http://www.hartsteve.com "The best prophet is common sense, our native wit." - Euripides Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, I’m still learning about Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) and SharePoint Information Rights Management (IRM) and the configuration black art that it is … so … precision and accuracy of the solution below is not guaranteed. Problem A document library configured with information rights management protection will not display the contents ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2009/10/21/sharepoint-irm-issue-opening-documents/ … one company, based in Paris, used [macro and micro level offshoring diversification] to its advantage... The company was looking to offshore 2,000 specialized, high-end IT jobs and initially planned on sourcing the entire project in India. It opted for an alternative scenario, however, after running the numbers as part ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2009/09/13/mckinsey-quarterly-offshoring-rethink/ ZoomIt is a fantastic little zoom tool from Windows Sysinternals that I regularly use to ensure my audience can clearly see the areas of my demo screens that I’m discussing.  When adeptly used, ZoomIt can add a lot of professional polish to your software demos and help retain your audience’s ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2009/09/07/zoomit-damn-it/ Recently I dealt with a software development company that used an outsourced development model which comprised the following locations: India: Development centres comprising dozens of developers. Canada: Technical management and some development. USA: Data center hosting test and production servers. My exposure to the company was relatively brief but from what I saw and ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2009/08/30/an-outsourcing-mess/ You’re having trouble connecting to the internet from your Windows Server (or Vista as I’ve read elsewhere).  You ping an internet site and see the IP address but receive “destination host unreachable”. You go to the command prompt and type “ipconfig /all” to investigate your IP settings.  You see that ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2009/07/09/0000-default-gateway/ In a nutshell the Microsoft Gemini project is about two things: Giving end users more powerful desktop-based OLAP capabilities. Giving IT departments the ability to better control organizational data assets. Desktop-based OLAP capabilities will be achieved as an extension to Microsoft Excel.  Better control of organizational data assets (and spreadmarts) will be achieved ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2009/06/19/the-gemini-approach/ A large number of organizations still live in shared folder hell, plagued by the following issues: Documents are scattered deep and wide in a vast hierarchy of folders across many shared folder locations. Duplicate content is everywhere. Organizational records become buried amongst the shared folders and are overlooked by information management policies that ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2009/06/16/sharepoint-document-management-folder-discontent/ Since coming across Jame's post about Idiagram I've been thinking about how Marshall's approach to complex problem solving and visual modeling might help contribute to solving corporate communication problems.  One of my biggest frustrations in the workplace is poor communication.  It destroys morale, reduces quality, kills teamwork, etc.  No mystery ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2009/02/16/visual-communication-model/ Since the days of the first SaaS (Software as a Service) entrants the idea of provisioning computing resources from external hosting providers has clearly become mainstream.  Search for "Cloudsourcing", "Cloud Computing" or whatever you call it and you'll see a wealth of information and a wide selection of mature and ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2008/11/12/cloud-thoughts/   Business intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information and sometimes to the information itself. Wikipedia BI systems provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, most often using data that has been gathered into a data warehouse or a data ... http://www.hartsteve.com/2008/10/18/microsoft-bi-conference-2008/