Adobe Systems has announced immediate availability of the Adobe Acrobat Connect software product line and the Adobe Reader 8 software. The company said that with Acrobat Connect and Acrobat Connect Professional, it would transform the way knowledge workers meet and conduct business online with ‘always-on’ personal meeting rooms.

http://www.collaborationloop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1849&Itemid=45

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SharePoint v3 / OL2007 has a two way sync with calendars in Outlook, whereas before it only had a one way sync in the WSSv2 / OL2003 version.

So you create a Calendar in a SharePoint site, then go under Actions, select Connect to Outlook. Outlook will then ask you if it is OK to link to the site. Once you have added the site to your Outlook, you can drag/drop events from your main calendar, or create new events directly in the SharePoint calendar.   Outlook will sync with the SharePoint Calendar and wallah, your events appear on the SharePoint site. Works vice versa too.  Events created on the site will appear in Outlook.

Why is this awesome?  Use it for:

• Shared team calendar for jobs, consulting, projects, events, books, etc.
• Resource reservation calendar for things such as conference rooms, projectors, demo laptops, etc.
• Meeting management for personnel resources not on the same LAN or utilizing AD.

You could have a central calendar in your Outlook, then several SharePoint calendars linked in, and you can drag/drop your pertinent appoints on the various calendars for their various purposes.  Very cool! 

By Heather Solomon, SharePoint expert

http://heathersolomon.com/blog/archive/2006/12/08/5965.aspx

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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SHAREPOINT USERS!

http://www.frontpages-web-hosting.com/ has just announced new hosting plans for the newly released SharePoint Services v3.

For $19.95 a month you get:

1000 MB Disk Space
200 GB Traffic
Unlimited Users
60+ free webparts

Larger plans available if you need more space, etc. CHECK EM’ OUT!

Andrea Kalli
http://www.virtualassist.net/

Your resource for Outlook training and SharePoint training

It’s here! It’s here! The new version of Windows SharePoint Services v3 RTM is now available for download from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d51730b5-48fc-4ca2-b454-8dc2caf93951&DisplayLang=en

What does this mean for those of us “renting” our SharePoint Services sites from hosting companies? Well, hopefully it means they’ll either be offering it to us soon or just switching us over automatically.

Very exciting!

Andrea

www.virtualassist.net

Your resource for Outlook training and SharePoint training

Be still my beating heart…these new and improved features in Windows SharePoint Services v3 are going to rock your world!

When is it due out? Probably around the same time as the release of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange Server 2007 become available…end of January 2007 perhaps?

If you are using a hosted SharePoint Services site, you may want to ask your hosting company if they know more about when they will be converting their users to the new version.

Those of you that have already been working in SharePoint sites will truly appreciate many of these improvements. I know I will!

Check out this list of New and Improved features of SharePoint Services v3:

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