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Published 10/14 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

I am sorry to say that Waffles the Panda will not be able to attend the European SharePoint Conference next week. I didn't catch the full story but there was a rumor around the office about No Fly Lists... Bamboo will still attend, so stop by if you can.   -- Dooley

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Your SharePoint Records Governance Plan & ISO 15489: Business Connectivity Services & Authenticity (CMSWire)
The records and information management standard ISO 15489 groups authenticity with sister concepts reliability, usability and integrity. The standard tells us the retention phase of the life cycle of the record should eliminate as early as possible — and in an authorized, systematic manner — records which are no longer required. In addition, the record should retain its context so future users may judge its authenticity and reliability.

SharePoint Outages: Skimping On Training Backfires (InformationWeek)
As Microsoft users gather Monday in Anaheim, Calif., for the SharePoint Conference 2011, a new study shows that inadequate IT administrator training on the platform leads to subpar use of SharePoint by end users and a spike in the number of SharePoint outages. The study, conducted by Osterman Research and commissioned by Microsoft partner Azaleos, shows that enterprises where unplanned SharePoint downtime was caused by administrator error experienced 72% more outages, and paid twice as much per user per month to manage the platform, compared to enterprises with adequate training.

RIM Mobilises MS SharePoint on BlackBerry (TradeArabia)
Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the launch of BlackBerry Client for Microsoft SharePoint, an advanced mobile SharePoint solution. The BlackBerry Client app provides a deeply integrated and intuitive mobile experience for users together with the market-leading manageability and security of BlackBerry Enterprise Server, providing a secure and cost-effective solution for businesses and government organizations.

Microsoft Closes $8.5 Billion Skype Buy; Four Countries Yet To Approve Deal (Paid Content)
Microsoft today finally got the keys to Skype, so to speak: the deal for Microsoft to buy the internet telephony giant for $8.5 billion formally closed. The deal was first announced in May but needed to pass successfully through regulatory approval in several major markets—most recently, Europe, just the other week—before Microsoft could call the deal complete.

Why Microsoft Missed a Golden Opportunity at CTIA (CNET)
Oh, Microsoft. It's no secret that I think you could and should do more to win hearts and minds over to Windows Phone's cause. I proclaimed it loudly a year ago, and I'll say it again today. By relying solely on your partner manufacturers to trot out your few Windows Phones this CTIA, you've missed another golden opportunity for showing off the goods. That's a big problem. When Samsung and Google delayed their Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus unveiling, it left a void in the show that any number of companies could have stepped up to take. And goodness knows, Microsoft, you need all the media goodwill you can get, especially after your Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update--which was a good update--didn't rock the world.

Mozilla Bashes Microsoft's Browser Security Test (ComputerWorld)
Mozilla has responded to Microsoft's new browser security test with jabs against Internet Explorer (IE). Earlier this week, Microsoft launched a website that rates the security of IE, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox. The site, yourbrowsermatters.org, uses the agent string of those browsers to call up a score between 0 and 4. IE9, Microsoft's latest browser, reaps a perfect 4, and 2009's IE8 collects a 3; month-old versions of Chrome and Firefox, however, return ratings of 2.5 and 2, respectively.

Endless Possibilities: Cloud Computing can Transform Business (Silicon Republic)
Cloud computing can offer brand new methods of working, if we take the opportunities it gives us. With the ability to connect to data and software from work no matter where you are, new work patterns can emerge, allowing for more flexible lifestyles without sacrificing productivity. Not only that, but the infrastructure can also help overcome unpredictable obstacles, such as the cold snap last winter that forced many of us to work from home, or the volcanic ash cloud in 2010. This connectivity can also improve efficiency immensely, potentially making it much quicker to do business.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Governance is Not an Issue in SharePoint / Not the Droids You are Looking For (AIIM)
“Governance is not an issue in SharePoint 2010... we have lots of customers doing it on a large scale.” Thus declared Jeff Teper of Microsoft at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 Keynote Address this week. I could feel the pain of my jaw hitting the floor. I can only believe that Mr. Teper has quite a different definition of Governance than many of us who came to SharePoint from an ECM and ERM perspective.

Integrating with SharePoint: Intranet to Internet (SharePoint and Assessment Blog)
My first real encounter with SharePoint was about 6 years ago when I was surprised to find that a small project pioneering the use of mobile devices in education had built a collaboration environment based on SharePoint. So why was I surprised? At the time was I was working in an academic environment where Microsoft was neither popular, nor a particularly good fit for such an heterogeneous technology environment. What set SharePoint apart in those days was its role as a development tool. SharePoint was a natural choice for developers who were already using a Microsoft platform to work on and who wanted to develop a website.

How are Businesses Using SharePoint? NEW Survey Results - Application, Platform, or Appform? (EndUserSharePoint)
While listening to a morning keynote by Jared Spataro at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, I heard Microsoft state that 125 million licenses of SharePoint have been sold to date (that’s huge by any account). He also noted that the next version of SharePoint was employing 4x the number of user experience / interface designers at Microsoft when compared to the 2010 version. With droves of people using this application and the increased investment to improve user experience – SharePoint is clearly targeted for end users.

