SharePoint Daily for August 25, 2008

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:

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