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Migrating to SharePoint 2010; Is Social Revolutionary?; Microsoft Cloud Privacy

Chris Dooley — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:56:00 GMT

Summer is almost here (in Virginia at least). Time to pick up new sunscreen. - Dooley

Top News Stories
The Art of SharePoint Success: Transition - The Seeds of Change (CMSWire)
Transition is the umbrella term that I use to refer to the combination of change management and user adoption which are vital ingredients in the success of SharePoint. This week we’ll be taking a look at what 1940’s North American farmers can teach us about SharePoint adoption.

How Revolutionary is Social? (AIIM)
We've all sat in a meeting or overheard someone talking on the train or while at lunch about the latest, greatest social technology, and about how it has changed the way they do their work, or whatever. Another empty-headed platitude, if you ask me. People love to dramatize their experiences with technology, and, of course, we also know how we all like to feel that we're at the cutting edge - nay, the bleeding edge of technology. So when there are 3 or 4 social computing solutions popping up online or on our phones each day, we each get an opportunity to feel superior than others for being the "first" to embrace and use the limited functionality of these utilities.

Migrating to SharePoint 2010 Made Easy (White Paper Download)(CIO)
Communication and sharing of knowledge, processes and content is a critical need within the modern day enterprise. With its unique blend of collaboration, document and content management support, SharePoint, the enterprise collaboration platform from Microsoft has experienced rapid adoption in recent years.

Inside Microsoft’s New Azure Accelerator — Will Redmond Get The Startup Mojo? (TechCrunch)
Back in March this year Microsoft launched its first ever “direct” startup accelerator, based out of Tel Aviv, Israel. That meant it would, for the first time, be an accelerator owner/operator. Dubbed the Windows Azure Accelerator (WAA) it looked, at least on first inspection, to be designed to push its Azure cloud computing platform. Perhaps this was some paper-thin marketing initiative? “Look everyone, startups are choosing to use Azure!” seemed to be the initial message.

Microsoft Details Its Approach To Privacy In The Cloud (WebProNews)
Privacy is the big ticket item this year. Everybody is absolutely paranoid about their personal data being siphoned off into some big tech company like Google or Facebook. Microsoft is also the target of privacy doomsayers, but they hope to alleviate these fears with a public explanation of their privacy policies.

Kantar: Windows Phone Clawing Back Share Thanks to Nokia, but Android Still Rules the Roost (Engadget)
It's seldom the case that we get to look at world smartphone market share on a national level, but Kantar WorldPanel has given a rare peek that might give Windows Phone fans some good news to crow about. Even though things haven't always gone well for the Microsoft camp, Nokia phones like the Lumia 800 sparked a minor Renaissance in some countries in the three months leading up to mid-April: Windows Phone was up to between three and four percent in France, Italy, the UK and the US. The Metro interface must also be sehr gut for Germans, which nearly doubled Windows Phone's local share to six percent in that short space of time.

Around the Blogosphere
InfoPath: Create Common Multiple Choice Selections (SharePoint911)
In InfoPath, when using certain controls such as the Drop-Down List Box, Combo Box, List Box, or Multiple Selection List box, there are several different ways that you can obtain the list of choices that are available to people filling out the form.

Why You Shouldn't Use Team Sites in SharePoint 2010 (EndUserSharePoint)
The good old Team Site is a staple of any SharePoint implementation. Whether on SharePoint 2010, 2007 or 2003 the Team Site is commonly used as a catch all site to encourage 'collaboration'. Therein lies the problem. For the normal user the word 'collaboration' has as much meaning as the word 'Team Site'. Collaboration, as pointed out by luminaries such as Paul Culmsee, is a means to an end. You don't collaborate for the sake of collaboration, you collaborate to solve a business process, issue or provide some tangible outcome.

SharePoint 2010 SQL 2012 Always On Configuration (ITPro)
SQL 2012 brings some great capabilities to the table for an "Always-On" environment. In this post we will configure our SQL 2012 environment to be ready for SharePoint. To begin with my environment is made up of the following:

Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3, Logging, and Depency Injection (Fear and Loathing)
I started a new ASP.NET MVC project recently and wanted to give you a little insight on kicking off new projects. There’s some setup time you want to spend setting up your solution and getting the plumbing in order before you dive into writing unit tests and building out your site.

Around Bamboo Nation
Assessing One's Own Project Management Skills (The Bottom-Line PM)
The confluence of our busy season at work and a distinct lack of inspiration lately has had me floundering for topics to cover. I haven't been doing very project manager-y things at work lately, so the wellspring from which I usually draw topics has been pretty dry.

This Week in Bamboo (May 6th, 2012 - May 12th, 2012) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Patch for Workflow Conductor SharePoint 2010 Release 2.5 was released to the storefront this week along with User Directory Web Part Release 1.7 and Group Email Web Part Release 1.7. Please check out the latest releases of this week and see below for more information on all the bug fixes and new known issues.

SharePoint Job Listings*
Business Development Consultant - Remote
SharePointHE.com is looking to hire a Business Development Consultant to be primarily responsible for proactively generating, qualifying, and closing opportunities that lead to new business for SharePointHE.com. Primary duties include the following: Proactively generate, qualify, and close opportunities that lead to new business. Manage the full sales cycle from proactively generating lead to closing opportunity.

Solution Engineer - Australia
The Solution Engineer (SE) serves as the key technical point of contact for inside and enterprise sales groups. The SE works in a consultative role to assist in the successful closings of new deals and repeat purchases by performing pre/post-sales support and on-site demonstrations to our prospective and existing enterprise customers. The ideal candidate should have a solid technical background and experiences in solution selling and other enterprise sales skills. Above all else, the candidate will demonstrate a passion for enterprise social networking to the point of becoming a thought leader.

Microsoft Updates
National Careers Service Website on Track to Meet the Needs of 20 Million Citizens (Microsoft Case Studies)
The National Careers Service for England is a United Kingdom (U.K.) government initiative. The Skills Funding Agency is responsible for developing the service, built around an interactive learning and careers website. Working with Microsoft Services and using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 communications and collaboration software, the agency is confident that its site meets government expectations and the needs of 20 million users.

SharePoint Events*

May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 16, Online - Troubleshooting Common Performance Problems in SharePoint 2010
May 17, Online (APAC Region) – Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 18, Online - Plotting a course for SharePoint in the Enterprise
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 23, Online - How to Slash SharePoint Development Costs and Get More from Your Investment
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday
May 31, Birmingham, U.K. - Effective SharePoint Requirements with Serious Games

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 6, Online (APAC Region) – Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?
June 6, Online - The Essentials of SharePoint Disaster Recovery Planning
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 20, Online - Selecting and Protecting the Right SharePoint Backup Targets
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 22-25, Chicago, Illinois – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
May 25, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 30-31, Online - InfoPath 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
May 30-31, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2010 – New Features – SharePoint Solutions

June 4-8, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 4-8, Washington, D.C. - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 5, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
June 5-6, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-7, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-8, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 7, Huntsville, Alabama - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
June 8, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
June 11-15, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator - Mindsharp
June 11-15, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 12-15, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
June 18-21, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
June 18-22, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 20, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 1 - Bamboo Solutions
June 21, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
June 25-29, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 26-27, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-29, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions

July 3, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
July 9-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
July 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
July 10-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 13, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer - Mindsharp
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Designer - Mindsharp
July 17-18, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
July 19, Online - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
July 23-27, Online - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
July 24-26, Dallas, Texas – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp

* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to be included in SharePoint Daily™.

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This Week in Bamboo (May 6th, 2012 - May 12th, 2012)

Myuyen Phan — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:28:00 GMT

Patch for Workflow Conductor SharePoint 2010 Release 2.5 was released to the storefront this week along with User Directory Web Part Release 1.7 and Group Email Web Part Release 1.7. Please check out the latest releases of this week and see below for more information on all the bug fixes and new known issues.

SA08 Workflow Conductor for SharePoint 2010 (2.5.1)

Bug Fixes:

• Corrected behavior where the Request Approval widget followed the "Rejected" path when approved by a system account without an assigned email address.
• Resolved issue where tabs on the template gallery stopped responding when the "Manage Templates" tab or filters were used after upgrading from an earlier version of Workflow Conductor.

No new Known Issues and Limitations

HW08 User Directory Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (1.7.29) and SharePoint 2010 (1.7.51)

SharePoint 2007 (1.7.29)

Bug Fixes:

• When performing an Advanced Search of the profiles based on a Boolean (yes/no) value, not all results are returned.
• String resource files (language files) missing the string "Loading - Please wait while the content loads".
• If the "Directly Reports" attribute is mapped to a secondary field, the value is displayed in Distinguished Name format and not display friendly (Full Name) format.

New Known Issue:

• "Directly Reports" attribute is not editable. If the attribute's setting "Editable" = Yes in the ActiveDirectoryConfig list, the attribute will be hidden when a profile is in Edit mode.

SharePoint 2010 (1.7.51)

Bug Fixes:

• When performing an Advanced Search of the profiles based on a Boolean (yes/no) value, not all results are returned.
• In certain cases, when the user clicks the Page tab in the ribbon, the ribbon only says "Loading..." and on the bottom of Internet Explorer window user sees the message “Error on Page”.
• String resource files (language files) missing the string "Loading - Please wait while the content loads".
• If the "Directly Reports" attribute is mapped to a secondary field, the value is displayed in Distinguished Name format and not display friendly (Full Name) format.

New Known Issue:

• "Directly Reports" attribute is not editable. If the attribute's setting "Editable" = Yes in the ActiveDirectoryConfig list, the attribute will be hidden when a profile is in Edit mode.

HW14 Group Email Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (1.7.33)

Bug Fixes:

• When Group Email Web Part is deployed, Users with less than administrator rights are unable to login to Sites with Form Based Authentication.

No new Known Issues and Limitations

Assessing One's Own Project Management Skills

Pamela Flora — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:30:00 GMT

The confluence of our busy season at work and a distinct lack of inspiration lately has had me floundering for topics to cover. I haven't been doing very project manager-y things at work lately, so the wellspring from which I usually draw topics has been pretty dry.

The theory of capital-P, capital-M Project Management still fascinates me, though I haven't had the time to give it a lot of thought lately. Perhaps I'm just avoiding actually delving into the Big Bad Boogeyman that is Microsoft Project by lingering on the schools of thought that drive project management, but it seems to me that learning to be effective at managing projects requires comfort with the underlying premises and theories of project management. I don't think I'm rationalizing (and avoiding) too much with the continued contemplation of theory.

It may also be that, as well as my having been too busy at work to spend a great deal of time mucking around with project management software and thinking about the theoretical foundations of project management, part of my lack of inspiration lately is because, for all that I've been doing this blogging gig for a couple of months, I don't feel much like a project manager. It's still kind of like playing house at this point, and I'm having trouble thinking of myself in that role.

My colleague, Dux, gave me a book to read called Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management, by Scott Berkun. Dux says it's one of the best PM primers out there. I started reading it about seventy-five years ago before actual, real, paying work intruded. The first six pages or so read very smoothly, like it was going to be a fast and informative read, but then stuff happened and I put it down. I've been meaning to pick it back up, and hope to return to it starting this week or next. I think it's going to give me a good bit of practical theory, and I hope that maybe immersing myself in that will get me back on track with this here blogging project.

In the meantime, casting about for something, anything to write about, I plugged "How to be a project manager if you're not a project manager" into Google, hoping something in the results would tickle my creative bone. One of the top results was a Mind Tools quiz on How Good are Your Project Management Skills?

Hopeful that my PM skills were better than my keeping-up-with-a-blog skills, I took the quiz. For the purposes of the quiz, since I don't have an actual project team here at work, I thought about how I manage my family. (It was, surprisingly, mostly applicable for the bulk of the questions.)

I scored a 64 on a scale of 1-100, which is very firmly middle-of-the-road. Basically, my PM skills are OK, and simple projects usually go pretty smoothly when handled the way I handle things. But more complex projects may be beyond me at my current skill level. When applying my skills to an actual, real project involving professional constraints and, you know, adults, I need to beef up my pre-planning process and ensure I prepare better for unexpected wrenches in the works.

The nice thing about this quiz, besides allowing for a quick self-assessment (though I can't speak to how accurate it is, from the standpoint of an actual PM), is that as you're reading the questions, you can kind of interpret how you should be answering them, regardless of what your actual practice is. I kind of had an idea of where I needed to hone my skills as I was going through the quiz.

So how about it - how do you measure up? Are you stuck in the middle and very average like I am? Do you need a PM intervention? Or do you have all your PM ducks in a row and you're waiting for your Nobel Prize in project management to be announced?

Information Governance & Social ECM; SkyDrive Meets SharePoint; What is Collaboration Software?

Chris Dooley — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:36:00 GMT

I really don't understand people and I'm not sure I want to. - Dooley

Top News Stories
The Battle Ahead: Information Governance and the Need for Social ECM (AIIM)
“Gartner predicts by 2016, 20% of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs for failing to implement the discipline of information governance successfully.” Houston, we have a metadata problem. And search is broken but when was it ever fixed?

Microsoft SkyDrive Meets SharePoint (WindowsITPro)
If you've got Microsoft SkyDrive and SharePoint, you might be interested in checking out this Codeplex tool release April 5, 2012, called SkyDrive Connector for SharePoint.

What is Collaboration Software? Back to the Basics (SYS-CON Media)
Overuse tends to a suck a phrase of meaning, and the same may be said of “collaboration”. As an executive, you’ve probably been inundated with articles on “collaboration software” and its business possibilities. But it seems to mean different things at different times. Sometimes it means email, other times document sharing with Google Drive, and still other times managing projects with Basecamp. And when the social network Google + was launched, you were told enterprise collaboration was forever changed.

What You Should Know About Migrating to the Cloud (The Register)
Small businesses account for roughly half the UK economy. The technology requirements for a one-man band are wildly different from those of a 250-seat tech support service company, yet both fall under the SME banner. So what is the general advice that will work for everyone and anyone who is considering moving some IT into the cloud?

Which Version of Windows 8? (PC Advisor)
Microsoft has revealed how many versions of its latest operating system will be shipped – Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows RT (which is designed to run on ARM hardware). So far so simple. There is, however, also a mystery fourth version for customers on Software Assurance licensing agreements, which Microsoft has mentioned only in passing – Windows 8 Enterprise. And we're not even going to mention Windows Server 8. Despite the slimmed-down range, many will still be wondering which edition of Windows 8 they should they opt for. (See also: Windows 8: the complete guide.)

Siri Corrects Herself on 'Best Smartphone' Question (T3)
Away from the often far-too-serious business of Apple rumours, iOS software updates and what-have-you, we allowed ourselves a light chuckle when Siri, the voice controlled personal assistant on the iPhone 4S, selected the Nokia Lumia 900 as the best smartphone on earth.

Around the Blogosphere
WS-Federation Authentication Module (WSFAM) and SharePoint Extensions (Beside the Point)
In the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and Claims web applications utilizing it, the WS-Federation Authentication Module (WSFAM) and Session Authentication Module (SAM) are responsible for authentication. Like existing authentication modules for IIS and ASP.NET such as the Windows Authentication and Forms Authentication modules, the WIF authentication modules plug into stages in the integrated pipeline to interact with and influence request processing.

Have You Exported Your User Profile Service (FIM) Encryption Key? (Ian's SharePoint Blog)
If you have to move the User Profile Service to another server or restore the server hosting the UPS, you have to reconfigure the service and run a full sync. A better option is to export the FIM import/export encryption key and import it on the other servers in your farm (at least the other Application servers which are potential candidates to host the UPS). These steps will only work if the Sync Service has successfully started at least one time ;-) . You will see this event log message the first time the service starts.

