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Microsoft: 5 Smart and 5 Dumb Moves the Company Made in 2011 (ComputerWorld)
Love it or hate it, Microsoft is a company that brings out strong emotions in just about every IT professional. With 2011 about to end, it is time for our picks of some of smartest moves this powerful software company made this year - and some of the moves we'd say were not so bright.

Microsoft Lync Mobile Clients for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone Ready to Roll (ZDNet)
Microsoft is ready to launch its long-awaited Lync mobile clients as of next week, company officials apparently told some of its partners on December 9.
Alessandro Zattoni, an Information Technology and Services professional in Italy, tweeted on December 9 that the Lync mobile client for Windows Phone will be available in the marketplace on December 12. He said (also on Twitter) that he learned this information at a partner-only Lync event.

Why Windows 8 Has Us Worried (PCWorld)
Microsoft in August said Windows 8 would be the most significant reimagining of its trademark operating system since Windows 95. But all those changes may not be for the better, at least based on what we know so far. There are some interesting innovations headed your way such as a new touch-centric interface, a version for ARM-based processors, and deep SkyDrive integration.

Why 2012 will be the Year of Windows 8 (PC Advisor)
In the 200 months in which we've been putting together PC Advisor, one computing platform has stood head and shoulders above the rest: Windows. But the changing size and shape, and the sheer variety, of the personal-computing devices we now use is putting unprecedented pressure on Microsoft's OS. Sure, it still has comfortably the biggest market share in terms of desktop computing, but the real growth and development is in the mobile space. And while Microsoft is still in the process of persuading recalcitrant XP users to shift to Windows 7, yet another Windows refresh is coming down the tracks.

What Enterprises Should Know About Testing the Cloud (Virtual Strategy Magazine)
The details of the cloud are still evolving, but for most enterprises the cloud is a set of services, data, resources and networks located “elsewhere.” This contrasts with the historical centralized data center model – where enterprises purchased, configured, deployed and maintained their own servers, storage, networks and infrastructures.

Microsoft's Windows Phone Needs More Than Nokia (eWeek)
T-Mobile and Nokia could launch the latter’s Lumia 710, loaded with Microsoft’s revamped Windows Phone software, at a New York City event scheduled for Dec. 14. The blog WPCentral reported Dec. 7 that T-Mobile had filed the manual and associated materials for the Nokia 710 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). That revelation coincided with T-Mobile and Nokia’s invitation to its event, which lacked in detail except for a promise of “something exciting in the works.”

Microsoft Ships Silverlight 5 (InfoWorld)
Even as questions remain about Microsoft's commitment to its Silverlight rich Internet plug-in platform, the company made available on Friday version 5 of the technology, featuring a variety of new capabilities. Silverlight 5 includes hardware decode of H.264 media, which improves performance with the decoding of unprotected content using the GPU. Also featured is Postscript Vector Printing to improve quality and file size, and an improved graphics stack with 3D support using the XNA API on Windows gains low-level access to the GPU for drawing low-level 3D primitives and vertex shaders, Microsoft's Silverlight team said.

 

Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint Server 2010 Isn’t Really Ready for Enterprise Applications–And What Microsoft Should Do About It (Furuknap's SharePoint Corner)
In 2008, I started on a project to discover the real story behind SharePoint’s inner workings from a developer perspective. The result is the book Building the SharePoint User Experience, and it details, in as much detail as I was able to put in my grossly under estimated 350 pages, how SharePoint works. Not what the documentation tells you, nor how it would be logical that a feature worked, but really what the bits and pieces do when you put them together. With SharePoint 2010, there’s a new ballgame, but sadly, it’s riddled with bugs that prevent it from being a great platform for building enterprise or even professional applications.

