Slipstreamed Copies of Office 2013 and SharePoint Server 2013 with SP1 Announced

At the SharePoint Conference today Microsoft announced that a slipstreamed version of Office 2013 and SharePoint Server 2013 with service pack 1 is releasing.

Available today for download from the Microsoft Volume Licensing site, IT Pros will be able to provide full installation versions of Microsoft's Office and SharePoint products with the integrated SP1 bits. This ensures an easy installation of Office 2013 with SP1 to new systems and provides the ability to install SharePoint 2013 with SP1 directly to Windows Server 2012R2. It also delivers IT Pros with the tools to create administrative installations and custom deployments.

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What’s new in SharePoint Server 2013 for IT professionals

In today’s volatile economic climate, organizations require collaboration, communication, and productivity solutions to be both cost-effective and flexible. SharePoint Server 2013 can help you achieve new levels of reliability and performance, delivering features and capabilities that simplify administration, protect communications and information, and empower users while meeting their demands for greater business mobility.

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mySPC LiveBlogging Schedule @cyberslate #SPC11 #SPC11LB #SPCRockstars (Via Marie-Michelle Strah)

Extracted from the original post “Welcome to sunny (at least for now!) Anaheim all!

Here’s my schedule for the conference – I hope to liveblog all events listed (unless waylaid by meetings or booth duty at Planet Technologies booth 156 !). Please also check out the Women in Technology #SPCRockstars panel tomorrow Monday October 3, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. PDT – I’ll be there at the Perficient booth 801 (this will also be posted after the event). For more information, please see:http://lifeincapslock.com/spc11-live-blogs-women-in-technology-and-cool

If you’ve got a great SharePoint success story to tell and would like to be included in the SharePointEduTech liveblog, please come see me at the Planet booth, at one of the sessions below or on Twitter @cyberslate and I’ll be sure to include you in that day’s posts!”

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SharePoint 2010 VHD with Service Pack 1(Via Kamlesh)

Extracted from the original post “Since 2009, Microsoft has released multiple versions of SharePoint 2010 VHD (a.k.a 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine). Microsoft also upgrades its Evaluation Virtual Machines from time to time. You may find many websites sharing the SharePoint 2010 VHD Download links, which may be outdated by now.

Below is the latest VHD containing Service Pack 1 builds of all products. This was published on 13-Sep-2011:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27417

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SharePoint’s Affect on Information Management(Via Art)

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“For many years content management systems have faced the challenge of a lack of discipline with regards to users effectively controlling the scope of the effort. It is easy to take advantage of any product immediately released. However, the launch of Microsoft SharePoint may be able to properly scope company initiatives.

Although SharePoint will not solve all of a firm’s problems because it is only a resource, the content management system has enough features that can provide increased business value over the previous method. On the other hand, many established vendors have additional features that Microsoft must compete with.

On that note, is primarily used for file sharing and the distribution of information across many departments. Due to its popularity, the system has grown and become extremely critical for many groups within an organization. In its simplest form, SharePoint is a transparent records management system that archives data from today, last week or a year ago. Many other content management systems offer the same task with plenty of other features.”

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SharePoint Semantics Now Available (Via SharePoint Semantics Blog)

“A new publication provides an information service about one of the world’s most popular software platforms. The new information service is SharePointSemantics.com, and it focuses on the world’s fastest growing content and collaboration platform and how semantics and work flow can compound the SharePoint ROI for organizations.”

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