10 Warning Signs that Your SharePoint Implementation may be Heading for Difficulty (PointBeyond)
I encounter many SharePoint implementations that are planned or in progress. Some go on to be very successful, some are in difficulty. For the more problematic implementations there are often early warning signs that are common across many organisations. I have summarised the main warning signs that I have come across below.

Around Bamboo Nation
This Week in Bamboo (April 29th, 2012 - May 5th, 2012) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
At Bamboo this week, we released the following patches: Alert Plus, List Rollup Web Part, Wiki Publisher, and Lookup Selector Column. We added some new features on latest releases of Alert Plus for SharePoint 2007 version and Wiki Publisher for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 versions. Please check out the new features and review the list below for more details about the patches of this week.

SharePoint Job Listings*
Sr. SharePoint Developer - Dallas, Texas
Due to rapid growth, one of our most established clients in Dallas, TX has the immediate need to add a Sr. SharePoint Developer to their team. To be considered for this position, you must have solid SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Content Management, HTML, JavaScript and C#. You must also have experience developing SharePoint environments on a global, and multi-lingual scale.

SharePoint Administrator - Charlotte, NC
This contract position is located within the Collaboration, Content, This team is responsible for multiple SharePoint environments supporting collaboration, project support, Portals and other applications within the company.

SharePoint Events*

May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 16, Online - Troubleshooting Common Performance Problems in SharePoint 2010
May 17, Online (APAC Region) – Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 18, Online - Plotting a course for SharePoint in the Enterprise
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 23, Online - How to Slash SharePoint Development Costs and Get More from Your Investment
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday
May 31, Birmingham, U.K. - Effective SharePoint Requirements with Serious Games

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 6, Online (APAC Region) – Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 15-17, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 22-25, Chicago, Illinois – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
May 25, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 30-31, Online - InfoPath 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
May 30-31, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2010 – New Features – SharePoint Solutions

June 4-8, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 4-8, Washington, D.C. - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 5, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
June 5-6, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-7, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-8, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 7, Huntsville, Alabama - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
June 8, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
June 11-15, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator - Mindsharp
June 11-15, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 12-15, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
June 18-21, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
June 18-22, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 20, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 1 - Bamboo Solutions
June 21, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
June 25-29, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 26-27, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-29, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions

July 3, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
July 9-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
July 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
July 10-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 13, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer - Mindsharp
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Designer - Mindsharp
July 17-18, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
July 19, Online - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
July 23-27, Online - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
July 24-26, Dallas, Texas – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp

* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to be included in SharePoint Daily™.

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Challenges of Custom-Coded SharePoint Applications; US Government Approves Office 365; Bing Friends Facebook

Chris Dooley — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:42:00 GMT

Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays. - Dooley

Top News Stories
SharePoint 2010 Communities: An Integrated Collaboration Platform (CMSWire)
This is the third article in the series “What is This SharePoint Thing All About Anyway?” and in this article we are going to be looking at the concept of SharePoint Communities and how you could use them to improve your current working environment. Communities are a concept within SharePoint that provides a way for users to come together based on experience, needs and general working relationships. We will look at several key elements of communities in SharePoint before exploring how to utilize them to your best advantage in your work environment.

Avoid the Top 3 Challenges of Custom-Coded SharePoint Applications (Download) (SDTimes)
To satisfy SharePoint users’ requests for site enhancements and customizations, many organizations begin developing custom code. But custom coding brings with it three key challenges: Slow application delivery; High cost of ownership; Torturous upgrade path.

Office 365 Gets Thumbs Up From US Government (ITProPortal)
Microsoft's Office 365 is now officially compliant with the US Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), an important step for the cloud productivity service should it want to bid for government tenders.

Mozilla on New Browser Brouhaha: Microsoft, Apple Different Cases (PC Advisor)
Two wrongs don't make a right, Mozilla's chief counsel said Thursday when asked why his company hasn't lambasted Apple, as it did Microsoft, for blocking rival browsers from its mobile operating system. "The similarities to iOS don't justify an outcome on Windows that deprives users of choice, reduces competition and hurts innovation," said Harvey Anderson, Mozilla's top lawyer.

Windows 8 Feature Focus: Start Screen (Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows)
The Start screen is the face of the Metro environment in Windows 8 and the controversial replacement for the application launching capabilities of the Start menu from previous Windows versions. A full-screen experience, this interface is populated with live tiles representing Metro-style apps, desktop applications, web sites, libraries and folder locations, and other items.

Microsoft Bing Friends Facebook (InformationWeek)
Search is going social, like it or not. In a few weeks, Microsoft plans to roll out a revised version of its Bing search engine that includes a way to involve Facebook friends in the search process. While the move looks like a response to Google's Search Plus Your World social integration, announced in January, it's more than that. Microsoft believes it can make search better by enabling Bing users to pose questions during the search process to Facebook users. This functionality will be available to users shortly through a new sidebar interface.

Around the Blogosphere
What Traffic is Happening Behind the Scenes When Using an iOS SharePoint Application? (My SharePoint and Mobility Blog)
Since my Harmon.ie review has been posted there has been a question raised on Nothing But SharePoint about whether anything needs to be installed within the SharePoint farm to support Harmon.ie and also what kind of traffic the application may generate. I’ve kept the focus of all the reviews I’ve done so far to applications that have no server-side dependencies. To use the applications I’ve reviewed, a user needs two things:

On Gardens and Governance (4th post) (The SharePoint Guys)
This is the last in a series of posts that uses the analogy that looking after SharePoint in your organization is a little like looking after a garden. Without some form of control over it, it will quickly deteriorate and end up as something that is neither a pleasure to use nor something from which you derive benefit.

OK I Have my Office 365 Setup Now How do I Administer it (SharePointEduTech)
On Wednesday I gave a webinar on the subject of administering your Office 365 stand-up I was very ably assisted by Chris Kolodziejski from MetaVis. So check out the webinar recording below and if you wish to try the MetaVis Office 365 tools you can download a trial version from http://metavistech.com/try

Brand SharePoint "The Right Way" - What is a Branding? (Part 1) (EndUserSharePoint)
Branding SharePoint is a way to change the default look and feel of SharePoint in order to give your site a personal (or professional) touch. There are many reasons to brand a SharePoint site, but the most common reasons are to adjust the site to match company design guidelines, increase user buy-in by improving the overall experience and last but not least, to brag about to your friends and colleagues. A custom branding can often be the difference between user apathy at yet another vanilla SharePoint site and interest in a useful collaboration tool they can identify with.

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Architect - Charlotte, North Carolina
The SharePoint Architect will provide guidance on best practices for implementing SharePoint, candidate is expected to have very clear understanding of SharePoint solution stack; have a thorough understanding of SharePoint farm configuration, security, availability, performance, monitoring and capacity planning. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required. The candidate must be a quick study and be ready to work in a very complex, fast-paced and diverse environment.

Software Development Engineer in Test II - SharePoint Job - Redmond, WA
Right now we are hiring for our team responsible for data integrity and service availability. This entails technology for migrating customers to the new O365 SharePoint offering, automated role redundancy and the ability to failover to another datacenter in the event of a disaster. We are engineering fast-turnaround service updates, as well as bringing the latest and greatest SharePoint bits into the cloud.

SharePoint Events*

May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 16, Online - Troubleshooting Common Performance Problems in SharePoint 2010
May 17, Online (APAC Region) – Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 18, Online - Plotting a course for SharePoint in the Enterprise
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 23, Online - How to Slash SharePoint Development Costs and Get More from Your Investment
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday
May 31, Birmingham, U.K. - Effective SharePoint Requirements with Serious Games

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 6, Online (APAC Region) – Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 14-18, San Antonio, Texas - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 14-18, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 15-17, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 22-25, Chicago, Illinois – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
May 25, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 30-31, Online - InfoPath 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
May 30-31, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2010 – New Features – SharePoint Solutions

June 4-8, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 4-8, Washington, D.C. - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 5, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
June 5-6, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-7, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-8, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 7, Huntsville, Alabama - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
June 8, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
June 11-15, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator - Mindsharp
June 11-15, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 12-15, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
June 18-21, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
June 18-22, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 20, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 1 - Bamboo Solutions
June 21, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
June 25-29, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 26-27, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-29, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions

July 3, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
July 9-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
July 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
July 10-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 13, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer - Mindsharp
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Designer - Mindsharp
July 17-18, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
July 19, Online - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
July 23-27, Online - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
July 24-26, Dallas, Texas – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp

* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to be included in SharePoint Daily™.

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SharePoint Deployment Pitfalls; Firefox Banned on ARM-based Windows; Don’t Ignore Office 365

Chris Dooley — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:34:00 GMT

Didn't we see this happening in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"? Maybe it really is the end for humans. - Dooley

Top News Stories
SharePoint 15: 8 Things to Help You Prepare (CMSWire)
It seems like only yesterday that we were shouting about the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010. In fact, it is just about two years ago (May 12, 2010) that it was released. And with a mere two years on the market, we’re starting to shout about the release of the next edition — SharePoint 15.

SharePoint Deployment: Pitfalls of a Pioneer (ZDNet)
In part one of my diary, I outlined the decision to use SharePoint, which was taken in early 2010, shortly before the formal launch of the product. A group of around a dozen people had previously been evaluating all of the major players in the market, and looking for a solution to both our lack of a portal product and our need for a new content management system for our main public-facing website at www.brighton.ac.uk.

Microsoft Bans Firefox on ARM-based Windows, Mozilla says (CNET)
Stop me if you've heard this one before: Microsoft muscles aside other browsers and cements the dominance of Internet Explorer. The browser market, deprived of competition, stagnates. That, of course, is what happened during the first browser war of the 1990s and beyond, on personal computers. Today, Mozilla's top lawyer warned that Microsoft's behavior threatens a repeat of history, because it's telling Mozilla that it's barring Firefox from forthcoming Windows 8 machines that use ARM processors.

Crazy Idea: Don’t Ignore Office 365, Google Apps (MSPMentor)
If you can’t fight them — join them? A growing number of MSPs and VARs seem to be finding cloud success promoting Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps to customers. And old arguments about thin SaaS profit margins and cloud customer billing models seem to quieting down. Why’s that? Here’s the update.

Is Windows Phone 8 Already Dead on Arrival? (IntoMobile)
Paul Thurrott is to Microsoft what John Gruber is to Apple. By that I mean he’s been championing the desktop software giant since the 1990s. He recently wrote a piece on The Supersite for Windows where he outlined how Windows Phone 8 might land straight on its face due to the following reasons: First, Windows Phone hasn’t penetrated the market. It has a market share of less than 2% and it’ll be a miracle if that number doubles by the end of this year. That figure makes developers hesitant to build applications for the platform, because what’s the point if all the money is in iOS and all the volume is in Android?

Around the Blogosphere
Inconvenient Sandboxed Web Templates and Navigation (Waldek Mastykarz)
Web Templates are the new recommended approach for templating sites. Combined with Sandboxed Solutions they empower power users and offer them great flexibility and productivity. There is however one inconvenience with regard to how SharePoint Navigation Providers deal with Sandboxed Web Templates.

Office Web App Licensing Quick Guide (Reza Alirezaei's Blog)
Office Web Apps have no dependency on your SharePoint licensing model; instead they are licensed with Office 2010 Professional Plus and Office 2010 Standard licenses. If you have volume license for either Office Professional Plus or Office Standard, then you are already licensed for Office Web App. Install the bits on your SharePoint 2010 server or SharePoint Foundation server and enjoy the life…The difference is Office Professional Plus includes the license for SharePoint workspace which standard doesn’t! Note that Office Web Apps only covers the required licenses for Word Web App, Excel Web App, PowerPoint Web App, and OneNote Web App.

Brand SharePoint "The Right Way" - An Introduction (EndUserSharePoint)
I’ve been working in software development for many years now and I like to think that I have a very structured approach to software development. I like to follow best practices and organize my projects in a way that will allow other developers (or myself, at a later date) to be able to navigate the solution and understand what’s going on easily. I’ve been working with SharePoint for the better part of three years but until now, most of my work had been confined to the back-end and the external interfaces (Web Services, Client Object Model, etc.).

SharePoint File Explorer and the Great File Server Debate (SharePointEduTech )
When SharePoint became a huge product back in 2007 there was a wide variety of debates about moving file server content to SharePoint and the benefits this would bring. This is a topic which perhaps affects educational establishments more than any other. Do any other institutions undergo a 100% turnover in users over 5-7 years as schools and colleges do with students? In almost all schools these users will have access to their own personal ‘Home Drive’ and perhaps a number of file shares which contain resources shared by teachers. The question is when SharePoint comes along in a school should you get rid of Home Drives and file shares?

SharePoint Job Listings*
Microsoft SharePoint Developer - Washington, DC
One highly experienced Senior SharePoint Developer to play the lead hands-on role in assisting the Bank team with the integration of SharePoint into the Bank’s Operations Portal. Responsibilities will include using expertise in SharePoint 2010, .Net Frameworks, SQL Server, AJAX, XML, InfoPath, and other tools to implement the logical and technical design as well as writing and debugging code for the portal implementation.

SharePoint Administrator - Somerset, NJ
SHI has an exciting opportunity for an experienced SharePoint Administrator in the IT department at our corporate headquarters in Somerset, NJ. We are looking for a highly motivated, detail oriented, and self-sufficient individual with strong analytical and communication skills to manage and maintain our SharePoint infrastructure including SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 servers. This is a great opportunity to become part of a highly motivated team of technical professionals and advance your career.

Microsoft Updates
Importing SharePoint 2010 Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2010 (MSDN)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 provides a project type that enables you to import a site definition and add code. You can then deploy this site definition to the SharePoint Solutions Gallery and create new sites based on the site definition.

SharePoint Events*

May 10, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 11, Chase Village, Maryland - Best Practices for SharePoint Governance by AvePoint & Innovative-e
May 12, Baltimore, Maryland - SharePoint Saturday
May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 16, Online - Troubleshooting Common Performance Problems in SharePoint 2010
May 17, Online (APAC Region) – Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 18, Online - Plotting a course for SharePoint in the Enterprise
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 23, Online - How to Slash SharePoint Development Costs and Get More from Your Investment
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday
May 31, Birmingham, U.K. - Effective SharePoint Requirements with Serious Games

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 6, Online (APAC Region) – Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 11, Online - Bamboo Select Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 14-18, San Antonio, Texas - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 14-18, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 15-17, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 22-25, Chicago, Illinois – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
May 25, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 30-31, Online - InfoPath 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
May 30-31, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2010 – New Features – SharePoint Solutions

June 4-8, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 4-8, Washington, D.C. - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 5, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
June 5-6, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-7, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-8, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 7, Huntsville, Alabama - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
June 8, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
June 11-15, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator - Mindsharp
June 11-15, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 12-15, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
June 18-21, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
June 18-22, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 20, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 1 - Bamboo Solutions
June 21, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
June 25-29, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 26-27, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-29, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions

July 3, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
July 9-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
July 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
July 10-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 13, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer - Mindsharp
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Designer - Mindsharp
July 17-18, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
July 19, Online - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
July 23-27, Online - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
July 24-26, Dallas, Texas – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp

* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to be included in SharePoint Daily™.

