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August 2008 - Posts
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Top News Stories
Virtual SharePoint? (CMS Watch)
Last week Microsoft announced new licensing arrangement for its products, including SharePoint Server 2007. In particular the new licensing scheme will support those who want to virtualize their server environment, since in the past enterprises taking this route were somewhat punished financially. All in all the new approach is a good one and buyers should be happy. At the same time this raises questions about how many people actually want to virtualize their server environment, and what if any the drawbacks such an approach might present.
SetFocus To Fill Skills Gap with Launch of New Master's Program: SharePoint Training Track (eMediaWire)
Due to strong demand for professionals with SharePoint developer skills, SetFocus, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions (CPLS), is launching a 6-week Master's Program with a SharePoint training focus, offering intensive training in the principles and practices of customizing, deploying, managing and maintaining SharePoint 2007.
Collaboration Technology Helps Managed-Care Provider Eliminate Paper Piles (ECM Connection)
Managed-care provider IBH used paper-based systems, causing backlogs of 800-1,000 claims. It filled hundreds of file cabinets with patient charts, and claim processing took far too long. With its adoption of M icrosoft SharePoint Server, IBH doubled its operations with only two people. Original source docum ents now can be accessed electronically in seconds, rather than in hours. Productivity and custom er service im proved significantly.
Why a New Browser From Microsoft Matters (International Herald Tribune)
Microsoft's new Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, is now available in a beta version meant for ordinary users, and it's a pretty good piece of software.
Firefox Will Be Ubiquitous (The Money Times)
Can a computer learn to work the way you do? The open-source Mozilla Foundation thinks so. This week, it announced Ubiquity, a service within Firefox that allows users to easily combine data from different Web pages in useful ways.
Around the Blogosphere
Installing and configuring TS Gateway (Shared Points for SharePoint...)
This might appear to be a bit off topic, but it is really not. I have found this Windows 2008 role is very useful in my everyday life, doing development and demonstrations on SharePoint, so here we go:
Acceleration.. the New Need for Desktop Virtualization (Hybrid Consulting Group)
Desktop virtualization holds the promise of a simplified IT structure, cost effective IT utilizaiton & management. Vendors such as VMware, Microsoft & Citrix claim that they can provide enterprises with a model of enterprise computing whereby any thin client can be used to securely access company data without the need for the individual to have their own machine, with their own data and their own applications running on it.
The SharePoint Best Practices Resource Center is Live! (SharePoint Hosting and Development)
To avoid common pitfalls and keep your Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment available and performing well, follow these best practices based on real-world experience from Microsoft Consulting Services and the product team.
Microsoft releases Popfly Game Creator Beta (Michael Gannotti on SharePoint +)
Very cool announcement from the Popfly folks. Cross posted from the Popfly team blog:
SharePoint Image Search (Part 1) (Matthew McDermott, MVP)
After working on several search projects it is clear that the out of the box search experience for images is, well, less than optimal. I mean look at how cool the Microsoft Live Search Images interface is, then, hover over an image and look at how cool the property display is!
EndUserSharePoint.com: SharePoint is So Easy Anyone Can Do It… Not. (End User SharePoint)
This plea for help came in earlier this morning. I hear this about once a week, so I thought I’d see how other people are selling up the food chain when it comes to telling management “We can’t do it alone!”
Around Bamboo Nation
Mindsharp Power End User Training Continues! (SharePoint Blank)
The D.C. offering of the Mindsharp Power End User class may have ended two weeks previous, but that doesn't mean that the class was over for lead instructor, Janis Hall. You see, there were a number of "parking lot" items that had come up during the course of the three-day training session. These were items that Hall had taken note of during the class, and promised to research further and provide her findings to all attendees via email.
Welcome to the August Edition of Bamboo e-news - PDF File (Bamboo Solutions)
August flew by at record pace as Team Bamboo launched two "gold medal" products, the SharePoint Custom Column Pack - Bamboo Visual Indicator, and the SharePoint Project Portfolio Dashboard. These new products are a project manager's dream-come-true, providing visually appealing “at-a-glance” views of SharePoint data, which are both included in the Bamboo Ultimate Suite.
SharePoint Events
August 25-29, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint August Training Summit
September 1-3, Auckland City, New Zealand, TechEd New Zealand
September 2, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group
September 2, Grand Rapids, Michigan, West Michigan SharePoint User Group
September 3, New York, New York, NYC SharePoint User Group
September 3-5, San Francisco, California, Office2.0 Conference
September 4, Washington, DC, Federal & Military SharePoint Users Group of Washington D.C.
September 4, Kansas City, Office Developer User Group of Kansas City
September 8-9, Stockholm, Sweden, SharePoint & Exchange Forum
September 9, Chicago Illinois, The Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group September Meetup
September 9, Wayne, Pennsylvania, Philly Office Geeks
September 10, Bloomington, Minnesota, Minnesota SharePoint User Group
September 11, San Francisco, California, San Francisco SharePoint Users Group
September 11, Bellevue, WA, Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group
September 11, Reston, Virginia, SharePoint User Group of Washington, DC
September 11, Brookfield, Wisconsin, SharePoint: What Can I Do With It?
