While at TechEd, Chris talked me into going to see a lunch session by John Durant: GNL012 - Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office: Outlook Add-in support.  I blogged a little about this previously so …

I’m heading out on a two week vacation tomorrow early AM so if you’re trying to reach me, please be patient.  I’m intentionally going to be disconnected for the duration.  Looking forward to getting …

[via Wayne Hall] My second referral to Mindsharp blogs today… Wayne has an exellent post walkthrough on how to create a script and configure a portal server to only import specific accounts into the …

Bill posts what he can about Office 12 and SharePoint vNext.  Def worth reading… man I wish I was hitting the PDC where all the news will flow! » What’s New in Office 12 and the Next Version of …

[via Eric Gunnerson’s C# Compendium] This is actually quite funny.  A guy ~tries~ to do crash someone’s PC and then delete his hard drive contents.  Too bad elementary networking got in the way ( …

[via wssdemo.com] First Coveo offered up a free version of their Enterprise Search product for MCMS (up to 5000 assets), now they have a similar license for SharePoint!  Nice integration screenshots …

[via Fear and Loathing] I didn’t notice it earlier, but I do now… Bil is working on a set of web services that act as a nice wrapper to the SharePoint object model which currently can only run on a …

I’ve already blown my travel/training budget on TechEd USA, so I’m going for the long shot to PDC.  I’m big into MCMS and SPS and I’m dying to see the futures of both products, which seem to be …

A few of the booths stood out to me over the last week that I wanted to mention. First, I got demos of Sketa and K2’s workflow products and had great conversations with both groups.  Sanjay, the …

By now I’ve had time to unload my loot, get some sleep, and start combing through the stack of tech rags, marking articles I want to read at a later time, and combing through the massive blog backlog …

::sniff:: The last day of my first ever TechEd.  It’s been a hell of a week and well worth it.  I plan to post a nice little wrap up of general TechEd stuff hopefully this weekend.  If PDC is more …

[via Stefan & Chester] Stefan Goßner mentions on his blog, giving credit to Chester for the find, on how to determine if a user is or isn’t an administrator without going into the database!  Great …

Not just for FireFox anymore, get the latest MSN Toolbar (with desktop search which is just a flat out killer addition for Outlook as well) and get some tabbed browsing love.  Just your local bloggin …

I posted the big news from TechEd USA here and here, but you really should also read Arpan’s post about it as well as it’s from the more official source. » SP2, CMS Future and Workflow partner

Thursday was yet again a session heavy day. The end of the day brough the party at Universal Studios which included free rides, drinks (including beer & wine), and food (they even bought out a few …

Day 4 involved mostly sessions… not a lot of interaction at cabanas and such.  Scott Guthrie’s sessions (WEB323 - ASP.NET 2.0: Overview of ASP.NET 2.0 (Part 1) & WEB324 - ASP.NET 2.0: Overview of …

Yet again, more non-breaking news form your TechEd 2005 blogger AC.  Wireless connection is useless for me… part because of all the RF interference from the mass power running through this place, but …

Arpan Shah’s second MCMS session at TechEd 2005 USA, PRT337 - Best Practices for Designing and Building Content Management Server Solutions, covered a ton of great information on best practices, …

  While I had intended to drive down early on Sunday morning, I decided sometime Saturday it was more appealing to drive down at night than get up very early to make it in time for some commitments …

Today Arpan Shah held his first TechEd session of the week, PRT331 - Content Management Server: Accelerating Your Development and Deployment, packed in with lots of great news, demo's, and a new …

[via Chris Pratley] I wasn’t aware there was a PowerToy that will enable you to print to OneNote… or send an image of a web page to OneNote… very cool!

Finally... what we've been waiting for... TechEd is upon us! As you can see from my schedule, I'm primiarly focusing on CMS, SharePoint, and .NET 2.0 stuff.  I am also concentrating on SmartClients …

[via ISerializable] This is pretty cool… a nice .NET solution AJAX… tire-kicking worthy for a project I’m working on. » AJAX.NET

Bil has an interesting observation.  Fitz pops up every once in a while and throws a very interesting tidbit on his blog.  Very similar to the old-school Whack-A-Mole game… he’s calling his Whack-A- …

Scoble with the tease all day yesterday… and it was announced last night at 12.01a EST.  The default file format for Office 12 will be XML.  The current binary format will also be kept. What does …

Oh yes, this is already coming in quite handy… great job Mark!!! What's that? You want to manage multiple web sites in IIS on Windows XP Pro? Ah, yeah, that's going to be a problem... That is unless …

Someone bring string, breadcrumbs, and 2–way walkie talkies… THIS PLACE IS GOING TO BE HUGE!!! » TechEd 2005 Floor Map [UPDATE 6/2 9:11p] Link updated... looks like the clipboard got a little …

My last blog introduction of an associate (Heather’s Blog) went so well, seeing her showing up on many SharePoint & MCMS blogger’s blogrolls, I want to take a second to introduce another noteable. …