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SharePoint Migration Odyssey; Windows 8 Security Hole; Azure Rebranded

Chris Dooley — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:45:00 GMT

Since when is it OK to fire someone because they "Like" a political candidate on Facebook? - Dooley

Top News Stories
SharePoint 2010: A Migration Odyssey (ZDNet)
Last Summer, the University of Brighton embarked on an ambitious project to roll out SharePoint 2010 from scratch. Between them, 12 servers provide both a test and production environment that will eventually deliver personal file storage for the university's 4,000 staff; departmental storage areas for all schools, faculties and central admin departments; and a fully functional staff extranet. With eight years' experience in PHP/MySQL development and teaching staff the basics of web authorship, I got the job of deployment.

What do we Know (AIIM)
Last year at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Andrew McAfee of MIT quoted Lew Platt, former CEO of HP, who once said “If HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times as profitable.” I included that in a blog entry as a challenge to SharePoint practitioners, and now that challenge has come full circle. We are building out a complex site to store information on a variety of subjects, and one of the challenges will be to somehow cut across the lists and libraries to discover what we know about ‘x’. Typical of the math courses you hated in high school, ‘x’ is unknown.

Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? (PCWorld)
In an IT environment of MacBook laptops, Windows PCs, iPhones, iPads and Droid devices, why would any enterprise stick with Microsoft Outlook for email and collaboration? That very question prompted a 60-day pilot test at New England Biolabs, an Ipswich, Mass.-based molecular biology company. Given the growth of Macs and mobile BYOD technology at the company, as well as the need to collaborate with mobile users and international subsidiaries, the IT team decided it was time to seriously investigate Google Apps for Business as an alternative to Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server.

Microsoft Continues Rebranding, This Time It's Azure (CMSWire)
Microsoft must be in a mood to rename things this month. First, the company re-branded its small and medium business advertising site and eliminated Windows Live branding. Now it’s moved on to Azure. Will any of these changes have a positive impact on revenue or just result in confused customers?

Is the Windows 8 Security Hole Really a Big Deal? (ComputerWorld)
A security researcher has found a potentially massive security hole in Windows 8 that would expose someone's contacts and other information from social networking services and email including Gmail, Facebook, Hotmail, LinkedIn, and Twitter, among others. It sounds serious, but there may be less to the security hole than meets the eye.

Is Time Running Out for Windows Phone? (WindowsITPro)
Despite what will no doubt be some strong gains by Nokia this quarter, the prognosis for Windows Phone isn't good: Microsoft’s mobile platform controls just 2 percent of the market for smartphones today, and even a best-case scenario won’t see it crack the 5 percent plateau before Windows Phone 8 ships late this year. Is time running out for Windows Phone?

Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint: Flip the Switch to Effectively Promote Change (EndUserSharePoint)
I recently completed reading ‘Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard‘ by the brothers Chip and Dan Heath. As I was reading this fantastic book on change management, I couldn’t help but relate each point to my own experience with SharePoint. Each implementation, regardless if the organization is starting fresh or performing an upgrade, involves in some manner a shift in policies, procedures and corporate culture. Getting stakeholders and the project team to buy into this change hurdle sound feasible, but getting the entire company to see, think and act differently can seem intolerable.

Kill SharePoint 2010 Mobile Interface (SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land)
I’ve always thought the word kill comes on a little strong, but at the same time… I think it gets the point across. I’ve been very big into mobile lately and SharePoint’s default mobile WAP interface is driving me crazy. About 5 months ago I wrote about some of my experiences: SharePoint For Mobile – Yes we can!

Information Architecture Defined (SharePointEduTech)
Consider this. Microsoft has sold over 125 million licenses of SharePoint. It is a multi-billion dollar business. SharePoint is a platform that everyone seems to have, many actually use and most don’t understand how to implement and manage properly. There is no platform more in need of a proper information architecture than SharePoint. But what exactly does that mean? What is an Information Architecture?

SharePoint: Compression in IIS (ITPro)
There’s a relatively obscure setting in IIS that can have a dramatic effect on the performance perceived by SharePoint users. By enabling IIS to compress the communication to the user, communication to the user can consume less bandwidth. The trade-off is with CPU usage to compress the messages. Note the setting is quite fine-grained, allowing you to find the optimal balance of bandwidth conversation against the available SharePoint farm WFE (Web Front End) CPU.

Office 365 and Education (SP365)
this blogpost I’ll try to cover why -in my opinion- Office 365 is a powerful gift to (Higher) education based upon my experiences as an IT manager within education the last 3 years. To Start with: One is the main purposes of an education organization is to make sure that they prepare their students for the life they enter when they stop being a student. There are many different opinions in how that can be done via technology.

Around Bamboo Nation
Real-World Collaboration in Action with SharePoint Online & Office Web Apps! (I Love It When a Plan Comes Together) (The Bottom-Line PM)
I recently had to step away from my test case - this blog project, which is a bit of a work-play thing for me - in order to actually do some real-world work. My company received an RFP from a major organization a week before the proposal was due. Because this was such a big project for a big organization, we couldn't rely on boilerplate proposals. So we had a week to put together a very comprehensive proposal from scratch.

SharePoint Job Listings*
Application/Web Designer/Developer with SharePoint Experience - Santa Clara, CA
This role will involve primarily front-end development work while collaborating with other team members on site design issues, creating highly usable interfaces while tackling complex problems of scale. It will require an understanding of the practical benefits and limitations of Web technologies (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and related technologies like AJAX, JSON, and XML). Specifically this will be focused on application interface design and integration to our unique SharePoint portal. It will also require comprehensive knowledge of interface design principles and best practices for information architecture, content organization, user-centric design, and site navigation patterns. Our ideal candidates are excellent problem-solvers with experience building and shipping production-quality software to a large consumer audience, especially with an emphasis on user-centric design and development.

SharePoint Designer - Boulder, CO
This position reports to the Director of Operational & Strategic Support (OSS), Systems Engineering Solutions (SES) strategic business unit of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (BATC). SES provides professional technical services to defense, intelligence, and civil government organizations and industry partners. It is comprised of over 500 employees and geographically dispersed over the four U.S. time zones.

SharePoint Events*

May 9, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 10, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 11, Chase Village, Maryland - Best Practices for SharePoint Governance by AvePoint & Innovative-e
May 12, Baltimore, Maryland - SharePoint Saturday
May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 16, Online - Troubleshooting Common Performance Problems in SharePoint 2010
May 17, Online (APAC Region) – Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 18, Online - Plotting a course for SharePoint in the Enterprise
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday
May 31, Birmingham, U.K. - Effective SharePoint Requirements with Serious Games

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 6, Online (APAC Region) – Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 11, Online - Bamboo Select Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 14-18, San Antonio, Texas - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 14-18, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 15-17, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 22-25, Chicago, Illinois – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
May 25, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 30-31, Online - InfoPath 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
May 30-31, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2010 – New Features – SharePoint Solutions

June 4-8, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 4-8, Washington, D.C. - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 5, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
June 5-6, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-7, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-8, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 7, Huntsville, Alabama - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
June 8, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
June 11-15, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator - Mindsharp
June 11-15, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 12-15, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
June 18-21, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
June 18-22, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
June 20, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 1 - Bamboo Solutions
June 21, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
June 25-29, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
June 26-27, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-29, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions

July 3, Online - Workflow Conductor Designer Training - Bamboo Solutions
July 9-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp
July 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
July 10-13, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 13, Online - Bamboo Select - Bamboo Solutions
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer - Mindsharp
July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Designer - Mindsharp
July 17-18, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Session 2 - Bamboo Solutions
July 19, Online - SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar - Mindsharp
July 23-27, Online - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies - Mindsharp
July 24-26, Dallas, Texas – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
July 30-Aug 3, Online - SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer - Mindsharp

* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to be included in SharePoint Daily™.

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This Week in Bamboo (April 29th, 2012 - May 5th, 2012)

Myuyen Phan — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:12:00 GMT

At Bamboo this week, we released the following patches: Alert Plus, List Rollup Web Part, Wiki Publisher, and Lookup Selector Column. We added some new features on latest releases of Alert Plus for SharePoint 2007 version and Wiki Publisher for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 versions. Please check out the new features and review the list below for more details about the patches of this week.

HW05 Alert Plus for SharePoint 2007 (3.2.74)

New Features:

Two new tokens are available in the Mail Format tab:

o {ItemURL} returns just the item url. Can be used in <a href> tag for example <a href="{ItemURL}"> Link to item</a>
o {SiteURL} returns just the site url. Can be used in <a href> tag for example <a href="{SiteURL}"> Link to site</a>

Bug Fixes:

Alerts fail to send on expanded recurring events.
Alerts fail to send when recipient is set to "Lookup an Email Address in the Alert List" and the value of the selected lookup column is a SharePoint Group instead of a User.
We need an alternative to showing the big, long hyperlink for the "SiteLink" variable in an email message

No new Known Issues and Limitations

HW24 List Rollup Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (5.0.154)

Bug Fixes:

When sorting or grouping resulting data produced by List Rollup Classic Edition Web Part displays the error message “Unable to display this web part. To troubleshoot the problem...".

When filtering lists of type Calendar using CAML Query the optional parameter <AddValue +/- X> fails to return any items in the resulting aggregated views.

New Limitations:

Users experience slower performance when viewing aggregated data if recurring events are expanded.

HW51 Wiki Publisher for SharePoint 2007 (1.0.66) and SharePoint 2010 (1.0.65)

New Features:

Added the options to include wiki page name in the header and export date and/or page number in the footer of single page exports.

Wiki Publisher now packaged Bamboo Web License Manager Version 2.0.10.0.

Bug Fixes:

When exporting multiple pages, the list of "Available Wiki Pages" is sorted by ID not alphabetically.

Content alignment is not correct, causing content to be chopped off on the right side of the PDF.

Anonymous users prompted for login when exporting to PDF.

Resource file "Bamboo.SPWiki.en-US.resx" missing from the solution causing the error "Failed to read resource file..." to be listed in the SharePoint logs.

Unable to configure the Picture Library for importing Word documents using Wiki Publisher on sites using French language pack.

New Limitations:

Importing Word Documents:

Images displayed in the wrong position. For example if the image is displayed in the right corner within the Word document but after importing into a wiki page, it is in the left corner.

If the document contains multiple images, the orders of the images are reversed when imported into a wiki page.

If the document contains a table and the content of the table includes other formatting, such as: Lists (number/bullet), Bold/Italic/Underline font style or heading style, resulting wiki format is incorrect.

Tables:

In some cases, if a table width is beyond a certain length, content can be cut off.

HW41AB Lookup Selector Column for SharePoint 2007 (1.3.56) and SharePoint 2010 (2.3.53)

Bug Fixes:

If the Source List contains more than 20 records, the values displayed in Lookup Selector column are the record ID, not the selected Display Column.

No new Known Issues or Limitations

Real-World Collaboration in Action with SharePoint Online & Office Web Apps! (I Love It When a Plan Comes Together)

Pamela Flora — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:30:00 GMT

I recently had to step away from my test case - this blog project, which is a bit of a work-play thing for me - in order to actually do some real-world work. My company received an RFP from a major organization a week before the proposal was due. Because this was such a big project for a big organization, we couldn't rely on boilerplate proposals. So we had a week to put together a very comprehensive proposal from scratch.

Pre-SharePoint, we'd have been emailing revisions of the document back and forth, and version control would have been tricky at best and a total mess at worst, at a time when we couldn't afford anything but a streamlined authoring process. We took it one step further and used SharePoint Online, the Office 365 SharePoint offering, which puts everything on the cloud and allows for real-time collaborating and authoring by multiple persons simultaneously.

Office 365 officially launched last summer, and we, being the eager-beaver early adopters that we are, immediately created an Office 365 project site to help us corral some documentation pulled together by many hands for a SharePoint Saturday conference we were helping to host and organize. At the time, Office 365 wasn't quite yet ready for prime time - a lot of people who needed to access the project site weren't able to get in, and we fell back on the old nasty habits of files flying back and forth via email instead of being put in a central spot where all pertinent folks could access all the files.

This time, however, Office 365 performed admirably and helped us do the near-impossible and build a large proposal from scratch in a week. We put the document up on SharePoint Online, and up to four people could make changes to the document at once. We could see who else was in the document, which sections they were working on, and, with a refresh, we could see the changes each author had made. Everything was in real-time, and there was no lag between tweaking this or that section and having that new and improved version of the document available to all the team members working on the proposal. I had read the whitepaper we did for Microsoft about using Office 365 for collaboration, and even written a small piece showcasing a video of the co-authoring process, but watching a video of it is in no way nearly as cool as seeing it in action on a piece of work that matters to you.

Seeing it come together flawlessly and work exactly as it should work was... it was like watching magic happen and not knowing how it happened, but appreciating the trick as a feat deserving nothing less than utter wonderment. It was that "I love it when a plan comes together" moment than Hannibal from the A-Team referenced every episode. (There were fewer explosions involved in the coming together of our plan, though. More's the pity. That would have been a great way to spice up a workday.)

We discovered some quirks in the process, however, and knowing about them might serve you well should you decide to make your own co-authoring plan come together:

Only four people at a time can work on a document. I'm not sure if others can view it, so you can have, say, four co-authors and two people looking at it on a read-only basis, for instance. But no matter how many pairs of eyes can look at the document at a time, only four pairs of hands can be working on it. At first, the four-person limit seems, well, limiting, but then, how many hands do you really want on your document at a time, anyway? Too many cooks spoil the broth, and too many co-authors ruin the proposal.
Another user's changes will not be visible to you until they save. Likewise, nobody else will be able to see what you've done until you save your changes. Save often when co-authoring. I just got in the habit of saving every time I made a tweak.
We found in a couple of instances that the document would kind of lock if one person tried to work on the same section another person had just finished with. Again, saving is the key. Whomever last made changes to that section must save it not only to make their changes visible to other users, but also to make that section editable by other users.
You can either edit documents in your browser or open the document in Word, Excel, or OneNote. (We were using Word.) Office 365 doesn't play tremendously well with 64-bit browsers, and locating your 32-bit version of IE may be a bit of a trick, if you're running a 64-bit OS. Hopefully, Office 365 will soon work seamlessly with 64-bit browsers, but until then, fire up your 32-bit IE and use that for your co-authoring efforts. Dux also pointed me to a page discussing accessing data-sheet view with 64-bit browsers. While the issues I had used Word, and I think the data-sheet view probably refers to Excel, there is good knowledge in that link.

Governance & Strategy Key to SharePoint Deployment; Office 365 for Project Collaboration; Microsoft Anti-iPad Strategy

Chris Dooley — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:53:00 GMT

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Top News Stories
Gartner: Governance and Strategy Key to SharePoint Deployments (RedmondMag)
Gartner recently offered some tips on deploying Microsoft SharePoint, which requires lots of team effort and coordination, according to the analyst and consulting firm. Organizations will need to have their governance and strategy plans locked down before proceeding with a SharePoint deployment, according to Mark R. Gilbert, research vice president and lead analyst on SharePoint at Gartner. He gave a Webinar talk on the topic of "Making Microsoft SharePoint Deliver" on April 18.

Harmon.ie Brings SharePoint Collaboration To iPad (InformationWeek)
Harmon.ie wants to turn Microsoft SharePoint into a collaboration tool you can hold in your hands. Best known for its social collaboration SharePoint plugin for Outlook, which makes a feed of SharePoint updates available as a sidebar to email collaboration, Harmon.ie now wants to do something similar for the iPad. "It's definitely the same concept, but adapted to the platform," said Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Harmon.ie.

Video Blog: Leveraging Office 365 for Project Collaboration - Create Visual Reports with Dashboard (CMSWire)
Dashboards are a pretty hot topic these days in online applications. Dashboards let you place frequently accessed information all on one single page and lend themselves particularly well to placing graphical info about your project in one place where it affords your team and senior stakeholders the ability to grab visual info quickly.

