma</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Integrating Office Data Analysis and Charting Tools into a Client Application</title><description>Microsoft Office 2003 includes several tools and technologies that can help you quickly build a powerful front-end application. This webcast shows you how to take advantage of the strengths of these technologies. Learn about the Microsoft Office Web PivotTable and Chart Components, Microsoft Office Excel 2003 PivotTables, the Excel Add-In Accelerator, and integration with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032293585&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Benkovich</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Building Custom Solutions with Excel Services</title><description>Excel Services let users calculate, display, and explore Excel workbooks on the server side. This presentation covers the reasons behind Excel Services, the benefits of using them, and a demonstration of using a Web service to incorporate Excel-based business logic into your own server solutions.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060427ExcelDK/manifest.xml</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Danny Khen,Shahar Prish</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Developing InfoPath Forms for Office InfoPath 2007</title><description>This webcast presents an overview of Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 programmability features including the managed object model, template parts, and provisions for third-party hosting. We also discuss techniques for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications (VSTA) and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO) to develop Office InfoPath 2007 forms.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032293798&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Nima Mirzad</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Business Architecture</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: Building BI Solutions Using Excel 2007 and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services</title><description>Learn how to use Excel and Analysis Services to build end-to-end business intelligence (BI) solutions. This webcast shows how to create an Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) that can be consumed by Excel, and demonstrates how to use the new features in Excel to take advantage of the metadata exposed by the UDM.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032293665&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Allan Folting</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Improvements to Calendaring in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007</title><description>This webcast provides an in-depth look at the enhancements to calendaring in the next generation of Microsoft Exchange Server, code-named Exchange 12. We go into detail on improvements to resource scheduling, the new model for free/busy data, and how these features are implemented in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, formerly code-named Outlook 12, to provide a better end-user experience.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032292770&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Tischhauser</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: The Evolution of Web Content Management in the 2007 Version of Microsoft Office</title><description>The Web Content Management (WCM) technology in the upcoming 2007 version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server represents the first major release of Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) since 2002. This webcast discusses major design changes such as the Windows SharePoint Services-based architecture and the altered underlying storage model. Learn about new WCM concepts such as content types, field controls, workflows, and recycle bins.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/webcasteventdetails.aspx?eventid=1032293555&amp;eventcategory=5&amp;culture=en-us&amp;countrycode=us</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Andrew Connell</author><category>Management</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Office Access 2007: Rich Client Solutions</title><description>Clint Covington discusses Access 2007, which is redesigned with improvements for information workers, developers and IT Pros. See the new WYSIWYG design experience and interactive report browse view and learn how you can use Access as a rich client for Windows SharePoint Services v3 and Office Live.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060413AccessCC/manifest.xml</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Clint Covington</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>MSDN Webcast: New Features in Office InfoPath 2007</title><description>This webcast presents an overview of the new features in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 and InfoPath Forms Services. Join us to learn how you can use InfoPath 2007 to automate and extend business processes by utilizing XML and integration standards to connect electronic forms to virtually any application or system.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032293903&amp;EventCategory=5&amp;culture=en-US&amp;CountryCode=US</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Gray Knowlton</author><category>User Experience</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Enabling Web and SharePoint Applications on the Internet with ISA Server 2004</title><description>In this webcast, learn how you can use Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 to publish and secure your organizations Microsoft SharePoint Web sites and applications on the Internet. Integration between ISA Server 2004 and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies allows your organization to reduce its dependency on virtual private network (VPN) and Remote Access Service (RAS) connections, while ensuring that security and access control is not compromised.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032293041&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Bryan VonAxelson</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Introduction to Upcoming SharePoint Products and Technologies</title><description>Mike Fitzmaurice gives an overview of the technologies that will release within Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, with an eye toward pointing out areas with specific developer opportunities.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060406SharePointMF/manifest.xml</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Fitzmaurice</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Spreadsheet compliance in 2007 for Microsoft Office System</title><description>Research indicates that over half of financial management reporting is performed with spreadsheets. Despite this, a disparity exists between the importance of spreadsheets to business processes and the level of corporate resources devoted to spreadsheet development. Organizations today are under considerable regulatory pressure (such as SOX and Basel II). An organization must take into account all applicable policies and requirements when developing a regulatory compliance framework.</description><link>http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/6/5/065864d8-0d6f-4ef3-8918-99bfd1cde507/excel%20regulatory%20white%20paper.doc</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Financial Services</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>More business intelligence in Office 2007</title><description>A second, deeper look at Excel 2007's business intelligence capabilities. Really cool stuff for helping your business see what is happening.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=177827</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Acuri</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Business Activity Services (BAS)</title><description>The Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services layers act as front-end to the business processes implemented by BizTalk Server 2006. Business users work in Office and SharePoint Team Services to perform all the required functions using Office templates that bind to various Web services. These templates contain the business logic required to guide the user through the process of filling in the required information.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa559439.