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Published 11/18 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

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Five Tips for SAP/SharePoint Integration Planning (SearchSAP)
By the end of the year, SAP plans to release Duet Enterprise, a product that will enable users to view information from the SAP back end in the SharePoint interface. In this column, Excellis Interactive’s Pete Lagana details his advice for deciding whether to keep NetWeaver Portal over SharePoint and for enabling SharePoint/SAP integration now.

Microsoft Gives the Cloud to Scientists (New York Times)
Microsoft has hit on a direct path to university researchers’ hearts and minds: give them free tools and easy access to huge data sets. The software maker has started grafting popular scientific databases and analysis tools onto its Windows Azure cloud computing service. This basically means that researchers in various fields can get access to a fast supercomputer of their very own and pose queries to enormous data sets that Microsoft keeps up to date. For the time being, Microsoft will allow some research groups to perform their work free, while others will have to rent calculation time on Azure via a credit card.

IE9 Takes Top Benchmark Prize, No Cheating Involved (ZDNet)
I was going to write a short post this morning passing along the news that Microsoft was releasing a new Platform Preview for Internet Explorer 9 (that’s number 7 for those keeping score). I had a quick briefing on it yesterday (with an embargo that was to lift when the build was released to the web).

Microsoft May Turn to Windows Phone 7 for Its Tablet Operating System (ComputerWorld)
Microsoft has long maintained that Windows is its operating system of choice for tablets. But there's increasing evidence that Windows Phone 7, not Windows, will be the operating system that Microsoft ultimately turns to in order to compete against the iPad and Android tablets. In a lengthy interview with Ars Technica, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked about when consumers can expect to see top-notch tablets running a Microsoft operating system. Ballmer replied, in part: "...you're going to see some things that do a very nice job over the course of the next, let's call it year -- you'll see some stuff now, you'll see some stuff after Christmas, you'll see some stuff as we get new Intel chips, you'll see some things as you move Windows Phone along..."

Microsoft Launches Lync 2010, Targeting Enterprise Communications (eWeek)
Microsoft formally launched Lync 2010, the rebranding of its Office Communications software suite, with a New York City event Nov. 17. In addition to providing business users with a software platform for enterprise telephony, instant messaging, and video and audio conferencing, Lync can also interface with Microsoft products such as Windows Live Messenger and its new Kinect hands-free game controller—potentially expanding the platform’s viability to the consumer segment.

Should Microsoft Split Up? (Windows 7 News)
In the mid-nineties, during the great anti-trust battle era, many felt that Microsoft would be best served by splitting up into multiple companies. The thinking was that by having different mobile, desktop, office, etc…divisions, they would be able to keep up with pace of innovation of companies, like Apple, who are large corporations but operate like a much-smaller company without the levels of bureaucracy stopping and stalling, creative and innovative ideas.

FCC Chief on Net Neutrality: Trust Me (CNNTech)
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski now finds himself caught between unfulfilled promises made to the tech community to keep the internet open, and a Republican Congress ready to portray any new rules on broadband ISPs as heavy-handed, economy-killing regulation. Genachowski said Wednesday that the rules are coming. He didn't say how -- the $64,000 question -- but only that the FCC is being slow in order to be careful.

World Bank Widgets Example for Open Gov (Federal News Radio)
The open government movement can take a lesson from the World Bank to make data easier to use. The new data.worldbank.org website has become an example of how embedded widgets and other applications can make accessing vast amounts of data more user friendly, reports the O'Reilly Radar.

 

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4 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Shift The Business Productivity Paradigm (Meet Dux)
Today is the official launch of Lync, Microsoft's powerful integrated enterprise communication platform. It's been a longtime coming, I can't wait for it to be widely adopted and becomes mainstream in the enterprise. Why am I thrilled about it? Well, coupled with existing Microsoft technologies namely: SharePoint, Exchange and Office (collectively known as Microsoft Unified Communications and Collaboration aka #ucoms), it will revolutionize and enhance how we work on a daily basis. Here are 4 reasons why I think Microsoft will shift the business productivity paradigm:

Migration Ugliness - SharePoint 2010 Content Migration Limitations (SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land)
One of the biggest challenges you’ll face as a SharePoint administrator is moving content around.  If you followed the head to head migration standoff that happened today you’d have seen users wanted to see their workflows migrate.  Initially I was thinking.  I really want to see a single list of the out of the box limitations with the API and with the built in migration methods in SharePoint 2007 and 2010. (You’d be amazed how little changed in this area. Guess we didn’t yell loud enough.)

Why Move Your Business Process From Email to SharePoint? (End User SharePoint)
I was listening to someone recount a business process the other day, (you know, the sequence of actions that result in providing value to the customer,) and something they said made me stop and ask them to repeat themselves. The sequence they described is something they do often, (more than three or four times a day,) and was probably outlined in some ISO Work Instruction somewhere. The sequence began with an incoming call or message from the customer, then they referred to some system or application for additional information, then they sent an email message to someone asking them to approve an action- that’s where I stopped them, “You do what?” “I send an email to an individual or sometimes a couple of people in order to get approval to take the next action.”

 

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SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: 4 Methods to Migrate a Single List to SharePoint 2010 from 2007 (SharePoint 2010)
Challenge: I recently needed to move a list from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.  I wanted the destination list to have the exact content as the source list including structure, list items, and attached files.  Since SharePoint does not have an STSADM.EXE command line tool to accomplish this, it needs to be done manually.  What are our options?

 

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SharePoint Developer - Hermitage, TN
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Microsoft Updates
SharePoint 2007: A user's presence information does not appear correctly in People search results intermittently (Microsoft Support)
Consider the following scenario you have user accounts in Active Directory with different SMTP and SIP addresses (msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress). You import these users into your MOSS 2007 SSP using a profile import connection. You perform a full crawl to have these users show up in search results.

 

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