Windows 8 Privacy Worry Overblown, says Microsoft Analyst (CSO)
It sounds like a privacy hole big enough for a truckload of your personal information to be leaked to the world, but experts say a recently disclosed Windows 8 privacy issue is really a non-issue. Microsoft's Windows 8, which connects its users with networks including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hotmail, Gmail, Exchange leaves a "lingering cache of automatically collected contacts [that] are stored unencrypted on a Windows 8 client," InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard reports this week.

Upcoming Windows Phone Developer Conference Reveals Apollo Info (WPCentral)
Back in January, we brought you the news of the first independent Windows Phone developer conference not sponsored by Microsoft called WP DevCon occurring October 22-24th in Burlingame, CA. The listing and descriptions of the classes being offered during the conference have been released and interestingly enough, there's a whole class on Windows Phone Apollo development. Seeing as the classes are in late October, perhaps we shouldn't be shocked that Windows Phone 8 will be discussed at length during such an event. But what makes it interesting is some of the details revealed.

Why Microsoft's Anti-iPad Strategy will Backfire (InfoWorld)
When Steve Jobs came back to run Apple in summer 1997, he famously told Apple's Mac fans "we need to get away from this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose." He then announced a $150 million investment in the then-struggling Apple by Microsoft -- with Bill Gates joining the Macworld Expo announcement via satellite -- and a commitment by Microsoft to keep Office for Mac on the market and at parity with the Windows version. That investment went a long way toward calming investor fears and set the stage for Jobs and team to reinvent and reinvigorate the Mac, then create the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad over the next decade.

Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Client Object Model (SharePointDevWiki)
I have implemented the Client Object Model (COM) extensively in Silverlight as well as in ECMAScript. I've failed many times in accomplishing certain tasks and succeeded many times too. You may love or hate COM but you cannot ignore it if you are a SharePoint 2010 developer. So, I’m going to list the advantages and disadvantages of COM that I have faced while implementing it. Let's look at the advantages first.

Netcast 117 - No SQL for Old SharePoint (Todd Klindt's SharePoint Admin Blog )
Tonight's netcast is chock full of meaty SharePointy goodness. I talk about a tool that can be used to migrate SQL Server Reporting Services. I also tell everyone about the April CU and remind folks to be careful. I break the news to SharePoint 2007 admins about SQL 2012 support, or lack thereof. Plus even more good SharePoint information.

SharePoint: Learn to Brand from the Start (Part 2) (EndUserSharePoint)
Small Beginnings: I set myself on a quest to change the Global Navigation or Top Links Bar of my SharePoint 2010 Team Site. That is the horizontal bar at the top of your SharePoint where new sites you create typically go. Like any good SharePoint branding beginner, I started by looking online for help and searched popular books about branding. The first book I read started talking about Master Pages, Page Layouts and other concepts, this is way too complex – I need something for a beginner. Online documentation was the same with articles like “Edit your Master Page to add a Megadropdown menu with jquery”.

Troubleshooting SharePoint’s Page Output Caching (todd-carter.com)
As a follow up to my previous post “When Page Output Caching Does Not Output” I have recorded a video which actually walks you through the steps and issues which I documented in this previous post. So for those of you whom don’t like to read all that much you may watch this video and/or refer back to my previous post on the same subject.

Around Bamboo Nation
SHARE 2012 Keynote - Sarah Haase's 'It Doesn't Take a Miracle: Driving Successful User Adoption' (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Sarah Haase, Collaboration & Search Engineer at Best Buy, presented the final keynote (and the final case study) of SHARE last Wednesday afternoon. In concluding what had already been a fantastic three days of information-packed sessions, networking events, parties, and more, Sarah's presentation ensured that SHARE --which will return to Atlanta next April-- would finish strong. Sarah said at the outset of her presentation that the core message she sought to share was how to transfer one's passion for SharePoint to others in an organization. Based on her own experiences at Best Buy, Sarah's core thesis was that if you can influence some, they will in turn influence others.

SharePoint Job Listings*
Support Technician - Reston, VA
Bamboo Solutions is the leading provider of technologies that augment the Microsoft SharePoint platform. We offer more than 70 products providing a broad range of enhanced capabilities for the SharePoint environment. To date, over 8,000 organizations world-wide have chosen to enhance their SharePoint deployment by taking advantage of the functionality and quality that Bamboo products provide. This is a full-time, junior position, reporting to the Manager of Customer Support, with the opportunity to advance as the company grows.

Director - Microsoft Alliance - Denver, CO or Redmond/Seattle, WA
NewsGator (Microsoft’s 2011 U.S. Partner of the Year) is seeking a driven and results-oriented individual to help us grow and expand our highly successful Microsoft partnership. The Director - Microsoft Alliance will manage NewsGator’s global Microsoft partnership with responsibility for strategic direction, co-marketing efforts, field engagement, product marketing activities, and partner program requirements. The Director will report to the VP-Microsoft Alliance and assist with maintaining NewsGator’s ‘depth-managed’ Microsoft partnership status while working to expand the depth and breadth of the partnership across Microsoft’s international subsidiaries.

SharePoint Events*

May 8, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 9, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 10, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 12, Baltimore, Maryland - SharePoint Saturday
May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 17, Online (APAC Region) – Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 6, Online (APAC Region) – Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 11, Online - Bamboo Select Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 14-18, San Antonio, Texas - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
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May 15-17, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 22-25, Chicago, Illinois – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
May 30-31, Online - InfoPath 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
May 30-31, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2010 – New Features – SharePoint Solutions

June 5-6, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-7, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-8, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 12-15, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-27, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-29, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions

July 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
July 17-18, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July 24-26, Dallas, Texas – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions

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SharePoint Notes from the Field; Office 365 now FISMA-certified; Betting Against the Web

Chris Dooley — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:35:00 GMT

Microsoft sponsored a horse in the Kentucky Derby. Who knew? - Dooley

Top News Stories
Notes from the Field 2012 (AIIM)
I have been out in the field lately (apologies to Bryant for not posting more often) and this post is on what I have heard clients talking about lately. Obviously, this sample isn’t a complete sample, but it has been an exciting first four months of 2012. SharePoint continues to roll for document-centric business applications: Companies are looking at SharePoint for document-centric business applications, not just Records Management (RM) or content governance (or portals or collaboration or all the things SharePoint does so well). So far this year, we’ve seen many instances where companies wanted to migrate document-centric business applications to SharePoint from their legacy ECM products. These are applications like accounts payable, contracts, HR, and purchasing. Gartner used to call them “Content Enabled Vertical Applications” (CEVA’s). This has been especially true in SAP shops where the SAP ArchiveLink protocol makes it so easy to migrate from one ECM platform to another. The SAPGUI controls the user experience, so the migration is unloading documents from one platform and loading the documents to another platform. There is some important validation work to be done, but this is not nearly as hard as the traditional ECM product migrations have been. Several of these migrations have required less than 6 months of product maintenance of the legacy ECM products to fund the software, the full conversion effort and the complete migration of the content.

Windows 8 Tablets: A Disaster in the Making (ComputerWorld)
Tablets were clearly top of mind for the designers of Tablets were clearly top of mind for the designers of Windows 8. The Metro interface sacrifices usability on the PC, which suggests that Microsoft is focused on overtaking the iPad. This design choice was met with conjectures that Microsoft believed enterprises would. favor Windows 8 tablets because they'd work in sync with Windows 8 on desktops and could be deployed and managed companywide with the same set of tools.

Microsoft: Office 365 for Enterprises now FISMA-certified (ZDNet)
Microsoft announced on May 3 that its Office 365 cloud-hosted app bundle has received the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) nod from the Broadcasting Board of Governors. FISMA certification is a requirement for many U.S. government contracts. FISMA specifies a “comprehensive framework to protect government information, operations and assets against natural or man-made threats.”

Windows Azure Devs Get Telephony and Text Messaging APIs (Visual Studio Magazine)
On Wednesday Microsoft announced that it has signed a deal with Twilio that will give developers the ability to have voice and SMS-enabled applications run on the Windows Azure cloud service. San Francisco-based Twilio offers a cloud-based telephony service. Through its APIs, developers can initiate and receive phone calls from mobile and Web apps. In addition to call control, the APIs let app developers integrate voice messaging, interactive voice response and text messaging.

At Interior Department, Google Apps Will Co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for Now (CIO)
Although the U.S. Interior Department plans to replace its on-premise email servers with Google Apps' cloud-based Gmail, the agency will retain Microsoft Outlook and Office as its standard e-mail client and desktop office productivity software for end users. The Interior Department's 70,000 full-time employees and 20,000 seasonal workers will have the option to use the Gmail Web interface and Apps' Docs productivity applications, but most people will likely continue to use Office and Outlook as their primary options, at least for the near future. The Interior Department has an enterprise license to use Office and Windows agency-wide.

Why Apple Won by Betting Against the Web (Mashable)
Roger McNamee, the managing director and co-founder of venture capital firm Elevation Partners, has a theory about how Apple became the biggest U.S. technology growth story of all time: “The thing that made Apple successful was betting against the web,” he said on stage at Mashable Connect Friday.

Around the Blogosphere
Inconvenient Templated Controls and Customized Pages in SharePoint 2010 (Waldek Mastykarz)
Using Templated Controls is a great way for separating UI from functionality. Unfortunately as soon as you customize the Master Page or Page Layouts that uses a Templated Control things are likely break. So what is exactly happening behind the scenes and, what’s more important, how should you deal with it?

Updating Resource Rates (SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans)
Due to possible differences in calendars between EPM (Enterprise Calendars) and Microsoft Project (local project settings), resource rate changes using an effective from date may not be applied from the beginning of the working day. At one client in particular, where all resources in the Enterprise Resource Pool received an updated (increased) rate from the first of the financial year, this caused project financial information to be out by a couple of hundred to a few thousand pounds. Given that this particular client uses timesheet and therefore project actual work and cost figures to update their financial system for client billing, this is quite a big problem.
This article describes how to set the effective from time for the resource rate in order to ensure that it is applied from the beginning of the working day.

Making Sense of HTML5 with SharePoint: Internet Explorer 9 Capabilities (EndUserSharePoint)
Let’s take as a sort of given that the majority of people who use SharePoint, at least for Intranets, are using Internet Explorer. I know that’s a big assumption, and in most organizations it’s not fully true. Many people choose to go rogue from the standards and use other browsers, most front end developers refuse to use IE, etc.

SharePoint Events*

May 8, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
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May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 17, Online (APAC Region) – Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 6, Online (APAC Region) – Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 7-11, Seattle, Washington - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
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May 15-17, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
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May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
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May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
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May 22-25, Chicago, Illinois – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
May 30-31, Online - InfoPath 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp
May 30-31, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2010 – New Features – SharePoint Solutions

June 5-6, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-7, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
June 5-8, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 12-15, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-27, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-28, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
June 26-29, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions

July 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
July 17-18, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
July 24-26, Dallas, Texas – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions

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SHARE 2012 Keynote - Sarah Haase's 'It Doesn't Take a Miracle: Driving Successful User Adoption'

John Anderson — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:30:00 GMT

Sarah Haase, Collaboration & Search Engineer at Best Buy, presented the final keynote (and the final case study) of SHARE last Wednesday afternoon. In concluding what had already been a fantastic three days of information-packed sessions, networking events, parties, and more, Sarah's presentation ensured that SHARE --which will return to Atlanta next April-- would finish strong.

Sarah said at the outset of her presentation that the core message she sought to share was how to transfer one's passion for SharePoint to others in an organization. Based on her own experiences at Best Buy, Sarah's core thesis was that if you can influence some, they will in turn influence others.

Recalling the spectacular failure of New Coke in 1985, Sarah's first piece of advice was that you should "never assume that you know what users want ... ask them what they want." Referencing Rogers' Innovation Adoption Curve (including the "chasm" that exists between early adopters and an early majority), Sarah said that you need a "social epidemic" to help cross the chasm. Sarah used Malcolm Gladwell's definition of social epidemics from The Tipping Point as events that are "contagious, caused by small incremental changes, and bring about a sudden change."

Sarah shared with attendees her original, 2007 mission statement at Best Buy, to "use technology to automate manual tasks and save money." In implementing a strategy that included process optimization, information architecture, and community development, Sarah recognized the need "to build a tool that people actually want to use." For the implementation, she knew she needed early adopters, so Sarah sought them out and gave them projects via controlled development/releases, which led to their influencing others and creating demand. Sarah stressed the importance of securing executive support early, and documenting ROI (specifically, "process time savings using SharePoint").

Sarah provided details on a case study on user acceptance testing using SharePoint and jQuery (via a free solution she discovered at EndUserSharePoint) to automatically generate an up-to-the-second chart to visually display the user data. Given the enthusiastic response from her colleagues, Sarah's takeaway was: "Thrill your customers, and then they will support you ... it's worth the effort."

Sarah described stage one of her implementation efforts as consisting of the following steps:

Find what's needed by asking questions within the organization; find examples of success and backtrack from there to emulate (and vice versa, finding examples of past failures, and extracting valuable lessons), then outline your vision, including a written mission statement.
Plant your stake. Pick a focus area, define your role, determine training needs, start building brand awareness, build a timeline, and garner executive support.
Take baseline measurements. "If you don't know where you started from, it's impossible to show how you've grown."
Define your success criterion.
Find the "right" first project: business pain, simple problems that hit a lot of people, succinct business need, ideally with repeatable elements, frequent business rhythm, early adopters ("I want the person that everyone goes to ... that's the kind of influence you want"), a business team that includes key influencers, a solution you can build using out-of-the-box components (and limited use of SharePoint Designer as necessary), right-sizing ("you need something you can deliver quickly"), and quantifiable ROI.
Get moving!

Moving onto stage two, "Storyboarding," Sarah urges that you work with people to find out their vision for the future, the business needs they're trying to solve, and their current work process (including pain points and bottlenecks; "That's my must-do list"). Next, get their wish list. Shortly thereafter (immediately if possible), provide a demo with a pre-deployed (for another team) SharePoint solution. Connect the team with business owners from that/ those other/earlier teams which are already up and running with a solution. Revisit their wish list and high-level goals at this point, and go from there.

In conclusion, Sarah addressed the topic of user adoption best practices directly, beginning with her key strategy: "Find your Yoda ... your organizational SharePoint champion." In Sarah's experience, once you've delivered your first couple of wins, SharePoint markets itself, so again, "You have to thrill your customers." Do this and "they will drive your user adoption for you." Sarah cautioned that you can't stop the train for naysayers, and that you should actively "exclude the people that are not your target audience and don't believe in what you're trying to do." On the same topic, Sarah went on to say, "Community is key ... this is how we're going to get the naysayers on our side without even trying ... you have to give them a community of support." To do this, start by finding your first follower, who will in turn become your first champion. To illustrate the critical importance of that "first follower" in driving adoption, Sarah wrapped up her presentation with the following classic video:

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Communicate Org Structure with SharePoint; Office Hybrid Solutions; Dealing with Big Data

Chris Dooley — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:35:00 GMT

May the 4th be with you. - Dooley

Top News Stories
Using SharePoint to Communicate Organizational Structure Effectively (CMSWire)
The humble "org chart" might feel like an outmoded concept, but they can serve a very important purpose for many companies — especially in a turbulent economy. Most companies maintain organizational information in one form or another. This information is often stored in payroll systems, Intranets or even in good old Excel. Visio is another firm favorite, and it will often fall to the HR department to keep the data in sync with staff movements.

