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Today’s Webcast, hosted by SharePointJoel.com author and SharePoint Evangelist Joel Oleson, is a topic that many organizations need to take more time to figure out a strategy for, backup and recovery procedures. My golden rule that applies to most organizations that have implemented SharePoint is: “If the right person, loses the wrong document, then it is cause for trouble”
- Mr.Shadeed

Webcast: Effective Backup and Restore Strategies for Your SharePoint Service

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009
Time: 8 a.m. Pacific / 11 a.m. Eastern / 4 p.m. United Kingdom / 5 p.m. Central Europe

Chaos in SharePoint backup and recovery arises when you’re not sure where your data is or when to back it up. When this occurs, users have to wait weeks for IT to retrieve their lost data. Join SharePoint expert Joel Oleson to learn how following a consistent backup and recovery governance plan can streamline processes, help you meet SLAs, and keep users productive. He and other special guests will review goals for developing the plan, provide you with prescriptive guidance to achieve them, and describe native and third-party tools that can help along the way.

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Webcast Recap

Brent Ozar provided a good perspective from the DBA side of the house while Joel delivered the presentation on various strategies and considerations for SharePoint backup.
Many were probably expecting 10 minutes of strategy and 50 minutes of sales demo for this webcast, but the majority of the presentation was strategy and there was mention of other leading vendors as well in the SharePoint space.
Overall, I thought the webcast was put together well, time ran short at the end so Joel offered to answer all questions directly on his blog. www.sharepointjoel.com

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I had a requirement to meet using Skype for a business startup, so I have provided a step-by-step installation guide in this post to walk through the install wizard.

What is Skype?

Skype is a service that enables users to make phone calls using the Internet. It uses Voice Over IP protocol in order to do this. It enables the user to set up video teleconferencing and instant messenging as well.

Skype users can make free calls to other users on Skype. In the era of outraegeous cell phone bills that continue to skyrocket, this can be utilized as a cost effective way to communicate with your network.

Select Download Now

Select Run

Select your language and Select Next

The screenshot above will prompt the user to create a new account

Fill in the required fields. The full name field is searchable, so it helps to keep consistent with profiles you may use on other social networking platforms

Installation wizard will provide a status bar at the bottom 3rd of the screen

You can choose to enable the Browser Highlighter. I did not.

Installation is complete. Welcome to Skype!

Add contacts and begin communicating.

For the latest updates on blog posts like the Skype Installation Guide and other news and notes, follow my updates on Twitter.com

Jared Goralnick’s presentation centered around A Little Bit of Productivity for a Great Bit of Happiness which fits in perfectly with Collaborpedia’s “Remember the Big Picture” approach to the changes at large within our respective communities. The presentation was quite insightful as were many at Ignite Baltimore’s second event.

Jeff Deverter, SharePoint Architect and Jerry Schwartz, SharePoint Product Manager of Rackspace will be hosting a webinar today at 12 noon ET.

Register here

Webinar Overview

Microsoft SharePoint makes your day-to-day business easier, helping your business efficiently share resources and workspaces, manage projects and automate processes. Join the Rackspace SharePoint team for a complimentary SharePoint webinar showing how you can use Dedicated SharePoint from Rackspace to build simple solutions that can help increase your office productivity such as Intranets, Office Social Networking and Project Management systems. Hosted by Jeff Deverter, SharePoint Architect, Rackspace and Jerry Schwartz, SharePoint Product Manager, Rackspace Thursday, January 29, 2009 11 a.m. CST / 12 p.m. EST / 9 a.m. PST

We’ll be meeting on the third Thursday of February 2009 for what promises to be a great presentation overall.

BSPUG Co-Founder Eric Harlan will be leading a presentation on Federated Search.
He will provide an overview, best practices discussion and walk through configuration of Federated Search.

It will be held at our location sponsor UMBC Tech Center. We are still awaiting word from our sponsor whether we’ll be meeting in the main building (1450) or the hands-on labs (1442)

Doors open at 6pm for FREE food and beverages.
For more information on directions and BSPUG in general, log-on to www.baltimoresug.org

-Mr.Shadeed

I routinely create Technical Manuals and End-User documentation for clients and for the enjoyment of providing resources for people within my network and community.
The sign of good documentation is when the doc is being used long after the employee has left the company or revisions are released as technology changes.

I recently created an installation guide/walk-through on SnagIt 9 that I wanted to share with the readers of Collaborpedia.
SnagIt enables users to enhance their presentation and information gathering capabilities by enabling screen capture of literally anything you see on your screen.

New features include Open Capture Tray, Tagging screen captures, and enhanced layout features to the toolbar and editor.

SnagIt can be used for projects ranging from how-to guides, PowerPoints, sponsorship packets and more. You can add audio to your images to create an enhanced slideshow.

Link to Publishers Description of SnagIt

I have created an Installation Guide that is available for Collaborpedia readers to utilize to download the trial version to test drive the features and functionality of SnagIt.

Download SnagIt Trial here:

SnagIt 9 Install Tutorial
Can’t View Embedded Files? Here’s the Link

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