SharePoint Daily for August 8, 2008

Yesterday, Bamboo Nation announced the first in an ongoing series of monthly giveaways.  We've got some great prizes lined up and it couldn't be easier for you to cash in.  For August, here's the deal --  just write a simple use case describing how you are using Bamboo technology in your organization and post it on a forum here at Bamboo Nation.  At the end of the month, we'll select our three favorite stories and award the prizes. Check out the blog post for a list of prizes and full details on how to enter.

Top News Stories
Microsoft SharePoint Powers Olympics Portal (PC World)
Microsoft's SharePoint Server will be powering a portal that more than tens of thousands of people will use to access information about the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the company said Thursday.The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is using SharePoint for its INFO 2008 Web portal, which will provide up-to-the-minute information to press, athletes and committee partners attending the games, Microsoft said.

Cloud Computing Q and A with Dave Girouard, President of Google Enterprise (CrunchGear)
Here are a few audio snippets from a Q and A session with the president of Google’s Enterprise division, Dave Girouard. The session took place on August 5th at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum in Vail, Colorado.

Software Helps Track SharePoint Usage (PC World)
SharePoint customers who want more insight into how workers are using the Microsoft collaboration software, and enterprises afraid to deploy it because of compliance issues, might find a solution in software from Nintex.

Gold Medal SharePoint Applications in Beijing (Windows IT Pro)
Dan Holme teamed up with NBC television as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant to help bring the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to television and the Internet. Microsoft SharePoint was a major part of the platform used to manage the operations that bring the events to the public. He discusses four real-life tasks that he solved by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007: a custom document management application, a Help desk application, a forms-based content delivery solution, and a transportation management system.

CIOs: We Love Video Conferencing and Online Training; Enterprise 2.0 on the Ropes (ZDNet)
Chief information officers have the hots for online training, video conferencing and collaboration software such as Microsoft’s SharePoint. Just don’t ask these execs to blog, use a wiki or enter a virtual world. That’s the recap from a survey of 1,400 CIOs by staffing firm Robert Half Technology. A quick cut of the results.

Around the Blogosphere
Introducing Microsoft SharePoint Online (SharePoint Users Group)
I've recently been talking a lot about Microsoft SharePoint Online – part of the new Microsoft Online Services. As I've mentioned, you can sign up today for a beta version and get 5 fully functional seats and test it out for yourself. In fact, I've heard that there is transition support for folks on the beta so that come October they'll be able to use everything they've done during the beta.

SharePoint Fashion Show (Andy Dale officetalk)
In this week’s article I will be discussing how important the look of a company’s SharePoint really is to the success of SharePoint. That might not sound too exciting, but I promise you a couple of interesting bits and I am not just talking about the Barbara Windsor link.

SharePoint – Implementation Tips (Liam Cleary)
Over the past few months, well years really, it has become evident that SharePoint is viewed very differently in organisations. Some businesses see it another product from Microsoft that they can purchase and install along with their current system and others see it as more strategic platform that can be built upon and give them great business benefit.

SharePoint Server 2007 Powers Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog)
In light of the 2008 Olympics starting tomorrow in Beijing, we’re extremely excited to share that the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is one of our newest SharePoint Server 2007 customers! After checking out a variety of different search solutions, such as the Google Search Appliance, the BOCOG is using SharePoint as a search platform to power their INFO 2008 database (which over 3,500 Olympics partners and members of the media will have access to.)

Building Accessible SharePoint Sites - Part 2 (Tech Talk PT)
After the choice of the Template you have to work on the website design, demand that the Web Designer provides accessible design, this is very important because it will prevent, later in the project, some headaches in development and validation. There are a number of .NET Controls that are simply not accessible, and therefore they should be avoided , you can check a list of the ASP.NET controls and the Accessibility: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227996(VS.80).aspx.

7 Reasons Why SharePoint is a Great PMIS (meetdux.com)
I just posted my first article for Bamboo Nation as the resident project management expert. I discussed the 7 Reasons Why SharePoint is a Great PMIS:

Press Releases
Vorsite Enterprise Productivity Suite for Search and Content Connection Helps Enable Effective Knowledge Management (Business Wire)
As part of its broader enterprise content management strategy, Vorsite today announces the release of a suite of enterprise search and content connection solutions that provide users with familiar and easy to use tools for collecting, organizing and sharing data across back-end systems.

SharePoint Events
August 12, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philly Office Geeks
August 13, Jordan, Jordan SharePoint User Group
August 13, Brisbane, Australia, Brisbane SharePoint Users Group
August 13, Bloomington, Minnesota, Minnesota SharePoint User Group
August 14, Bellevue, WA, Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group
August 14, London, England, SharePoint User Group UK
August 19, Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville SharePoint Users Group
August 19, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas, DFW SharePoint community
August 19, Tallahassee, Florida, Tallahassee SPEED
August 20, Houston, Texas, Houston’s SharePoint User Group
August 20, Iselin, New Jersey, NJ SharePoint User Group
August 20, Indianapolis, Indiana, SharePoint Users of Indiana
August 21, Columbus, Ohio, COSPUG Meeting
August 21, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, Bay of Plenty User Group
August 21, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore SharePoint Users Group
August 21, Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky Sharepoint Users Group
August 25-29, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint August Training Summit
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 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 4, Washington, DC, Federal & Military SharePoint Users Group of Washington D.C.
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
Description of the Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: July 11, 2008 (KBAlertz)
This article describes the Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 issue that is fixed in the Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package that is dated July 11, 2008.

You may experience poor performance when you use many SetCell calls in Excel Services (KBAlertz)
When you use many SetCell calls in Excel Services, you may experience poor performance.

Error message when you add a user who was previously a site owner to a WSS 3.0 site collection: "The file exists" (KBAlertz)
The SharePoint site administrator provisions a new Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site and is listed as the site owner. When you try to delete the account from Active Directory and then re-create an account that has the same account name, you cannot add an account back to the site collection. Additionally, you receive an error message that resembles the following:

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