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SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Support Services; Windows 7 Will Rule the Desktop OS; Are Microsoft's Best Days Behind It?

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Microsoft Launches SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Support Services Offer (CMS Wire)
Last year, Microsoft launched SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), a service that provides customers of SharePoint Software Assurance extra tools to plan and implement SharePoint effectively in their organization.

Microsoft Top Lawyer: EU Deal Opens New Chapter (CNET)
Perhaps the next time Brad Smith heads to Brussels, it will be for a vacation. After years of wrangling with Microsoft, the European Commission announced an accord with the software giant Wednesday on several fronts that seems poised to put an end to its antitrust concerns with Redmond. In the wake of the announcement, I spoke to Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, about the decision, what it means for the future of Windows, and whether the company sees its spot on the antitrust hot seat now being taken up by other companies, including Google.

NewsGator Talks SharePoint, The Future of Social Computing (CMS Wire)
It has been a very good year for social computing solutions in the enterprise. For NewsGator, the tightly integrated relationship with SharePoint has likely proved a smart move and will continue to do so into 2010.

Acing Azure and Dabbling in Dallas (Redmond Developer News)
Here's a ringing endorsement for the simplicity of the Windows Azure platform: I was able to migrate a database into a SQL Azure project and display its data in an ASP.NET Web page. What's more, I actually developed a Windows Forms application that displayed some of the vast store of public data accessible via Microsoft's Dallas project. And believe me, if I can do it, anybody who knows what a connection string is can do it. It's wicked easy, as they say here in the Boston area.

10 Reasons Windows 7 Will Rule the Desktop OS Space (Tech Republic)
There has been much hype over the last few years about Linux and Mac gaining market share, and even though their numbers are still small (both in single digits), some have gone so far as to predict that Windows is in danger and that Linux will “triumph over Windows” or that Mac OS is “set to become the dominant operating system in the world.”

How Microsoft Keeps Its Cloud Green (ZDNet)
The Microsoft Global Foundation Services team — that would be the division that runs the data center powering Bing, Hotmail, Microsoft Office SharePoint Online and Xbox Live — has published a new white paper describing how it keeps server sprawl and the associated suck on energy efficiency from creeping into its operations.

Are Microsoft's Best Days Behind It? (Channel Insider)
Are Microsoft's best days behind it? Is Windows 7 the last gasp of a dying dynasty? Will the day come when Microsoft isn't among the pantheon of IT vendors? It's strange and almost silly to think of putting Microsoft on a death watch, but chatter is increasingly rising about the steady decline and dimming future for the world's largest and most successful software company. Just a couple of years ago Microsoft seemed an invincible force, yet an increasing number of pundits and solution providers are watching Microsoft with a distant eye to a glorious past rather than the promise of a bright future.

Around the Blogosphere
How to Prioritize Business Needs Before Implementing SharePoint (CMS Wire)
"How do you like your SharePoint? Combo 1? Team site template with Wikis, Surveys and FBA on the side? Would you like to super size it?” Taking a fast food ordering approach when implementing SharePoint is not effective in meeting business needs. The key is to initially engage with the business, understand their pain points and identify how SharePoint can provide the solution to address these needs.

Office 2010 File Validation (Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering)
Howdy, I’m David B Heise and I work on the Office Security team responsible for testing Office File Validation (codename: Gatekeeper). There have been some misconceptions about the new file validation feature in Microsoft Office 2010 and I hope to clear these up and explain the why and what.

Application Pool Mis-configuration in SharePoint 2010 (harbar.net)
As I’ve previously detailed there is a significant oddity with how SharePoint 2010 Beta creates Application Pools in IIS for the hosting of Service Applications and especially the two most important services in your farm, the STS and Topology. As mentioned these application pools are named with GUIDs. Unfortunately when creating a Web Application, SharePoint 2010 uses the SharePoint only property Display Name for the STS application. The STS application is required as part of every SharePoint 2010 Web Application and lives at /_vti_bin/sts.

Sahil Malik on Developing for SharePoint 2010 (dnrTV)
Our good friend Sahil Malik has been poking around in early versions of SharePoint 2010 lately. In this episode, Sahil introduces us to the new interface and some of the great, and not so great, new features. (video)

SharePoint is a Car! (Veronique's SharePoint)
There is so much hype around SharePoint (the car) and the salesmen (the car dealerships) are doing a great job making SharePoint the “must have” of the decade. However, just installing the product (buying the car) doesn’t make for a successful implementation. High user adoption, leveraging the functionality correctly, having strong governance in place does, (driving the car without smashing it on the first corner).

Around Bamboo Nation
Converting Office Documents to PDF (The Bamboo Team Blog)
If you have bought our Office to PDF conversion accelerator I want to give you a tip. Not only does this solution work with SharePoint but you have a standalone document conversion service that you can use from outside SharePoint. If you read on we will create a batch utility that will convert you Office documents on you file system to PDF.

Partner Advantage Program Welcomes RJB Tech to the Program! (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Founded in 1995 by Russ Basiura, SharePoint Evangelist and Author. Russ serves as President and Chief SharePoint Architect of RJB Technical Consulting. RJB Technical Consulting specializes in delivering SharePoint solutions and related services that allow companies to conduct business and collaborate quickly and efficiently.

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SharePoint Developer/Programmer - St. Louis, MO
Minimum 3 years of software development experience coding C# and VB.NET, developing and maintaining SharePoint sites, supporting and working with MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 3.0, using Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer. The candidate should also have strong experience writing stored procedures, creating tables/views/etc. in SQL Server 2005. Experience with Microsoft Reporting Services will be an added advantage.

SharePoint / Information Workflow Consultant - San Antonio, TX
Seeking Information Services Workflow Subject Matter Expert for 3-4 month contract for on-boarding / off-boarding employees in SharePoint 2007. Must have pertinent HR business knowledge for on and off-boarding and the process associated for the flow of a new hire from HR to setting-up accounts as well as off-boarding from exit interview to disabling accounts.

Microsoft Updates
Values for some crawled properties are lost when you perform a full user profile import in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site (Microsoft Support)
A HighConfidenceDisplayProperty type is mapped to two or more crawled properties that have the People category in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. When you perform a full user profile import, the values for those crawled properties are lost.

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