My Office Groove presentation (in stereo)
In a prior post I had mentioned that I was to present at the CTAUG group meeting (on March 10th @ Microsoft Farmington CT) - entitled: Microsoft Office Groove (In Stereo). It went very well - I was awaiting CTAUG's response and here it is -
Main Presentation: Microsoft's Peer-to-Peer Office
collaboration product, 'Groove'.
Microsoft MVP 'SB' Chatterjee (who is acting Director of
the Connecticut .NET Developers Group) was our main
speaker. SB has been instrumental in bringing Groove to
it's current state of development
(sic: not quite true albeit I did do some beta testing
over the years). Groove makes it easy for teams to work together,
communicating peer-to-peer (primarily) over the Internet,
no matter their location, time zone, or work hours. A
Groove collaboration can be set up quickly and is highly
encrypted, making the product ideal for use whenever such
features are valuable, for example in natural disaster
situations (think FEMA). Groove's peer-to-peer
architecture can be more robust than central-server
products such as Lotus Notes and SharePoint.
SB's demo was visually stunning. He had two
clients/servers running, each separately connected to the
internet (using the WiFi capability now provided by
Microsoft at our meetings), and with both their screens
visible to the audience through the use of side by side
projectors. He demonstrated Groove's ability to create and
update documents (sketches, pictures, notepad, etc) on one
machine and see the changes appear almost instantly on the
other machine. Groove uses peer-to-peer communication to
keep one or more clients in the workspace synchronized. SB
demoed workspace setup, Forms, the SDK, the central role
played by the Windows registry, and coordinated everything
with a PowerPoint presentation.
Lot's of questions
during the entire session.