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Windows 7 SP 1 Beta Leaked; Microsoft: A Cloud Services Business?; OpenOffice Stuck Under a Cloud

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Download Office 2010 Deployment Options Overview Resources (Softpedia)
With the business launch of Office 2010 now approximately a month away, Microsoft has made available for download resources designed to provide IT professionals with a better understanding of the deployment options at their disposal. The three files .pdf, .vsd, and .xps contain the same information on Office 2010 deployment options, and can be grabbed from the Microsoft Download Center and used in offline scenarios. IT pros will quickly be able to find out what has changed in comparison to Office 2007, but also what are their options when it comes down to customizing the installation of Office 2010.

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Beta Leaked, Screenshots Surface (PC World)
An early build of Windows 7's first service pack has been leaked, leading to thousands of downloads on a whole host of various torrent Web sites. As with every Windows operating system (OS) release, improvements and fixes often arrive in the form of a service pack, and only last month the Windows team discussed the upcoming Windows 7 SP1 release in a blog post. The team detailed that the first service pack would feature a number of minor updates for the popular OS. However, it is worth noting that the Windows team did not mention a final release date for the completed service pack.

Microsoft Positioning Itself for Cloud Services Business (eWeek)
The world's largest software company has been late to the party on a few things -- the Internet being a classic example -- but times and its corporate attitude have changed. Microsoft is moving ever deeper into the data center, exploring frontiers it hasn't frequented in the past.

The Cloud--It's Not for Control Freaks (CNET)
Moving server software to the cloud has a lot of advantages. A company no longer has to worry about patches, deploying upgrades, and an number of other concerns. But it also has one big downside--one that many CIOs are still struggling with--a the loss of control.

Can OpenOffice Escape from Under a Cloud? (ZDNet)
Like many OpenOffice.org adopters, Forrester’s enterprise clients are starting to wonder what’s going on with the once-promising open source alternative to Microsoft Office. As one chief technology strategist posited last week: “Oracle has made several strong public pronouncements that their support for OpenOffice.org will continue abated. This, however, begs the question of the increasing functional and technical gap between standard programs like word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations and the new, all-encompassing view of the desktop being adopted by Microsoft in Office 2010. That being so, is there really any future for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org within the enterprise, except as an ever-shrinking niche to support basic, ultra low-cost office document capability on home-use platforms?”

Windows Phone 7, Silverlight is Business-Ready (Tom's Hardware)
Wednesday InfoWorld published an article about Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight serving as enterprise business applications. The author points out that both platforms were seemingly geared for entertainment purposes during the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas, focusing on the music player, photo storage, the electronic diary, even gaming applications.

Around the Blogosphere
Are you a Solution Designer? – New SharePoint 2010 Training (Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden)
If you are active in the SharePoint community, then you know that training content for SharePoint is often targeted to Developers or to IT Professionals. There is a third role in most SharePoint implementations – that of a Solution Designer. So, Microsoft has developed a new type of training for this role, and is offering the first sessions of this training for free to potential students.

Microsoft Software for Education (Ian's SharePoint Blog)
Microsoft Education Labs has released some cool software including a white paper on how to integrate SharePoint with Moodle to provide document management capability to Moodle content.

Last Night's SharePoint 2010 Install Troubleshooting - User Cannot be Found (Paul Andrew)
Last night I was installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a Windows 7 x64 machine and I had an error which took me some time to troubleshoot, so I thought I'd share it. I already had the pre-requisites installed as per the Windows 7 SharePoint 2010 install guide on MSDN and I had a failure on the step 2 of the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard and was able to resolve some using Bill Baers Troubleshooting Guide. I also installed the SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express so I could drop databases easily as required by Bills troubleshooting guide. You have to install the Web Platform Installer to get it and then locate it in the Web Platform tab by selecting Customize under the database section and selecting the checkbox for SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express.

Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 Beta Expiration on April 5th (Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering)
Last year we released Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 Beta, a suite of productivity applications for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones, on the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. First and foremost, we want to thank everyone who has tried Office Mobile 2010 Beta and has given us valuable feedback.

SharePoint: Site Owners – Display and Manage (End User SharePoint)
One of the challenges I have with SharePoint is knowing who the site owner is for any given site or sub-site. Ownership is a critical component of any deployment. But ownership should be clearly communicated and maintained.

Making InfoPath Work for You – Without the Code but Just as Powerful! (SharePoint eLearning)
I have always been a big fan of InfoPath and all the possibilities that it offers. We already have a bunch of videos demonstrating some very cool functionality within InfoPath here: http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/infopath/. A ton more videos will be created in the future for InfoPath 2010 to show you all that it can do.

Around Bamboo Nation
How to Create a New Alert in SharePoint (SharePoint Blank)
After the painful lesson I recently learned on the consequences of not setting up SharePoint alerts, I promised to return in a few days with a blog detailing the steps involved in the creation of a new alert in SharePoint. As I prepare for virtual back-to-back trips (covering the ShareFEST Conference in Philly this week, then home for a few days before leaving for London in advance of covering the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference), I've come to realize that if I'm going to make good on my promise, my window of opportunity is pretty much... right now.

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SharePoint / .NET Developer - Houston, TX
COMSYS is seeking a SharePoint Developer for a major oil & gas firm in Houston, TX. This position will be working on web-based applications for project tracking and developing the applications using the required skills below. Other projects will be assigned on an as needed basis. The candidate must have excellent communication skills and be able to start as soon as possible.

Business Analyst/SharePoint Administrator - Long Island City, NY
MUST be able to do SharePoint Administration work as well as BA. The skill set includes SharePoint Administration, ability to demo SharePoint to the business users during analysis, BA work - working directly with the business users to define requirements. Work would be across multiple SharePoint projects (this would be an embedded BA resource on the client team to work on multiple projects). Must have excellent client/communication skills and have the ability to demo the functionality of SharePoint.

Microsoft Updates
No search results are returned when you search for content in an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site that contains German umlauts in the URL (Microsoft Support)
Consider the following scenario: You use the "This Site" or the "This List" scope in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site. This site contains German umlauts in the URL. You search for content in this site. In this scenario, no results are returned.

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