My inbox this morning contained links to four videos that I thought would be worth sharing with you. They are of Brian Jones, Microsoft’s representative on TC45 in Ecma, discussing the work he has been doing along the path to standardize Open XML. A colleague of mine in Redmond has started collecting OpenXML related videos and [...]

A case study video contianing commentary from a number of contributors in UK Government on the challenges of Identity Management and Provision and the part that Microsoft InfoCard can play in addressing these. The video can also be streamed from here.

As an extension of Microsoft UK's ongoing support of the UK Government Gateway, the team there have also been working with a range of experts in UK Government and the technology vendor community to come up with solutions that address the challenge of secure Identity Management solutions for citizens and government workers.  ...

This is the seventh of a series (the series is listed at the bottom) of "How To " Videos that I have created to show .NET Developers how to build document workflow in a SharePoint environment.  In this scenario, I take the workflow that I built in the How To Video on Building a Basic Approval Workflow (found here) by adding a ...

This video (#5 in the series of How To Videos on SharePoint/MOSS 2007 "Document" Workflow with Visual Studio) addresses one of the most common questions/needs: "How can I build an Escalation workflow in SharePoint?".  It turns out that this is a very Advanced Workflow scenario and therefore will take me a bit longer to ...

The question that I get most often when I talk to developers about SharePoint Document Workflow is on Sending and Tracking tasks for the people participating in a document workflow.  So, in this 4th part of the series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007, I am demonstrating how to send a basic ...

This is a first part of a series of ''How to Videos'' that I am doing on ''Building Document Workflow'' in SharePoint/MOSS 2007 that I am producing.  The scenario is a company has created a portal which will accept resume's for job postings, and that via workflow, the MOSS 2007 portal will handle the workflow (automatically and with human ...

Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe).  I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA ''issues'' it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio 2005 in a variety of areas. I specifically like these news features: Multi-targeted ...

I met up with my colleague, Don Armstrong, the person in Microsoft that leads our efforts around the Government Security Program (GSP)."The GSP fosters partnerships between governments and Microsoft based on collaboration, information exchange, and a mutual trust fortified through ongoing interaction. Representatives of participating ...

Nigel Tilley provides a background to the video here: http://solshare.net/blogs/mspsteam/archive/2007/03/26/Wakefield-Social-Services-and-Flexible-Working-Pilot.aspx