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6 categories with 43 BPOS resources – it is all you need to start, migrate and administrate

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On the Microsoft TechNet blogs, a blog posting by Oscar Maqueda gives a good and complete overview of all available BPOS resources. Oscar’s blog is in Spanish so most non-Spanish people will probably not normally end up there. For your convenience I have copied the English part of his list here. It is an impressive list of all the resources in one place. Enjoy.

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Category 1: according to Oscar this is “Must read and keep on a USB key”.

In other words, this is core content that you cannot be without. You will constantly refer back to it and it needs to be refreshed every month.

Service Descriptions and white papers:

The absolute best resource is the Deployment Site . There will find a link to the holy grail of BPOS-S technical information related to migration: The BPOS Deployment Guide.

Useful detail can be found in a more summary form in the Service Descriptions:

Category 2: according to Oscar this is “Must read, subscribe and check when updated”.
Category 3: Online Training

A) Public

B) For Partners

Start here:

Then:

Then:

  • Migration and Onboarding Deep Dive :
    The Deployment Guide (above) should be used the most current reference. This deep dive is still solid though and contains detailed content  on migration and pre-sales discovery. Level 200-400.

Then:

  • See Depth Guidance references
Category 4: Online References
Category 5: Depth Guidance
  • Infrastructure Planning Guides – very good for walking through evaluating on-premise to online migrations.

SharePoint Online

Exchange Online

  • Developers Guides: what you can and can’t do with web services and BPOS.

Exchange Online

SharePoint Online

Partners:

Category 6: Tools

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The relationship between Cloud and SOA explained

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Last week I contributed to an article in XR Magazine (in Dutch, English translation is here) on the relationship between Cloud Computing / Services and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). The concept of a “Cloud Orchestration Bus” (COB) is introduced in this article. The COB is the result of research done in Atos Origin on Cloud Services. I hope I can publish more on this very soon.

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Microsoft ‘Orleans’ – a cloud programming language?

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Mary-Jo Foley from ZDNet.com writes about a new codename that has emerged from the Microsoft laboratories: Orleans.

“Orleans is a new programming model designed to raise the level of abstraction above Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). Orleans introduces the concept of “grains” as being units of computation and data storage that can migrate between datacenters. Orleans also will include its own runtime that will handle replication, persistence and consistency. The idea is to create a single programming model that will work on clients and servers, which will simplify debugging and improve code mobility.”

This is a very cool idea, especially if it is connected into .NET and the good usability of the Microsoft software development toolkits.

Read the full article at the source….

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Integrating PC, Browser and Phone in Office 2010

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Today I was reviewing al the great material associated with the announcement of the SharePoint and Office 2010 software by Microsoft. The presentation below showed perfectly the integration of the PC, a browser and a Windows Phone 7.

The video starts showing the collaboration between two users on a spreadsheet in SharePoint, but really kicks off when the presenter shows the PowerPoint publication technology, including the usage of Windows Phone 7 in that scenario. Very cool and very useful also.

This technology uses much of the capabilities of ‘the cloud’ and really shows the integration possible between the three platforms (I must get me a production copy of Office 2010 very soon).

For a good first impression of Office Mobile, I recommend the link to ars technica (below). Office Mobile is available as a free upgrade to Windows Mobil 6.5 users.

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I had a meeting with Bob Muglia today

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Today I had the privilege to spend 1.5 hour in a 1-on-1 meeting with Bob Muglia from Microsoft.

We talked a lot about BPOS, the Microsoft Azure services and the relationship to the Atos Origin business model. Some of the conversation was under NDA, so it cannot be shared here.

But I must say that Microsoft has a clear vision with their online portfolio and there are significant opportunities for partners.

Bob Muglia is a member of Microsoft’s Senior Leadership Team that is responsible for shaping the company’s business and technology strategy, so you can imagine I felt pretty inspired by this conversation.

(thx to Peter Paul de Heer and Michel N’guettia for inviting me) 

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