Kenneth Lo, PMP

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SharePoint Saturday DC Prevailed Over Foul Weather

It was a snowy Saturday, but that did not deter 100+ devoted attendees from showing up at SPSDC! Dan Usher, Dux Raymond Sy, Gino Degregori, the corporate sponsors and volunteers, as always, did an amazing job putting this event together. And thanks again to all my peer speakers for making this event so much fun! [...]

SharePoint Saturday DC Session Schedule Released

The final session scheudle for the upcoming SharePoint Saturday DC has been released. Pick among four tracks: End User, Developer, Administrator, Special Interest. My session, starting at 4:40pm, is titled Secret Ingredients of Successful SharePoint Project Management. Looks like the turnout will be huge. I look forward to seeing you all there!
By the way, [...]

SharePoint 2010 Beta Hardware & Software Requirements

The long-awaited SharePoint 2010 Beta was finally released this week. It has set the entire community on fire! Many new features have been added and existing ones improved. I will be posting a series of blog posts next few weeks as the adventures take place. Stay tuned!
Before you start installing the beta in your sandbox [...]

How to Effectively Create a Work Breakdown Structure in Microsoft Project and Visio

The Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Modeler Add-in enables effective integration of Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 by providing a new approach to creating, editing and modifying project plans graphically in Visio 2007. The WBS Modeler offers the ability to manage project elements in a graphical [...]

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 Baltimore Speakers Announced

I am extremely pleased to be selected as one of the speakers at the upcoming SharePoint Saturday Baltimore in the UMBC Training Centers at 1450 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, Maryland on July 25, 2009.
Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. SharePoint Saturday will be an educational, informative & lively [...]

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 [...]

SharePoint Saturday DC Speakers Announced

I am extremely pleased to have been picked as one of those speakers at the upcoming SharePoint Saturday DC in the Microsoft Reston office. 
Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies for ‘SharePoint Saturday’, on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at the Microsoft Technology Center on Sunset Hills Road Reston, VA. SharePoint Saturday [...]

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 [...]