Hybrid Solutions: The Answer to the Office 365 or On-Premise Question? (ITProPortal)
Business Cloud-based solutions have become more attractive due to; onerous security and compliance regulations, faster and cheaper bandwidth costs, widespread worldwide online availability, and, of course, the maturity of the Cloud-based offerings themselves. Additional benefits such as; reduced licensing costs, reduced hardware maintenance costs, reduced software maintenance costs, and reduced IT administration costs, makes one wonder why everyone hasn't already migrated their systems to the Cloud with products such as Microsoft Office 365.

No Such Thing As "Big Data," But It Will Change Your Business Anyway (PC Magazine)
Lately, we've been hearing a lot about "big data;" there are various new applications from Hadoop and NoSQL and all sorts of new analytics software. I've spent a lot of time talking to people and thinking about these trends recently, and have come away convinced that, indeed, we're seeing huge changes in both the amount of data that is being collected and how as individuals, companies, and societies, we're going to deal with that data.

Windows 8 Won't Include Media Center Automatically (CNET)
Microsoft announced today that it is "making Windows Media Center available in Windows 8." But... this is actually a half truth. The tech company is taking a number of steps to make sure Windows 8 supports Media Center just like in Windows 7. However, it's changing Media Center's integration into Windows. Rather than shipping it with Windows 8 -- as it has done in the last two versions of Windows -- users now have to buy the Media Center separately as an upgrade.

In Celebration of *Day Against DRM* (O'Reilly Media)
Having the ability to download files at your convenience, store them on all your devices, or share them with a friend or colleague as you would a print book, is liberating, and is how it should be. If you haven't tried a DRM-free ebook or video, we encourage you to do so now. And if you're already a fan, take advantage of our sale and add to your library. For one day only, you can save 50% on all O'Reilly, No Starch, and Rocky Nook ebooks and videos.

Around the Blogosphere
Hack SharePoint Master Pages: Introduction (Beside the Point)
Last week, I read an article by Benjamin Niaulin, where he explained why to "Brand your SharePoint?". Afterwards, I did some research on the subject and discovered there are not a lot of resources for power users who want to be able to understand and apply nice branding to their SharePoint site.

Boil it Down to the Basics... The SharePoint 2010 Ribbon (EndUserSharePoint)
Sigh, the ribbon. Those two words manage to give most SharePoint developers and designers the chills. And not necessarily in the good way. While the ribbon provides a lot of cool interactivity and functionality for our end users, you just look at it wrong and stuff can go whacky in your SharePoint site. This is the first post in a series dedicated to working with the ribbon. Let’s start off with reviewing what the ribbon really is and what code bits are involved.

Customizing SharePoint 2010 My Sites Navigation (SPTechWeb)
In many ways, customizing SharePoint 2010 My Sites is a bit of a mystery. This is probably because there isn’t a ton of documentation available on the topic today. One question I get a lot is about changing the navigation and/or the top bar of the My Sites UI. The good news is that changing that Global Navigation and Sub-Navigation links for the My Site host is very simple, as long as you are logged into the My Site host from an account with Site Collection administrator access.

Around Bamboo Nation
Sneak Peek: New & Improved Microsoft Project Add-In for PM Central (The Bamboo Team Blog)
SharePoint is a great tool for project management and collaboration, and its ability to display tasks, schedules, and dependencies is important and useful across entire organizations. However, as project managers, we tend to fall back to the usage of Microsoft Project to map out our schedules and resource assignments. PM Central has been equipped with a Microsoft Project Add-In for some time now, but over time and through feedback from our customers, we have improved and added more and more functions to the application. In the upcoming 3.5 release of PM Central for SharePoint 2010, our focus has been improving our Microsoft Project Add-In even further by allowing users from Microsoft Project Add-In to connect to their PM Central project site in SharePoint 2010, and either create a new project in Microsoft Project, merge data, or append data:

SharePoint Events*

May 8, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
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May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
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May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
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May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 6, Online (APAC Region) – Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 7-11, Seattle, Washington - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
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May11, Online - Bamboo Select Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 14-18, San Antonio, Texas - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
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May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
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Sneak Peek: New & Improved Microsoft Project Add-In for PM Central

Bamboo PM Girl — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:50:00 GMT

SharePoint is a great tool for project management and collaboration, and its ability to display tasks, schedules, and dependencies is important and useful across entire organizations. However, as project managers, we tend to fall back to the usage of Microsoft Project to map out our schedules and resource assignments. PM Central has been equipped with a Microsoft Project Add-In for some time now, but over time and through feedback from our customers, we have improved and added more and more functions to the application. In the upcoming 3.5 release of PM Central for SharePoint 2010, our focus has been improving our Microsoft Project Add-In even further by allowing users from Microsoft Project Add-In to connect to their PM Central project site in SharePoint 2010, and either create a new project in Microsoft Project, merge data, or append data:

Merge

For example, you have a schedule with 20 tasks that you brought into the PM Central site earlier. The next day, talking with the team, you identify 20 more task items and resource assignments, and you want to update your schedule in SharePoint. You don't want to have to delete the existing tasks and import again, or manually add these 20 new tasks. With the Microsoft Project Add-In in R3.5, you can connect, select merge, and synchronize your schedule, after which PM Central will have updated with the (now) 40 tasks.

Append

For example, you have a schedule with 20 tasks that you brought in to the PM Central site earlier. You're collaborating with another PM and s/he provides you another .mpp file that has 50 additional tasks. You want to incorporate these additional tasks into the project. Using the Microsoft Project Add-In in R3.5, you can connect, select append, and synchronize your tasks. Having done so, PM Central will append the other PM's .mpp file to the existing tasks, and all 70 tasks will be updated in your PM Central site.

The Microsoft Project Add-In also has additional functions such as detecting differences in the working hours settings between your .mpp file and those in your PM Central site, and will notify you to make the necessary changes to settings prior to completing your merge or append action:

PM Central R3.5 with new and improved Microsoft Project Add-In is scheduled to be released in June. Want to be among the first to know when it's released? You can sign up to get alerts when the new version will be available on our storefront site.

SharePoint Online Slide Libraries; Cloud Office Suite Shootout; The Dumbening of Technology

Chris Dooley — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:52:00 GMT

Coffee is very important around the SharePoint Daily offices but these guys take it to a whole new level. - Dooley

Top News Stories
SharePoint Online Makes PowerPoint Slide Libraries Available via Cloud (ZDNet)
SharePoint Online is one of the core services available in Office 365 and it shares many of the same features you find when SharePoint is deployed locally or when purchased by a hosting providers. (If you need a good introduction to "what is SharePoint" here is a very good video.) One of those features is known as a "slide library". Slide libraries are a really interesting feature which allows you to work with PowerPoint slide decks stored in the cloud in a unique and potentially very useful way. Note that Slide Libraries are not available in the Office 365 for the small business and professionals version of Office 365. So, before you get started, you will need Office Professional Plus or Enterprise to publish to slide library, however, other versions of Office can use a slide library as a source once it is published.

…and If Elected (AIIM)
Now that, according to most news sources, the presidential election has begun, I think it’s appropriate for me to treat a recent news story in a special way. By that I mean that I feel comfortable stringing together what may be unrelated facts in a way that supports my position. The story I am talking about was published in February in the Hartford Business Journal under the headline “Idle Enfield envelope plant to house documents.” A quick read of the article tells the sad story of how the nearby town will see a facility converted from a manufacturing plant that once employed over 130 people to a records storage facility employing “a handful of workers”. Sadder still, if I put my campaign hat on is the fact that the facility will be storing documents that were born digital.

The Great Ars Cloud Office Suite Shootout (Ars Technica)
As cloud computing gains steam in the enterprise, many IT shops are looking for ways to move stuff out of their own server rooms and into someone else's. This has given rise to services like Google Apps and Office 365, which offer e-mail, calendaring, and other Web-based services that completely replace not just software running on your company's servers, but also software running on your company's desktops.

Court Bans Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Windows 7 from German Market (Insurance Journal)
A court in Mannheim, Germany ruled on Wednesday that Microsoft infringed Motorola Mobility’s patents and ordered Microsoft to remove its Xbox 360 gaming consoles and Windows 7 operating system software from the German market. Judge Holger Kircher said Microsoft breached an agreement with Motorola, which is in the process of being bought by Google, in using certain video-compression software in products including Windows 7 and Xbox.

Microsoft and the Dumbening of Technology (WindowsITPro)
This week, I'll finish the main writing phase of a book called Windows 8 Secrets. But don’t worry, I’m not trying to sell you anything. Instead, I’m reflecting on an issue that was driven home during the writing of this book, an issue that will dog anyone who supports technology products for a living in the years to come. See, I happen to believe that names are important in technology. Sadly, Microsoft doesn’t agree. And in Windows 8, especially, the software giant is trying move away from giving things specific names. For example, when you type WINDOWS KEY + C in Windows 8, or swipe in from the right edge of the screen on an all-too-rare multi-touch device, a new overlay comes up. Many people, myself included, call this overlay the “Charms bar,” because it contains the Charms (a set of new Windows 8 features) and is, well, a bar of sorts. But it’s not called the Charms bar. Not officially.

Around the Blogosphere
Useful Phrases for Fighting SharePoint-Sucks-Syndrome (EndUserSharePoint)
Many organizations face the challenge of good SharePoint adoption due to the battle of fighting the SharePoint-Sucks-Syndrome (not to be confused with Paul Culmsee’s SharePoint Fatigue Syndrome). SharePoint-Sucks-Syndrome is a debilitating illness that includes the lingering misconception that current-day SharePoint is no good, simply because of bad experiences with previous versions (read SharePoint 2003). Most of us know that SharePoint has improved with leaps & bounds over the past few years. But if you have to work among, or consult for, those who are still suffering from the destructive symptoms of this disease, : ) here are some great affirmations and other useful phrases to help people feel better about their SharePoint experience:

Easy Way to Get Relative Path of SharePoint 2010 Site via PowerShell (C5 Insight)
The more I learn and get to know PowerShell, the more I love it. I am able to perform what used to be time-consuming tasks (many hours or days) in seconds (after you write the script of course). While writing a script recently to perform some tasks on numerous SharePoint sites (webs to be precise), I was constructing URLs for the sites and using as variables and I needed only part of the URL (the managed path). After a little poking around, I found a nice easy way to do it.

How to Break a SharePoint List in Less than Minutes (SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans)
My client asked me today the limitation of SharePoint 2010 in terms of number of words per column types, lines and attachments. I found the answers in Microsoft website and also this blog http://sharepointgadget.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/limits-in-sharepoint-2010.html that has a good summary.

Workaround for People Picker Post Back Bug in ASPX pages in SharePoint 2010 (SharePointDevWiki)
The People Picker is a great tool to present and validate data from SharePoint users and, indirectly, the Active Directory and is a valuable asset to any custom ASPX page. The problem is, in all of its implementations across default SharePoint pages, the forms being used only appear on load and then get submitted. This process does only one post back. If you create a form with multiple people pickers like this one:

Around Bamboo Nation
Customizing a Community Central Site by Changing the Default Logos (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Out-of-the-box, Community Central comes with Bamboo logos in place as the header and footer. Since we recognize that our logo may not be a part of the desired look and feel of your company's community site, you may replace that content to suit your needs. Following are step-by-step instructions to customize the default logos and text using SharePoint Designer 2010.

SharePoint Job Listings*
Cyber SharePoint Designer Job - Annapolis Junction, MD
Work as a SharePoint Designer to design, configure, implement, and deploy custom SP solutions to support business processes using SP 2010 out-of-the-box capabilities and SP Designer 2010. Support deployed SP solutions and workflows and conduct business process engineering and design, including process definition and process improvement activities to address customer needs. Work in a collaborative environment and interact with external support and technical teams to ensure SP development is fully integrated and compliant with the Enterprise framework. Define and plan SP solution releases and create and maintain all SP-related project documentation.

SharePoint/InfoPath Developer - Beaverton, OR
The candidate must have experience in developing SharePoint solutions using both standard configurations as well as SharePoint 2007 Designer. Experience in InfoPath 2007 form development as well as SharePoint 2007 workflow implementation experience is a must.

Support Technician - Reston, VA
Bamboo Solutions is the leading provider of technologies that augment the Microsoft SharePoint platform. We offer more than 70 products providing a broad range of enhanced capabilities for the SharePoint environment. To date, over 8,000 organizations world-wide have chosen to enhance their SharePoint deployment by taking advantage of the functionality and quality that Bamboo products provide. This is a full-time, junior position, reporting to the Manager of Customer Support, with the opportunity to advance as the company grows.

SharePoint Events*

May 3, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Community Central Webinar
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May 8, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 9, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 10, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 12, Baltimore, Maryland - SharePoint Saturday
May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 7-11, Seattle, Washington - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 7-11, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May11, Online - Bamboo Select Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 14-18, San Antonio, Texas - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 14-18, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 30-31, Online - InfoPath 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp

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Customizing a Community Central Site by Changing the Default Logos

Bamboo PM Girl — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:30:00 GMT

Out-of-the-box, Community Central comes with Bamboo logos in place as the header and footer. Since we recognize that our logo may not be a part of the desired look and feel of your company's community site, you may replace that content to suit your needs. Following are step-by-step instructions to customize the default logos and text using SharePoint Designer 2010.

Changing the logo via CSS in SharePoint Designer 2010

1. Upload your desired image to the Skin/Images folder in SharePoint:

2. Open the site in SharePoint Designer. Navigate to the Skin/Style/Custom.css:

3. Edit the custom.css file.
4. For the top logo, under .bb-cmcentrallogo replace the SA15logo.png with the name of your new image. Click Save.

You will see the change as shown here:

5. For the bottom logo, under .bb-footerbamboologo, replace the Bamboologo.png with the name of your new image:

You will see the change as shown here:

Changing Text via XSL in SharePoint Designer

1.Open the site in SharePoint Designer. Navigate to the Skin/XSL. Edit Bamboo.Footer.xslt:

2.Replace the text with your preferred text.

You will see the change as shown here:

SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint; Windows 8 Trouble; Death to Outlook?

Chris Dooley — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:43:00 GMT

I am not sure I like change. All too often it seems that change means cutting down trees to put in a new road. Reston Station Metro, I'm lookin' at you... - Dooley

Top News Stories
Getting to Know SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint (I Programmer)
If you’re using SQL Server 2012 for data analysis, you have several new options available to use. The ones that have gained most headlines are Power View for displaying data in web apps and PowerPivot for data cube analysis in desktop apps, but there are deeper changes that will probably prove more useful for developers. Of course, as a developer you now work with SQL Server using SQL Server Data Tools. This is a single shared set of tools for SQL Server and SQL Azure database and application development.

The Need for the User Profile (AIIM)
How often do you update your online profile? Maybe the bigger question is: how many online profiles do you maintain? For me, my primary profiles are Facebook and LinkedIn. Facebook doesn't feel much like a "profile" as its contents are more dynamic and experience/interaction-driven, while LinkedIn is much more structured and detailed, acting as a public-facing resume, of sorts.

Web Users Not Enthused About Windows 8 (Datamation)
Is Windows 8 already in trouble? New data from Net Applications paints a stark picture of early Windows 8 interest. The Web analytics firm says that Microsoft's new OS -- now entering its third month of its Consumer Preview -- powered a mere 0.11 percent of computers that went online last week. It's a rate of adoption that has remained essentially unchanged since March. Not a good sign. By comparison, at this stage of the Windows 7 Preview, 0.26 percent of machines on the Web were running Vista's successor, according to this PCWorld report.