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>System Management and Services</category><category>Mission Critical</category><category>Workflow</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Build Your Next Generation Internet Site Using SharePoint Technologies</title><description>Come learn how you can build a high performance scalable Internet site. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is the name for the integrated offering that will include (among many other things) the successor technology to Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. You'll see the rich support for building, managing, and customizing large customer-facing sites, and we'll show you how you can go from a plain site to a media-rich interactive website in under an hour.</description><link>http://sessions.mix06.com/view.asp?pid=BTB005</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jackie Bodine</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Extending Your Experience to the Office</title><description>The Microsoft Office applications are some of the most widely used applications on the planet. Learn how your content and services can reach your users while they work. Topics include: developing to the Office "12" Open XML document format, extending the Office UI, connecting with RSS feeds, and integrating with Web services and data.</description><link>http://sessions.mix06.com/view.asp?pid=BTB015</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Christin Boyd,Anil Dash</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Giving the Administrator More Control in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007</title><description>You can now have a complete and scriptable command-line interface for Microsoft Exchange Server. In this webcast, find out about the biggest changes for administrators in the next version of Exchange (code-named Exchange 12), from the new setup interface and Exchange System Manager to the Exchange command-line shell.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032290486&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Perry Clarke</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Client Access and Web Services in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007</title><description>In this webcast, learn about advances in Exchange 12 client access support, including Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access. We also show you how to integrate mail, calendar, and other data from the Exchange store into your line-of-business applications.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032290489&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>David Lemson</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Service-Oriented Architecture</category></item><item><title>An Overview of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007</title><description>The next major version of Microsoft Exchange Server (code-named Exchange 12), represents a leap forward in technology, enhancing information workers access to larger mailboxes while giving the e-mail administrator a more manageable and secure e-mail infrastructure. This webcast provides an overview of the product direction and offers a sneak peek at some of the new feature enhancements that will be included in Exchange 12.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032290483&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Terry Myerson</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>ARCast: VSTO The Agony and Ecstasy</title><description>Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook almost anyone who uses a computer has used these applications and knows how they work. What if you could build an application that worked in the environment that people already know would it be worth it? The answer is yes according to my guest on todays episode Josh Holmes. But be warned building a VSTO application is not as quick and easy as those demos you have seen. Yes there is agony but ecstasy in the end.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=166812</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Josh Holmes,Ron Jacobs</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Exchange Performance Monitoring Analysis and Tuning</title><description>Are you getting all the performance out of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 that you would like? This session explores all aspects of performance tuning for Exchange Server 2003 including Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Exchange, and system resources. Understand and learn about best practices, registry tweaks, and performance monitoring that help your Exchange environment run more smoothly.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032291783&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Bowden</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Extreme Scalability Strategies for Windows SharePoint Services</title><description>In this webcast, we discuss performance tuning, capacity planning, and system fault tolerance. Learn which elements are under your control and which are mandated by the platform. We show you how to test and model the behavior of systems running Windows SharePoint Services applications and how to use this information to deploy collaborative solutions to the enterprise. Application architecture plans and code walkthroughs are also included in this session.</description><link>http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032292909&amp;Culture=en-US</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Robert Ginsburg</author><category>Capacity and Performance</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Business Intelligence in Excel 2007</title><description>Is there any business intelligence out there? Mike Arcuri, group program manager on the business intelligence team, shows off Excel 12's new features for looking at how your business is doing. You'll never look at pivot tables the same way again.</description><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=164703</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Mike Arcuri</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Outlook Customization for Integrating with Enterprise Applications</title><description>Improve the availability of CRM data for information workers by creating a sample Outlook add-in and associated set of utility classes using Visual Studio Tools for Office that displays enterprise CRM data naturally within the Outlook user interface.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa479345</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Synchronizing a Local Data Store with Microsoft Outlook</title><description>Use a SQL Express database as a local data cache and the programmability of Microsoft Outlook to integrate enterprise CRM data within the Outlook user interface.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa479346</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Extending Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Outlook: Architectural Design Guide</title><description>This paper discusses how Web services can be used to provide a connected infrastructure that can integrate fragmented data islands contained in enterprise applications and databases. By combining this approach with development tools such as Visual Studio Tools for Office, organizations can develop more intuitive interfaces to enterprise systems by integrating them with desktop productivity applications such as Outlook.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa479348</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category><category>Common Services</category><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Extending Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Outlook: Architectural Design Guide</title><description>This paper discusses how Web services can be used to provide a connected infrastructure that can integrate fragmented data islands contained in enterprise applications and databases. By combining this approach with development tools such as Visual Studio Tools for Office, organizations can develop more intuitive interfaces to enterprise systems by integrating them with desktop productivity applications such as Outlook.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=078124E9-1E88-4F51-8C98-3C1999CFE743&amp;displaylang=en</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category><category>Common Services</category><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Microsoft Enterprise Content Management White Paper</title><description>Businesses are seeing a huge explosion of structured and unstructured information that includes documents, e-mail messages, voice mail, and video.
