SharePoint in the News
New Studies Highlight the Potential Downsides of SharePoint (ZDNet)
SharePoint is one of Microsoft’s crown jewels. Microsoft is touting the fact that SharePoint generated $1 billion in revenues for Microsoft last year. At Microsoft’s recent Worldwide Partner Conference, company officials said they expect partners to generate $5 billion in SharePoint-related services revenues for themselves in the coming year.

S+S: The Kobayashi Maru of Microsoft (NetworkWorld)
July's WPC 2008 conference was all about putting some meat on the bones of Microsoft's Software + Services strategy. Partner pricing for deskless and hosted Exchange and SharePoint was the buzz of the conference, causing many to speculate about who owns the customer and would other Microsoft software products soon follow suit to the S+S strategy (and pricing) of Exchange and SharePoint. Frankly, there's a lot of confusion out there about just what is Microsoft's Software + Services.

Novell Turns ICE into Kablink (InternetNews)
Some names just aren't "cool" enough for open source. Case in point: Novell's ICEcore collaboration project, which is now known as Kablink. The newly-renamed project is being expanded with workflow capabilities that Novell hopes will expand business usage.

A New Hint About What’s Coming (and When) in Microsoft Office 14 (ZDNet)
Master data management will be part of Office 14, a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of which is due in the first quarter of 2008. That’s according to a September 19 blog post by Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist “PatricG.”

The SharePoint Phenomena: Microsoft Executes The Classic Platform Play (ECM Connection)
For the past several years, conditions have been ripe for a Microsoft platform initiative to consolidate and dominate disparate content management markets. The amount of unmanaged content inside organizations of all sizes has continued to explode, with much of it generated by Microsoft applications. Web technologies provide opportunity for organizations to create cost cutting, service enhancing portal systems. A typical portal is content driven, combining transactional documents, user generated content, line of business data, and more.

Around the Blogoshpere
SharePoint User Interface Tools (SharePioint Buzz)
Branding SharePoint is not an easy task, although the assistance of tools does help ease and allow us Designers to produce beautiful solutions.  Here are the tools that I use throughout my consulting projects where SharePoint Branding is the task at hand:

Using Google to Find Potentially Misconfigured SharePoint Sites (Clever Workarounds)
Those in the security community who have ever performed vulnerability assessment/penetration testing will know of the Google Hacking database. Google is actually a very handy tool to look for potentially vulnerable sites, due to the fact that it will crawl anything it finds. Therefore, if you have misconfigured an externally facing web based application, at some point the crawler will come along and your misconfiguration will end up in Google’s giant cache.

Can I Sort at Multiple Levels Within a Hierarchy of Folders? (EndUserSharePoint)
Tanya Gegare is a frequent reader of EndUserSharePoint.com. She has offered a solution to a problem when trying to sort within a hierarchical folder structure and was kind enough to document her solution with screenshots.

Web.Config FeatureReceiver Update (Ryan McIntyre)
After my previous post outlining my custom Feature Receiver used to update any section of a web.config file, I had some follow up email conversations with Mike about his post and us possibly collaborating on a combined CodePlex solution.  Well, that hasn’t happened yet.  However, during that discussion, we talked a bit about security.  Mike referred me to a post by a colleague of his inspired by this very topic.

Upcoming Conferences With Plenty of SharePoint Oriented Content (Microsoft Team Blog)
Best Practices SharePoint conference, TechEd (Barcelona, Spain), SharePoint Connections Conference, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference

Press Releases
NetIQ Delivers True End-user Experience Monitoring for Windows-accessed Applications (Business Wire)
NetIQ Corporation, an Attachmate business, today announced the latest version of NetIQ® AppManager® ResponseTime Module for Windows. IT organizations now have visibility into the end-user experience for any application accessed via the Windows desktop, including Microsoft Exchange (via Outlook), SharePoint, Siebel, SAP, and even custom or local desktop applications, without relying on programming or scripting expertise.

SharePoint Events*
July 22, San Jose (Santa Clara), California, SharePoint Hands-On Workshop
July 23, Iselen, New Jersey, NJ SharePoint User Group
July 24, Richmond Virginia, Richmond SharePoint User Group
July 24, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, Bay of Plenty User Group
July 24, Los Angeles (Irvine), California, SharePoint Hands-On Workshop
July 28, Christchurch, New Zealand, Christchurch SharePoint User Group
July 28, Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta .NET User Group Meeting

August 19, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas, DFW SharePoint community
August 26, Tampa, Florida, Tampa Office Geeks Association

September 15-17, Washington, DC (McLean, Virginia), Best Practices SharePoint Conference
September 20/21, Waltham, Massachusetts, New England Code Camp 10

October 27-30, Los Angeles, California, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference

November 3-7 and 10-14, Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft TechEd
November 10-13, Las Vegas, Nevada, SharePoint Connections Conference

* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to include your event in our listing.

Microsoft Knowledge Base
The Business Data Catalog does not support client certificates for authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 (KBAlertz)
SharePoint Server 2007 does not support Business Data Catalog application definitions that consume Web services when these Web services require a client certificate for authentication. This is a limitation of SharePoint Server 2007.

Error message when you subscribe to RSS feeds in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007: Page cannot be displayed (KBAlertz)
You open a document library or a list in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. When you try to subscribe to Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, you may experience the following symptoms:

Description of the Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 26, 2008 (KBAlertz)
This article describes the Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 issue that is fixed in the hotfix package that is dated June 26, 2008.

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