Here’s a brief outline of our key Office Productivity Workshops. They can be delivered based on Office 2007 or Office 2003.

§  MS-Outlook productivity workshop

o   Message formats, customised forms, signature blocks

o   Out of office assistant

o   Junk mail options and anti-spam measures

o   Calendars: formatting, printing, sharing

o   Sharing mail boxes and accessing share mail boxes

o   Tasks, alerts and reminders

o   Archiving: how, why, where it goes, recovering missing messages

o   Integration with MS Exchange and what it gives you (assuming a ‘domain’ environment)

o   Remote access to Outlook: OWA (Outlook Web Access)

o   Setting up additional accounts or monitoring your hotmail etc

o   Contacts, Journals, Forms Design, Security.

  § Information management and clever storage using MS-SharePoint

o   A half-day workshop on how to use SharePoint (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Office Server 2007) for document management task.

o   Setting up Shared Document libraries and views

o   Content Types

o   Accessing SharePoint from Excel, Outlook and Word

§  Students will receive a free Outlook Addin that allows them to store incoming e-mails in SharePoint with one click.

o   SharePoint and Infopath

  §  How to build an Intranet using SharePoint

o   A half-day workshop on how to use SharePoint (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) as the collaboration platform in your organisation

o   How to build and configure shared web pages for company-wide information

o   How to make User-specific views and pages

o   How to manage Document and Media libraries

o   How to use Forms libraries and Infopath

o   Alerts and RSS-Feeds

§  Management Information and BI-Dashboards in MS-Excel and MS-SharePoint

o   Alerts and Dashboards manage status so that only relevant information surfaces.

o   Accessing data from your Line Of Business Systems

o   Integrating Reporting Services Reports in MS-SharePoint

§  MS-SQL Server Reporting Services for End-Users

o   Building Reports using the Reporting Services Report Builder

§  MS-SQL Server Reporting Services for IT-Professionals

o   Setting up data models for Report Builder

o   Building Advanced Reports using SQL Server Business Intelligence Studio

o   Deploying Reports to Reporting Services Server

o   Deploying Reports to SharePoint

o   Security

o   Report distribution and scheduling