September 12, Brisbane, Australia, Brisbane SharePoint Usergroup
September 15-17, Washington, DC (McLean, Virginia), Best Practices SharePoint Conference
September 16, Sydney, Australia, Sydney SharePoint User Group
September 17, Iselin, New Jersey, NJ SharePoint User Group
September 18, Columbus, Ohio, Central Ohio SharePoint User Group
September 18, Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville Office Geeks
September 18, Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky Sharepoint Users Group
September 20, Baltimore Maryland, Baltimore SharePoint Usersgroup
September 20/21, Waltham, Massachusetts, New England Code Camp 10
September 23, Franklin, Tennessee, Nashville SharePoint Users Group
September 24, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland SharePoint User Group
September 24, Melbourne, Australia, Microsoft Office System Special Interest Group
September 24, Roanoke, Virginia, Roanoke Valley SharePoint Users Group
September 25, Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona SharePoint Professionals Group
October 9-10, Tulsa Oklahoma, Tulsa TechFest
October 21, Tampa, Florida, Tampa Office Geeks Association
October 25-26, Los Angeles, California, SoCal Code Camp
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
January 26-28, San Francisco, California, SPTechCon
* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to include your event in our listing.
Microsoft Updates
Search for Items or Files in a SharePoint List or Library (Microsoft)
After you connect a SharePoint list or library to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can search for list items or files, such as your Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents. You search the content on your SharePoint site similar to the way that you search an e-mail message or other items that you create in Outlook.
Open, Edit, and Update Files From a SharePoint Site (Microsoft)
You can connect to a library on a SharePoint site by using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and browse, edit, and even search the files. After you connect your SharePoint library to Outlook, you can work with the files on your hard disk, even when you are away from the office.
Track Updates to a SharePoint Site (Microsoft)
You can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to track updates and manage notifications from a SharePoint site.
Now you can have SharePoint Daily delivered to your email inbox every morning.
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Top News Stories
Portal Vendors Putting Up a Fight Against MOSS (CMS Wire)
CMS Watch has come out with its Enterprise Portals Report 2009 and it appears like Microsoft SharePoint may be splitting the vendors into camps — those that have been able to rise above and those that have risen to challenge MOSS. It’s interesting to see who shows up where.
Knowledge Work and Micro-processes (FASTforward)
Recently, I sat through a presentation about a Sharepoint-based intranet project to improve processes within the HR group of a medium-sized organization. The process in question was one of collecting annual performance reviews throughout the organization. Using Sharepoint, the HR group and their consultants replaced Word documents, spreadsheets, and email with Infopath forms and programmatic workflows. The client was happy and the consultants had a nice demo they could show to their prospects. Nonetheless, I found myself dissatisfied.
Microsoft SharePoint's Rise Splits Enterprise Portal Marketplace (PR Web)
The rise of SharePoint as the predominant departmental portal solution has led to two divergent reactions among traditional enterprise portal suppliers, with IBM, Oracle, and SAP now dividing up the top tier of the marketplace while a plethora of open source alternatives are expanding rapidly to compete directly with SharePoint, according to research undertaken by CMS Watch, a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.
SSWUG Readers, Office and SQL Server - Great Feedback (SSWUG)
The SQL Server, Business Intelligence, SharePoint and .NET Developers vConferences are just around the corner - be sure to get registered to save your spot and stay up to date as we work to build out these great online resources.
Universities UK Relaunches Website to Celebrate 90th Year (PublicTechnology)
Universities UK, the major representative body and membership organisation for the higher education sector, has relaunched its website with a host of new features. The redesigned website offers dynamic content, improved navigation and greater accessibility, along with a wealth of new information.
Cloud Computing: 12 Signs that Your Company is Already in the Cloud (Sys-Con Media)
What are the telltale signs that your company is already Computing in the Cloud? Is it when the CIO makes a big announcement at the monthly IT meeting? Is it when the IT newsletter drops a reference to pilot testing of some ‘web based’ software? Or, is it when the secretary whips out the boss’s Corporate Credit Card and signs up to a Cloud Service? Here are 12 indicators that your company is *already* part of the Cloud:
Around the Blogosphere
Selling SharePoint - "The Unpredictable End User" (Andy Dale officetalk)
The start of a new football season is always a time for optimism and nothing increases this more than an opening day victory. So as a Villa fan the second Saturday of the season started with dreams of singing ‘We are top of the league, we are top of the league’ come 5pm. Unfortunately then along came Stoke City and Rory Delap’s two mile long throw-ins (slight exaggeration).
So what has this got to do with SharePoint and End Users?
How To: Hide the Title Column from Sharepoint Lists (Ferrara Data Consulting)
A frequent request from end-users is the ability to remove the “title” column from Sharepoint lists and document libraries. You can rename this column to something else, but I do not recommend this for various reasons. “Title” is a reserved Sharepoint word and renaming it has been known to break things. Generally this only occurs if you change it in the Site Content Type Gallery, but I tend to err on the side of caution here. You can read about that particular limitation here.
