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Published 08/27 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

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U.S. Military Wants to Exert Influence Over Private Cyber Infrastructure (BusinessWeek)
The U.S. military wants to exert more influence over the protection of power grids, transportation networks and financial network systems, a Pentagon official says in a broad-ranging essay published in Foreign Affairs. To do so the Pentagon is urging that its defense expertise be put in play beyond the .mil domain to include .gov and .com and wants policy makers to figure out how best to do that.

Has Microsoft Blown the Timing on Tablet PCs? (Reuters)
When CEO Steve Ballmer gave a quick peek at an HP Slate running Windows 7 at CES in January, Microsoft seemed prepared for battle against the iPad, which, at the time, had not even been announced yet. But since then, Microsoft's Windows 7 tablet strategy has largely been to spin its wheels as iPad sales surge and Android-based tablets gain increasing momentum, industry analysts say.

Microsoft May Pay Nearly Half-billion to Launch Windows Phone 7 (Seattle PI)
Microsoft may end up paying $400 million on marketing alone to launch Windows Phone 7 for the holidays, an analyst has said. Jonathan Goldberg, a telecommunications analyst for Deutsche Bank, estimated that in addition to one-time engineering costs, Microsoft and its handset partners will end up spending $1 billion on releasing the upcoming mobile operating system, TechCrunch reported today. Microsoft, whose Windows Mobile was once the go-to mobile OS, has some serious ground to make up as it now trails Apple, Google, Research in Motion and Nokia in the smart-phone sector.

Get with Cloud or Get Fired: Microsoft (ZDNet)
Miha Kralj, a director and chief technology officer for Microsoft's office of services, had one warning for delegates at the close of Microsoft's TechEd 2010 conference: the cloud will change society and resistance is futile. Speaking with ZDNet Australia prior to his locknote address on future technology trends at TechEd on the Gold Coast today, Kralj said IT departments that resisted the trend towards cloud computing risked being replaced.

The One Thing to Know About Microsoft (Motley Fool)
I know it sounds ludicrous, but investors often overlook the people in charge of protecting their investments. The idea of gauging a company's leadership plays second-fiddle to other categories of analysis. However, at Fool.com, we believe careful study of effective leadership is one of the most important areas of evaluating long-term winning investments.

Tracking the Signal of Emerging Technologies (O'Reilly Radar)
Last week the words of science fiction writer William Gibson ran rampant over the Twitter back channel at the inaugural NASA IT Summit when a speaker quoted his observation that "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." That's a familiar idea to readers of the O'Reilly Radar, given its focus on picking up the weak signals that provide insight into what's coming next. So what does the future of technology hold for humanity and space flight? I've been reading the fiction of Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, David Brin, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling and many other great authors since I was a boy, and thinking and dreaming of what's to come. I'm not alone in that; Tim O'Reilly is also dreaming of augmented reality fiction these days.

 

Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint 2010 Build Numbers (Todd Klindt's SharePoint Admin Blog)
Before they get away from me I want to start listing the builds of SharePoint 2010. Hopefully I'll keep it up to date.   To see which build your farm is, go to Central Administration > System Settings > Manage servers in your farm (/_admin/FarmServers.aspx).

SharePoint User Adoption: The Four Stage Model (GetThePoint)
I really like frameworks—a representation of reality that provides a simplified way of thinking about a topic. In Chapter 5 of my book, User Adoption Strategies, I propose the Four Stage Model of User Adoption as a framework to guide user adoption efforts. One of the key conclusions in my last post is that “change is a process, not an event.” In other words, change doesn’t regularly happen with a single “big bang” event; there are a series of distinct events that make up the overall process.

Visualization is the Key to Information Overload (PMP Insights)
Visualization is indeed the key to information overload….and it’s not just powerpoint, pareto charts, or histograms…

SharePoint Document Libraries and Horrors Oh My (Fear and Loathing)
I thought I would capture a few ideas around document libraries and share with the rest of the class. These are not “best practices” as I don’t want to sound too preachy so let’s call them “pretty good practices that you might want to consider if you have some time” (which is far too long for a blog title, hence the one I came up with is going to have to do).

Creating a SharePoint 2010 External Content Type with CRUD Methods using LINQ and a SQL LOB System (Fabian Williams Blog)
First, this lab builds on an article I saw on MSDN which discussed how to create an External List using Business Data. I noticed that they showed methods for the code but showed no foundation or a Use Case, nor did it discuss the LOB System and how the class entity relationship is defined.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
BPC: Mark Eichenberger on 'Making Social Networks Successful in SharePoint 2010' (SharePoint 2010)
I wrapped up my stint at the BPC today with back-to-back sessions on my favorite SharePoint topic: social media.  First up was my second session of the day to be hosted by Microsoft Business Productivity Specialist Mark Eichenberger, although instead of BPOS, this time his topic was making social networks successful in SharePoint 2010.

BPC: Managers' Quick Guide to SharePoint Server 2010 (SharePoint 2010)
Michael Doyle—the SharePoint Ninja—provided an overview of SharePoint Server 2010 management features in Managers' Quick Guide to SharePoint Server 2010 at the Best Practices Conference. Search Capabilities: SharePoint Server 2010's search capabilities are "bigger, faster and stronger," Doyle said. Indexing can be split over multiple servers, there's a wildcard built in, and phonetic searching makes finding people easier. With Visual Best Bets, administrators can create keywords and synonyms and assign images or URLs to them. These images and URLs then will be displayed in the search results.

BPC: 'Best Practices for SharePoint Online' with Mark Eichenberger (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Mark Eichenberger, a Microsoft Business Productivity Specialist with years of SharePoint experience has, as of July 1, 2010, been tapped to become a BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) specialist, and BPOS was the focus of Mark's morning session at the BPC today. Mark acknowledged at the start of his session that BPOS (and the cloud) "is fairly new, and some of the best practices are still evolving," but he nonetheless concluded his session with a series of best practices recommendations.  Rather than bury the lead in this post, I'm going to start with Mark's best practices recommendations for SharePoint Online and then circle back for the BPOS overview that preceded those recommendations.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Administrator - Bellevue, WA
The SharePoint Administrator will be part of a team responsible for the planning, design, installation, configuration, and maintenance of the enterprise-wide Windows SharePoint Server environments. This role will fulfill specific highly specialized functions. Experience in setting up the servers in a load-balanced and clustered environment is a must. The administrator should be able to scale the solution to the needs of operational requirements of the system. Application delivery, network and infrastructure background is a must.  Experience in setting up the servers in a load-balanced and clustered environment is a must. The administrator should be able to scale the solution to the needs of operational requirements of the system. Application delivery, network and infrastructure background is required.  The successful candidate will be someone who has strong analytical skills, exercises good judgment, is self-motivated and is able to work effectively as part of a team.

Application Developer - SharePoint - Wilton, CT
We are looking for an experienced, bright, highly motivated, and creative SharePoint Developer with a proven track record and eagerness to learn new technologies. We are starting a large company wide implementation of SharePoint that will be tightly integrated across key business functions and systems and require advanced levels of customization. The ideal candidate will have strong architecture, design, and development skills in Windows SharePoint Service (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, particularly customization of SharePoint sites using SharePoint Designer 2007. Our developers operate in both individual and team environments on a project by project basis and are fluent in all stages of the development cycle. Developers are often responsible for a variety of projects across business lines and technologies occasionally taking on multiple roles.

 

Microsoft Updates
SharePoint Draft items not crawled (Microsoft Support)
SharePoint is not crawling drafts to return in search results.

 

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