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Published 04/08 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

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5 Apps That Bring SharePoint to the iPad (ReadWriteEnterprise)
Employees may be bringing iPhones and iPads into work, but that doesn't take Microsoft out of the game. SharePoint is still a wildly popular enterprise platform. An InfoTech survey on enterprise collaboration last year found that 73% of its respondents were using SharePoint. Maybe new collaboration and knowledge sharing platforms will eventually displace it, but for now it's an enterprise standard. Here are a few ways you can access it from the iPad and other devices.

Microsoft Readies Three New Office Service Packs (ZDNet)
Microsoft plans to deliver the first service packs for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in “mid-summer” 2011.The Softies also plan to deliver service pack 1 for Office 2011 for Mac the week of April 11. Microsoft officials said earlier this year that the first service pack (SP1) for Office 2010/SharePoint 2010 would be out some time between May and November 2011. In an April 5 post to the “Microsoft Office Updates” blog, officials narrowed the target to mid-summer and said Microsoft representatives would have more to say about SP1 at the TechEd 2011 conference in mid-May.

Microsoft Warns Homebrew Windows Phone 7 Updater Could Cause Problems (Ars Technica)
In the weekly update to the Windows Phone 7 update rollout, Microsoft warned against using Chris Walsh's update program, saying that it might somehow jeopardize the ability to install future updates, claiming specifically: But my strong advice is: wait. If you attempt one of these workarounds, we can’t say for sure what might happen to your phone because we haven’t fully tested these homebrew techniques. You might not be getting the important device-specific software we would typically deliver in the official update. Or your phone might get misconfigured and not receive future updates.

Next Step in the Cloud: Financial Systems (GCN)
The difficulty of wrestling with large internal financial systems will prompt agencies to look to move those systems to the cloud, federal CIO Vivek Kundra told attendees at the National Institute of Standards and Technologies Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop today. “One of the biggest areas where you’re going to see demand is for our financial systems,” Kundra said.

Microsoft Could Lose More Than Consumer Market To Tablets (InformationWeek)
The iPad and other tablets are taking a big bite out of consumer sales of Windows PCs, but Microsoft's dominance of enterprise computing is safe from slates, right? Wrong. New research shows that, contrary to what many pundits first believed, tablets are making significant inroads in the business market as companies look to give employees more technology choice and flexibility. That Microsoft won't have a true slate OS for at least a year could create even more space for Apple, Google, Research In Motion, and others to get their tablets on workers' desks.

Microsoft Sets Mammoth Patch Tuesday, Will Fix 64 Flaws (PCWorld)
Microsoft today said it will patch a record 64 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Windows graphics framework, and other software next week, and tie a December 2010 record for the number of security updates it issues. The 17 updates -- Microsoft calls them "bulletins" -- tie the count of December 2010. The bulletins that will ship next Tuesday will include 64 patches, Microsoft said, 15 more than the previous record of October 2010, and 24 more than the 40 of the former second-place collection of December 2010.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Why SharePoint Sucks (Perspectives on SharePoint)
About 5 years ago I saw SharePoint for the first time and it blew my mind. As a matter of fact it blew my mind so much that I changed the work that my company was doing and started focusing on SharePoint almost exclusively. Yet, as I go in to in to client’s offices, I can hear the back beat, SharePoint sucks, SharePoint sucks!

Display the Search Term in SharePoint (Me & My SharePoint Designer)
This article will cover how you can add a web part on the SharePoint 2010 search page which will display the search term. The search result page in SharePoint 2010 is intuitive and comes with great features like refinements, ranking or best bets and a lot more. This page can also be rebranded and the actual results that show in the Search Core Results Web Part can be modified by in many ways with XSL. On top of this you can add you own web parts in the web part zones.

Secure SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Fundamentally (ITPro)
When it comes to security in SharePoint 2010 infrastructure, there are many forms that I consider. The first thing we need to get out of the way is that nothing is ever completely or truly secure. People might give clever definitions of something that could be completely secure but it is a utopia, something that can be imagined but never achieved. There is always a way around or through any security precaution that we construct.

Search Crawl Error When Using Self-Signed SSL Certificate with SharePoint 2010 (C5 Insight)
While configuring a SharePoint farm for a client the other day, I came across a simple but problematic error with search.  We had requested a full SSL certificate for the farm, but I was a self-signed certificate so I could work with the site.  After configuring search content sources and I kicked off a full crawl, I got this error in the crawl log:

Which Services Run on Each Server in a Three Tier SharePoint 2010 Setup (SharePointEduTech)
Today I was at a customer’s site setting up SharePoint 2010 in a three tier farm setup when I was asked if I had a reference card for which service to run on which server? Well I have never been asked that before but it is a very good idea so I wrote it up and thought I would share it through the blog. Now I am sure that others may have different ideas on service configuration and I would welcome any input through comments.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Prediction - Microsoft & SharePoint Win Big in the Cloud (The Bamboo Team Blog)
I'm increasingly seeing signs that tell me that Microsoft and SharePoint are going to secure a dominant market position as the shift toward cloud-based computing accelerates. Microsoft may be two years behind in the tablet game and grasping at relevancy with Windows Phone 7, but you heard it here first -- Microsoft is going to be THE BIG WINNER when it comes to enterprise computing in the cloud.  How big is big?  I believe their share of the enterprise cloud is going to be equivalent to the virtual monopolies they have around Windows, Office and Exchange.  Office 365 is going to dominate, and what we know as SharePoint today will be the "operating system" of the future.

SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned, Part 7: What's Up with Out-of-the-Box Web Analytics for Blogs? (SharePoint Blank)
Analytics junkie that I am, I'm surprised it hadn't occurred to me prior to the Sharing the Point (STP) tour proper that there didn't appear to be any way to access analytics for the STP blog posts.  Early on in the tour, I started poking around trying to find a way to get my hands on some analytics specific to the blog but, alas, without success.  All I could turn up was the most vanilla analytics report imaginable (via Site Actions -> Site Web Analytics reports), which provided total site-wide pageviews by day, but provided no further information, no ability to drill down, etc.  There wasn't any time to investigate while I was on the tour, but I did jot down a note to investigate further once I was back at home.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
Enterprise Support Engineer - Denver, Colorado
Provide 1st and 2nd level technical 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 contact with NewsGator enterprise customers typically System Administrators and IT function level management. Candidate must be well versed in all aspects of customer support.

SharePoint Administrator/Developer - New York, NY
The SharePoint Administrator/Designer/Developer is responsible for support, design, development, and administration of Citi Procurement site collections across the globe.  The responsibilities of this position require hands on support, design, development, business analysis, and project management experience for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 projects.  Experience with SharePoint Server 2010 preferred.

 

Microsoft Updates
Deploy a Client Tool for Taking SharePoint Content Offline (Video) (Microsoft TechNet)
This video shows how to deploy Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 to SharePoint client machines so that end users can efficiently synchronize offline work with SharePoint sites. In order to benefit from this video, you should have expertise in the following areas: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 administration; SharePoint site administration; Microsoft Office 2010 policy deployment.

 

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