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Published 10/12 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

I wanted to say thanks to everyone that stopped by the Bamboo booth last week. It was great finally meeting so many of you that I have written to for the last few years as well as having a time to catch up with old friends. Hopefully we can do it again in Vegas next year.  -- Dooley

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Forrester's Survey on Best Practices in SharePoint 2010 Adoption and Migration (CMSWire)
At the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim California, Rob Koplowitz, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, shared the results of the Forrester survey on "Best Practices in SharePoint 2010 Adoption and Migration." The crowd was near capacity, and full of questions about the various data points, and some of Forrester's qualitative input. The following is a synopsis of the session, with some of my own feedback on the numbers from their survey of just under 1,000 SharePoint 2010 customers, the Forrester interpretation of the data, and my thoughts on where there may be room for additional research and investigation.

5 SharePoint Questions with Microsoft's Jared Spataro (Redmond Channel Partner)
The keynote address at last week's Microsoft SharePoint Conference yielded a few significant announcements -- namely, that a SharePoint Online update expected by year's end will include Business Connectivity Services (BCS) capability, and that a new version of the on-premises SharePoint product is in the works and is shaping up to be "the biggest release of SharePoint" Microsoft has ever done. Microsoft also announced a new certification program: the Microsoft Certified Architect for SharePoint.

Microsoft Pans Chrome, Firefox Security (ComputerWorld)
Microsoft today launched a website that cranks out security scores for the various editions of its own Internet Explorer (IE) as well as browsers built by rivals Google and Mozilla. The new site -- yourbrowsermatters.org -- runs a browser through a security feature checklist, then posts a score out of a possible high of four points. Not surprisingly, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) comes out on top with a perfect score of 4 out of 4. The older IE8, which debuted in 2009, garnered a 3.

Windows Azure: Checking in on Microsoft's Public Cloud Promises (ZDNet)
It seems the Windows Azure team has taken a page from the Windows client team’s book and is no longer sharing roadmaps the way it did just a year ago. In October 2010, the team published a list of new Windows Azure and SQL Azure features that were set to be delivered between fall 2010 and the end of 2011. Since then, there has been no kind of similar update. Maybe the Windows management has decided providing public guidance would give competitors too much of a heads-up on Windows Server 8, as the Windows Server and Windows Azure teams are working in lockstep? (Given Microsoft already has delivered a developer preview of Windows Server 8, that argument seems kind of flimsy.)

The Cloud’s Pressing Tenancy Question: My Place or Yours? (The Next Web)
With Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, VMWare, SalesForce, and even Dell all in the private and public cloud game together, you knew that there were going to be clashes. And there have been. Canceled speeches, spoofs, mockery, and downright accusations have flown. It’s been business bloodsport with a thin veneer of humor.

Is It Time For Windows To Die? (Conceivably Tech)
Why would you throw away a brand that has built your fortune and supports the paychecks of more than 90,000 employees? Perhaps, because time has caught up and your old brand has too much baggage to take you into the future. If Windows 8 is just a code-name, and Microsoft leaves most of the idea of Windows 1 in the past, could or should Microsoft complete the reinvention circle and launch the new OS with a new name?

Do You Need a Tablet? (CNET)
It seems that everyone's buying a tablet nowadays. Based on the latest IDC report, the number of tablets shipped in the second quarter grew by around 300 percent from the previous year, for a total of 13.6 million units. The estimates look rosy now, especially if you are Apple, with the iPad 2 taking 68 percent of this market.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Hybrid SharePoint Environments Whitepaper and Windows PowerShell Command Builder (To the SharePoint)
Our teams recently worked with our partners in SharePoint Product Management to publish two new content offerings that were announced earlier at SharePoint Conference this week. One of them is a whitepaper called Hybrid SharePoint Environments with Office 365. Download the whitepaper here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27580 For more information, this post "Guidance to Move to the Cloud on Your Terms" on the SharePoint Team blog gives a good overview.

Using PowerShell to Create New Sites Based on Site-scoped WebTemplates (SharePoint Thoughts)
WebTemplates are definitely a powerful new construct in our SharePoint 2010 toolbox.  WebTemplates definitely come in handy as they can be deployed as sandbox-compatible features. Creating a site based on a web template is pretty straightforward via the UI. Basically it just shows up as another site template option. As a user creating a site, you’d never the know the difference between a farm-scoped or site-scoped WebTemplate. However, if you want to use PowerShell, you will notice that your PS scripts will take on a slightly different shape based on how the WebTemplate is scoped.

