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Microsoft Kicks off Worldwide Partner Conference on Sunday (Seattle PI)
Sunday marks the beginning of Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference, during which Microsoft shows off upcoming products, explains its strategies and holds workshops for its enterprise clients. The conference runs through Thursday in Washington, D.C., and reportedly sports a familiar theme: "We're all in."

Microsoft BPOS, Cloud to Dominate Partner Confab (SearchITChannel)
Microsoft partners congregating in Washington D.C. next week will have BPOS on the brain. Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite launched in late 2008 to a lukewarm reception from partners. Now, as Google Apps continues to obsess Microsoft and its partners, Microsoft VARs -- many of which will come to Washington for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference -- hope Microsoft will "juice" incentives to encourage them to sell the Microsoft-hosted bundle of Exchange Server, SharePoint and Live Meeting services.

Analyst's View: Will Windows 8 Be A Business-Only OS? (PC Magazine)
Could Windows 8 be the Windows 2000 of the 21st century? When Microsoft released Windows 2000, it was largely embraced by the corporate world, but few consumers (except hard-core geeks) ran it on their home machines. Windows 95, Windows 98, and the doomed Windows Millennium targeted the average user. A decade later, rumors and hints point to a Windows 8 that appears poised to walk the same business-centric path.

SharePoint Mobility for the Masses, Mobile Entree 2.0 (PR Newswire)
H3 Solutions, Inc. today announced the release of a new major version for its innovative Microsoft SharePoint mobile application framework. Mobile Entree 2.0 ensures that your business processes keep moving, providing SharePoint mobile access to business intelligence (BI) from Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, Symbian S60, WebOS and BlackBerry smartphones.

Outlook for Microsoft's Move Into Cloud Computing? Cloudy. (The Washington Post)
Microsoft has long been sustained by the swarm of resellers and consultants that peddle its products to millions of clients in every domain, from small business to the public sector. The software giant's 640,000 global partners account for 95 percent of its revenue, which totaled more than $58 billion last fiscal year. Like worker bees to a hive, they keep Microsoft humming.

Sunday Video: Kathy Sierra Talks with Gary Vaynerchuk at Gov 2.0 (Silicon Prairie)
This week's Sunday Video features Kathy Sierra's conversation with Gary Vaynerchuk at the Gov 2.0 Expo this past May. Sierra worked as a game programmer, interaction designer, and learning specialist (Sun Microsystems, UCLA Extension) before creating the best-selling Head First series for O’Reilly Media. She was the creator of one of the largest software developer communities, javaranch.com, and the author of a Technorati Top 100 blog, Creating Passionate Users.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Learning About Business Connectivity Services (To the SharePoint)
Hello, I’m Rob Silver, a technical writer on the SharePoint IT pro content team. This release, I focused on Business Connectivity Services, a set of features that help you bring external data into SharePoint and Office 2010. In this blog entry, I’ll give you a brief description of Business Connectivity Services and then describe the content we’ve created to you to help you understand this feature area and incorporate it into your SharePoint and Microsoft Office 2010 solutions.

Hello Microsoft Project World! (Arpan Shah Microsoft Project and SharePoint Blog)
With the launch of SharePoint 2010 and the end of Microsoft’s Fiscal Year 2010, I was ready to look for my next big challenge! I’ve been on the SharePoint team leading Technical Product Management for many years, and it has been a phenomenal experience! I joined the SharePoint team in 2003 and since then have had the opportunity to meet visionary customers, innovative partners and some of the brightest product managers, engineers & solution specialists.

Using TFS for Source Control in InfoPath 2010 (Microsoft InfoPath 2010)
In this video demo, Philip Newman and Christopher Brotsos from the InfoPath program management team show how you can use Team Foundation Server (TFS) to manage source control for your InfoPath forms with code.

Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 (CODE)
Excel services is yet another important pillar in Microsoft’s business intelligence offering. Business users really like Excel because it is easy to use and they can add complex formulas to Excel to express their logic. They can do so without involving the IT guy. The problem with this scenario, however, is that it becomes very difficult to share some Excel sheets with their coworkers. Usually users prefer to send workbooks via email, but sometimes the workbooks are too large for email, sometimes they have backend data connections, and sometimes workbooks send via email cause version confusion hell.

Configuring Profile Import in SharePoint 2010 (The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac)
So I keep smashing my head into this and it drives me nuts. So I am going to try to throw together some quick nuggets. I have gotten this to successfully work about a dozen times so I have hopefully seen all of the craziness. I have also worked with Todd Klindt to compile some of these notes. The first one is for goodness sakes read this TechNet article. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx If you read it slowly and do everything it says you can do very little wrong. But no one wants to read it so here are my notes.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Workflow Conductor Use Case (4/4): An InfoPath Survey - Getting Results (AKA "The Workflow") (The Bamboo Team Blog)
We've finally reached the end of this week's four-part Workflow Conductor use case series about an InfoPath survey, and your patience is about to be rewarded. Today, it's all about the workflow! So without further ado, make sure you have your 30-day trial copy of Workflow Conductor installed, and let's get right to it.

We've Seen STS, WSS, MOSS ... Now Pick the New SharePoint Abbreviations! (The Bamboo Team Blog)
OK, Bamboo Nation, time to put those creative thinking caps on! It's been rather entertaining watching the evolution of SharePoint over the years, but even more entertaining has been watching the name changes, especially given what a mouthful they've become!  Luckily, snazzy abbreviations for each SharePoint instance were also introduced to save us all some valuable keystrokes.  Here is a rundown of each version of SharePoint and its associated abbreviation:

 

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IS Team Lead - SharePoint & Collaborative Web Tools - Chicago , IL
Provide team leadership by demonstrating the ability to creatively solve complex situations. Empowers others. Employees seek this person out to help them solve work related problems. Cultural change management skills. Leads by example. Responsible for employee reviews and career development. Anticipates and is proactive towards meeting customer needs balancing needs for support, maintenance and administrative tasks with projects.

 

Microsoft Updates
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver-x-none.msp): June 29, 2010 (Microsoft Support)
This article describes the Office SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed in the hotfix package that is dated June 29, 2010.

 

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