16/05/2006 - At the SharePoint Conference in Seattle, where else. Unfortunately, my travel budget (or lack thereof) prevents me from attending. It seems that every year there are at least 2 must attend SharePoint events that are in the last quarter of  my financial year . Regardless of how frugal I have been throughout the year, someone else will spend what I have saved so I don’t get to any of them.

Now that all feel sorry for me (not), the thing that I would really love to have attended at the SharePoint conference was the day dedicated to upgrading.  I’m currently looking at the options for upgrading WSSDemo to the next version. In fact I have been trying the various upgrade options and will probably not be able to upgrade at all because I want to get away from AD Account Creation Mode.

So I will be migrating the content instead. This involves moving my blog, links, and articles. The blogs and links have moved over nicely by using Access to perform an Insert Query by attaching to the old and new site lists. The Web Part pages will be a bit more tricky but I still have x days to get that sorted before my WSS 2007 (or is that WSS v3) site can go live.

In the mean time you can get even more info on Office 2007 and SharePoint from the Office 2007 Partner Technical Readiness Training Presentations (2 days worth of content)

Learn about the key features in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and how you can benefit from the partner opportunities surrounding the new platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5cb386ff-1b77-4adc-a42f-f5ea375e4ed1&DisplayLang=en