SharePoint Workspace: Are You Using it? Why Not? (Dot Net Mafia)
Picture it.  Your vice president is about to get on a plane.  He or she tells you, “I need a list of all of our products and the latest prices.  I want to be able to make changes and have them be effective when I am back in the office.”  Look at your custom applications you have now.  Is this something you can do?  How would you do it without SharePoint?  Export the data from some database as a spreadsheet perhaps and then manually import it later with SSIS?  Sure that would work but geez that is a lot of work.  There are lots of approaches.  What if there was a tool that let you take the content from database tables and bring it offline?  Your users could edit it and then it would synchronize the changes when they were back online again.  Oh wait, there is.  It’s called SharePoint Workspace.

Windows PowerShell Command Builder (Bill Baer)
At SPC 11 in Anaheim, CA we announced the new Windows PowerShell Command Builder which enables users to visual construct Windows PowerShell cmdlets through structured Verb – Noun combinations on a simple design surface.  To learn more about the Windows PowerShell Command Builder read the Windows PowerShell Command Builder Getting Started Guide.  To begin using the Windows PowerShell Command Builder see SharePoint Server 2010 - Windows PowerShell TechNet.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
SPC11: SharePoint 2010 Solutions for the Public Sector (The Bamboo Team Blog)
This morning at the SPC, I attended a session on SharePoint 2010 Solutions for the Public Sector presented by Ken Mallit, Director of Solutions, Public Sector at Microsoft, and his colleague Mark Dunkel. Ken and Mark went through several examples of how organizations are using SharePoint to address challenges in the public sector, including government and education. The government examples included applying for a permit at a city website and submitting a tip or lead to a public safety site. But to me, the most inspiring stories were the ones Mark shared from the Center for Advanced Technologies at Lakewood Senior High School in Florida's Pinellas County. The Center for Advanced Technologies is a public school magnet program, with a curriculum that offers advanced mathematics, science, computer education, multimedia applications, and research coursework. Mark showed us several projects that 15-18 year old students at CAT accomplished over a period of about three weeks last year. All these solutions are Microsoft Composite Solutions presented through the school's SharePoint portal and solve real challenges. They include:

SPC11: 'Avanade: Unleashing Competitive Advantage through the use of Social Media and Collective Organizational Intelligence' in SharePoint (The Bamboo Team Blog)
This morning at the SPC, Thomas Krofta of Microsoft partner Avanade presented a session on what can be done within your company to take advantage of the social offerings in SharePoint.  Noting global trends in collaboration (as a service, social media, changes in the need for user experience, more multimedia content being shared, etc.), and  changes in workforce demographic (millenials entering and expecting/wanting to use social tools in the workplace), Thomas wondered aloud what does this mean for knowledge management in companies?

SPC11: 'We're Going Two-way, Baby!' How Vancity Took its Intranet from Static to Social with SharePoint 2010 (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Heather Harmse, Manager of the Employee Portal at the Vancouver-based Vancity Credit Union, presented a session Wednesday evening at the SharePoint Conference on deftly using the social features of SharePoint 2010 to drive adoption of the platform. A financial institution with 56 branches, a staff numbering 2,500, and what used to be three separate, "well used but ... arthritic" intranets, it was Heather's responsibility to improve the employee intranet.  The primary complaint about the existing intranets was poor discoverability, so key to the business case in the deployment of a new solution was findability.  Additional goals intended to be achieved with the new platform included providing easy access to subject matter experts, breaking down silos and, naturally, consolidation of the three existing intranets into a single, unified portal experience.

SPC11: A View from the Bamboo 'Complaint Department' (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Running the customer support group at Bamboo can be a rough, and often thankless job.  Our industry-leading portfolio of over 70 solutions for SharePoint presents a daily challenge for our technical support engineers.  We typically only hear from one of our thousands of customers when something isn't working right.   This being the case, it's sometimes possible to lose sight of how great Bamboo's products are, and how critical they are to so many successful SharePoint deployments around the world.

SPC11: Out of the Sandbox and into the Cloud (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Last week I was at the SharePoint 2011 show in Anaheim. My session focus during this show was to get as much info as possible related to cloud based solutions for SharePoint and more specifically Office 365. As you might have heard Bamboo has a new product line called Cloud PartsTM. They are specifically targeted to Office 365 customers who can't install anything on the servers. Let me correct that, they have the opportunity to install Sandboxed solutions but sandboxed solutions are very limited in what they allow you to do. The biggest limitation is that you can't call out to other cloud services since no outbound http connections are allowed from the sandbox. The first session I attended was Andrew Connell's "Out of the Sandbox and into the cloud: Build your next SharePoint app on Azure".

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Programmer - Washington, DC
The SharePoint Programmer role is to define, develop, test, analyze, and port software applications from aging platforms to the SharePoint environment. This includes writing, coding, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications. The Programmer will also research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the product life cycle. Efforts will include migrating existing applications from Plone and ColdFusion platforms to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, developing and maintaining SharePoint solutions (i.e. libraries, lists, workflows, Web Pages).

SharePoint, Intranet, .NET Technical Manager - New York, New York
This is an exciting opportunity to work on the most cutting edge projects. The successful candidate is a strong self-starter with excellent problem solving, analytical and organizational skills and experience architecting, developing and supporting websites using Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server 2007/2010, .NET and web technologies in an enterprise environment.

 

Microsoft Updates
Access Data in SharePoint 2010 Web Parts by Using LINQ (MSDN)
Getting Started with Data Access in SharePoint 2010:  Learn how to create a SharePoint 2010 Web Part that retrieves data from lists by using LINQ. Applies to:  Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 | Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 | Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

 

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