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Published 08/29 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

I'm baaaack. OK, first I have to get a bit of whining out of the way. I take off one week and we have an earthquake, catch the edge of a hurricane and I got a really nasty cold (thanks Emily).  I'm starting to think vacations are a bit overrated. So, did I miss anything good? You guys need to help me get caught up.  --Chris

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The 5 Teams You Need for Effective SharePoint Governance (CMSWire)
In this article, I give you some practical structure and tactics you can use to achieve effective SharePoint governance. In football, how effective and successful will a team be at winning if it doesn’t have structured sub-teams? Imagine a football team with no defensive line, offensive line or special teams. What if sometimes the quarterback played the role of wide receiver, linebacker or kicker? How effective would that team be? What if the team had no planned plays, never practiced those plays and had no coaches or clear direction?

SharePoint 2010 Performance Management Load Gets Heavier (SearchContentManagement)
It’s been said many times: SharePoint is a complex platform. When Microsoft released SharePoint 2010, management complexity increased further with the addition of service applications, more flexible SharePoint deployment models, new features like Office Web Apps and expanded data-handling capabilities (for example, increased list item limits and remote storage of binary large objects, or blobs). As a result, systems administrators need to be even more vigilant in maintaining their SharePoint farms to ensure acceptable performance.

IM, SharePoint Tools will Edge Out Email, CIOs say (NetworkWorld)
Email's popularity is waning, and within five years it could be eclipsed by other communication tools favored by employees, new research suggests. Robert Half Technology polled 1,400 CIOs and asked if they think real-time workplace communication tools -- such as instant messaging, SharePoint and Yammer -- will become more or less popular than email among employees. More than half bet on the newcomers.

Office 365 and Cloud Messaging: Hedging Your Bets (WindowsITPro)
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously said, "We're all in," when asked about Microsoft's commitment to cloud services, it was a revealing metaphor. In poker, when you go all in, you're betting everything you have. If you lose that hand, you're done. Microsoft, of course, isn't abandoning its on-premises software, nor do I expect the company to do so as long as customers want such offerings—and that's likely to be for a very long time, given how many customers are still running long-dead products such as Windows 2000 and Novell GroupWise.

Microsoft's BUILD: Who's on the Speaker List? (ZDNet)
In two weeks, starting on September 13, Microsoft is finally slated (pun intended) to take more wraps off Windows 8 at its Build conference. As readers of this blog know all too well, Microsoft still has not published a list of sessions or speakers for the conference, and unceremoniously dropped its pre-conference plans — after a number of folks already had made travel arrangements for Anaheim, Calif.

Microsoft Shows Off a 'Quad-Core' Windows Tablet (NetworkWorld)
Has Microsoft not learned there are no secrets left on the planet? It's either that or they sure know how to tease. TechEd New Zealand has been taking place this past week and while our Kiwi friends are getting a good education, it's also been a spoiler-fest for what's coming at the big BUILD conference next month.

Forrester Names 4 Leading Enterprise Social Platforms (InformationWeek)
Forrester Research named IBM, Jive Software, Telligent, and NewsGator as the leaders in its first ranking of enterprise social software platforms. Jive Software, which this week filed for an initial public offering, got the highest overall score. However, the lead author, Forrester analyst Rob Koplowitz, said it's not a straight ranking but called it a "measurement of breadth of capabilities." The catch is that features considered essential to one enterprise can be irrelevant to another, he said.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Request a SharePoint Design Time Session at SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim (To the SharePoint)
If you are a SharePoint Conference 2011 registered attendee, the Microsoft SharePoint documentation teams are offering a limited number of dedicated solution-design sessions for individual customers that are not currently engaged with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). These sessions are intended to help IT professionals envision and plan a solution based on the 2010 family of SharePoint products and technologies.

Transforming Your Enterprise Business (Arpan Shah's Blog)
One of the best parts of my job is the opportunity I have to talk with our partners. The Microsoft Project partner ecosystem is dedicated, vast and highly skilled! They provide a great deal of insight on deployment, adoption and overall feedback which is important to us for business and product planning. With many of our Project partners’ businesses doing really well given the industry Project Management demand, it gives us an opportunity to talk about the future. A common discussion topic is how partners should think about their business over the next few years with the explosion of devices, democratization of IT, shift to the cloud and constant desire for change and innovation with tight budgets. These factors aren’t Project or Microsoft specific rather they are relevant to the software industry.