Announcing the “How to Get the Most Value From Social Computing for Business with Microsoft” White Paper (Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog)
I'm very proud to announce that the "How to get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft" white paper is now available for public download here. Over the past 12 months, I’ve met with many customers and received numerous escalations from our field about how social computing capabilities can be used to solve real business problems. This white paper was developed primarily to answer those questions.
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Issue on Windows SharePoint Services v2.0 (Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog)
In case you have installed .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 on a machine which hosts Windows SharePoint Services v2.0 website running on .Net Framework 2.0, you will notice the following problems. Windows SharePoint Services v3 is not affected by the update.
Patterns & Practices SharePoint Guidance and a TypeMock Video (21 apps | and the point is?)
The Patterns & Practices group are looking at Guidance on SharePoint and are making regular code drops to the CodePlex project. They have done research and the customers have ranked the requirements in order of importance.
IE 8 Beta 2 Available for Download (Michael O'Donovan's SharePoint and Stuff)
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 has just been released and is now available to download. If you are in anyway involved in hosting, developing or managing a web site, you probably want to download this and make sure that your web site is compatible. In other words, get your web site ready before it ships!
LinkedIn integration with SharePoint (Mart Muller's Sharepoint Weblog)
I've been playing around a while with the option to integrate the LinkedIn social network with SharePoint. A while ago LinkedIn announced they were working on a API to communicate with other applications. I contacted them about the options and plans I had with SharePoint, but no response so far.
Around Bamboo Nation
The Humble yet Mighty SharePoint Recycle Bin (SharePoint Blank)
You may recall that I blogged about my happy discovery of the Restore Selection feature of the SharePoint recycle bin earlier this month. I ended that post by cautioning users that, "per the instructions, you can ‘Use this page to restore items that users have deleted from this site or to empty deleted items. Items that were deleted more than 30 day(s) ago will be automatically emptied.'"
SharePoint Sales, Learning, and Cocoa Puffs (The Bamboo Team Blog)
As a recently hired member of the sales department here at Bamboo, one of the interesting things I've noticed is how often my outgoing phone calls are greeted with elation to be hearing from Bamboo. People are always excited to bend my ear and tell me how their trials are going with the Web Part they downloaded to make their SharePoint site better. It's always "fun" to talk with our customers, as most of them are IT and IS type personalities and they tend to make the assumption that I have a MOSS certification as well. This has led to some interesting exchanges.
Random Free Comparison of the iPhone and SharePoint (The Bamboo Team Blog)
As a tech gadget geek it seems like I switch phones every six months (it is usually every 8-12 though). I have ordered phones from Hong Kong just to get the most recent phone. This was surprisingly an easy feat. I used to gloat over how my phones are cooler and have more features than others at work. I have had phones that looked like cameras and still functioned well as a cellular device. I was even on the Nextel bandwagon in the early days, just to have the cool Direct Connect feature. I tried to stay away from the iPhone, due to my familiarity with Windows Mobile, but I kept running into people with them. I ended up drinking the Kool-Aid and am glad to say it tastes pretty good.
SharePoint Events
August 25-29, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint August Training Summit
August 28, Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona SharePoint Pros
August 28, Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland SharePoint User Group
September 1-3, Auckland City, New Zealand, TechEd New Zealand
September 2, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group
September 2, Grand Rapids, Michigan, West Michigan SharePoint User Group
September 3, New York, New York, NYC SharePoint User Group
September 3-5, San Francisco, California, Office2.0 Conference
September 4, Washington, DC, Federal & Military SharePoint Users Group of Washington D.C.
September 4, Kansas City, Office Developer User Group of Kansas City
September 8-9, Stockholm, Sweden, SharePoint & Exchange Forum
September 9, Chicago Illinois, The Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group September Meetup
September 9, Wayne, Pennsylvania, Philly Office Geeks
September 10, Bloomington, Minnesota, Minnesota SharePoint User Group
September 11, San Francisco, California, San Francisco SharePoint Users Group
September 11, Bellevue, WA, Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group
September 11, Reston, Virginia, SharePoint User Group of Washington, DC
September 11, Brookfield, Wisconsin, SharePoint: What Can I Do With It?
September 12, Brisbane, Australia, Brisbane SharePoint Usergroup
September 15-17, Washington, DC (McLean, Virginia), Best Practices SharePoint Conference
September 16, Sydney, Australia, Sydney SharePoint User Group
September 17, Iselin, New Jersey, NJ SharePoint User Group
September 18, Columbus, Ohio, Central Ohio SharePoint User Group
September 18, Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville Office Geeks
September 18, Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky Sharepoint Users Group
September 20, Baltimore Maryland, Baltimore SharePoint Usersgroup
September 20/21, Waltham, Massachusetts, New England Code Camp 10
September 23, Franklin, Tennessee, Nashville SharePoint Users Group
September 24, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland SharePoint User Group
September 24, Melbourne, Australia, Microsoft Office System Special Interest Group
September 24, Roanoke, Virginia, Roanoke Valley SharePoint Users Group
September 25, Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona SharePoint Professionals Group
October 9-10, Tulsa Oklahoma, Tulsa TechFest
October 21, Tampa, Florida, Tampa Office Geeks Association
October 25-26, Los Angeles, California, SoCal Code Camp
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
January 26-28, San Francisco, California, SPTechCon
* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to include your event in our listing.
