SharePoint Daily for July 25, 2008

Top News Stories
Windows Small Business Server 2008: A First Look (ZDNet)
The latest small-business implementation of Windows Server, Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008), is now available for public testing, with an official release date of 12 November. However, customers expecting the usual revamp of the old Windows and Exchange Server bundle are in for a shock, as there are big changes in both the content and the packaging of the new small-business product.

Microsoft Wants to Steal Five Million Notes Customers (Network World)
Microsoft is seeking to get five million Lotus Notes customers to make the switch to Microsoft's collaboration tools in its fiscal 2009 year, according to Kevin Turner, COO for the software giant. “Let’s talk about replacing Lotus Notes,” said Turner during his presentation Wednesday at Microsoft’s annual meeting for financial analysts.

MS Products Just Too Cool to Comprehend, Say MS Geeks (The Register)
When the product sucks but you can't bring yourself to admit the horrible truth, what's the next logical step? Blame the message, the messenger or the recipient of the message. Simple. Microsoft's normally bombastic marketing has begun blaming Windows Vista's poor uptake on the modesty of its own message, while exaggerating the vocal impact of tiny Apple, rather than admit there wasn't anything positive it could say about the operating system.

Charts: How Microsoft Spends Its Money Online (SeattlePI)
Microsoft's online spending plans will be a central topic today at the company's annual meeting with financial analysts, as detailed in this post yesterday. But how has the company's Online Services Business been spending its money so far? With the meeting about to begin, here are a few charts I've put together, breaking down expenses and results in the division, derived from Microsoft's earnings reports.

Ballmer Seeks to Justify Microsoft’s Bottomless-pit Online Spending (ZD Net)
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer played online-services pitch man during his opening keynote at Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM), explaining why Microsoft believes it must continue to invest heavily in search and advertising to remain competitive in the coming years.

Around the Blogosphere
The Ongoing Saga of WinMac – Back to Vista (BinaryWave)
For about a month now I've been running Windows Server 2008 on a Macbook Pro. My initial theory was that Win2k8 + Hyper-V + Macbook Pro would beat the pants off of any Vista system in terms of virtual machine performance. My experience running this configuration validates that theory – Win2k8 on this machine is F-A-S-T. And running Hyper-V was fantastic; I could finally work with my virtual machines as if I was on a native desktop. But, alas, there were a few major issues that forced me to give up on this experience and retreat back to the uncomfortable confines of Windows Vista.

SharePoint at the Olympics Case Study, Mobile Posting, and Facebook (Michael Gannotti on SharePoint +)
Wow, I thought this was really cool. So I am sitting on my balcony watching the waves roll in here at Myrtle beach this morning and cruising the web from my Windows Mobile phone when I popped open my view of Mobile Facebook. In it I saw Lawrence Liu had updated his status (he uses Twitter to update his Facebook status) and mentioned the Olympics and SharePoint. Specifically he said "Wow!!! Beijing Olympic Games Committee chose SharePoint for implementing near real-time info portal of 300K dynamic pages!"

Thinking SharePoint Part 3 - A Tale of Two clients (Clever Workarounds)
If you have followed the first two articles in this series, I have been attempting to talk about SharePoint "head-space". In other words, SharePoint success is so much more a people issue than a technical or architectural one. As a result, it can be a little difficult to write about!

I See London, I See France… (Properly Securing Your Public Sites Part 1) (eLumenotion Blog)
Do you have a public facing SharePoint site that allows anonymous access? If you do, are you sure your anonymous users can't step behind the curtains and browse your lists and libraries? Just for fun, open your favorite search engine and search for "Items in this list contain HTML or text content which can be inserted into web pages".

Empowered by SharePoint (meetdux.com)
I know, I know, it has been more than three weeks since my last blog posting. Anyway, no excuses on my end, kindly forgive my brief hiatus. Rest assured, I'm back with regular SharePoint and Project Management blog postings.

SharePoint Towers (Andy Dale officetalk)
I have written before about how important SharePoint Consultants are as 'supposedly' they have done it all before and know many of the SharePoint pitfalls (and hopefully the fixes). As a SharePoint Specialist myself (ok 'Consultant'), with Officetalk, I believe I have aided a number of SharePoint Projects, but how does a company find the right SharePoint Consultant?

Press Releases
Innovative-e Managing Partner Joins Bamboo Nation as Project Management Resident Expert (MarketWatch)
Innovative-e Inc. managing partner, Dux Sy, has joined Bamboo Nation -- a community site dedicated to SharePoint users -- as resident expert in the area of project management. Innovative-e president and CEO, Mike Taylor, sees the partnership as an opportunity to provide clients with additional resources and insights.

SharePoint Events
July 28, Christchurch, New Zealand, Christchurch SharePoint User Group
July 28, Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta .NET User Group Meeting

August 5, Chicago, Illinois, The Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group August Meetup
August 7, Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City Office Geeks
August 13, Jordan, Jordan SharePoint User Group
August 14, Bellevue, WA, Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group
August 19, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas, DFW SharePoint community
August 20, Iselin, New Jersey, NJ SharePoint User Group
August 21, Columbus, Ohio, COSPUG Meeting
August 21, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, Bay of Plenty User Group
August 25-29, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint August Training Summit
August 26, Tampa, Florida, Tampa Office Geeks Association
August 27, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland SharePoint User Group
August 27, Melbourne, Australia, MOSSIG

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:

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