March 2009 - posts
Zoals al in eerdere berichten vermeld op deze blog organiseren de Sharepoint gebruikers, Microsoft, Surfnet, Surfdiensten, SLB diensten, APS IT diensten gezamelijk een Sharepoint voor het onderwijs. Tijdens deze dag laten gebruikers zien wat ze allemaal doen met Sharepoint. Dus bijvoorbeeld Sharepoint als een werk- en leeromgeving, een internet en intranet site, een management informatie portaal.
Tevens zal ook Microsoft een groot aantal sessies verzorgen, denk hierbij aan sessies over Silverlight, Unified Communications, Live@edu en tevens ziet u de Surface live of maakt u een afspraak met de Sharepoint doktor. Theo Rinsema, GM Microsoft Nederland zal de key note verzorgen.
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Vandaag is de nieuwe site gelanceerd van Microsoft Onderwijs Nederland. Ik vind het zelf een leuke site, met eindelijk wat interactiviteit, zoals een Poll en rollup van blogs. Dit is het adres: http://www.microsoft.nl/onderwijs
Afgelopen week heeft Microsoft het programma World Wide Telescope beschikbaar gesteld via een webclient. Nu hoef je dus niet de client meer te downloaden. Hier kan je de testversie vinden.
Starting today, you don’t have to download any software to your PC to enjoy what Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope has to offer – it’s now available online as a web application! This is good news for folks running non-Windows operating systems who were previously unable to use this amazing tool which lets your computer function as a virtual telescope while bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.
The new WWT web application (alpha) uses Silverlight 2.0 to display the satellite imagery within your browser and it offers most of the features of the desktop application, including the following:
- Access to hundreds of terabytes of sky, earth and planet data
- Ability to navigate seamlessly through 3D spherical environments
- Finder Scope to quickly identify astronomical objects
- Instant thumbnail previews of tens of thousands of popular astronomical objects
- Access to billions of objects in web-based astronomical catalogue
- Loading tours, images and other WorldWide Telescope data files on local machine
- Real-time positions of planets and moons
- Move forwards and backwards in time 2000 years
- View guided tours (without 3D planets)
- Browsing local user collections
- Virtual Observatory Cone search/registry look up and SIMBAD search
Ik liep wat achter met mijn RSS feeds te lezenl. Drie weken geleden is er weer een nieuwe versie van de PKS, Postcasting Kit voor SharePoint uitgebracht. Met deze GRATIS addon op MOSS 2007 is het mogelijk om podcast te hosten op SharePoint, echt geweldig voor het onderwijs.
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What Can You Do With Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS)?:
- Listen and watch audio/video podcasts, anywhere on your PC or mobile device (Zune, SmartPhone, or any podcasting device)
- Share content by producing your own audio/video podcasts and publish them on PKS on your own.
- Connect and engage with podcasters via your integrated instant messaging program
- Find the most relevant content using the five star rating system, tag cloud, search engine and provide your feedback via comments.
- Get automatic podcast updates by subscribing to RSS feeds fully compatible with Zune and other podcasting devices
- Simple RSS feed based on a defined podcast series
- Simple RSS feed based on a person
- Dynamic RSS feed based on search results (will be implemented later in 2009)
- Play podcasts in real-time using Microsoft® Silverlight™ and progressive playback
- Retrieve instant ROI and metrics with the ability to track the number of podcasts downloaded and/or viewed, instant feedback via rating system and comments, and subscribers via the RSS feed
- Access the richness of SharePoint to extend the solution: workflows, community sub-sites, access rights, editorial and more
Je kan de PKS hier downloaden.
Onenote is een tool dat meer en meer gebruikt wordt binnen het onderwijs. Daarom heeft Microsoft een website ontwikkeld voor de mensen die Onenote gebruiken. Deze site, waarop ook een blog te vinden is, heet: www.iheartonenote.com
De introductie van de website:
Welcome to the world’s only community site for people who are smart enough to love OneNote. I won’t lie to you, but OneNote, for the uninitiated (of which there are far too many as far as I am concerned, that’s why I created this site even though I am simply a fictional character and not actually real), is actually a Microsoft product of insane greatness – its part of the Office Suite. I use it all day, every day to stay half-way sane and, at times, look good in this wacked out place I where I do what is sometimes called work. The 20 second pitch is that OneNote is a personal productivity tool that lets you capture ideas (could be your own brilliant thoughts, stuff you want to keep from the web, meeting notes etc) and organize them in an electronic 3-ringed binder. It’s like nothing you have ever used before, I guarantee. Anyway, enough about that, visit the official OneNote page to get the full scoop
Mijn collega Frank Schumann heeft samen met een partner een accesstool gemaakt waarmee je als instelling heel eenvoudig gebruikers kan beheren in het Live@EDU platform. De tool heet PSA en is hier te downloaden.
PowerShell Assistant (PSA) is a tool to help Universities and Schools to deploy Microsoft Live@edu.
Features:
-Algorithms to generate unique username & pw
-Outlook Live ID provisioning
-Active Directory import/export
-WLID credential card printing
-Send SMTP email
and more...
Ik krijg vaak de vraag wat de huidige mogelijkheden zijn voor het migreren van data naar ons Outlook Live (onderdeel van Live@EDU) platform zijn.
Mijn collega Johnny Chambers heeft er een aardige blogpost over gemaakt:
- You can get your end user population to do it manually - we provide guidance on this here. You can use this to migrate mail/calendar/contacts/tasks. If you are currently running Exchange for your students, you can partially complete this task for your users by extracting pst files using a tool like ExMerge.
- You can turn on the POP protocol on you legacy email system, and then have your users connect to it from within their Exchange Labs OWA session using Email Subscriptions in a browser that supports the full OWA experience, and then they can simply click and drag their mail from the old service to the new. This will work for mail only - other things like calendar/contacts/tasks cannot be accessed over the POP protocol.
- Wait until we release R3 (starting Feb 2009) and you can use POP Email Subscriptions and PowerShell to do the migration.
- You can use a 3rd party tool that supports secure POP/IMAP migrations...more below...again this will only work for mail migration only.
We have turned on the POP and IMAP protocols on Exchange Labs, and in an examination of how this might help with administrator-driven mail migrations, I have been working recently with one vendor of POP/IMAP migration software - Dataenter from Austria, and I have been looking at their POPBeamer product. I set them up with an Exchange Labs account on my test domain…….
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Via de twitter van mijn collega Peter de Haas kwam ik de volgende posting tegen op de site van Microsoft in America. Wij hebben natuurlijk al de Microsoft Student Suite die al een jaar te koop is via www.surfspot.nl in Nederland. (wij zijn dus voorlopers :) ) Leuke van deze combinatie vind ik de tablet pc waar je uit kan kiezen.
Microsoft and Lenovo Make Dean's List With Ultimate Academic PCs
March 3, 2009 12:14 PM ET
In tough economic times, college and university students, faculty, and staff are offered premium Microsoft software pre-loaded on high-performance Lenovo ThinkPad laptops at an affordable price. REDMOND, Wash. and RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Microsoft Corp. and Lenovo announced the availability of the Ultimate Academic Personal Computer promotion with high-powered, highly functional, affordable laptop PCs designed specifically for college and university students, faculty, and staff. As part of the program, initially offered as a pilot by Microsoft, Lenovo will offer four different ThinkPad laptops pre-loaded with Windows Vista Ultimate and Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007.
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