Microsoft Updates
Search for Items or Files in a SharePoint List or Library (Microsoft)
After you connect a SharePoint list or library to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can search for list items or files, such as your Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents. You search the content on your SharePoint site similar to the way that you search an e-mail message or other items that you create in Outlook.
Open, Edit, and Update Files From a SharePoint Site (Microsoft)
You can connect to a library on a SharePoint site by using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and browse, edit, and even search the files. After you connect your SharePoint library to Outlook, you can work with the files on your hard disk, even when you are away from the office.
Track Updates to a SharePoint Site (Microsoft)
You can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to track updates and manage notifications from a SharePoint site.
Now you can have SharePoint Daily delivered to your email inbox every morning.
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Top News Stories
Collaboration is the Key (redOrbit)
Have you ever watched a teenager carry on multiple conversations on Facebook? Younger people seem to instinctively know the value of pooling resources. They tend to share information more easily than their elders do. At a corporate level, working together toward a common goal is called collaboration. The concept is gaining ground among successful companies, which see it as the cornerstone to improving business process and attaining business goals. Those goals could be anything from completing an annual budget to building an airplane.
Profile: Social Media with Awareness Networks (CMS Wire)
The Social Media industry seems to get just a little bit bigger every hour and it’s amazing how many different vendors can come on the scene and offer products and solutions that can help us design and build communities of one sort or another.
Finding Out If SharePoint Is Right For Your Organization (InformationWeek)
With a quickly growing market share and a broad set of functionality, SharePoint has become one of Microsoft's most recent success stories. For almost any organization considering an investment in an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, SharePoint is probably somewhere on the short list. But like anything else, one size does not fit all, and SharePoint isn't a silver bullet to meet every organization's needs. So how do you find out if it will meet yours?
Why Google Has Lost Its Mojo (NetworkWorld)
Google has gone from innovative upstart to fat-and-happy industry leader in what seems like record time. Put simply, the search giant has lost its mojo. That's good news for Microsoft, and it could affect how you use Google's cloud computing services.
What's Behind the Cloud (WebHostDirectory)
With cloud hosting being browser-based means you don't always have to be sitting at your desk in the office to access cloud services. To access most cloud computing services all you need is a Web browser, whether it's a word processor , your e-mail, or something much more complicated, such as your sales system, just as you would access a Web site.
Office 14: Alpha Testing to Begin Before Year-end (ZDNet)
While Microsoft has made a few public and well-calculated moves to prepare the way for Windows 7, the company has said almost nothing (at least intentionally) about Office 14.
SharePoint Adds Improved Faceted Search And SQL 2008 Support (InformationWeek)
The past week or so has seen the release of a few enhancements and tools of interest to the SharePoint community -- improvements to faceted search, support for SQL 2008, and a third-party tool to help calculate SharePoint's total cost of ownership.
PHASE 2’s New ‘Zero Sign-In’ Makes Getting to Work Even Easier (BusinessWire)
PHASE 2 International (phase2int.com) announced today that it is making available a new ‘Zero Sign-In’ option to make SaaS application access and availability even easier and more seamless. Available now to all PHASE 2 International clients, the Zero Sign-In option signs users in to all of their hosted applications automatically upon power-up of their computers.
Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint on Virtualization (dwinter's [MSFT] WebLog)
You may have noticed the post on the SharePoint Team blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/18/update-on-virtualization-support-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx) announcing support for Hyper-V based virtualization. There are however many things to know about the extent of what is supported. Obviously we will be supporting our own Hyper-V solution, but beyond that, we will also be supporting SharePoint running within SVVP certified solutions.
The First SharePoint Cowboy Podcast (Binary Wave)
When I was in the UK a few weeks ago I sat down with my good friend and fellow SharePoint MVP Nick Swan to record an interview for the SharePoint Podshow. We talked about a wide range of topics, including my favorite subject, SharePoint performance, and it was good fun. Give it a listen and try to navigate the rough waters between Nick's proper English accent and my sloppy Redneck drawl to get to the meat of the discussion. I think we even said some interesting things – who'd a thunk it?
Trouble Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1? A Simple Solution... (Andrew Connell)
While I had no problem installing VS2008 SP1 on my virtual machines, I've been having a heck of a time installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on my host OS ever since it came out. Since it shipped as an ISO, I simply mounted it using a virtual DVD drive. However every time I tried to install it, it would error out. I dug into the log file and found the following:
Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development (21apps | and the point is?)
We are very pleased to announce the publication of our white paper Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development.
