Locatech – SharePoint & Office365

According to current information, the new cloud platform is Microsoft Office365 in the 2. Quarter 2011 be available for customers, probably starting in June 2011. Lync, the successor of the Office Communications Server, should but only at the end 2011 above the cloud platform available. An official date for the deployment does not exist yet, but at least for Microsoft, it is the most important product of the year. With the cloud platform all the functions customers, to edit and share documents across distributed teams or to depict their business information processes virtually no investment in their own IT infrastructure. Even a larger learning curve is eliminated, the users but still use their familiar Office environment or you browser-enabled Office Web apps.

Office365 is already the current online services BPOS (Business productivity online suite) all products available, for a distributed collaboration in the network (Intranet or the Internet) are necessary, However, in the current version (SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010, Lync – the current Office Communications Server).

With improved communication capabilities such as blogs, Wikis, Office365 introduces elements chat functions or self-managed profiles, the already an integral part of social networks like XING, Are Facebook or Twitter and as Enterprise 2.0 more and more inroads into the companies hold. Added the Office Web apps such as Word or Excel, and the ability, also the Office environment installed normally on the PC in the package on a monthly basis to subscribe to.

Once it is clear, When is the platform for customers to available, will we report immediately, have indicated already some customers interest. More information about the entry into the Cloud computing You will find here with Office365: http://www.locatech-it.com/technologien-plattformen/sharepoint/office-365-fakten-preise-cloud-computing

Finally, just a note in their own right. As a Microsoft partner for the online services we can help you if you are interested, Please contact us.

Tonight it was announced big news of Facebook, that should revolutionize the way of communicating between people. Now already use 350 Millions of users the news features from Facebook, and more than 4 Billion messages are exchanged daily between "Friends" on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg was Facebook's vision of a “modern” Messaging system before, with the following features:

• An integrated system – includes not only Email, but also SMS or chat. Email is a way of communicating, but it is just one among all other types of communication. (Telephony/Voice over IP should not be integrated in the foreseeable)
• Informal – more a conversation as an official correspondence.
• Immediately – immediate notification and direct communication
• Personal/personal – the person is in the foreground, not the single message
• Easy to use
• Compact – Less features than email today
• Short messages

Relationship of memory

A highlight is certainly the complete history of entertainment, the entire Exchange of messages was maintained, as a kind of “Relationship history” or the modern form of the shoe boxes, old letters stored in the. The focus is on communication between 2 Persons or within a particular group.

Who sees his classic email inbox, sees a flood of messages, important times, unimportant times, times with annex, times without. The unit of exchange of information is Message. This unit varies with the Facebook messaging system in Person. It's always about the entire communication, No matter which way, between People.Here acts in the so-called “social Inbox” (Social Inbox) the personal social network of the user as more meaningful automatic filter. In the “social Inbox” – the man, perhaps with “universal personal communications Exchange storage” could rewrite, land as a preset messages only from friends and their friends. Whether this will also “social spam messages” lead to, It remains to be seen. All other messages are in a folder “Messages” filed and can be viewed there from time to time.

Anyone can in the future – Optional – also an E-Mail address on Facebook to receive under name@Facebook.com. Facebook employees give their previous E-mail addresses and receive Mitarbeiter@FB.com.The rollout stages via invitations in the next few months.

Microsoft Office Web apps

Texpress the new messaging platform is the Microsoft Office Web apps be, Another advantage for Microsoft in its cloud strategy, in particular also with regard to Office 365, of Microsoft's new cloud offerings.

An initial analysis

Tempting thought, to handle his personal communications via Facebook. And the integration of “Classic” Other contacts must be also not immediately a Facebook member email recipients, a crucial hurdle of the previously closed messaging system, Overcome them should contribute to the success of Facebook.

The communication knows no “Forget”. It may be advantageous, to be able to understand a complete history of Exchange with a person, but there is no mechanism, once said/written to automatically destroy. In a normal chat, also the content of entertainment is completed with the end of the conversation, what contributes to an open Exchange. Although it is possible also in email, the Exchange trace many years, If you deliberately picks up emails, but on Facebook, it will be much easier, Statements a person to rummage out. Just think of insults exchanged in the heat of battle or allegations, They then formed. even later still legally could be recycled.

Facebook-messaging a bit reminiscent of Google wave – that previously prevailed in any way. On Facebook, it could work but – After all there is reached the critical mass necessary electronically networked people even before the start.

Facebook is suitable also for internal corporate communication?