This white paper examines the state of content chaos and provides a view of the major factors that drive the development of ECM solutions.
It also provides a view of how Microsoft is driving innovation in ECM with the upcoming release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that provides a broad set of ECM functionality on a unified platform.</description><link>http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/ecmwhitepaper.mspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Management</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Interoperability with Office XML - Part 1</title><description>This is the first article in a series to show interoperability with the Microsoft Office XML Reference Schemas (WordProcessingML and SpreadSheetML). Here, we'll be looking at how both BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere (running on either Microsoft Windows or Linux) can be used to generate server-side documents that can be read by clients running Microsoft Office Word 2003.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/ms954605</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Simon Guest</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Connect Business Data to Office Using Information Bridge Framework</title><description>Quilogy discusses the background, user experience, and development story of Information Bridge Framework. The framework allows developers to build solutions that enrich Microsoft Office documents, enabling the Information Worker to view and act on business data within a familiar environment.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20050127IBFQuilogy/manifest.xml</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Renee Chronister,Chris Roozen</author><category>Data</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Information Bridge Framework: Bringing SOA to the Desktop in Office Applications</title><description>Enterprises today are moving towards SOA as a way to expose their applications and data for consumption. Building solutions on top of these services is fairly easy today using existing development tools. Different vendors provide tools for both exposing and developing on top of those services by using standards like SOAP or WSDL. However, once enterprises start developing a few of these solutions problems start to arise. This article addresses some of the most common problems.</description><link>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/aa480044</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Ricard Dalfo</author><category>Methodologies</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Talking Smart Clients with Rob Barker (#95)</title><description>Rob Barker from Microsoft engages Carl and Rory in a conversation about leveraging InfoPath, the Information Bridge Framework, and Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 to develop smart clients.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/en/20050111RBarker/dotnetrocks_0095_rob_barker.asx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Richard Campbell,Carl Franklin,Rob Barker</author><category>Tools</category><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Kate Gregory on C++, Visual Basic .NET, and Visual Studio Tools for Office (#88)</title><description>Kate Gregory talks to Carl about the new C++, why she prefers Visual Basic .NET over C#, Visual Studio Tools for Office, OOP, Sockets, and merry old England!</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/en/20041109KGregory/dotnetrocks_0088_kate_gregory.asx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Kate Gregory,Richard Campbell,Carl Franklin</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Robert Green on Visual Studio Tools for Office (#43)</title><description>Carl and Mark talk with Robert Green about Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, XML, VBA, and future versions of Visual Studio Tools for Office.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/en/20031215RobertG/DotNetRocks_0043_Robert_Green.asx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Robert Green,Richard Campbell,Carl Franklin</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category></item><item><title>Ken Getz (#12)</title><description>Ken talks about asynchronous calls, events, delegates, the next version of Microsoft Office, printing, C# vs. VB.NET, being a control freak, Visual Studio.NET 2003, and training videos.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/en/20021223KenG/DotNetRocks_0013_Ken_Getz.asx</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Richard Campbell,Ken Getz,Carl Franklin</author><category>2007 Office System for Architects</category><category>Platforms and Frameworks</category></item></channel></rss>