Around Bamboo Nation
Creating New SharePoint Views for Fun & Profit (SharePoint Blank)
A funny thing has happened in the course of my learning –and blogging my learning– of SharePoint: it's starting to create more work for me. It used to be that my status as a newbie got me out of loads of SharePoint tasks. This is no longer the case now that I am the proud possessor of a Certificate of Completion from Mindsharp's Power End User course.
Show Me the Stickers!!! (The Bamboo Team Blog)
I need your help with something, but before I can tell you what it is, I need to give you a short history lesson. Wait, don't leave yet! I'll try and make it worth your time.
Bamboo Solutions Welcomes Seven Sigma Business Solutions to the Partner Advantage Program (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Seven Sigma Business Solutions is a West Australian boutique advisory firm that specializes in the discipline of collaboration, information and enterprise content management with a particular focus on Office SharePoint Server 2007. They believe that breakthrough performance is achieved through vision, strategy and dialogue. Frameworks, methodology and technology come later. Great approach and promises to be a great addition to the Partner Program.
SharePoint Events
August 25-29, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint August Training Summit
August 27, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland SharePoint User Group
August 27, Melbourne, Australia, MOSSIG
August 27, Wellington, New Zealand, Wellington SharePoint User Group
August 28, Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona SharePoint Pros
August 28, Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland SharePoint User Group
September 1-3, Auckland City, New Zealand, TechEd New Zealand
September 2, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group
September 3, New York, New York, NYC SharePoint User Group
September 3-5, San Francisco, California, Office2.0 Conference
September 4, Washington, DC, Federal & Military SharePoint Users Group of Washington D.C.
September 4, Kansas City, Office Developer User Group of Kansas City
September 8-9, Stockholm, Sweden, SharePoint & Exchange Forum
September 11, San Francisco, California, San Fransico SharePoint Users Group
September 11, Bellevue, WA, Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group
September 11, Reston, Virginia, SharePoint User Group of Washington, DC
September 11, Brookfield, Wisconsin, SharePoint: What Can I Do With It?
September 12, Brisbane, Australia, Brisbane SharePoint Usergroup
September 15-17, Washington, DC (McLean, Virginia), Best Practices SharePoint Conference
September 18, Columbus, Ohio, Central Ohio SharePoint User Group
September 20/21, Waltham, Massachusetts, New England Code Camp 10
October 9-10, Tulsa Oklahoma, Tulsa TechFest
October 25-26, Los Angeles, California, SoCal Code Camp
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
January 26-28, San Francisco, California, SPTechCon
* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to include your event in our listing.
Microsoft Updates
Search for Items or Files in a SharePoint List or Library (Microsoft)
After you connect a SharePoint list or library to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can search for list items or files, such as your Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents. You search the content on your SharePoint site similar to the way that you search an e-mail message or other items that you create in Outlook.
Open, Edit, and Update Files From a SharePoint Site (Microsoft)
You can connect to a library on a SharePoint site by using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and browse, edit, and even search the files. After you connect your SharePoint library to Outlook, you can work with the files on your hard disk, even when you are away from the office.
Track Updates to a SharePoint Site (Microsoft)
You can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to track updates and manage notifications from a SharePoint site.
Now you can have SharePoint Daily delivered to your email inbox every morning.
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Top News Stories
Microsoft Completes Small Business Server 2008, Preps for November Launch (Network World)
Microsoft Friday said it has completed development on Small Business Server 2008 and that the software will hit its targeted ship date of Nov. 12. The long-awaited server, built on Windows Server 2008, also includes Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Services 3.0, Windows Server Update Services 3.0, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Windows Live OneCare for Server and integration with Office Live Small Business.
Bringing Web 2.0 Behind the Firewall (CRM Buyer)
Social networking is ubiquitous, and it offers companies many more ways of reaching out to partners and customers. It also can lead to chaos, if a firm allows communications to spin out of its purview and control. Why not develop an in-house, company-branded social networking platform to bring all this valuable activity under the enterprise umbrella -- and even integrate it with CRM?
Paring Back Paper Costs (Australian IT)
THE paperless office might still be a pipedream, but growing numbers of companies are taking a hard look at their printing habits in a push to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. Many soon realise that printing has not received the attention given to other elements of the IT infrastructure.
Event: KMWorld and Intranets 2008 (CMS Wire)
The 12th annual KMWorld and Intranets Conference and Exhibition is scheduled for September 23 – 25, 2008, in San Jose, California. This year’s theme, Driving Enterprise Innovation and Achievement: User-Focused Tools and Practices, emphasizes the myriad of new ways to communicate, collaborate and exchange knowledge within the enterprise.
Web 2.0 Apps: A Pandora’s Box of Risk (Computerworld)
When she can’t find the financial information she needs in the system, the vice president asks her assistant to export the raw data from the financials database into a text file and e-mail it to her at a remote meeting. She receives the file, imports the proprietary data into a spreadsheet, massages the numbers and shares the document online with another assistant, who polishes the final product. The presentation is a success, but the process didn’t involve Microsoft Office, SharePoint or other IT- approved enterprise-class collaborative tools.
