msn email for Windows Live

Get yourself a Microsoft msn email address (e.g. yourname@msn.com ) as this is better than yourname@hotmail.com and there are a lot more choices of user name left!)
 
Follow this link to sign up: https://accountservices.passport.net/reg.srf?ns=msn.com&sl=1&lc=1033
 
Then you can sign in to www.live.com which is the free Microsoft Cloud with email and apps like MS Word and MS Excel.  Then you can edit MS Word document using a browser only (e.g. on a Netbook!).
 
It’s not as flash as MS Word on the desktop but it works for editing (docx) content only and keeps the formatting for when you then re-open it later in MS Word 2007 or 2010. Live.com gives you 25 GB SkyDrive that is better than even more USB drives and it can’t be lost on the way home. 

You could use your msn email account for your business and gmail for personal.

Anyway check it out. It’s worth having Google and Microsoft covered.

SharePoint Records Management

Is SharePoint compliant for Records Management in Australia?

http://www.edrms.com.au/content/view/28/2/

http://www.iim.org.au/

http://www.iim.org.au/attachments/IIM%20Melbourne%20Presentation_%20Sharepoint%20Jul%202007.pdf

Australian Standards

State Records Act

CUA – Common Use Arrangements

Under Section 23 of the State Supply Commission (the Commission) Act 1991, the “Commission may arrange for supply of goods and services to approved persons and bodies”. Government Procurement within the Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF) has delegated responsibility from the Commission to approve access to Common Use Arrangements (CUAs).

When to use SQL Tables and when to use Lists?

Use Lists, especially with InfoPath forms. Import data including column definitions from MS Access 2007.

http://www.techticles.com/5-shattering-mistakes-for-moss-2007-newbie-developers-and-team-leads.page

Use SQL Tables for ASP.NET applications (and lists for lookups).

K12 schoolforge

http://www.schoolforge.net/

http://www.ghca.com/computers/

End User Leaning

Everyday Productivity Education (EPE)
 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/bb687781.aspx
 
The SharePoint Learning Kit (“SLK”)

A SCORM 2004 conformant e-learning delivery and tracking application built as a WSS 3.0 solution. With the SLK, IT personnel can control the look and feel of the training kit, matching it to corporate branding standards, and administrators can add or remove content and customize it as necessary. The SLK also provides a reporting function that shows which topics have been completed and by whom.
 
The SharePoint End User Training Kit will also have a standalone deployment option, which can be installed on a PC and used by an individual. This version of the kit will be available within the next few weeks.

Microsoft Certification Track

1. Learn (books web)

2. Experience (implement)

3. MCP / MCTS

MOSS Configuration –http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcts/spserver/config/default.mspx

MOSS Development – http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcts/spserver/appdev/default.mspx

4. [MCAP], [MCLC / MCT], [MOS]

Micosoft: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/default.mspx

Exams: http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Patrick/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=988

Logical Architecture Design (VISIO)

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/04/09/investing-in-logical-architecture-design-samples.aspx

Microsoft partner

 https://partner.microsoft.com/australia/partner?countrycode=en-au

Microsoft partner courses: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2007/09/20/check-out-the-revised-technical-training-schedule.aspx

 

Governance

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/08/23/key-governance-considerations-in-a-sharepoint-deployment.aspx

 

Content deployment

http://dattard.blogspot.com/2007/02/sharepoint-2007-content-deployment.html