Facebook also suitable for internal corporate communication? Groups protected by setting now possible in principle already. Before but confidential business communications in the “Facebook-cloud” shifting is, must certainly have a lot of homework with regard to privacy be made on Facebook. Who wants to read advertising by the competitors already on the right side of his Facebook inbox, When he discussed just about a product.

The development is exciting. But the success is related to the protection of privacy and the data exchanged and fall, a domain, in the Facebook so far not too positive about talk has made.

Microsoft has a new product: Office 365! Or is it rather a service? Or a cloud offering? The first impression: It is composed of all, a goose for “We work together, always and everywhere”. Office 365 replaces the previous Microsoft cloud services (BPOS – business productivity online standard suite) and connects the Office standard software for the desktop with the Office Web apps, Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Lync, the successor of the Office Communication Server.

Combines desktop and cloud

With the new product/service/cloud offering, Microsoft wants to “the rules of the game change”, such as companies and working together. It shows on every case Microsoft's commitment to the cloud, and the combined offer from Office/desktop plus Web service to the breakthrough finally at the Cloud computing bring. Once again, Microsoft uses as its competitor Office, to position itself against the competition. Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Office Division, put it this way:

When it comes to the cloud, We are all in, and we are bringing our very best with US – the very best applications and the very best partners

Cloud computing, we put everything on one card, and that includes also the best, What we have - the best applications and the best partner.

Office is available to all 365 only in the coming year, a beta program launches among other places in Germany already at 19. October.

We hope, that with the new product/service the licensing / rental options easier, more transparent and just be also convenient for medium-sized companies, and are looking forward to the next steps.

More info here:

• Prices and facts: http://office365.microsoft.com/uploadedFiles/Office365FactSheet.docx 
• Official Web page: http://office365.com/
• Twitter channel: http://twitter.com/#!/office365

And a preview, looks like the whole (in English) here: http://office365.microsoft.com/en-US/online-services.aspx

- or – How do I SharePoint tell someone, that something like this has never heard. A good first introduction for non-techies:

When you create personal sites in SharePoint 2010, the so-called Mysites (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624362.aspx)We have been adding the authenticated user to the Read permission level confronted with the error:

Errors in the claims providers, configured from this site collection

Existing users were not recognized and could not be determined using the search function.

We have finally solved very simply the problem by adding an alternative access order for the internal notation in the URL for Central Administration.

Central Administration -> Application management -> Web applications -> Configure alternate access orders.
Simply enter the URL as an alternative access order, which is also used for the internal call to the Central Administration.

Then that name resolution is working again:

Has me at an event Andreas Stendera made aware on a technology, It is really so far everything in the shade. These are the so-called sixth sense technology , presented by Pattie Maes and developed by Pranav Mistry in the Media Lab research group.

With a combination of camera, Mobile projector, Mirror, The technology allows phone and colored finger tips, without special devices anywhere to obtain information or perform certain actions with the help of pure gestures, for example photos to make, without taking a device in your hand. All content can project themselves onto any surface. It is the further development of Microsoft Surface combined with elements of minority report. Whether it prevails? Comments welcome. The Video is definitely worth a visit, in particular the examples! Everything else on http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/ 

I give you one of the best presentations on the topic of Knowledge management in companies not included above. The presentation was created by a team of T-systems and published on SlideShare. We found confirmed our corporate philosophy: Information technology alone reached no solution! But see / read myself. It is worth!

“You can ’ t manage knowledge. Knowledge between two ears is, and only between two ears.” – Peter printer 

You want to improve the team collaboration, Better manage documents, Find information faster, again, Map approval processes automatically, and a functioning Knowledge management introduce? You could find no solution so far? You are in good company! After more standardized business processes in inventory management, Accounting or inventory management z.B. well mapped by ERP solutions, do software vendors with knowledge- and document-based processes still hard. IT platforms such as SharePoint here allow a huge productivity surge in the companies, with almost immediate return in investment.

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Do already have blogged? What do you know about Twitter? Look up information in Wikipedia, have but still no entry edited? The tags Blog, Twitter, Wiki, Web 2.0 are available almost every day in the press. Now there is even talk of companies 2.0, a new kind of information processing of knowledge workers in the enterprise, with more interaction, faster communication, better Knowledge management and of course a significant productivity boost through the use of modern Internet technologies. What is the promises, and what measures can be implemented in medium-sized companies simply?

First, a definition of Web 2.0, less is much more the changes in the way the tags in the foreground, how people communicate with each other and go to.

Which in itself sounds yet not too spectacular, can we send E-Mails in seconds around the globe for many years yet. What does however change, is that Presence and Diversity information, continue reading…