Cloud Computing: More Storm Clouds Ahead (Seeking Alpha)
The biggest threat to the promise of cloud computing to appear this summer wasn’t the failed trademark attempt by Dell, but rather brilliant research by a leading white hat security researcher. Dan Kaminsky discovered how a well-known and widespread vulnerability in DNS servers could be exploited in seconds and turn any one of millions of servers directing Internet traffic into a cybercrime gold mine in mere seconds.
Vista 'more popular' than Windows XP by 2009 (PC Advisor)
Twenty-one months after its initial release, what do we know about Windows Vista? That home users hate it, businesses are uninstalling it and - according to Gartner - it's proof that the 23-year-old Windows line is "collapsing" under its own weight.
Save the Planet, Rely More on Broadband (PC World)
The fact that there is a lot of energy to be saved by increasing our use of broadband is well documented. For example, if half of the movie rentals in the United State today were accessed by video-on-demand services rather than driving to and from a rental store, the country would save the equivalent of 200,000 household's annual electricity consumption, according to a report from the California Broadband Task Force.
ECM On SharePoint Part 2: Scalability Through Extensibility (ECM Connection)
BlueThread's StoragePoint addresses this challenge. StoragePoint deploys as a standard SharePoint Records Center feature and allows for the externalization of content to any network addressable storage (NAS) and even compliant devices such as EMC Centera. This allows for large volumes of content to be managed by SharePoint while keeping the underlying content databases to a manageable size.
Around the Blogosphere
Up Coming Web Casts for September (Collaboration, Technology, and New York)
Project Management 2.0 (social project management) is the natural evolution of project management practices brought by Web 2.0 technologies. Internal / Virtual teams now can work together more efficiently by utilizing the new-generation, web-based project management tools . These tools such as blogs, wikis, collaborative software, which are out of the box SharePoint features challenge the original definition of project management.
How to: Create a Group in SharePoint (DotNetMafia)
Today, I am continuing in my How to series of posts. According to the stats, they have been quite popular, so I will keep them coming. We are going to talk about how to create a SharePoint security group. A group (represented by SPGroup) is an internal collection of users (or Active Directory) groups that you can then assign a permission level to on a given site. You can do this through the web interface but in the case where you are programmatically provisioning sites, you will need code to set who is allowed to use it.
New SharePoint MSDN Forums (Andrew Connell)
One of my favorite ways to get support is customer-to-customer (aka: peer-to-peer). It's usually quicker but more importantly, there's tons of info in forums and other communities to usually find your issue and it's resolution from someone else having the problem. Let's face it, we aren't all that special and we aren't the first to see a bug. Like me right now having fits getting VS2008 SP1 installed.
While I Was Sleeping: New SharePoint Tools by U2U (Jan Tielens' Bloggings)
During my holidays my colleagues at U2U have released several pretty cool SharePoint tools/extensions. I’m just going to list them, if you want to learn more about them, check out Karine’s blog.
Monday Morning Hands On Fun Integrating Photosynth And Flickr With SharePoint (Michael Gannotti on SharePoint +)
The Olympics are over but the fun with SharePoint isn't. First, if you haven't checked out my Photosynth examples running in SharePoint then you should.... then you should give it a try yourself. You can check them out here. You can embed your own Photosynth projects in one of several ways:
Around Bamboo Nation
‘Standard View' of SharePoint Lists is Anything But (SharePoint Blank)
Did you think I was done singing the praises of Mindsharp's Power End User training after taking a couple of days off from directly blogging what I learned? Perish the thought! When I said that I learned weeks worth of blog-worthy stuff (to use the technical term), I wasn't kidding. Heck, I haven't even finished blogging the worthy content from the first morning yet.
Do Bamboo Web Parts Support ADAM? (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Who is ADAM you might ask? Well, it's not the name of my niece's pet frog, but instead, a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) provides many of the features of Active Directory (AD), but runs as a user service and is often used to authenticate external users in SharePoint extranets where things such as security risks and directory management requirements are a concern for the external user accounts.
Have you ever looked at a SharePoint List? I mean, really LOOKED at it? (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Remember the SharePoint Custom Column Pack? Bah, of course you do. Since you purchased it (you did purchase it, right?), it's helped you simplify your data entry, maintain consistent list information, and make the use of lookup columns the rewarding experience it was always meant to be.
This Week in Bamboo (Aug 17th - Aug 23th) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
We released two new products: SharePoint Project Portfolio Dashboard and SharePoint Custom Column Pack - Bamboo Visual Indicator. Not only that, we rolled out the new improved List Integrity. We also did a few patch releases. Check them out!
SharePoint Events
August 25-29, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint August Training Summit
August 26, San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio SharePoint User Group
August 26, Tampa, Florida, Tampa Office Geeks Association
August 26, Christchurch, New Zealand, Christchurch SharePoint User Group
August 26, Sydney Australia, Sydney SharePoint User Group
August 27, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland SharePoint User Group
August 27, Melbourne, Australia, MOSSIG
August 27, Wellington, New Zealand, Wellington SharePoint User Group
August 28, Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona SharePoint Pros
August 28, Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland SharePoint User Group
September 1-3, Auckland City, New Zealand, TechEd New Zealand
September 2, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group
September 3-5, San Francisco, California, Office2.0 Conference
September 4, Washington, DC, Federal & Military SharePoint Users Group of Washington D.C.
