LOL: No Knowledge about Knowledge Network

LOL: No Knowledge about Knowledge Network

• megoo80

  Hi Henry,

  Regarding an executive brief... not sure... i know John Hand did a Channel9 presentation on this a while back which went pretty deep into the product. I just checked the Office Site and I dont see a link for KN there at this time. I will try and get an answer as to why its missing.

  With regards to your question on excluding mailboxes. Not completely following you there. Here is the basics for how the process goes through.

  Two components - Server Application and Client Application

  Client Application ( after installing locally on client machine) will Analyze email to create profile (keywords, contacts, external contacts) Once this is done you will be presented with a findings window... you can uncheck whatever you dont want to be published... such as a peers mailbox. THis information then gets published up to the server. There is also a way to add annonymous information so say you are an expert on a subject (say Office Excel Pivot Charts) you can have yourself listed as an annonymous entity so that when a user like myself needs to find help on this subject matter I can see during my search that there is someone that has this expertise.. I can send an email to a brokerage account that will send you an email saying someone needs help... you can choose to reply or let it go to the bit bucket...

  Im not sure if this answers your question or not so feel free to add back.

  And lets create a new subject :)

  
  
  

• Domenico Barile

  It got me reading about it afer I saw this forum as well.. Seems very interesting.. I'll see what I can do with it and post back the results :-)
  
  

• El Masidy

  Still a fairly new Forum. This is indeed one of those products that alot of people dont know about but should take the time to look into it. Great product.
  
  

• Yogesh Kumar

  To paraphrase the great writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, “rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!” Okay, so I am the guy who is responsible for bringing Knowledge Network (KN) to market. KN will be released as a technical preview, which is a way for us (Microsoft) to provide a long-lead time to our customers to look at future technologies that Microsoft is working on. The code is just at the stage where we are ready to make it available to the public as a "release candidate" or RC. The function of the RC is that it serves as the almost ready for primetime release and many times actually becomes the RTM (released to manufacturing or retail version) or in our case the RTW (released to web) version. Those of you not familiar with KN it has been in our information worker incubator group for more than three years, it is home-grown technology designed to allow a company to expose and leverage their combined intellectual assets and social capital. Essentially who knows what and who knows whom (both internal and external to an organization). Our original plan was to release KN as an add-on to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and provide it for no additional cost to customers who had any valid client license for SharePoint. The longer term goal is to incorporate the technology into the next release of SharePoint. So what has changed Only this, the support model, so instead of releasing KN as a v1 supported product we made the difficult decision that at this time it makes better sense to release it as a Technical Preview. Why Because KN in its current form is English only, it uses a separate client install and has a separate indexer. By making it an unsupported Technical Preview we give freedom to the SharePoint team to rewrite how these features are architected for future releases without the concern of breaking something that we know we need to change and without the constraint of supporting the add-on version for 10 years. Having said that we are still very enthusiastic about KN and where the technology can go and grow in the future. We openly encourage customers who are willing to evaluate emerging technologies to go ahead and deploy it and try it out and give us their feedback, feedback that will be used to shape the future of Knowledge Network. So expect to hear an announcement in the next week or two about how to get your hands on the technology and to check it out in your own environment.

  
  
  

• Trev72

  Steve,

  Agree completely with you... very nice product and a nice add in to your search capabilites.

  Sizzle, Im not sure on the exact date of RTM so to speak but with regards to the Technical Preview statement. Yes its true they have backed away from a full blown support model for this release but..... and this is a good but.... I have been working with this product for some time now and I have never encountered any issue on the server side. It sits very nice and quietly and does what its supposed to do. Very little is needed in the way of support for this from what I have experienced.

  So the question is... do you take the chance and run this in your envioronments without the full support of the product Normally I would say no but as stated before.... this is a very tiny add in and in countless implementations that I have done so far I have yet to really see any issues... I will push this to my clients confidently.

  
  
  

• Henrik Goldman

  It is an excellent product! Unfortunately, looks like we can't count on an RTM release anytime soon. Half a year is a long time in our world!

  From the MS KN Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/kn/

  "We’re planning on releasing KN in the first half of calendar year 2007 as a Technical Preview rather than as a supported product feature of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007."

  
  
  

• martin_eifert

  Bob,

  We are very interested in KN, even if it is not a fully supported product. One issue we have tossed around at this point if if certain email mailboxes can be excluded from the tagging Is there a "executive brief" on the product yet We have an organizational priorty to develope an "experts" database of staff and contacts that could be relied on if we get a press or other inquiry. I am thinking the KN functionality would solve this issue for us.

  
  
  

• sydes141

  John, Cant wait to get hold of the latest bits. We'll give it a shake down for sure :-)

  
  
  

• MateuszKierepka

  paradox it is - username sharepoint , still no knowledge about it. :P
  
  anyways nice discussion!
  
  
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