Microsoft Replaces Office Live Small Business With Office 365 (Information Management)
Microsoft, as expected, discontinued its Office Live Small Business suite of cloud-based services on May 1, replacing that offering with Microsoft Office 365. All access to the OLSB service and public Web sites is ending, the company says.

Will "Death to Outlook" follow "Death to Word"? (WindowsITPro)
A boring Tuesday in April brings me to contemplate the intriguing Slate.com article entitled “Death to Word” (the title, at least, got your attention). Basically the author’s premise is it’s time for Microsoft to put Word for Windows into the spare parts bin. Some of the targets identified in the article are easy to anticipate. For example,” Clippy” makes yet another appearance as the animated icon everyone loves to hate. Other Word features that the author identifies as not worth having will probably surprise because you might consider them worth having, such as the way that Word automatically adds a superscripted “th” after ordinal numbers. To each their own, I suppose.

Around the Blogosphere
Ten Most Mystifying Attitudes To SharePoint (SharePoint Nirvana)
When you get around on a few SharePoint projects you tend to hear a lot of pre-conceptions, attitudes, and plain old wrongheadedness around what SharePoint is and does. Collected below are my personal favourite ten of these, which believe me I've heard more than once.

Microsoft: SharePoint 2013 Will Suck at Social – Get Something Else! (Furuknap's SharePoint Corner)
Of course, I’m blowing this slightly out of proportion, but really the message remains the same. Microsoft touts the next version of SharePoint as a breakthrough in social computing, but then turns around and say that they’re not really expecting to get it right and that you’ll need something else to really get social going. In fact, social in SharePoint 2013 won’t be good at all so you might as well just buy SharePoint 2010 now and then get the third-party add-ons that you’ll need to get anyway. Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you what I’m talking about.

Building Your SharePoint Site? Remember Your Audience (Views from Veronique)
Someone recently took me on for putting versioning in my document names on our website. As a SharePoint professional, I know this is not good practice. However, remember who the audience is. The resources on our website are publicly available for download so we have no way of knowing who has these documents and what they’re being used for. I purposely put the version number in the document name so people can instantly see if they still have the right version of the document on their sites or fileshares. Our documentation is not like this internally, there we use the versioning functionality.

SharePoint and Fun with SP1 (SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans)
Recently I was asked to take a look at a SharePoint 2010 system that was having a few problems. Looking at the patching status it was still running SPS2010 RTM, so the 1st job was to at least get SP1 installed, then the latest CUs on top, and so the fun started… I downloaded the appropriate service packs, and kicked off the foundation SP1 install and got the following.

Life on the Farm: Updating SQL Server 2008 R2 - Part 1 (ITPro)
In a small farm environment with one SQL server (no clustering, replication, or other redundant/switch-over scenario), applying SQL Server service packs and cumulative updates is going to interrupt SharePoint. Moreover, if an update goes awry the interruption becomes more than a brief inconvenience. What is a good way to approach SQL updates in such an environment?

Around Bamboo Nation
The Outlook is Bright: Using Alerts with SharePoint Discussion Boards (The Bottom-Line PM)
For the purposes of this exercise, there are three primary team members for my Bottom-Line PM project: Me: the Queso Grande; Tim: my overall project management guide and advisor; John: my editor here at Bamboo Nation. Heretofore, we have communicated about the Bottom-Line PM project via email. I'm as big a fan of email as ever there was, but email is simply not the most effective way to communicate about a project. For one thing, sometimes I forget to Reply All, so once in a while, someone important to the project will miss out on a topic to which s/he should have been privy. For another thing, I get a lot of emails and am not always fastidious about sorting them into the appropriate folder in a timely manner, so occasionally an important email will get buried beneath the 20K other emails I get on a daily basis. There are probably other good reasons supporting the idea that email is not the best way to communicate with a project team, but you get the idea.

This Week in Bamboo (April 22nd, 2012 - April 28th, 2012) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
This week in Bamboo, we released to our storefront some minors and patches releases. The highlight of minor releases with some new features and bugs fixed is Team Calendar R1.7 for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, Cross-Site Display Web Part R1.2 for SharePoint 2010 and Data-Viewer R3.4 for SharePoint 2010. Please see our Product Manager Announcement blogs for more details: Access Exchange Online 2010 Mailboxes with Your On-premises Deployment via Team Calendar Web Part. And Just the Right Amount of Information Helps the Medicine Go Down. For a complete list of this week’s releases, patches and bugs fixed please see below.

SharePoint Job Listings*
SHAREPOINT ADMINISTRATOR - San Diego, CA
As the primary Microsoft SharePoint Administrator, this position will be responsible for the architecture, administration, configuration, and monitoring of the environment for a multi-server, service-delivery oriented SharePoint Farm. Works with business units and other IT staff, including the project management team, to understand business needs in the SharePoint environment, and analyze, design, and implement effective systems solutions. Creates and executes project work plans, revising as necessary to meet changing needs and requirements.

SharePoint Records Manager - Sacramento, CA
We have an immediate opportunity for a Records Manager to work on the California High Speed Rail project in Sacramento, reporting directly to the Program Operations Manager. The Records Manager will be responsible for the effective management of all project records, will advise on records management issues and strategic activities, including records management configurations in SharePoint Enterprise 2010 including, Document Center, Records Center, Workflows.

SharePoint Events*

May 2, Online - Bamboo Knowledge Management Webinar
May 3, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Community Central Webinar
May 3, Online - Office 365 in the Real World
May 8, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 9, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 10, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 12, Baltimore, Maryland - SharePoint Saturday
May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

May 7-11, Seattle, Washington - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 7-11, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May11, Online - Bamboo Select Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 14-18, San Antonio, Texas - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 14-18, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
May 30-31, Online - InfoPath 2010 Power End User - Mindsharp

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This Week in Bamboo (April 22nd, 2012 - April 28th, 2012)

Myuyen Phan — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:48:00 GMT

This week in Bamboo, we released to our storefront some minors and patches releases. The highlight of minor releases with some new features and bugs fixed is Team Calendar R1.7 for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, Cross-Site Display Web Part R1.2 for SharePoint 2010 and Data-Viewer R3.4 for SharePoint 2010. Please see our Product Manager Announcement blogs for more details: Access Exchange Online 2010 Mailboxes with Your On-premises Deployment via Team Calendar Web Part. And Just the Right Amount of Information Helps the Medicine Go Down. For a complete list of this week’s releases, patches and bugs fixed please see below.

HW34 Team Calendar for SharePoint 2007 (1.7.1) and SharePoint 2010 (1.7.16)

SharePoint 2007 (1.7.1)

New Features:

• Primary Exchange mailbox calendars can be set to read-only mode, allowing users to view event details but not create or modify events.
• Connect to Microsoft Exchange servers on a different domain than the SharePoint farm, including Exchange Server 2010 hosted on Microsoft Office 365.

Bug fixes:

• A "401: Unauthorized Access" error message is displayed if the primary Exchange mailbox account password contains a ">" symbol.

Known issues:

• Recurring events display the wrong Start Date in the event details form, but display correctly in the calendar views.

SharePoint 2010 (1.7.16)

New Features:

Bug fixes:

• A "401: Unauthorized Access" error message is displayed if the primary Exchange mailbox account password contains a ">" symbol.

Known issues:

• Recurring events display the wrong Start Date in the event details form, but display correctly in the calendar views.

Limitations:

• Cannot use an External List as a SharePoint data source.

HW63 Cross-Site Display Web Part for SharePoint 2010 (1.2.7)

New Features:

• Configure the list or library view to display by default when the Web Part loads.
• Option to disable the View menu in the toolbar to restrict user activities to the view configured by the administrator.

Known Issues:

• Users with read-only access to the SharePoint list see the full Edit context menu, but will see an error message when selecting a menu option.
• If the Cross-Site Display Web Part is configured to display a list from an anonymous access site using a custom login account, clicking View Properties in the Edit Menu displays an error message for items that have item-level permissions. Click the item link to view the item instead.
• After deleting an item from the Cross-Site Display Web Part, the Web Part display refreshes with the default list view instead of the view previously selected.
• If a Calendar list from the current site is displayed in the Web Part, clicking the Add option in the Calendar grid will display the error message "List does not exist." Use the New button in the toolbar to add new items instead.
• Decimal digits do not display in Currency Columns when the source list is from a site with different regional settings than the Cross-Site Display Web Part site.

Limitations:

• Users may encounter a script error when trying to close an item pop-up form after viewing an item attachment in some list types.
• When entering a Custom Login Account in the Web Part Settings and no match is found, the "closest matches" feature of "People Picker" does not work.
• If a Picture Library source list from another site in the same site collection is displayed in a Cross-Site Display Web Part, the item upload page is not a pop-up window.
• The Manage Permission and Compliance Details items are not available in the item Edit Menu when a list is displayed in the Cross-Site Display Web Part.
• To display date/time columns for recurring Calendar events correctly, the regional settings for the Cross-Site Display Web Part site must match the regional settings for the source list site.
• The Delete action is not supported for Picture Libraries.
• After modifying a list view from the Action menu in the Cross-Site Display Web Part, the user is returned to the source list instead of the Web Part page.
• The following Bamboo Products are not supported in the Cross-Site Display Web Part:

o HW41AB Lookup Selector Column
o HW41E Validator Column
o HW41G Column Level Security
o HW41I Rating Column
o HW60 File Share Library
o HW69 Video Library
o HW50 List Print

HW37 Data-Viewer for SharePoint 2007 (3.3.59) and SharePoint 2010 (3.4.41)

SharePoint 2007 (3.3.59)

Bug fixes:

• User receives the error "Default or Null are not allowed as explicit identity values" when attempting to add a new item to Data-Viewer Web Part with SQL Table or View configured as the Data Source.
• When exporting data of multiline of text column to the excel, Web Part add more <div> tag.
• If an instance of Data-Viewer Web Part resides on the same page as SharePoint List View Web Part that is displaying Calendar view of a list, users are unable to navigate to next month or past month in List View Web Part.
• When Data-Viewer Web Part data source is List Rollup - Classic Edition, and a column of Single Line of Text is configured with a default value, Data-Viewer Web Part returns the error message "OnLoad: : System.ArgumentException: Input array is longer than the number of columns in this table..."
• When exporting to Excel, columns of type Date & Time, Calculated (Number), Number and Person and Group are formatted incorrectly.
• Sorting on columns of type Number is treated as text (string), not numerical value.
• When exporting the nested data, only the data from the expanded parent item is exported, not the complete nested data set.

New Limitations:

• When the data source is SharePoint List or Bamboo List Rollup Web Part, if user modifies their local in the "My Regional Settings" page, columns of type Currency and Calculated (output = Currency), the comma "," and decimal point "." are displayed in the wrong position.
• When the data source is SharePoint List that contains a multi-line text column that is configured to append data, the inline edit mode displays the text of the current version of the item.
• When the data source is a SharePoint List or Bamboo List Rollup Web Part and the data set includes Bamboo custom columns Lookup Selector Column (HW41AB), Visual Indicator Column (HW41D), and Validator Column (HW41E) fails to display data when exported to Excel.

No new Known Issues

SharePoint 2010 (3.4.52)

New Features:

• Improved Web Part configuration experience with a pop-up settings window.
• Allows selection of up to two columns when configuring default grouping and sorting options.
• Option to display all required columns in the inline edit form, even if those columns are not displayed in the grid view.
• Allows parent data in Data-Viewer Web Part to be filtered by a secondary Web Part using SharePoint Web Part Connections.
• Allows filtering, sorting, and limits on the number of items displayed to be configured for nested data.
• Enhances conditional formatting rules to allow background shading to affect the text, the cell, or the entire row.
• When connecting to a SharePoint list or library, selecting a list view is no longer required unless you want to configure item filtering based on list view settings.
• Improved interface for configuring conditional formatting and calculation rules.
• Ability to display calculation results at both the top and bottom of the item list.

Bug fixes:

New Limitations:

• When the data source is SharePoint List that contains a multi-line text column that is configured to append data, the inline edit mode displays the text of the current version of the item.
• Default sorting is not honored if a default grouping is also defined.

No New Known Issues

HW03 Tree View Web Part for SharePoint 2010 (1.7.72)

Bug fixes:

• If the user does not have access to the connected SharePoint List or Library, the user will receive a full page "Access Denied" error instead of the message contained within the Tree View Web Part.
• If the user selects the options "Check Out" or "Edit in [Application Name]" from the item's context menu, the folder details refresh, displaying no content.

No new Known Issues or Limitations.

HW22 Mini Calendar for SharePoint 2007 (2.8.91) and SharePoint 2010 (2.8.67)

SharePoint 2007 (2.8.91)

• Internal product updates.

No new Known Issues and Limitations

SharePoint 2010 (2.8.67)

New features:

• Mini-Calendar Web Part now supports and bundled with Bamboo Web License Manager version 2.0.10.0

Bug fixes:

• Mini-Calendar Web Part displays all items from the connected SharePoint List instead of the filtered items specified in the selected list view.

No new Known Issues and Limitations

HW07 User Account Setup Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (4.0.98) and SharePoint 2010 (4.0.101)

Bug fixes:

• When Account Approval is enabled, if the user includes the word "mail" in the e-mail address of the new account, it is automatically replaced with the text "E-mail_Address".

No new Known Issues or Limitations

The Outlook is Bright: Using Alerts with SharePoint Discussion Boards

Pamela Flora — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:30:00 GMT

For the purposes of this exercise, there are three primary team members for my Bottom-Line PM project:

Me: the Queso Grande
Tim: my overall project management guide and advisor
John: my editor here at Bamboo Nation

Heretofore, we have communicated about the Bottom-Line PM project via email.

I'm as big a fan of email as ever there was, but email is simply not the most effective way to communicate about a project. For one thing, sometimes I forget to Reply All, so once in a while, someone important to the project will miss out on a topic to which s/he should have been privy. For another thing, I get a lot of emails and am not always fastidious about sorting them into the appropriate folder in a timely manner, so occasionally an important email will get buried beneath the 20K other emails I get on a daily basis. There are probably other good reasons supporting the idea that email is not the best way to communicate with a project team, but you get the idea.

The solution - and the best practice! - is to use the discussion area on your SharePoint project site to collaborate with your team, instead of bouncing emails back and forth. The discussion list comes built-in to the basic project template that I used to build my Bottom-Line PM site. It works pretty much like any other message board online, so it's easy to navigate and use - no new technology or interface to learn.

Once I got it set up, though, it occurred to me that, being a busy woman, I don't really want to have to switch to the browser tab with my project site on it and hit F5 to refresh it every five minutes to see if someone has added something new to the discussion. If only there were a way to have new discussion items routed to my Outlook where they'd catch my attention...

Well, there is. There are actually a couple of ways to do it.

The first one I tried is to link the Team Discussion list from my project site to Outlook. This video about using Office 365 to sync your SharePoint items to Outlook tells you how:

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The good news is that it was really easy, and new discussion list items show up in the navigation pane on the left of my Outlook, just like my inbox does. The bad news is that I don't get a visual or audible alert when a new item lands there. If I happen to look at the discussion list entry in my Outlook navigation pane, and it's bolded, I can tell there's something new there. But I get distracted easil... oh, look, a shiny... hey, did I tell you about this really neat... My point is that if I don't get a little popup on my monitor and a little chime telling me about a new item in my inbox or my discussion list in Outlook, there are good odds I'll miss it unless I make a concerted effort to look for it. Which isn't going to happen on a really busy day. Which most of them are.

