Kenneth Lo, PMP

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Chance to Preorder Windows 7 at Substantial Discounts

Sick of Vista? Relief is on the way!
Microsoft on Wednesday announced retail pricing for Windows 7 that’s at or below comparable Windows Vista prices, while also offering a chance for people to preorder the software at a substantial discount, between June 26 and July 11.
The offer, however, is limited in both duration and by the [...]

SharePoint Saturday DC Screencast

The turnout for SPSDC last weekend was impressive. The caliber of the speakers was truly superb. Special thanks to Dux Raymond Sy and the event sponsors; they did an world-class job promoting SPSDC.
Mark Miller, the founder of EndSharePointUser.com, was extremely generous in lending his equipments and recording my session, Docs with Attitude: Enhancing Document [...]

TechNet Virtual Labs – The Quickest Way to Get Hands-On Experience in SharePoint

My colleagues often ask me how to get hands-on experience when a sandbox environment is not available. Fortunately, Microsoft has thought about this and made the Virtual Lab series available FREE on TechNet.
TechNet Virtual Labs: SharePoint Products and Technologies
TechNet Virtual Labs: Microsoft Office 2007 System
Through these VM sessions, you get first-hand experience in SharePoint technologies [...]

How to Create a Site Column in MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0

Site Column is a reusable column template that be used across different SharePoint sites and lists. Leveraging site columns intelligently improves data consistency and simplifies data entry. I have written a quick tutorial named How to Create a Site Column in MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 on eHow.
1. Click on “Site Actions” > “Site Settings”.
2. Under [...]

Microsoft Word 2007 Tips: How to Paste Text without Formatting

If you do a lot of copy and paste operations in MS Word 2007, you probably have asked for an easy way to control whether the formatting should be perserved in the destination document. That feature is actually built-in. Until I discovered this feature today, I had to use the old faithful NotePad as an [...]