Displaying PDF Files in Office 365 SharePoint Online Sites (Ian's SharePoint Blog)
If you have used SharePoint 2010 to store documents in a document library you will know that users are prompted to download and save them rather than just opening in the default PDF reader application. This annoying behaviour can be change by disabling Strict Browser File Handling in the web application general settings (Permissive mode). Why a farm administrator can't specify the extensions that are "safe" we will probably never know. [Update: you can specify individual extensions via Windows PowerShell, but not on Office 365 (thanks Nick).

Sadie Van Buren Helps SharePoint Grow Up (The MOSS Show SharePoint Podcast)
As SharePoint adoption and usage increases and Microsoft continues to produce new versions of the product, it is important for the marketplace to mature in its approach to the technology and for individual companies to understand where they’ve come from, where they are now and where they hope to be with this enterprise platform. Join us as Sadie van Buren walks us through some of the exciting work she has been doing to help with just this.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Announcing the Availability of a New Whitepaper by Michael Tanner: 'Build vs. Buy: The Case for Using Commercial Solution Frameworks to Extend Microsoft SharePoint' (The Bamboo Team Blog)
A trusted advisor in the enterprise technology space, Adexta, Inc. President Michael Tanner has authored a new whitepaper for Bamboo Solutions.  Taking as its topic, Build vs. Buy: The Case for Using Commercial Solution Frameworks to Extend Microsoft SharePoint, this new  whitepaper provides an in-depth examination of the costs and risks associated with custom development of SharePoint solutions as compared with available add-ons and composite applications assembled with third-party components. Various scenarios and decision-making criteria are provided to assist in choosing an approach for delivering SharePoint based applications. In studying this classic risk/reward equation, specific considerations unique to the SharePoint development environment are provided. Indices include a broad spectrum list of key vendors and capabilities.

Need a Conditional Initiator for Workflows in SharePoint? Meet Alert Plus R3.2 (The Bamboo Team Blog)
With the increasing adoption of SharePoint comes the need for a more complex line of business processes. SharePoint provides workflows which provide order to business processes, but  initiation of these workflows is limited to just three main types: User manually starts workflow; Workflow starts automatically when an item is created; Workflow starts automatically when an item is modified.

SharePoint Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator: Customize Your Own Online Knowledge Tool (The Bamboo Team Blog)
SharePoint Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator (KBSA) helps organizations to create a centralized space for sharing knowledge, facilitating e-learning, or hosting an online self-help area. The new release, version R2.1, offers performance improvements, as well as additional features including: allowing users to change the look and feel, localization for the Reporting Web Part, and much more...

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
Senior Systems Engineer - Denver, Colorado
Provide technical implementation and configuration support for NewsGator product lines, including desktop products, Enterprise products, SharePoint solutions, web-based products, and NewsGator web services. This position is customer facing and requires frequent travel to / contact with NewsGator enterprise customers typically System Administrators, SharePoint Administrators, and IT function level management. Candidate must have strong technical background and deep consulting experience.

SharePoint/Project Server Administrator - Mount Prospect, IL
Provide second and third level support on application technologies. Application technologies include Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Project Server, and Internet Information Services (IIS). The application administrator will be responsible for installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, change management, and testing disaster recovery procedures. The application administrator is responsible for troubleshooting and resolving any application issues reported by IT teams. Participates in the completion of application migrations to new hardware or application versions. Works directly with database administrators to implement any databases required by an application.

 

Microsoft Updates
Plan for SharePoint Workspace 2010 (TechNet)
When you plan a Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 deployment, consider your organization’s needs and objectives, especially in the context of the deployment options that are discussed here. The following references may also be helpful: For information about how to deploy SharePoint Workspace 2010 after planning your objectives, see Configure and customize SharePoint Workspace 2010. For information about how to deploy SharePoint Workspace 2010 for a Microsoft Groove Server-managed environment, see Deployment for Groove Server 2010.

 

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