So I went looking for a way to change the alert settings for non-email items in Outlook, and I stumbled upon a different method of being alerted to changes on my project site, including new posts to my discussion area. Oddly enough, and truly by pure coincidence, I found it right here on Bamboo Nation. It was John's second post ever on SharePoint Blank. Detailed instructions about how exactly to do this are here.

Then I set about testing which method worked best.

Short answer: the alert function within SharePoint worked better for me than linking the discussion list to Outlook. I still haven't figured out how to get that little chime to let me know about a new item when I link the discussion list to Outlook using the button on the Ribbon. Going through and setting the alerts using the Alert Me function within SharePoint gave me (audible and on-screen) notifications the second the mail server made its rounds.

A couple of things of note. If you are using the "link to Outlook" function, then deleting that item within Outlook also deletes it from the project site on SharePoint. That makes sense, since you have actually linked the two interfaces, and what happens on one happens on the other. The upside of this is that, when Outlook and your SharePoint site are synced-and-linked, you can directly reply to discussion items and create new posts within the Outlook interface. The downside is that if you have an itchy delete finger, you might wind up wiping out a post or even a whole thread on the project site by carelessly deleting in Outlook.

The Alert Me function, on the other hand, merely forwards a copy of the new item to your mail server; you're working with two different servers operating independently of each other. The upside of this is that you can safely delete items within Outlook without fearing you're wiping them off the project site at the same time when you use Alert Me. But to contribute to the discussion, you have to go to the discussion list URL in your browser and enter your post in a Web form. As far as I can tell, Alert Me is pretty much just a Town Crier letting you know about new items on your project site; you can't use it to actually generate content for your site using the Outlook interface.

It's also worth noting that the Alert Me feature works not just for discussion lists, but also for other lists, calendars, changes to documents, and so forth. It's highly configurable, as is virtually everything on SharePoint. I should also tell you, for the sake of being fair and balanced, that Outlook isn't the only Microsoft product you can link-and-sync with SharePoint if you choose to go that route, and that you can link each individual component of your project site (other lists, calendars, changes to documents, and so forth) to these other Office tools.

No Such Thing as a SharePoint Project; Microsoft Boosts SharePoint Social; Surviving a Cloud Outage

Chris Dooley — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:49:00 GMT

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Top News Stories
The Art of SharePoint Success: Transition - There's No Such Thing as a SharePoint Project (CMSWire)
Hello from my room in a rather nice hotel overlooking the river Thames in London, where I am staying for the International SharePoint Conference ☺ This article is the beginning of the end as we move on to the final element of Art of SharePoint Success framework, Transition. Transition is the umbrella term that I use to include change management and user adoption. As a former colleague of mine used to say, it’s about moving the organization from the old world to their new world.

Microsoft Plans SharePoint Social Boost in Wave 15 (IDM)
Improved social capabilities are coming to in Wave 15, the revamp of SharePoint and Office due out from Microsoft in December 2012. However Australian and New Zealand companies are being urged not to wait but make the jump now into enterprise social media. Details are gradually emerging of the roadmap for Office and SharePoint, known as Wave 15 internally at Microsoft. The products are likely to be under the umbrella of Office 2012, although this has not been confirmed.

5 Tips for Surviving a Cloud Outage (ComputerWorld)
"Everything fails, all the time," so says Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels. Amazon Web Services itself experienced a much publicized four-day service disruption last April, another outage in August and it had plenty of company from other cloud service companies last year. Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform in February had downtime problems due after the company failed to account for Leap Day, and despite improvements by cloud providers to minimize future outages, more outages will inevitably happen this year and beyond.

Windows Phone Nook: The Best Device Microsoft’s Money can Buy (ZDNet)
The surprising news that Microsoft had inked a deal with Barnes & Noble to both settle their Android patent dispute and form an ebook partnership caught everyone off-guard. Mary-Jo Foley has all of the details of the deal, but in a nutshell Microsoft paid B&N $300 million to settle its lawsuit and buy into a spin-off of the Nook ebook business of B&N.

The Social Enterprise: What's the DAM Point? (CMSWire)
We have come a long way from corporate wikis. Today, smart enterprises are leveraging advanced social platforms to promote communication and openness. Much the same as we use Twitter and Facebook to connect with like-minded individuals and share thoughts and ideas in our personal lives, social applications in the enterprise have the power to connect teams with common goals and objectives. Gone are the days of corporate silos. To be competitive in today’s market, companies must encourage collaboration and break down the barriers of enterprise-wide communication.

How Microsoft Is Scaring Apple (CNBC)
Anyone holding their breath on the hopes that software giant Microsoft will once again dominate the tech sector as it did in the mid-to-late 90s should also consider investing in some scuba gear to find that ship that has long sailed — if not sunken entirely.

Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint Applied: Visual Studio 11 Beta and SharePoint Development (CODE)
SharePoint 2007, in many ways, was a v1 release. It was the first time .NET was properly applied to SharePoint, and from SharePoint 2007 onwards the product has done very well. Partly because of the rich built in functionality that comes with SharePoint and party because of its extensible nature - things developers can do. As we are all painfully aware, the development tools for SharePoint 2007 were somewhere between absent and woefully inadequate. A huge part of that gap was filled by the community with tools such as WSPBuilder. If you have developed for SharePoint 2007, undoubtedly you must know about WSPBuilder (wspbuilder.codeplex.com).

Do the NFL Draft and Project Management have Anything in Common? (Manage Projects on SharePoint)
With the NFL Draft just behind us - it got me wondering if there was any connection between the draft and project management. And I reckon there is… when you think of the drafted player as a “new project”.

Optimizing and Accelerating Your SharePoint Farm (Webinar) (SharePointEduTech)
Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with Chris McNulty from Quest software the session proved to be very successful and lots of great information and tips. Below you can find the recording of the session and don’t forget the next webinar is on the 9th May titled “Okay, I have my office 365 setup. Now how do I administer it?” full details can be found here:

SharePoint and HTML5 - Part 2: HTML5 and Mobile (EndUserSharePoint)
Every new subject on HTML5 is a new world and HTML5 Mobile is no exception. There are lots of resources where you can learn about Mobile on HTML5, in detail. You can find several resources here:

Around Bamboo Nation
Just the Right Amount of Information Helps the Medicine Go Down (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Providing users with just the right amount of information, and not overloading them with anything extraneous, is often for the best. With Cross-Site Display Web Part, users can display Lists and Libraries, not only across sites, but even Site Collections, providing the various views they're already comfortable with (standard, Calendar, and Gantt). Now, with the release of version 1.2, designers configuring the Web Part can even define the default view and lock it in so users can't change it. Cool, eh? Here's how you do it:

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SharePoint Software Architect - Chicago, IL
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May 2, Online - Bamboo Knowledge Management Webinar
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May 8, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 9, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 10, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 12, Baltimore, Maryland - SharePoint Saturday
May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
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May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
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May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
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June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
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June 9, Orlando, Florida - SharePoint Saturday
June 21, Online - Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
June 25-27, Denver, Colorado - SharePoint Fest
June 30, Dayton, Ohio - SharePoint Saturday
June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois - SharePoint Fest

SharePoint Training*

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May 14-18, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 16, Online - Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
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Just the Right Amount of Information Helps the Medicine Go Down

Jeff Kozloff — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:30:00 GMT

Providing users with just the right amount of information, and not overloading them with anything extraneous, is often for the best. With Cross-Site Display Web Part, users can display Lists and Libraries, not only across sites, but even Site Collections, providing the various views they're already comfortable with (standard, Calendar, and Gantt). Now, with the release of version 1.2, designers configuring the Web Part can even define the default view and lock it in so users can't change it. Cool, eh? Here's how you do it:

You're probably already familiar with Bamboo's ultra-friendly settings interface for many of our products, where settings are displayed in a slick pop-up window:

If you look closely, in the General Settings category, you will see a new option: Select Default View. This is a drop down menu of all public views associated to the selected list. Select the view you want to load when the Web Part renders:

Next you can define if the Full Toolbar is displayed, allowing users to access the New [Item] menu, Actions menu, and, if they have the correct permissions to the list, the Settings menu. You can further select if the List View drop down menu is displayed, or hidden from the user:

Interested in a real-world scenario for Cross-Site Display Web Part? Jump over and view the humorously titled Who Would Have Thought that Eating your own Dog Food Could Taste so Good?. Ready to give Cross-Site Display Web Part a try on your own? Go to the Cross-Site Display Web Part product page and select Add Trial to Cart from the product banner.

Bamboo at SHARE 2012 - Day 3; Preparing for the Next SharePoint Now; Office 2010 or Office 365?

Chris Dooley — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:09:00 GMT

There's nothing like a few days with family to make you really appreciate your job. - Dooley

Top News Stories
SharePoint, I Love You (KMWorld)
I could have started and finished this article on a Post-It note: Dear SharePoint, I love you. Do you love me? —signed everybody. That conquering sound you hear is SharePoint, and it is nothing short of apocalyptic. You'll see it mentioned elsewhere a couple times in this White Paper: The fastest growing business application in Microsoft history (making it pretty much everyone's history), 20,000 SharePoint users have been added every day for the last five years. That's kind of astonishing.

Eight Ways To Prepare For The Next Release Of SharePoint Now (The Street)
SharePoint is a rapidly expanding platform for enterprise collaboration, with a new release already on the horizon. Only two years after the release of SharePoint 2010, Microsoft is gradually revealing details on what users can expect in the next version, which many anticipate will be available in early 2013. With widespread expectations beginning to surface around social capabilities, the cloud, and a new interface, the early anticipation indicates users are already thinking about what’s next for SharePoint. As organizations start considering the next version, there are many ways they can prepare the environment to gain immediate benefits now, and be ready to quickly take advantage of new features later.

Office 2010 or Office 365? (ITProPortal)
Microsoft Office 365 can greatly reduce business IT costs, should a company require the complete package but what if a business only requires Microsoft Office without the Lync, Exchange or SharePoint components, would Office 365 still be worth having? A recent discussion was overheard between two IT engineers who felt that for people requiring office applications only, there were no real savings that could be made using Office 365 assuming only Microsoft Office Professional was required. Both engineers felt that all companies should have Office 365 Plan E3 as an absolute minimum even if the benefits of Email, Lync or SharePoint were not required. The engineers felt that the E3 offering was the only viable plan as it included Microsoft Office Professional Plus for the desktop and should there be a connectivity issue, it would allow users to work on their documents offline. In addition they felt that Microsoft Office web apps were not powerful enough to handle anything more than basic documents. As of writing, the cost of Office 365 E3 is £13.25 per month per user.

Say Hello to Windows Azure, The World’s Most Misunderstood Cloud (Wired)
Jeremy Howard sees Silicon Valley as an echo chamber. He recently moved to Northern California from Australia, looking to improve the fortunes of his startup, an ingenious operation known as Kaggle, and he soon found that most Silicon Valley software developers behaved like other Silicon Valley software developers. “In this echo chamber which is the [San Francisco] Bay Area, unless you follow what everyone else does, then there’s an assumption that you don’t know what you’re doing,” Howard says.

Wozniak Endorses Windows Phone, Says Lumia 900 the Reincarnation of Steve Jobs (Gotta be Mobile)
In a bit of controversy and publicity, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had picked up the Nokia Lumia 900 flagship smartphone using Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. Though Wozniak says that the iPhone is still his favorite device of choice, the Apple co-founder has demonstrated that he can be objective in his rivals’ products and was noted in recent history to have secured a pre-release Google Galaxy Nexus smartphone prior to that device’s release from Google in Mountain View, California. With the Lumia 900, Wozniak praised the smartphone for its intuitive experience and design and speedy interface.

Around Bamboo Nation
SHARE 2012: 'From Simple Search to Knowledge Management' with Bamboo's Julie Auletta (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Julie Auletta, Director of Bamboo's Solutions Center, presented an early morning "breakfast and coffee talk" at SHARE today on the topic From Simple Search to Knowledge Management. Typically, one of the challenges Julie faces is how to transfer a known process into a SharePoint solution, and it's her job to bridge that gap on behalf of Bamboo's customers. Julie explained that prospective customers come to her with a problem, and wanting to know which Bamboo product will solve their problem. It often turns out that SharePoint out-of-the-box can ease their pain, and Julie's happy to give them the good news in such cases. In other cases, the solution (or product) that prospective customers initially sought may not end up being what's required in order to ease their pain, and that's why Bamboo's Solutions Center exists: to help customers solve SharePoint problems that neither SharePoint or existing Bamboo products can solve out-of-the-box.

SHARE 2012: Christian Buckley Identifies 'The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal Productivity' (The Bamboo Team Blog)
This morning at SHARE, Christian Buckley began his session on The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal Productivity by mentioning that the presentation was the direct result of conversations he's had with members of the SharePoint community. Beginning another conversation, this one with his near-capacity SHARE audience, Christian asked, "How productive are your end users? Anyone feel like they're getting optimal performance?" Somewhat surprisingly, one hand was raised, but that person almost immediately qualified her response by saying, "Well, maybe not optimal..."

Access Exchange Online 2010 Mailboxes with Your On-premises Deployment via Team Calendar Web Part (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Bamboo has just released Team Calendar Web Part version 1.7, and one of the exciting new features is Exchange 2010 Online support for your on-premises deployment of SharePoint. Upon successfully installing (or upgrading, if you are already an owner of Team Calendar Web Part), open the Toolpane and locate the new section, Server Topology. In this section you have two options:

Around the Blogosphere
April 2012 CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has been Released (Stefan Goßner)
The product group released the April 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The April Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the April CU. The April Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2007 is a Post-SP3 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP3 is installed before the April CU.

What’s Faster? Querying a SharePoint List or Querying the Managed Metadata Service? (The SharePoint Swiss Army Knife)
What the doohickey am I talking about? Well, if you’re a SharePoint Developer that is tasked with using SharePoint to house referential metadata, you used to have 1 option. Prior to SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Lists were typically used to store this information. By using Lists as the datastore for referential information, we were able to easily provide end users with the ability to manage this information without having to spend any time creating a UI for them. This also enabled the end users to create and manage values which could then be consumed by various applications whether it be basic SharePoint List Forms via Lookup columns, InfoPath forms or custom Web Parts and ASP.NET forms.

Understand SharePoint Governance Perceptions (EndUserSharePoint)
SharePoint governance, simply put, is a set of guidelines for how SharePoint will be used within an organization. It is a set of rules and procedures to help inform deployment, configuration, and management of SharePoint. Proper SharePoint governance assigns responsibilities to various members of the organization to ensure that SharePoint runs smoothly. In short, SharePoint governance determines how SharePoint will run, who will do it, and what equipment will be used.

When to Choose SPServices vs. the Client Side Object Model (CSOM) (SharePointDevWiki)
Mark Rackley (@MrAckley) and I had a Twonversation with Jeff Jones (@SPJeff) about a month ago about when it is good to use SharePoint’s Client Side Object Model (CSOM) over SPServices. You can see the important bits of that conversation in the image below. (Yeah, it’s taken us forever to get this post done. I blame Mark.) In fact, Mark and I often are asked “When should you use SPServices vs. the CSOM?” Both technologies are script-based, and both allow you to talk to SharePoint through its Web Services. However, there are some important differences to consider when you are deciding which to use.

