2007 Year End Tech News Roundup

Home at last!  I've got a plethora of ideas and concepts for you, gentle reader, and wanted to pass them along en mass rather than trying to get time to get Christmas shopping done and get the posts done as well.  Tip O' the Hat to Dan Meyer for pointing out my lack of posting to me earlier this month.  I aspire to better posts, and am working on some things which may just accomodate the ability to both that and make a living at the same time.... will let you know when I can talk more about it.

With that introduction, here is my list of cool ideas from my recent blog and web surfing - it's about 60 days worth of cool stuff.  Enjoy.  BFT

1. Cool list of tools for SBS (Thanks to the lovely and talented Susan Bradley for this link)

a. http://www.nogeekleftbehind.com/2007/11/15/notes-from-november-2007-kysbsug-meeting/

2. CompUSA is done, and all stores will close by the end of the holidays.  [The rest of the electronics stores are going to have to step up the geekiness to meet my needs (!)]

a. http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/07/technology/compusa.ap/

3. How to install SharePoint 3.0 on SBS 2003

a. http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/12/12/small-business-server-2003-how-to-install-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-on-sbs-2003.aspx

4. OfficeLive Workspace (Office file sharing tool)

a. http://workspace.officelive.com/

b. There is also good coverage of some of the Live stuff on a Windows Weekly podcast I listened to this week – see http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/WW-042.mp3

5. Shift-Right-Click in  Vista

a. http://www.snowball.be/Vista+Trick+Open+Command+Window+Here.aspx

6. QuickBooks security vulnerability – patch now!  (again,  thanks  Susan)

a. http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/12/11/the-apps-are-getting-targeted-now.aspx

7. Rumours (denied by SAP) that SAP may be acquired by MS…

a. http://www.erpsoftware-news.com/2007/12/microsoft-to-bu.html

8. Office 2007 SP1 is out (as my friend Randy Johnston mentioned earlier this week)

a. http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/12/11/office-2007-sp1-available.aspx

9. Good article on switching data sources in Excel 2007

a. http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/12/12/switching-data-sources-in-excel-2007.aspx

10. Eric Ligman’s article on downgrade rights in s/w licensing

a. http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2007/11/15/6279941.aspx

11. WS 2008 Centro (50-250 client machines) now officially called Windows Essential Business Server

a. http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2007/11/07/windows-server-centro-is-now-officially-windows-essential-business-server.aspx

12. You can publish a OneNote notebook to a web server in HTML + Java… this seems like a way for us to share some of those many OneNote files we’ve accumulated over the past couple of years

a. http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2007/08/12/summer-onenote-2007-news-round-up.aspx

13. Outlook Gadgets for the Windows Sidebar

a. http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2007/11/30/outlook-2007-gadgets-for-windows-sidebar.aspx

14. You can tell Outlook an appointment is “Next Fri” and it will figure out what day that is

a. http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2007/11/14/fun-with-outlook-date-fields.aspx