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Some of you are asking how and who builds the Solution Starters. The Solution Starter specifications were done by the same group of people who design new components of Microsoft Project – the Program Managers inside of Microsoft. The specifications (“specs”) were then handed off to external company who coded, tested and released them into the MSDN Code Gallery. The company is called Internet Commerce Corporation (ICC) ICC is one of the first companies that started working with Microsoft Project Server 2010 as part of Microsoft’s TAP program and continues to gain experience being involved in the development of a number of solution starters for Project Server 2010. Since then, ICC has built strong expertise in building EPM solutions based on the Microsoft Project Server 2010 Platform. Major focus areas in Enterprise Project Management for ICC are: EPM Solution Implementation Project Server 2010 deployment and configuration Project Server 2010 customization and custom report development If you plan to do a coding project for Project 2010 and you need great developers with vast experience , feel free to consider them too! Jan

The Microsoft Office 2010 Developer Map is now available for download. You can view it on a big monitor, or print it full-size on a 3-foot x 2-foot page. It shows the full stack of Office desktop and server applications, technologies, and tools – including mobile and cloud apps. For Office 2007, see the Microsoft Office 2007 interactive Developer Map . The Silverlight-based interactive map for Office 2010 is not yet available.

Yes – it’s here for few weeks now – https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/P2010Scrum . Details are here . Thanks for all the comments, keep them coming!

Looking for tools and way to easily get started building customizations by reusing and modifying code from an existing? Then make sure to look at https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/P2010SolutionStarter . There’s plenty of related resources, including deep dive webcasts. If you have any questions – please check the related discussion . Jan

When:
Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 9:30 AM - Friday, February 11, 2011 at 5:00 PM (GMT)

Where:
Technology House
Shottery Brook Office Park
Timothy's Bridge Road
CV37 9NR Stratford Upon Avon
United Kingdom

For more details, course content and to register for this event please go to:
https://taipsadmin2010100211-rss.

We had a support case this week relating to the use of the samples from the SDK on a Spanish version of Project Server 2010.

This probably isn’t a very common scenario – but you may run in to it.

This week in BPOS news is a recurring segment on the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog that covers news from all sectors of Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Online Services business suite known as the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). You can read all past This Week in BPOS News segments here. For this week in BPOS news we take a look at the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 announcement, and we get a 99.9 percent guarantee from BPOS. 1. Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM 2011 hits the cloud In our first BPOS News story we announce a new cloud offering from Microsoft, Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM 2011. CNET covers the launch story here . The announcement comes with a price drop of the service from 44 dollars to 33 dollars per user. There is also a “Cloud CRM for Less” program which CNET explains as Microsoft “ offering cash rebates on a per-user basis for companies that switch over from competing Salesforce or Oracle CRM tools.” Dynamics General Manager Brad Wilson told CNET why he was excited about this announcement. “What’s kind of cool about this right now is that this kind of price point and this type of technology lets smaller business take advantage of technology that was before only available to larger organizations,” Wilson said. “So to be able to offer it up as an on-demand service at a very affordable price really expands the access of the technology to smaller companies, and I think that’s very exciting.” What do you think of the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 announcement? We want to hear from you! Leave your thoughts below in the comments section. 2. Microsoft: BPOS components average 99.9-plus percent uptime In our final BPOS News story for this week , we look into the average up time for Microsoft BPOS over the past year. Microsoft offers a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee as their service level agreement or SLA. SLA’s are taken very seriously and if the 99.9% SLA cannot be met, Microsoft offers cash reimbursements. In this NetworkWorld article it claims that Microsoft has held a 99.9 uptime SLA over the past year. What do you think of the service level agreement from Microsoft BPOS? Leave your thoughts below. What are your thoughts about the stories we shared with you this week? Did you see a story you want to share with us? Let us know what other topics you’d like to see. You can comment on this blog post or send an email to our community mailbox . Follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page.

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