Issue Downloading SharePoint 2010 Prerequisite Installer Files (SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans)
Strictly speaking this quick article doesn’t really have anything to with SharePoint, but hopefully it might help-out someone out there in SharePoint land. One of the projects I’m currently working on is a 2010 Farm build, we are just getting the media set ready to install SharePoint with AutoSPInstaller, and of course need to download the Pre-Requisite Installer Files. For this particular project I have no local access to the servers so everything is being done by RDP on the server. So to download the Pre-Requisite Installer Files I’m was using this script from codeplex, but it was failing with a really weird error:

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Application Administrator – Windows - Offutt AFB, NE
Prepares and executes project plans for SharePoint implementations. Responsible for validation of application and database server hardware/OS configurations, to insure that customer specifications are met. Installs upgrades and configures servers and required application components on Windows Server 2003/2008 platform. Installs upgrades and administer the Microsoft SharePoint platforms and solutions. Install and upgrade packages for MS SharePoint and Moss. Assist Windows Engineer's with creation of technical solutions required to implement new server and SharePoint technology into the Domain.

SharePoint Administrator - San Diego, CA
As the primary Microsoft SharePoint Administrator, this position will be responsible for the architecture, administration, configuration, and monitoring of the environment for a multi-server, service-delivery oriented SharePoint Farm. Works with business units and other IT staff, including the project management team, to understand business needs in the SharePoint environment, and analyze, design, and implement effective systems solutions.

SharePoint Events*

April 29 - May 2, Reston, Virginia - SharePointConference.org

May 2, Online - Bamboo Knowledge Management Webinar
May 3, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Community Central Webinar
May 3, Online - Office 365 in the Real World
May 8, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 9, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 10, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 12, Baltimore, Maryland - SharePoint Saturday
May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario - SharePoint Summit
May 16, Online - Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint
May 19, Johannesburg, South Africa - SharePoint Saturday
May 19, Portland - SharePoint Saturday
May 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
May 23, Online - 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
May 24, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
May 26, Brisbane, Australia - SharePoint Saturday

June 2, St. Louis, Missouri - SharePoint Saturday
June 2, Silicon Valley - SharePoint Saturday
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May 17, Online - Project Management Central End User Training - Bamboo Solutions
May 17-18, Washington, D.C. - Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop - Innovative-e
May 21-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
May 21-25, Online - SharePoint 2010 Administration Core Technologies - Mindsharp
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May 21-25, Online - SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp
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Access Exchange Online 2010 Mailboxes with Your On-premises Deployment via Team Calendar Web Part

Jeff Kozloff — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:30:00 GMT

Bamboo has just released Team Calendar Web Part version 1.7, and one of the exciting new features is Exchange 2010 Online support for your on-premises deployment of SharePoint.

Upon successfully installing (or upgrading, if you are already an owner of Team Calendar Web Part), open the Toolpane and locate the new section, Server Topology. In this section you have two options:

Exchange and SharePoint on the same domain. This is useful for deployments where Exchange Server and the SharePoint farm exist in the same domain. If you are running Exchange Server 2007, this is the only option we provide due to limitations of Web services.
Exchange and SharePoint on different domains. This option is for those running Exchange Server 2010 and SharePoint when they exist in different domains. As a quick technical background, to provide this capability, Bamboo is utilizing Workflow Communication Foundation (WCF), provided with Exchange Server 2010.

For Exchange Online provided by Office 365, select the second option, Exchange and SharePoint on different domains:

Now that you have selected this option, a setting appears called Client Credential Type. One of the great features of Exchange Server 2010 is the various security layers an IT Administrator can add between you and the Exchange server to keep the data safe. This is called Transport Security. As mentioned previously, this is defined by the IT Administrator and varies based on network configuration. If your company is using Exchange Online with its default configuration, select the Basic option. If you are not sure which configuration your company uses, you can either speak to your IT Administrator, or simply try each of the six certificate types through brute force.

Next, enter the credentials of your Primary Mailbox. Remember, based on how you configure Team Calendar Web Part, you may be providing any logged-in account full access to the events of the Primary Mailbox (Create, Modify, and Delete; more on primary mailbox security later in this article). Lastly, enter the path to your Exchange Online site. The URL is typically similar to the following: https://XXXX.outlook.com/owa We just need to tweak the URL to point to the Web service URL, which is https://XXXX.outlook.com/ews/exchange.asmx. Click Test Connection to confirm you can successfully connect:

You have now successfully connected to Exchange Online, provided by Microsoft Office 365! For additional tips on configuration, see our comprehensive online documentation for Team Calendar Web Part.

BUT WAIT! Before I let you go, let's talk about security. As mentioned earlier, the idea behind the Primary Mailbox is that anyone can create, modify, and delete events. This can be very useful for, say, resource allocation like a Conference Room on the 5th floor. But sometimes you want users to see the Primary Mailbox events, but not be able to actually create, modify, or delete them (like a team's central calendar), and this is where another new option introduced in version 1.7 comes into play: Set Primary Mailbox to read-only mode. This new option is one of three security options you can choose from for the Primary Mailbox:

Set Primary Mailbox to read-only mode means that users can open any event (appointment or meeting) for the Primary Mailbox and view the complete details, however, they cannot save changes to the event, or create/delete events in that mailbox (similar to the behavior provided by Outlook).
Allow only the creator of the Primary Mailbox's Meetings or Appointments to cancel events means that if the logged-in user was the original creator of an event in the Primary Mailbox, they can modify and/or delete that event, but other users can only view the details.
Hide Exchange events marked as Private. This option actually covers not only Primary Mailbox events, but Secondary Mailbox(es) events also. If this option is not selected, users will see when private events occur, but no details; just the word Private is displayed. If you do not want to display these events in Team Calendar at all, simply select this option and the events will be completely hidden from all the views.

Ready to give Team Calendar a try? Jump over to the Team Calendar Product Page and select Add Trial to Cart. Happy trialing!

SHARE 2012: Christian Buckley Identifies 'The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal Productivity'

John Anderson — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:00:00 GMT

This morning at SHARE, Christian Buckley began his session on The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal Productivity by mentioning that the presentation was the direct result of conversations he's had with members of the SharePoint community. Beginning another conversation, this one with his near-capacity SHARE audience, Christian asked, "How productive are your end users? Anyone feel like they're getting optimal performance?" Somewhat surprisingly, one hand was raised, but that person almost immediately qualified her response by saying, "Well, maybe not optimal..."

Christian suggested that if you can understand what the business is trying to accomplish, you (and, by extension, your end users) will be that much more likely to succeed in achieving optimal performance. Christian referenced a blog post he's written, Breaking the Suck Threshold, which itself references Kathy Sierra's Creating Passionate Users blog. Specifically, the post sees Christian expounding upon a graphic of Kathy's which illustrates "How fast and how far can you take your users?" and which plots ability against time, and features the aforementioned "Suck Threshold." It's good stuff. You should read it.

Seriously, go ahead and read it. Don't worry, it's very short. I'll wait here.

Back? I told you it was good, didn't I? OK, let's continue.

On the topic of the Suck Threshold, Christian observed today that, "People blame SharePoint for [what in actuality is] a failure of the process around planning for SharePoint." Or, in the immortal words of Dux Raymond Sy, "SharePoint doesn't suck, you suck!"

Christian went on to posit that "social tools help people collaborate online more effectively." Taking the Social CRM process as one example, he pointed out that the social features which are integrated into such platforms provide hooks into customers' social profiles, allowing for a powerful, holistic view of those customers.

Christian said that the role of the Information Worker is changing because, "fundamentally ... the way they communicate [now] is very much real-time collaborative." He went on to say that cloud adoption is also helping to drive the changing role of the Information Worker, because "it's less and less about the hardware," and that "the movement is towards the outsourcing of that [on-premises hardware] piece." Christian also noted that economics have changed as well, and that SharePoint helps allow companies to do more with fewer people.

"Metadata is at the base of any knowledge management platform," Christian stated. He went on to show a graphic depicting how, from a metadata standpoint, you have taxonomy and folksonomy with a social media layer on top of them, "adding context to the content in the [knowledge management] system." On top of that social media layer, you have search, and Christian shared the insight that "Social and search are at the center of the next wave of SharePoint."

Addressing the notion of structured (taxonomy) versus unstructured (folksonomy) metadata, Christian said that "SharePoint lends itself well to an ad hoc, unstructured approach," but cautioned that this can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Structured metadata is easier to manage, but the downside is that "lots of planning" is required. With unstructured, or decentralized metadata on the other hand, not much planning is required, but it's much more difficult to align the data in a meaningful fashion for users down the line. Some common migraines involving metadata include: people not applying metadata, legacy content is migrated slowly (if at all), taxonomy is inconsistent, users can't find content, and search quality isn't "high fidelity."

Christian reiterated that "metadata is the fundamental building block," and that social uses both taxonomy and folksonomy. Taxonomy allows for effective management of content, and folksonomy helps refine it. Metadata exists around user profiles as well as around the artifacts themselves, Christian pointed out, summing up by saying, "Metadata is the key to making social work."

As for why SharePoint needs social, Christian called out: the existence if islands of information; users often can't find anything; you can't tell who owns what; it can be difficult to determine what's new/old/changed; and ultimately, everything is disconnected. Social improves search by "helping surface data in a very complex environment," and in a manner that's relevant to individual users at that.

Christian observed that one challenge with social, however, is that "it's easy to measure quantitative productivity gains, but really difficult to measure qualitative gains." Christian wrapped up with four ways to improve productivity through metadata: with taxonomy; with workflows, automating as much as possible; with forms; and with social. Regarding social, Christian warned that "it should not be taken lightly ... if you don't have a strategy, don't turn it all on," but when you do have a strategy and social in place, you'll find that overall findability will be much improved.

SHARE 2012: 'From Simple Search to Knowledge Management' with Bamboo's Julie Auletta

John Anderson — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:43:00 GMT

Julie Auletta, Director of Bamboo's Solutions Center, presented an early morning "breakfast and coffee talk" at SHARE today on the topic From Simple Search to Knowledge Management. Typically, one of the challenges Julie faces is how to transfer a known process into a SharePoint solution, and it's her job to bridge that gap on behalf of Bamboo's customers. Julie explained that prospective customers come to her with a problem, and wanting to know which Bamboo product will solve their problem. It often turns out that SharePoint out-of-the-box can ease their pain, and Julie's happy to give them the good news in such cases. In other cases, the solution (or product) that prospective customers initially sought may not end up being what's required in order to ease their pain, and that's why Bamboo's Solutions Center exists: to help customers solve SharePoint problems that neither SharePoint or existing Bamboo products can solve out-of-the-box.

Taking a cue from Dux Raymond Sy's Delivering Enterprise SharePoint Success at SHARE presentation on Monday, Julie referenced Dux's definition of SharePoint success as being when you empower the business, enable the business, and unify collaboration. From Julie's perspective as Director of Bamboo's Solutions Center, and particularly in the case of knowledge management, it's the first two that are most directly relevant.

Julie offered as a (simplified) definition of knowledge management that it's a way to manage information that today exists exclusively in people's heads, and needs to be put somewhere where others may access and benefit from it. In order to do so, such information needs to be collected from subject matter experts, published, made findable, kept relevant and up-to-date, and the knowledge repository needs to be continually expanded. As Julie noted, "these are all things that SharePoint can help you manage." Julie also pointed out that, "You never complete your knowledge base; it's always growing."

Julie provided a few customer examples, the first of which was the HR department of a large, multinational company, who were seeking a solution to provide answers to employee questions in a self-serve, relevant, accurate, and timely manner. The customer came to Bamboo looking for a workflow solution, but Julie quickly realized that in order to get the job done, they really needed a knowledge repository (containing "blessed" answers) first, and then a workflow solution on top of that. Julie's team developed a solution which elegantly leveraged SharePoint and extended it with Bamboo's KB Accelerator and Workflow Conductor products in conjunction with selected Bamboo Web Parts.

As other customers soon began requesting similar functionality (including internal customers in the form of the Bamboo Sales Team), a decision was made to formally offer the solution as a product in the Bamboo storefront.

Explaining the "Simple Search to Knowledge Management" journey, Julie referred to the first level, "simple search," as using SharePoint out-of-the-box for knowledge management. Some limitations of this approach include: there's not much structure; augmenting "self-service" is costly; satisfaction rates can be low; and there's no place for users to provide feedback, making it difficult to identify bottlenecks.

The second level involves extending the native capabilities of the SharePoint platform with a third-party product, such as Bamboo's own KB Solution Accelerator. Such an approach extends the out-of-the-box capabilities with preconfigured templates, Web Parts, comments, ratings, reports, charts, and more. Julie suggested that this is a good way to "jump start your KM by quickly getting the knowledge into SharePoint lists" where much can then be done with the data. And yet, with a solution such as this second-level approach, customers continue to call Julie seeking a more comprehensive knowledge management solution... which brings us to the third level.

With the third-level, we've arrived at a genuine knowledge management solution, and as you will likely have guessed, this is the very solution that our Solutions Center initially developed to suit the specific needs of one specific customer, and later became a formal product offering: the Bamboo Knowledge Management Suite. This combined solution leverages the appropriate subject matter experts and, via the introduction of Workflow Conductor, routes user questions to the experts for them to answer/address. Built-in dashboards also add accountability to the solution, which Julie then proceeded to demonstrate.

In her demo, Julie showed that all articles and related metadata exist in SharePoint lists, such as a Categories List, an Articles List, a Comments List, etc. Got items that you need to track that aren't already set up as default columns? No problem. Since this is SharePoint, just add the columns you need. Julie pointed out the Categories tree view, available for navigation purposes, and allowing users to browse by category. For your convenience, the Most Popular articles and Latest Additions to the repository are surfaced in Web Parts right next to the Categories tree view. Articles can show up in more than one category based on the relevant categories that have been assigned to the article. Upon opening an article, in addition to the article itself, users are provided with additional information and options including: Created On, Last Modified, Related Articles, Related External Links, Tags, Rating, and Feedback. With written feedback, behind-the-scenes alerts notify article authors that feedback on their content has been posted, and reminders are automatically sent to the author if the feedback/comments haven't been responded to by a given date/time.

Showing off the Article Search feature, Julie demonstrated how it allows users to drilldown into categories by sub-groups (columns), and search by Article Type, Title, Text, Keywords, and more. Searching by Tag Cloud is also available via the Tag Cloud Web Part, a particular bonus for users of SharePoint 2007, which doesn't offer an out-of-the-box tag cloud. Julie also demonstrated a form that's setup to allow users to ask questions, asking users to select the nature of their question by category. As with the comments feature, this form is tied to a workflow, and in this case a response is auto-generated, thanking the user for their question, telling them who it's been assigned to (if desired/applicable), and letting them know that an answer will be provided as soon as possible. Of course, an email is generated and sent to the assignee as well.

Julie concluded her demo with a brief tour of the Admin site, where subject matter experts can easily add keywords or categories to an article (if the solution to a comment or question is that simple, in that the answer exists but wasn't surfaced based on the user's chosen search method, in which case the content just needs to be reclassified appropriately), or create a new article to answer the question that's been posed. Adding to the existing Categories list is also easily accomplished in the Admin site. Dashboards, built using built-in Web Parts are also featured in the Admin site, visually surfacing information such as the number of questions answered per month, unanswered questions by category, and actions taken in response to questions. Of dashboards, Julie said that based on her experience, "when people ask for a workflow, I can almost guarantee that they also need a dashboard."

Julie noted that with user-provided feedback, articles are improved over time, and that by providing users with the ability to ask questions, content is kept updated as the knowledge base is added to, continuously increasing the stored knowledge.

In conclusion, Julie summarized what's most important in a successful knowledge management solution as:

Make it easy to capture content
Timely response to your users
Continuously improve content using feedback loops
Re-use proven solutions for other departments; minimizes training and support

Want to learn more about the Bamboo Knowledge Management Suite? Bamboo offers regularly scheduled free knowledge management webinars, as well as free online trials of the Knowledge Management Suite.

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