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• Communications and Collaboration: Create Powerful Connections with Groove and SharePoint
  Alan Maddison - July 2008
  Microsoft Office Groove and SharePoint Server both provide powerful collaboration capabilities. Compare how they differ from and complement one another, and find out how you can integrate Groove and SharePoint to provide an easy and flexible collaboration solution that will support users at different locations.

• Microsoft Office: Integrating Access Databases with SharePoint
  Peter Serzo - April 2008
  Many businesses still rely on Microsoft Access. Fortunately, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows you to integrate legacy Access data. Explore how you can use these tools to build new solutions for your organization.

• Online Extra: Deploy the 2007 Office System with Terminal Services
  James D. Silliman - February 2008
  The 2007 Microsoft Office system includes design changes you must be aware of before deploying it in your Terminal Services server farm. This article gives you an overview of the changes.

• Communications: Connecting Users with Office Communications Server 2007
  Alan Maddison - September 2007
  Unified communication is here. Take a tour of the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and find out how integrated messaging, voice, video, and conferencing features can help to improve productivity and enhance long-distance collaboration in your organization.

• Hey, Scripting Guy!: Scripting Around the Squiggly Red Line
  The Microsoft Scripting Guys - June 2007
  Looking for an easier way to add terms to the Microsoft Word dictionary without doing it by hand, one word at a time? Who isn't? This month, the Scripting Guys show you how to create custom dictionaries in Microsoft Word, and how to programmatically configure Word to use those dictionaries.

• SharePoint: An Overview of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  Thomas Rizzo - January 2007
  The new version of SharePoint is poised to meet all your collaboration and information management needs in a single, integrated platform. Here’s a tour of the new features and tools in MOSS that will change the way your enterprise works.

• SharePoint: 7 New Features That Enhance Security in SharePoint
  Adam Robert Buenz - January 2007
  With SharePoint tapping into more enterprise data and becoming more integral to business workflow, security becomes far more critical. Find out how these seven new features in MOSS can quickly improve security in your organization.

• SharePoint: Find It All with SharePoint Enterprise Search
  Matt Hester - January 2007
  Your company loses time and money while employees try to track down information. Enterprise search can help. MOSS offers an enterprise search tool that can find information quickly, whether it’s tucked away on an intranet site, living in a line of a business application, or even residing with a single employee.

• SharePoint: Powerful Command Line Administration for SharePoint
  Todd Klindt - January 2007
  Don’t get bogged down with a GUI. There’s a far more powerful and much faster way to manage SharePoint, which lets you perform administrative tasks from a command prompt and even script common procedures.

• SharePoint: Wiki While You Work
  Mauro Cardarelli - January 2007
  Wikis offer a new, more flexible way to collaborate, promoting an unstructured approach to thinking and exchanging ideas. And MOSS 2007 makes it incredibly easy to implement wikis in your organization. Here’s what you need to know to start building and using wikis in the workplace.

• Exchange Server 2007: Exchange & Outlook: Better Together
  Michael Khalili - December 2006
  Together, Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 represent a giant leap forward in communications and collaboration. Find out how as we dive into simpler configuration, improved search capabilities, Unified Messaging, and more.

• Communication & Collaboration: Get into the Groove: Solutions for Secure and Dynamic Collaboration
  Yung Chou - October 2006
  Office Groove 2007 lets users collaborate dynamically and securely with people from around the world. Find out how the Groove client can fit into your organization.

• Communication & Collaboration: Building an Emergency Operations Center on Groove and SharePoint
  John Morello - October 2006
  Take an inside look at how Groove and SharePoint help the Louisiana State University Emergency Operations Center respond to disaster.

• Deployment: Create More Flexible Office Deployments with the Local Install Source
  Dean Yamada - October 2006
  LIS can greatly simplify Microsoft Office support. This overview covers everything from deployment to maintenance to configuration considerations.

• Microsoft Office: Create Scorecards For Your Business With Office
  Mauro Cardarelli - July 2006
  Let's assume, as I'm going to do here, that you manage a sales team tasked with meeting regular sales quotas. Team member sales are logged into your corporate database, but you have no easy way of telling your team members how well they are doing.

• Blog Tales: Introduction to Excel XML
  Brian Jones - January • February 2006
  With the soon-to-be released next version of Microsoft® Office (currently code-named "Office 12"), there will be new default file formats for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel®. These new formats, called the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, will open up a whole new world to Office developers.

• Microsoft Office: Office Gone Wild? You May Not Have Lost That File After All
  Joshua Trupin - November • December 2005

• Office Space: Information Rights Management In Office 2003
  Alok Mehta - Winter 2005
  Today's knowledge workers deal with sensitive information all the time. This information comes in a variety of formats such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint®, and e-mail documents, and it must all be protected from unauthorized access and distribution.