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No Windows 7 Zero-day Flaw; Roadblocks to the Cloud; Developing SharePoint Applications Guidance

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How to Devise Great Permissions Policies for SharePoint (Search Security)
Microsoft SharePoint security is not difficult to establish and maintain, as long as your organisation has a well thought-out plan for best practices before implementation. SharePoint provides a Web-based portal for content management, collaboration, managing business processes and forms, and search inside the company, as well as reaching out to authorized partners, contractors and other third parties. It's easy to deploy and use, so that business users can manage their sites without constantly relying on IT for help.

Microsoft Office 2010 Glues Generation Gap (IT Wire)
Office 2010, scheduled for release in the first half of next year, will be the glue that brings millennial generation workers and baby boomers together thanks to its ability to run on three platforms – PCs, phones and browsers, according to software giant Microsoft.

Microsoft: Windows 7 Not Affected by Latest Flaw (CNET)
Microsoft issued a formal security advisory late Tuesday on a reported zero-day flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. However, the software maker also said that the flaw does not affect the final version of Windows 7, contrary to earlier reports.

Not Everyone’s Ready for the Cloud: 8 Roadblocks Software Developers Face (Venture Beat)
Over recent years, major software developers have started offering their applications in the cloud. In the cloud model, instead of selling their software, they’re simply charging customers based on usage, turning themselves, to some degree, into utilities. The promise to customers is easy scalability and low infrastructure cost. The promise to the software companies is both a chance to upgrade their offering at any time and to make those upgrades immediately available.

Enterprise Cloud Computing Coming of Age (CNET)
One of the most interesting aspects of the weeks leading up to and including this year's VMWorld was the incredible innovation in cloud-computing service offerings for enterprises--especially in the category of infrastructure as a service. A variety of service providers are stepping up their cloud offerings, and giving unprecedented capabilities to their customer's system administrators.

Microsoft Prepares to Bite Back at Apple’s iPhone (Times Online)
For the product manager of Windows Mobile, David Weeks is surprisingly frank. “We’re two years out of date,” he admits, “but now we’re making mobile our number two priority after Windows 7.” On October 6, the current version of the Windows Mobile platform (6.1) will be replaced by a new version (6.5) that has been redesigned from the ground up to reflect recent advances in touch-screens and other technologies.

Microsoft Foes Aim to Snatch Patent Advantage in Linux Tussle (Linux Insider)
Microsoft has been making overtures to the open source community of late, but suspicion abounds, and it was only heightened by Redmond's legal challenge to TomTom earlier this year. In an effort to stockpile ammunition against Redmond if it should declare war on the FOSS movement, a Linux-friendly group of companies have bought 22 patents Microsoft recently sold to a patent trust.

Around the Blogosphere
Announcing the Release of Patterns and Practices Developing SharePoint Applications Guidance - (Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog)
Patterns and practices has released a new version of guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems. The guidance helps customers accelerate constructing advanced applications through examples and documentation. The guidance delivers a guide, a reusable library, and a reference implementation for a partner portal extranet. It compliments product documentation and helps architects and developers in the following areas:

2009-09-09 This Week in SharePoint with Joel Oleson (End User SharePoint)
Joel Oleson and I got a chance to catch up today. We’re back on track to continue with our weekly series of broadcasts. We hadn’t spoken for a while, so there is a wide diversity of subjects covered. We did run 5 minutes over our usual 15 minute limit, but I think it was well worth it.

Will SharePoint Server 2010 Put (fill in any given ISV here) Out Of Business? Nothing’s Impossible, But Probably Not. (FitzBlog 2.0)
Let’s get the easy part out of the way, the specific case of Nintex… Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 shipped in November 2006. Work on what we now call Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 began months before that date. I didn’t leave Microsoft until the end of May 2008. Make no mistake: the day I left Microsoft, I put up a “Chinese wall” around part of my own head, and I continue to regard my ex-employee NDA as a sacred trust. But ask yourself: would Fitz join a company whose products would be rendered obsolete by what he knew was being planned for “Office 14”? (Hint: no.)

Around Bamboo Nation
NYC Workshop Update: New Location and New Additions! (The Bamboo Team Blog)
We're halfway through our first round of Project Management Workshops and have been really pleased with the people we've met and the turnout in Boston and DC. Next up is Alexandria, VA and then closing out will be New York City for two days. Due to some technical issues with our original location in NYC, we've decided to move to a new home, right next to Battery Park. Below are the location details:

SharePoint Job Listings**
.Net Developer with SharePoint Experience - Houston, Texas
Robert Half Technology is currently searching for a .Net Developer with SharePoint experience. This is a direct hire opportunity that will help lead application development efforts. This person will participate in all business system application development efforts including but not limited to planning and design, business requirements gathering and interpreting, scope management project management code development, testing quality control service and support primary responsibility is design development and support of the company’s core business system.

Web Developer - C# / SharePoint (or some other CMS) - Alexandria, Virginia
Our client is seeking a key member to add to our dynamic web development team. The ideal candidate will command a thorough knowledge of common web languages and standards, combined with a strong foundation of logic and problem solving.

Microsoft Updates
Getting started with Windows SharePoint Services (Windows SharePoint Services)
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 helps organizations, teams, and business units to be more effective by connecting people and information. You do not need to have expertise in designing Web sites to get started.

Bamboo Partner Events*
September 16, Online, Advanced Topics in SharePoint - Managing Look and Feel Webinar - DataLan
September 17, New York, New York, SharePoint - A Platform for Business Solutions - DataLan
September 24, Online, SharePoint for Project Management Webinar - DataLan
September 30, Online, InnovaOPN - SharePoint-based Innovation Management Software Webinar - DataLan

October 1, Malvern, Pennsylvania, SharePoint - A Platform for Business Solutions - DataLan
October 1, Online, Using SharePoint for Product Management Within the Distribution and Consumer Goods Vertical - InterDyn
October 2, Sydney, Australia, nSynergy SharePoint Conference 2009: Empower – Improve – Perform - nSynergy
October 6, Melbourne, Australia, nSynergy SharePoint Conference 2009: Empower – Improve – Perform - nSynergy
October 7, Online, SharePoint for Business Process Automation - DataLan
October 8, New York, New York, SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management - DataLan
October 14, Online, The SharePoint / RMS: SEC Protects Your Investors but who Protects and Controls Your Company Information? - InterDyn
October 14, Canberra, Australia, nSynergy SharePoint Conference 2009: Empower – Improve – Perform - nSynergy
October 15, Iselin, New Jersey, SharePoint - A Platform for Business Solutions - DataLan
October 21, Online, Advanced Topics in SharePoint - Basic Business Intelligence and Reporting Webinar - DataLan
October 22, Waltham, Massachusetts, SharePoint - A Platform for Business Solutions - DataLan
October 29, Iselin, New Jersey, SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management - DataLan