Bamboo Nation

Your SharePoint Community - Powered by Bamboo Solutions


	Sign in \| Join \| Help

SharePoint Daily » Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint RC Available; Google to End Support for IE6; Free Office 2010 Upgrade

Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint RC Available; Google to End Support for IE6; Free Office 2010 Upgrade

SharePoint Daily Logo

Top News Stories
Download Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Release Candidate (RC) (Softpedia)
Business customers that have deployed SharePoint Server in their infrastructure and looking for a security solution to protect the product’s libraries can now download and test drive Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Release Candidate. The security solution is designed to safeguard SharePoint libraries from users that attempt to upload or download a variety of potentially malicious content, including documents infected malware, out-policy items, or sensitive data. Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint hit RC at the end of the past week, and is currently available to early adopters.

Microsoft Accidentally Tips Free Office 2010 Upgrade (PC Magazine)
A Microsoft employee apparently released a planned free upgrade strategy for Microsoft's Office 2010 later this year. Charles van Heusen, a partner technology adviser at Microsoft, posted the proposed Office 2007-for-Office 2010 exchange program on his blog, and later pulled down the entry. Ars Technica discovered the post, however, and found the original via a Google cache.

Google to Send Internet Explorer 6 Users Packing Come March (Ars Technica)
Google is continuing to kill off support for Internet Explorer 6 in its services; the search giant has announced that two more of its Web properties will stop supporting IE6 as of March 1. "Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers," a blog post on the Official Google Enterprise Blog begins to explain. "We're also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products -- as well as new Docs and Sites features -- won't work properly in older browsers." Older browsers, according to Google, include anything prior to IE7, Firefox 3.0, Chrome 4.0, and Safari 3.0.

Microsoft Focused on Azure, Zune Smartphone Rumors This Week (eWeek)
Microsoft experienced a cloud-centric week with Windows Azure, which is now generally available in 21 countries and no longer available for free. Microsoft hopes that the cloud-based platform and its application-building tools for developers will allow it to gain market share in the cloud computing arena, where it faces strong competition from the likes of Google and Amazon. In addition to Azure, Microsoft received some good news on the Windows 7 front, with a new report from Net Applications showing a rising rate of adoption for the new operating system. However, Microsoft continues to face some difficulties in mobile, with the rumor mill suggesting that the company may try to introduce a branded smartphone later this month.

Microsoft Brings Cloud Interoperability Down to Earth (Web 2.0 Journal)
An interoperable cloud could help companies cut costs and governments connect constituents, say Microsoft executives. Governments and businesses alike are looking at cloud services as a way to consolidate IT infrastructure, scale their IT systems for the future, and enable innovative services and activities that were not possible before.

Windows Mobile 7 Details Leaked (The Money Times)
Looks like some of the details of Microsoft’s highly-rumored and much-anticipated Windows Mobile/Phone 7, have already leaked ahead of its supposed introduction at Mobile World Congress (MWC) on Feb. 15, 2010 in Barcelona.

Around the Blogosphere
How to Publish a Managed Metadata Service for Cross-farm Consumption (Shared Points for SharePoint)
Some of the service applications in SharePoint Server 2010 support sharing across SharePoint farms, as described in this article from TechNet. This post describes how to do it with a Managed Metadata Service. To be able to subscribe to content types and terms from a Managed Metadata Service in another farm, there are a few things you need to do. Although this could seem like a somewhat cumbersome procedure for accomplishing something rather simple, it’s necessary for having control of your systems, and keeping them protected from intruders. Besides, you only have to do it once, and it really shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes when you know what to do, which is exactly what I’m about to explain to you.

$40K Worth of SharePoint Stuff To Be Raffled on Feb 10, Wed - You In? (Meet Dux)
Thanks to all who supported Operation ShareLove: Haiti. The long anticipated raffle will be this Wednesday, Feb 10 at 5.30pm PT (8.30PM ET). I will be streaming live on MeetDux.com direct from SPTechCon in SFO - so stay tuned! I'll be raffling off the following:

Tips and Tricks for Running SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 (harbar.net)
Whilst I was one of the most vocal advocates for the ability to run SharePoint Server on the client OS, it wasn’t really something I ever thought I’d want to run myself. I understood why it was of critical importance to enable this scenario, but I’m a farm guy, topologies are my bag. When the beta release came about I slapped it on a old machine just to see it working and left it at that. I also checked out the quality documentation over on MSDN which provides the convoluted steps to get it singing. Such steps are a good thing, you need to really want to install it on your client – no one can say that it will get installed by accident. :) So it’s all good and that’s that, I’ll carry on doing my stuff as I was. Or so I thought.

