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This is a shameless plug for myself to invite you to come to a session I will be doing with Microsoft’s Mark Ryan at Microsoft IT-Forum 2007 in Barcelona. Look for OFF201 Groove 2007: Real World Infrastructure Challanges.  The time slot is November the 14th form 15.45 till 17:00.

There will also be a Chalk-Talk  “OFF06-IS Groove 2007: Security and Communications Groove” so look out for that to and the 15th of November at 09:00 

We are working on something special about Groove on the Sunday before IT-Forum starts but I that is still a bit hush hush. So look out for more information on that here on Buit.org.

During IT-Forum Erik Luppes, Stefan Stranger and myself will blog new stuff from IT-Forum here. My job will be talking about the party’s, drinks and diners off-course. The serious stuff will come from my friends.

Hope to see you there and please give us good ratings

See ya

Jeroen Jansen

Good news,

Just got the word the from my Canadian friends that the Groove Exam is live in Beta.
The exam will test the Client, Management Server, Relay Server and Databridge Server.
Monday 27 of august at 10 AM in the morning I will take the test. I got a feeling I will pass. Maybe because I had some doing developing this Exam as an Subject Matter Expert for Groove. I’m really excited to see if the input we gave is in the exam.

I’m not sure how long the exam will run in Beta and when it will be for the general public. I do not know how you could register for that. But they sent me a promo code and I registered with that. That worked for me.

I will let you know on Monday how I did. I won’t see the result just yet. It will take about 6 weeks to process the exam.

UPDATE:

Today I took the beta exam, I hope I passed LOL. It was fun to see how things you come up with during developing the exam get back into the final exam. I thought all questions where compelling and some questions are even mind breakers. But the exam is fair in my opinion and you will pass if you prepare for it and take a training, especially if I’m the trainer……

Now I have to wait 8 weeks for the result. I will keep you posted. 

See ya

Jeroen Jansen
TS Groove 2007 to be!!!!

Ok I must admit i might be a bit of a geek/nerd/freak (choose one). But now that i have a leave of work and going on a holiday my wife told me that i must leave my laptop(s) for a rest the next 1,5 weeks. They should have a holiday too she stated and yes it’s true laptop(s) need a holiday too. To much keystrokes makes them cranky. But let’s not go that way or else i start talking about traveling agency’s for laptops

What my problem is that is still need to manage our Groove Server environment at the office. So i thought let’s use the Nintendo WII. It has a web browser inside so that should work. But what do you think after the logon screen it just give me a blank screen and I get this error message:

So now i have a big problem here. I might just email Abbott L. at Microsoft to ask him to patch this problem and make the pages accessible for WII users because I don’t think I’m the only one with this problem. I know for sure that a colleague of mine want’s to do the same thing. Think about it managing you Groove environment by moving your arms, what better way to lose those love handles than managing Groove on your WII. It is an Opera Browser what’s inside my WII, so Abbott would you please help me. Or maybe Microsoft could give me an IE version for the WII.
I think that would be a great solution (all i favor press the left shift key 5 times).

So now what do i do, well nothing else to do then flying to Mallorca, hanging out at the beach, drinking cocktails and beer(in what order i don’t mind). And all that because I cannot manage my Groove Environment on my WII. Aint life a B…..

Have to go now, kids are in the car and the sun is waiting and i know for sure that Abbott’s Groove team will fix this for me when i get back because they will face the same problems soon !!!!!

For what its worth see you guys in a 1,5 weeks. (feels like forever)

Jeroen 

One of the things that keeps coming back in talks with Groove customers is the ability to scan the Groove Encrypted files before the are being opened inside the workspace.

Last week in learned that Microsoft OneCare has this ability to do this. It has it own MSVAPI running that can scan inside the Groove User and Systems directory. If you need this functionality that’s another question because if you have an on access virus scanner it will pick up a the virus file when it’s being opened. But ok, if you want to do virus scanning before it will be in your workspace then it can be done with OneCare.

I also heard some rumors that there a thoughts to use a ForeFront solution for Groove. So I think this will mean that the Relay server may have a ForeFront application running on it.

We just have to wait and see.

See Ya

Jeroen Jansen

This year I’m asked to give a Groove Infrastructure Training together with Abbott Lowell (Microsoft) at The Microsoft TR4 Event. You can see this event as a Microsoft Internal IT-Forum.
Saturday the third of February will be the day that the training will be held. I will try to post the latest information about Groove 2007 on BUIT.org.

All the new things Groove 2007 has to offer will be presented at the TR4 event. And off course here you will here all the inside information here on this blog site
Tomorrow (Feb the second) we will start the make sure the 150 64 bit machines are all running as they suppose to do.
Here we will run on physical hardware but we also have a Groove training scheduled on the 15 and the 16 of February in Berlin right after the SharePoint Conference. And there we will use Virtual Machines (VMware Server 1.0.1) to support the 50 machines with the Groove Infrastructure.

So stay tuned for more on Groove 2007.

see ya,

Jeroen.

PS. can I have another White Chocolate Mocha at StarBucks