July 2007 - Community -

Thank you for a banner year for SharePoint!

Wow! What a fantastic year for SharePoint products and technologies ! For those of you who haven’t seen the news yet, we just announced that SharePoint Server passed the US$800 million mark for revenue for Microsoft’s previous fiscal year (FY07) that...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2007 7:52 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Customer Evidence

A setup prerequisite change in Exchange 2007 SP1

We have heard from customers who tried to install Exchange 2007 RTM for the first time in their environment and then encountered setup failures either because one or more domains in the forest did not have a Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 Domain Controller...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2007 8:43 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Setup

Emerging business models in digital media

I recently participated in a “cross-continental” panel discussion between Sydney, Australia and San Francisco, organizedby the Future of Media Summit 2007 . The panel topic was “Emerging Business Models” and my co-panelists were Keith Teare , CEO of edgeio...

Published Sat, Jul 28 2007 11:49 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: media advertising, australia, Vquence, edgeio, 3eep, future of media summit

Advertising, Software + Services, Consumer Entertainment - Microsoft's new focus

Microsoft held its annual Financial Analysts Meeting yesterday. The New York Times has a good summary. There were 8 hours of presentations by Bill Gates , Steve Ballmer , Ray Ozzie , Chris Liddell, and other top Microsoft execs. There is a ton of good...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2007 9:07 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Microsoft

Microsoft acquires AdECN, an advertising network

Microsoft announced the acquisition of AdECN, an advertising exchange platform company. AdECN’s technology serves as a hub where advertising networks can come together in a neutral, real-time auction marketplace for buying and selling display advertising...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2007 7:47 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Advertising

Who reads business plans?

For a long time I have wanted to write a post about the irrelevance of business plans. I was waiting for an appropriate time, and a high profile example to cite in my post. Twitter just got VC funding with no business plan and no business model . In all...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2007 7:14 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: business plans

Bloomberg on Sharepoint: revenue, references, switchers, etc

Bloomberg's Dina Bass published a story today on Sharepoint . Some highlights: Microsoft Corp's Office SharePoint Server, a program that lets companies set up Web sites, search for data and organize corporate documents, topped $800 million in...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2007 2:08 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Microsoft, Collaboration, Sharepoint, platform, collaboration platform, references, share, growth, Lotus, Notes migration, Lotus Notes, revenue

Microsoft signs advertising deals with Digg, Facebook, and EA Sports

Microsoft just signed a deal with Digg to provide advertising to its 17 million unique monthly visitors . Microsoft previously won a deal with Facebook. Microsoft also announced a deal with EA Sports , the video game maker, to serve dynamic advertising...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2007 8:38 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Microsoft, Advertising

Why Microsoft is spending billions on data centers

San Francisco experienced a power outage yesterday that caused the 365 Main data center to go down. DataCenter Knowledge has all the details about why the backup generators failed. Techmeme is flooded with blog posts about the failure that affected sites...

Published Wed, Jul 25 2007 12:22 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Scaling to Extremely Large Lists and Performant Access Methods

The whitepaper for on understanding the best ways to access and work with extremly large lists is now available. The paper titled " Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 " evaluates performance characteristics of large SharePoint...

Published Wed, Jul 25 2007 1:56 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Documentation, Developers, IT Pros, Whitepaper, Performance

We enabled CAPTCHA on blog comments today

You might have noticed that starting today, in order to post comments, you have to type in a series of numbers to post a comment to our blog, even if you are logged in your blog account (for those that created accounts). While we really want to keep the...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2007 12:01 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Community

Collaboration Platforms: is there an objective measure of growth and share?

There's a lot of debate about the growth and share of the various collaboration platforms in the marketplace. The Wikipedia link lists notable vendors and products: Vendors that offer collaboration platforms include Advancing Insights (enterprise...

Published Mon, Jul 23 2007 7:13 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Exchange Server 2007 and the New Generation of Microsoft Certifications

Microsoft Learning is currently phasing in a new generation of Microsoft certifications. These new certifications are designed to be more specific and targeted to better reflect proficiency in a particular technology. You can read all about the big changes...

Published Mon, Jul 23 2007 3:14 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Documentation, Community

Microsoft pushes industry standards for privacy protection

Microsoft has joined with Ask.com in leading the search and advertising industry to adopt standard privacy principles for search history and click stream data. Google and DoubleClick store search queries and click stream histories on every user...in effort...

Published Mon, Jul 23 2007 8:28 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Introducing Unified Messaging in Office Communications Server 2007 environment

The Unified Messaging component of Exchange 2007 SP1 is the designed to be the voice mail solution for Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS). What it means is that anyone can dial an Office Communications Server user and leave a voice mail which will...

Published Fri, Jul 20 2007 3:29 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Unified Messaging, Unified Messaging

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