SP2010 Tip: Content Query Web Part Missing in SharePoint 2010 (All About SharePoint)
If you don’t see content query web part listed in the web parts list, this is because you have not enabled “Search Server Web Parts” feature in site collection features. Enable this feature and content query web part will show in the list of web parts.

Make Your SharePoint Site More Intuitive (End User SharePoint)
One of the indicators of a successful SharePoint implementation is high user adoption and conversion rates. Driving these metrics up is the goal of many a SharePoint team. One of the ways to do this is to make your site more intuitive. First let’s note that a site design cannot be intuitive by itself. The design needs a user to intuit it. That’s a key factor in understanding success of a SharePoint site (or any website). Never forget how those “page hits” , “tasks” and “conversions” happen… users. The intuitiveness of any site is dependent on the user.

Around Bamboo Nation
This Week in Bamboo (January 31st, 2010 - February 6th, 2010) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
There were two important changes for SharePoint Video Library in Bamboo This week. SharePoint Video Library (Release 1.2) is now using Web License Manager 1.2 and we fixed the issue where no Mix content warning on HTTPS using IFRAME for Flash Player. More addition patches were also released List Integrity, User Directory Web Part and List Bulk Import to the storefront with some fixes. Please see below for the changes.

SPSNY: Mark Miller on 'Enhancing the SharePoint Interface with jQuery Solutions' (The Bamboo Team Blog)
For my final session of the day at SharePoint Saturday New York, I selected Mark Miller's session on "Enhancing the SharePoint Interface with jQuery Solutions." Mark is the man behind EndUserSharePoint, and as the name of his site implies, he's a tireless champion for SharePoint end users. Speaking as an end user, I admit that seeing the words "jQuery solutions" in the title of Mark's presentation had me a little bit concerned ("isn't that code-speak?!"), but I trusted that Mark would be keeping his core audience in mind with his session, and that's exactly what he did.

Bamboo Expands U.S. Operations (The Bamboo Team Blog)
I bet that got your attention... Our Reston, Virginia headquarters-based employees are bunkering down this afternoon for what promises to be the "snowstorm of the century". Close to 30 inches of snow and 30 mph winds are expected to hit our fair city later this afternoon. So, we really have expanded our operations to our homes in Alexandria, Arlington, Vienna, Purcellville, Ashburn, Fairfax, Leesburg, Centreville, Charlottesville and Hamilton. Thanks to our Microsoft-based corporate network, we are able to keep operations humming better than a snowblower in February during this snowpocalypse. Our SharePoint portal, Communicator and Outlook are keeping Bamboo operations running this snowy winter afternoon.

SharePoint Job Listings**
Senior Requirements Analyst - SharePoint - Bethesda, MD
SRA is seeking a SharePoint Requirements Analyst to join our team working onsite at NIH in Bethesda, MD. This team works across multiple clients and projects supporting new SharePoint site implementation / rollout, as well as the development of other applications.

Sr. SharePoint Developer - Seattle, WA
The Senior Developer position is responsible for designing and writing code to support the web applications that we are delivering for our clients. Developers here work within a variety of technologies commonly found at Fortune 1000 clients including J2EE, .Net, Content Management System, Portal Technologies, Security, and Single Sign-on. This company brings together technology, user experience, and business to deliver for their clients.

Microsoft Updates
You cannot view the AreaNavigationSettings.aspx page in Office SharePoint Server 2007 after you create a relative URL (Microsoft Support)
Consider the following scenario. You create a relative URL in the AreaNavigationSettings.aspx page in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site. Then, you try to view the AreaNavigationSettings.aspx page. In this scenario, you receive an error message. Note To view the AreaNavigationSettings.aspx page, click Site Actions, click Site Settings, and then click Modify Navigation.

Bamboo Partner Events*