September 4, Kansas City, Office Developer User Group of Kansas City
September 8-9, Stockholm, Sweden, SharePoint & Exchange Forum
September 11, San Francisco, California, San Fransico SharePoint Users Group
September 11, Bellevue, WA, Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group
September 12, Brisbane, Australia, Brisbane SharePoint Usergroup
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
January 26-28, San Francisco, California, SPTechCon
* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to include your event in our listing.
Microsoft Updates
Updated Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint (with support for Silverlight 2 Beta 2) released to CodePlex! (Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog)
I'm very excited to announce that we have just released the an updated version of the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint that supports Silverlight 2 Beta 2! These blueprints were designed to provide developers with a better understanding of how to integrate Silverlight with SharePoint. Silverlight is an incredibly powerful technology, and with the increase in SharePoint adoption, we’re seeing greater customer and partner demand for integrating the two in order to provide a richer user experience.
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 5, 2008 (KBAlertz)
This article describes the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 issues that are fixed in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package that is dated June 5, 2008.
MS08-043: Description of the security update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: August 12, 2008 (KBAlertz)
Microsoft has released security bulletin MS08-043. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites:
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Top News Stories
Microsoft Details Plans for New Social Bookmarking Tool (Computerworld)
Microsoft Corp. is delving into social bookmarking with the release in early September of the first version of a new bookmarking tool focused on its technical audience, the company said yesterday. Microsoft, which released a preview version of its social bookmarking application in May, is adding new features to the first version, such as the ability to subscribe to bookmarking tags via RSS and to import bookmarks from other bookmarking sites like Delicious.
Microsoft Wants to 'Build Windows,' But How About Bridges? (CNET)
Microsoft is about to embark on a new advertising campaign designed to make people love it again, and not merely endure it. With Apple showing that people will pay for beautiful, functional, and fun technology, Microsoft is playing catch-up with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Small Business Server 2008 Hits Metal (RedmondMag)
Microsoft on Thursday released Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) to hardware manufacturers, with an eye toward achieving a full product launch on November 12. The release was slightly ahead of the September RTM date predicted at the July Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston.
Slap Me Again, Mr. Softy! (Motley Fool)
Microsoft used to ask for a separate software license for every copy of its applications your business owns, and for every server that might run it. Not anymore. It's another slap in VMware's face, and this one might sting. Right?
Are Mobile Phones the Next Target for Data Criminals? (TechRadar)
While the government continue to lose every form of storage medium that's not nailed down, does increasing technology pose yet another risk to data security?
Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint and Java Standards - Oil and Water Don't Mix (Real SharePoint)
I ran into an article this morning entitled "Independents Seize on Success of Microsoft's SharePoint". I had expected to see a comprehensive report on a state of the SharePoint partner ecosystem, which include a multitude of 3rd-party vendors that provide various solutions that enhance SharePoint functionality, or fill in certain gaps. What was interesting about this article was the focus on JSR 170 as a way for integrating SharePoint into legacy.
All in the name of "security"… (Clever Workarounds)
Here is a recent little story about when, in the name of "security", a really dumb thing was done, and the response that said a lot about the security posture of those behind the response. A client of mine has 4 servers (2 for an Active Directory domain, and two for SharePoint/SQL server) hosted with an external provider. I was commissioned to perform a fairly standard install of MOSS 2007 enterprise.
Creating Master-Detail Views with Web Part Connections Using Flickr Services as a Data Source (Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog)
Hi everyone, Allan Smith here. I’m a Software Development Engineer in Test on the SharePoint Designer Data team. I have a great example of using a server-side script data source to create Master-Detail views using the DataFormWebPart. My finished example is show in this screen shot:
Friday Cool Content: SharePoint Templates for Download (Get the Point)
In case you haven’t had a chance to visit this site, make sure to stop by the SharePoint Templates page on the Microsoft site and check out all the templates there. The templates are pre-built, ready-to-use solutions for business applications, portals, customized sites, and more. They provide a great jump start into customizing SharePoint.
The Trusted Advisor (Becky Bertram's Blog)
I am going on my 10th year of consulting now, and as I progress in my career, I'm becoming increasingly aware that it's not just technical proficiency that makes me successful at what I do. I can only execute a project on a technical level when a client has given me the okay to move ahead with the project. Being an effective consultant means I can get buy-in from my client, that the plan of action I'm proposing is the best way to accomplish their goal. I can best do that when my client trusts me and therefore my decision.
Search Engine Optimization of MOSS 2007 WCM Sites (Waldek Mastykarz)
Andrew Connell has pointed today to a new white paper at MSDN Office Developer Center called How to Optimize SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites for Search Engines. From what the title says I was expecting the paper to provide SharePoint specialists with SharePoint specific knowledge and solutions to various Search Engine Optimization (SEO) challenges. Unfortunately, the white paper published at MSDN has disappointed me.