How to Recreate SharePoint 2010’s User Profile Service Application Without Losing All that Delicious Data (Todd Klindt's SharePoint Admin Blog)
There comes a time in every SharePoint 2010 admin’s life when they must make a choice. Continue to be pushed around by that bully the User Profile Service Application (UPA) , or fight back, give it a bloody nose and show it who’s boss. Today’s blog post is about the latter. At various times the UPA gets fuzz in its head and won’t behave. When that’s the case, you can often fix the issue by blowing the UPA away and recreating it. When you do that you lose all your existing profile information. If your profile information consists entirely of information pulled from Active Directory then it’s no big loss. That’s not the case with most farms though. Users have augmented their profile information with pictures or other information, and there’s also the whole social aspect. The UPA stores all the tags and notes and activities. You don’t want to lose that. When things go missing in SharePoint, users lose faith in the platform. We don’t want that. This blog post will walk you through how to rebuild your UPA without losing any previous data.

SharePoint: Making Documents Unique (EndUserSharePoint)
A Fundamental ECM Requirement: A fundamental tenet of any ECM solution is that it must be possible to uniquely identify a document and retrieve it based on a unique identifier.  This identifier is typically an incremental numeric value that increments by 1 for each document that is added to the system. The lack of such an identifier is one of the fundamental problems that many people have had with SharePoint and has now been addressed by the Document ID service in SharePoint 2010.  Behind the scenes, documents have always had a unique identifier in SharePoint but this was (and still is) a globally unique identifier (GUID) which isn’t particularly user friendly and looks something like this - {31EC2020-3AEF-1069-A2DD-08012B30309D}.

Video Adding PowerShell to Your Admin Tool Belt with Todd Klindt (SharePointEduTech)
On Wednesday the 7th December I was lucky enough to host a webinar with Todd Klindt. It was very well attended and Todd gave many great real world examples of using PowerShell with SharePoint 2010. I did have one slight blip in the recording when I lost my internet connection for a couple of minuet’s so apologises but I do not think it takes anything away from the recording so sit back and enjoy.

What Does the Future Hold for SharePoint? (European SharePoint Conference)
Videos by Joel Oleson, Michael Herman, Wictor Wilen, Anders Skjonaa, Ernst Hutsteiner, Paolo Pialorsi, Christian Heindel, Andre Vala & Raul Ribeiro, Christian Buckley, Bob Kreha, Andrew Murphy and Alan Richards.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Save 10% on All Bamboo Suites Through December 31 (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Hello to everyone out there in Bamboo Nation. It's been a while since my last blog post, but with the latest news I couldn't resist. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday getting all of the press of late, Bamboo thought it would take it up a notch and offer Discount December! 'Tis the Season, after all! OK, I admit Bamboo isn't officially calling it that, I just thought it sounded good. However, the truth is that Bamboo is doing something I haven't ever seen in the two years I've worked here: offering 10% off every Suite in our catalog.  The Suites are already heavily discounted when compared to purchasing all of the individual components a la carte, and we're offering an additional 10% off your Suite purchases in December.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Administrator - Seattle, WA
In the exciting role of Shared Services SharePoint Specialist, this person provides focused customer service through administrative, marketing and sales support utilizing specialized skill sets to the Energy Services, Facility Service or Construction teams.    Project management responsibilities of this position include managing active work, backlog of work, and own project deliverables and deadlines, managing deliverable deadlines through coordinating information from various sources and modifying/creating narratives, employee profiles or project lists/write-ups. In the position the Shared Services SharePoint Specialist, this individual will plan for future resource needs and prioritize future workload, complete project activities in collaboration with others in a timely manner and lead Project Plan and Project Post Mortem meetings to identify areas of improvement.

SharePoint Developer - Washington, DC
The SharePoint Developer will help implement an intranet portal that organizes enterprise information and provides convenient, single-point access to major third-party information systems, management tools, business intelligence capabilities, and enterprise content management capabilities. The SharePoint developer candidate that will fulfill the following daily responsibilities:

 

Microsoft Updates
Access Multiple SharePoint 2010 Lists by Using LINQ (MSDN)
In this exercise, you develop and deploy a visual Web Part that reads data from three lists by using LINQ queries and displays the results in a grid view control. The Web Part also contains a drop-down control that enables you to select which query is executed. To complete this task, you must do the following: Create a Visual Web Part Project; Generate LINQ to SharePoint Proxy Code; Add Code to Create the SharePoint Controls; Add the LINQ Queries to the Project; Test the Solution.

 

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