May 2007 - Posts

Shasta, CA - Technology Fair - May 30th

While I was in Redding, California earlier this month, I had the opportunity to meet the Redding SBS User Group Lead, Jim Ballard at the TS2 event.  During our introduction he discussed a great event taking place in Shasta on May 30th.   Its a Small Business focused Technology Fair and all partners in the area are welcome to participate and bring their customers to learn about all sorts of new solutions and technology that will help improve their business.

I was so interested in our discussion, I decided to put my new M-Audio Microtrack recorder to use and interview Jim about the Tech Fair and engaging with the SBS User Group, which started the first edition of TS2 Traffic Jamz. 

TS2 Traffic Jamz is a pilot of our version of Partnercasts where we (TS2 folks) interview Partners and Microsoft employees around a variety of topics and technology.

 

You can download the recording from the following link.   (Click here

 

Please let me know if you have other topics of interest.  I'm already working with the MSReadiness team for some phone recordings with other product managers.  If you'd like to hear from others in the field or about a specific product line at Microsoft.  Please email me at charlesv@microsoft.com and I will see what I can put together.

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Configuring an RSS Feed to Download Partnercasts to your Zune

The steps I am using to download the recordings do not automatically place them on my Zune. I save them to a folder in my Music folder, which gets synched up with my Zune daily. Here are the steps below. The reason for this is the 2 other freeware apps I tried didn’t automatically complete the downloading either so I went with purely a Microsoft only route, which involves a manual step of downloading the ones I want after reviewing the abstracts.

Try this:

Logon to the Partner Portal with your Live Credentials

Navigate to this site: http://www.msusapartnerreadiness.com/custompage.asp?pageid=1123

Click on the “what’s hot” link for RSS Feeds in the middle of the page – (see the screenshot below)

The next step is the click “Subscribe to this feed” which appears in the following window:

The following screen will appear asking you for a location to store the feeds:

Click New Folder and create a folder called “Partnercasts”

Now click “Subscribe”

Once this completes, Outlook 2007 will now list the RSS Feeds in the Folder Hierarchy.

Once I open this RSS Feed folder, I click on one of the RSS Feed abstracts and Right Click on the “Click to Listen” hyperlink and Select “Save Target As”, which I save into a PartnerCast folder I created under the “Music” directory. After that, the Zune software handles all the synch process and puts it on my Zune for my listening Pleasure.  Those steps are outlined on the Zune website which is listed below.

http://www.zune.net/en-us/support/howto/start/synclibrary.htm

 

 

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