SharePoint Designer add ins for workflows

These are great additions for workflow activities from the codeplex site.

Send Email with HTTP File attachment - Allows sending emails with attachments retrieved using a web request
Send Email with List Item attachments - Allows sending list item attachments as files attached to an email
Start Another Workflow - Starts another workflow associated with a list item
Grant Permission on Item - Allows granting of specified permission level on a spicified item
Delete List Item Permission Assigment - Allows deleting of specified permission level assigment for a given user
Reset List Permissions Inheritance - removes any unique permissions assigned to an item by inheriting list permissions
Is User a member of a SharePoint group - Checks if a given user is part of given sharepoint group
Is Role assigned to User - Checks if a user role is already assigned on the current list item
Lookup user info - allows to lookup properties in site's user information list for a given login
NEW! Copy List Item Extended Activity - Allows copying/moving list items and files cross site.
NEW! Send Email Extended - Enhaced version of the OOTB activity. Allows you to specify the sender. Also does not break links in body.

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The True Power Of Share Point Designer For Workflows 10 8 09

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Workflow migrate code. Quite nice for dev to production activity.

In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Microsoft's Profit Comes From

Microsoft profits are still being generated by the same divisions that have driven Microsoft for years: Office, Windows, and its server division. (Meanwhile, its entertainment and devices division is only recently profitable again, and its online division is a money pit.)

Looking at the graph, not sure why Windows (Vista) sales spiked in Q4 of 2009.

US Olympic Committee Passes the Torch to SharePoint 2010

Office Winter Games Winners Microsoft announced the winners of the Office Winter Games contest. The Office team is sending bloggers Amber Borowski Johnson and Dylan Derryberry to report live from the Games as members of the credentialed press. The idea is to show how Office 2010 can be used in a variety of settings – on the PC, phone and in the browser – to share information and get work done.

Excerpt from SharePointConnections

The site: Link

The nice 2010 features that I like are: Images with their loading effects.

Silverlight web part

The search is very Bing like

And works in Firefox!!!

How much of this is customized, I don’t know.