Around Bamboo Nation
Did You Know? (Upgrades) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Vienna posts the answers to some frequently asked sales questions that might help you with your current or future Bamboo purchases. "What I do wish to know is how I can download the latest version [of User Directory]? Do we need to purchase it again?"
Bettah than Rosetta! (The Bamboo Team Blog)
I’m a collector but not of common, practical things like baseball cards, beanie babies or old typewriters. My tastes are more eclectic and sometimes abstract. My favorite collector items are languages. I can proudly mix up 5 different languages – fluently and perfectly accented! I love to learn about other cultures, especially through their language. Did you know that there is no ‘true’ way to say ‘happy’ in Russian?
SharePoint for the Fantasy Football League (The Bamboo Team Blog)
SharePoint can be used for team management, project management, blogging, picture sharing, discussions, bug tracking, and a host of other applications for the business. The question is: Can it be used to help centralize the information for a fantasy football league?
Bamboo Solutions Welcomes Magna Cura Automatisering to the Partner Advantage Program (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Magna Cura Automatisering is a full service ICT organization located in the Netherlands. The name Magna Cura reflects the care and dedication of their specialists towards their customers. They focus their development and implementation efforts on solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft .net. Welcome Magna Cura!
A "Gotcha" with Naming Uploaded Files in SharePoint (SharePoint Blank)
In the course of uploading a couple of newly requested-and-created "house ad" image files to our team portal (by the way, that's one of them pictured at right, and if you'll permit me a congratulatory aside, kudos to our designer, Tuong, for the rapid turnaround and the sharp artwork!), I was struck by something that I hadn't ever caught before. What passes for the messaging surrounding the file upload area in SharePoint is incredibly misleading.
SharePoint Events
August 25-29, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint August Training Summit
August 26, San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio SharePoint User Group
August 26, Tampa, Florida, Tampa Office Geeks Association
August 26, Christchurch, New Zealand, Christchurch SharePoint User Group
August 26, Sydney Australia, Sydney SharePoint User Group
August 27, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland SharePoint User Group
August 27, Melbourne, Australia, MOSSIG
August 27, Wellington, New Zealand, Wellington SharePoint User Group
August 28, Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona SharePoint Pros
August 28, Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland SharePoint User Group
September 1-3, Auckland City, New Zealand, TechEd New Zealand
September 2, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group
September 3-5, San Francisco, California, Office2.0 Conference
September 4, Washington, DC, Federal & Military SharePoint Users Group of Washington D.C.
September 4, Kansas City, Office Developer User Group of Kansas City
September 8-9, Stockholm, Sweden, SharePoint & Exchange Forum
September 11, San Francisco, California, San Fransico SharePoint Users Group
September 11, Bellevue, WA, Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group
September 12, Brisbane, Australia, Brisbane SharePoint Usergroup
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
January 26-28, San Francisco, California, SPTechCon
* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to include your event in our listing.
Microsoft Updates
Updated Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint (with support for Silverlight 2 Beta 2) released to CodePlex! (Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog)
I'm very excited to announce that we have just released the an updated version of the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint that supports Silverlight 2 Beta 2! These blueprints were designed to provide developers with a better understanding of how to integrate Silverlight with SharePoint. Silverlight is an incredibly powerful technology, and with the increase in SharePoint adoption, we’re seeing greater customer and partner demand for integrating the two in order to provide a richer user experience.
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 5, 2008 (KBAlertz)
This article describes the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 issues that are fixed in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package that is dated June 5, 2008.
MS08-043: Description of the security update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: August 12, 2008 (KBAlertz)
Microsoft has released security bulletin MS08-043. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites:
Now you can have SharePoint Daily delivered to your email inbox every morning.
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Top News Stories
Zoho Share(point?) (ZDNet)
If there’s one thing I really like it is what I term ’self evident’ applications. These are apps that have a clear purpose and which are blindingly simple to use. Zoho Share falls squarely in that category.
MS Claims More than 450,000 Downloads of New SQL Server (TechWorld)
Microsoft has announced that more than 450,000 downloads have been recorded, to date, of the newly-launched version of SQL Server 2008. Speaking in Malaysia during the TechEd event in Kuala Lumpur, which attracted more than 3,200 participants, Microsoft Asia Pacific general manager, Server & Tools, Chris Sharp, said that the database management system provides new capabilities.
Tzunami Announces a New Version of Tzunami Deployer for SharePoint 2003 Migration (PR.com)
Tzunami Inc., the pioneers and one of the leading providers of content migration technologies announced today the release of the latest version of its Tzunami Deployer for SharePoint 2003 Migration. Version 2.3 provides enhanced features for migrating content from SharePoint 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) at a lower, fixed-price than alternative systems. Added benefits include full support for Site Templates and lists, maintaining list views, an improved Rule Engine to automate the migration process and overall user interact | |
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