SharePoint Daily for September 5, 2008

Top News Stories
Microsoft Office Live Workspace Hits Worldwide Beta (PC World)
Microsoft Monday launched the public beta of Office Live Workspace and added a number of features to the service that users can team with the desktop version of Office.

Ten Leading Platforms for Creating Online Communities (ZDNet)
Creating online communities of customers and workers has been one of the hotter topics in business and technology this year. Whether you’re on the business side, in IT, or are just trying to build virtual teams around shared goals, online communities are rapidly becoming a popular way to organize people and accomplish work in a highly collaborative manner.

IBM's E-Discovery Blunder (Information Week)
IBM gets a lot of things right with its new eDiscovery Manager software, but one blunder may undo all that good. IBM recently launched eDiscovery Manager, a software platform that aims to help IT and legal counsel find relevant information across the enterprise.

Security Exploits to Google Chrome Browser Emerge (RedmondDeveloper News)
Google's Chrome Web browser -- complete with quirky marketing comic book -- made a splash when announced on Tuesday, but what a difference a day makes. On Wednesday, proof-of-concept bugs affecting the Internet app were disclosed.

Google's Chrome Ups the Ante (msnbc)
Browser wars? On steroids. When Google announced on Sept. 1 that it was releasing its own Web browser, Chrome, the immediate buzz was that the bruising battles over browser domination, played out between Netscape and Microsoft in the late 1990s, were back on.

Around the Blogosphere
Target Web Parts to an Audience (SharePoint-eLearning)
Web parts can be targeted to a specific audience in order to push information in front of a group of people for whom it's relevant. Using this feature, you can place several web parts on a page, but when a user navigates to the page, they only see the web parts which are relevant to them.

Is SharePoint Value for Money? (SharePoint Magazine)
Do you think there is ROI in SharePoint? Up for a debate? Check out the poll on SharePoint Magazine or lock into heated debate through the comments on this post. Im personally keen to hear what the public has to say when the tough question is asked. What are your thoughts? Let the conversation begin……….

SharePoint Best Practices Series (markharrison)
Today, I'm happy to announce the SharePoint Best Practices Series. These consumable and actionable guidelines are based on real-world experience from Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) and the product team. They are aimed to help our SharePoint customers and partners avoid some of the common SharePoint deployment pitfalls and keep their SharePoint environments available and performing well. The SharePoint Customer Team, part of the core product team dedicated to providing real-world feedback inwardly and outwardly, has put this guidance together working with a number of teams within Microsoft.

Video: The Windows Vista Ads Have Started - Check Out Bill And Jerry (Michael Gannotti on SharePoint +)
The new Microsoft Ads for Vista have kicked off. I have been involved in plenty of arguments about the merits of Vista vs the Mac and such and while those seem to go round and round one thing that has been undeniable is that Apple is a master of the Ad realm. With this first of a large campaign to highlight the benefits of Vista I would be interested to know what you think of this first ad. Be sure by the way to check the image on Bills card ;-)

Accelerate Your SharePoint Administration With Idera’s Point Admin Toolset (SharePoint Magazine)
Idera provides management and administration tools for Microsoft Windows Servers. The most recent addition to its product portfolio is the Point admin toolset – a suite of 10 essential tools that make managing your SharePoint farms, sites and servers a breeze. Integrated into a single console, the tools automate a wide range of admin tasks including site monitoring, server monitoring, backup and recovery and security management.

Around Bamboo Nation
Best Practices: Copying Events from your Outlook to SharePoint Calendar (SharePoint Blank)
Today's best practice recommendation has to do with sharing of items between your personal Outlook calendar and a SharePoint calendar.  The path which led me to this particular recommendation was a circuitous one, in that it began weeks ago when I was seeking out the SharePoint blogs of my Power End User course instructors, during which I discovered a four-part series of Microsoft webinars on working with SharePoint calendars on Sharee English's blog.  The reason this jumped out at me is that, just prior to attending that Mindsharp training, I had begun researching the next topic area that we'll be launching in Bamboo Nation.  The topic?  Working with Calendars in SharePoint.  I don't know about you, but I'm a big fan of synchronicity (no, not the album of the same name by the Police, though I'd say I'm a medium-sized fan of that record, since you asked), so I loved the two-for-one result I got from that particular bout of research.

SharePoint Events
September 3-5, San Francisco, California, Office2.0 Conference
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 9, St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis SharePoint User Group
September 10, Bloomington, Minnesota, Minnesota SharePoint User Group
September 10, Brisbane, Australia, BSPUG Lunch Time Event
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, Irving, Texas, DFW SharePoint Server Community
September 16, Sydney, Australia, Sydney SharePoint User Group
September 17, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, Bay of Plenty User Group
September 17, Iselin, New Jersey, NJ SharePoint User Group
September 17, San Diego, California, Southern California 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
September 30, Christchurch, New Zealand, Christchurch SharePoint User Group

October 2, Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City Office Geeks
October 7, Grand Rapids, Michigan, West Michigan SharePoint User 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 25, Orlando, Florida, MOSSmosis Orlando
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
November 13, Atlanta, Georgia, MOSSmosis Atlanta

January 26-28, San Francisco, California, SPTechCon

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

Microsoft Updates
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: August 7, 2008 (KB Alertz)
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 August 7, 2008.

Error message when you edit an .aspx Web page in SharePoint Server 2007: "Value does not fall within the expected range" (KBAlertz)
When you edit an .aspx Web page in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you receive the following error message: Value does not fall within the expected range.

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