TSLS – Luke Smith

Microsoft has now released Service Pack 2. Included in this update is all of the cumlative updates since Service Pack 1 and the following improvements:

You can download the service Pack from here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx#SP2

Microsoft has released Exchange 2010 Beta and details of the new release.

Look forward to the following new features:

·         Inbuilt Archiving

o   This can also be pushed into BPOS

·         End users Management of Mailbox over load

o   Warning users of best email practice (MailTips) to help users reduce the amount of emails

o   Ability for users to removed themselves from email threads (Ignore Conversation)

·         Improved Administration

o   50% I/O cost improvements

o   High Availability  

o   Improved Wizards and Delegation of email administration

·         Unified Communications

o   Voice Mail Text Preview in Outlook – no longer required to play your voice mail to everyone in the office

o   Call Answering Rules – creation of phone menu’s to route calls to business departments

·         Online Services

o   Ability to push mailboxes between Microsoft BPOS (Cloud) and you internal mail server.

For more information please see www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010

LearnPoint is a Learning Management System (LMS) which integrates into Sharepoint and uses Silverlight as the interface for managing and launching courses.

LearnPoint allows organisations to quickly build and deliver training courses to their staff.

LearnPoint is also SCORM complaint which allows you to import content from other SCROM systems such as Toolbook

ICS Solutions has integrated LearnPoint into the Sharepoint Adoption Portal allowing organisations to empower there staff on the features of Sharepoint

For more information please see www.ics.net and www.point8020.com