Video published of the Full Farm Failover demo in the SharePoint 2011 Conference Keynote (Paul Andrew)
You can watch the demo that I worked on here: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/pages/keynote.aspx Skip through to 42 minutes to see the 10 minute demo. Watch as SharePoint 2010 handles the network cable to the SQL Server being disconnected and fails over to a secondary SQL Server machine thanks to SQL "Denali" Always On.

Microsoft has Really Nailed it with Windows Phone 7.5 (Andrew Connell)
I’ve never looked back and wished “man I miss that” since I switched from my iPhone to a new Windows Phone 7 (WP7) when they came out in November 2007. As many know Microsoft recently released a big update to the phone dubbed “Mango”. I got the update before I headed out to a conference last week and wanted to share one small experience that blew me away with one of the capabilities in Mango.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
SPC11: 'Clearing Away the Clouds: What's Hype and What's Real in Cloud Adoption,' Presented by Gartner's Jeffrey Mann (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Monday afternoon at the SPC, Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann presented a session focused on "trends and background around cloud adoption, particularly around the area of collaboration."  Jeffrey described the cloud as something that's "moving from a possibility into the here and now," and shared Gartner's 2011 "hype cycle for cloud computing" to visually demonstrate expectations regarding cloud adoption:

Bamboo Solutions Unveils Enterprise-class Social Collaboration Application for Microsoft SharePoint (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Bamboo Solutions, the leading provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, today unveils Community Central for SharePoint, a turnkey application designed to enhance social collaboration within the enterprise. By extending SharePoint's out-of-the-box social collaboration capabilities, Community Central delivers a powerful SharePoint-based social solution which can compete with industry-leading platforms. Community Central for SharePoint allows organizations to seamlessly add the most desirable, feature-rich tools users expect from today's popular consumer social platforms to their SharePoint environment. The enhanced social interactions made possible by Community Central leverage the dependably secure enterprise infrastructure of SharePoint that organizations require.

SPC11: Paul Javid & Dave Pae on 'SharePoint 2010: Improving Productivity with Social' (SharePoint 2010)
This morning at the SPC, Microsoft Social Product Manager Paul Javid and Social Technical Product Manager Dave Pae presented a session on the topic of Improving Productivity with Social in SharePoint 2010.  Paul said at the outset that "We've seen a proliferation of how we connect and how we share online" in the past 10 years, but there are "still a lot of unanswered questions."  Segueing into a history of social computing, Paul pegged its beginning to social wikis and blogging platforms, which led to the understanding that "we're all publishers" (or can be if we so choose).  Next up were LinkedIn and Facebook, allowing us to connect directly with friends and, shortly thereafter, we "started seeing different types of platforms emerge" which enabled users to share rich media, photos, and videos with friends (YouTube and Flickr).  What Paul referred to as the "social Web" followed, with such sites as Twitter and Foursquare.  Finally, Paul shared his (and, presumably, Microsoft's) belief that "where social is going [in the future] is around deeper connections."

SPC11: When Should You Consider an Add-On or Third Party Solution for SharePoint? (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Over the past couple of days I've chatted with dozens of visitors at the Bamboo booth here at SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim.  One of the most common questions people seem to be asking themselves is "When is the right time to start looking at add-ons for SharePoint?" There are a lot of ways to approach an answer, but I really like the simple decision making hierarchy that I heard from one of our visitors.  I don't think this guy was trying to be clever or Platonian, he was just talking about the way he thinks.  His approach is frightfully simple, but I was a little surprised by the order of his choices.

 

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SharePoint Administrator - Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District Of Columbia
Candidate must have excellent judgment, communication and analytical skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects under tight deadlines. Must have at least four years of SQL experience. Must have at least 6+ years of in-depth knowledge of MOSS (exp. with 2007 & 2010) , design, test, configuration and implementation. Must have experience with site provisioning, data restores, migration of sites across farms, upgrading sites from WSS 2. 0 to WSS 3. 0. Deploy solutions while adhering to standard processes and complying with corporate procedures.

SharePoint Developer/Web Developer - Redmond, WA
This position is a combination role of SharePoint Design Development and SharePoint application support. The preferred person for this opening would have experience with SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer and application of Master Pages and corresponding CSS. This person will be handling SharePoint application questions about visually customized and re-configured portals and assisting with content placement and the migration of data from legacy sites to new instances. Also, this person will customize the look/feel of SharePoint using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery as needed. The intent is to bring on a junior team member who has the capacity and interest to learn quickly and develop these skills.

 

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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