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Published 12/21 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

Happy Holidays! I have given everyone in the SharePoint Daily offices the rest of the year off. In the spirit of the season I have called all of your HR managers and arranged for you to have the rest of the year off too. You can thank me later.    I hope you enjoy the holidays, spend time with your friends and family and have way too many sweets. I'll see you all next year.    -  Dooley

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New SharePoint 2010 Features Aid in Enterprise Content Management (SearchContentManagement)
SharePoint has come a long way since its infancy a decade ago. Over the last 10 years, it has undergone various changes that have helped to broaden the software’s usefulness and business value. In the latest version, SharePoint 2010, one of the major areas of improvement involved the collaboration platform’s enterprise content management (ECM) capabilities. As organizations deploy the platform and consider using it for ECM, there are a number of new SharePoint 2010 features their content management efforts can benefit from.

The Art of SharePoint Success: Strategic Lenses - Knowledge Mgt, Intranets & Value (CMSWire)
This week in the Art of SharePoint Success it's time to talk Strategic Lenses (aka "what do I do with SharePoint?") — specifically Value and Knowledge Management. Let's take a closer look.

Microsoft Exec: Analysts Will Be 'Shocked' When Office 365 Sales Figures Come Out (Redmond Channel Partner)
Nearly six months after the official release of Office 365, Microsoft Senior Director for Online Services Tom Rizzo says the cloud-based messaging and collaboration service is shaping up to be one of the company's fastest-growing businesses. Just don't ask Rizzo to prove it. Microsoft refuses to give any figures -- revenues or number of subscribers -- that would quantify just how well Office 365 is doing.

Microsoft: The $71 Billion Cloud Underdog (Stockhouse)
If I say “cloud computing,” what companies come to mind? Amazon’s innovative Amazon Web Services Cloud? Google’s cloud-based collaboration tools, Google Apps? Salesforce.com, the pioneer in moving business applications to the Web? Facebook because, well, it’s Facebook? How about Microsoft? Before you laugh and close your Chrome browser, hear me out. While perhaps lacking the sex appeal (and stock price appreciation) of the other companies I mentioned, Microsoft is the dark horse that will bring the benefits of the cloud to mainstream businesses. How can I make that claim? Well, if it pleases this jury, Microsoft has the motive, means and opportunity to win the enterprise cloud.

Microsoft's Windows Azure Leads the Data Revolution (Redmond Developer News)
It was about two years ago when I first wrote about the exciting development possibilities of "Mining the Cloud," with new data markets such as the "Dallas" project on Windows Azure. Well, Dallas has matured into the Windows Azure Marketplace, and at least one forward-looking research organization is predicting the fruition of that effort into something really big. One of O'Reilly Radar's "Five big data predictions for 2012" published last week is the "Rise of data marketplaces." It reads:

Microsoft in 2012: All Eyes on Windows 8 (PC Advisor)
While 2011 was not a breakthrough year for Microsoft products, the company held steady amid criticism regarding its absence from the tablet market, its late arrival to the cloud, and low sales for Windows Phones. However, financially the bottom line was not a problem in Redmond. For fiscal 2011, Microsoft notched a record-breaking $69.9 billion in revenue, up 12 percent from fiscal 2010. And it did this despite sluggish sales of Windows and PCs.

2011: A Year for the App Stores (Neowin)
Cast your mind back just a few years, and the idea of apps on smartphones was quite different to how it is now. Since those days of buying expensive programs from third-party retailers on the web, the majority of us now get cheap and free applications through vast, efficient app stores, that allow us to easily browse for and install apps on our handsets.

 

Around the Blogosphere
How SharePoint and Assessments Helped the Tooth Fairies One Christmas – A Holiday Tale (SharePoint and Assessment Blog)
Did you know the Fairies use SharePoint? Here’s a story about how SharePoint and Assessments came in handy one Christmas. Only the very best Fairies who leave Fairy University are appointed as Tooth Fairies. Tooth Fairies visit all the little children in the world and collect their discarded baby teeth and leave behind some money. Back when the world was small, it was easy for the Chief Tooth Fairy to keep track of all the children on paper cards, but now there are so many people in the world, she’s deployed SharePoint.

The Cloud Isn’t the Problem–Part 2: When Complex Technology Meets Process… (Clever Workarounds)
Welcome to my second post that delves into the irrational world of cloud computing. In the first post, I described my first foray into the world of web hosting, which started way back in 2000. Back then I was more naive than I am now (although when it comes to predicting the future I am as naive as anybody else.) I concluded Part 1 by asserting that cloud computing is an adaptive change. We are going to explore the effects of this and the challenges it poses in the next few posts. Adaptive change occurs in a number of areas, including the companies providing a cloud application – especially if on-premise has been the basis of their existence previously. To that end, I’d like to tell you an Office 365 fail story and then see what lessons we can draw from it.

SharePoint's Sweet Spot as a Web Delivery Platform (EndUserSharePoint)
Each Web Content Management (WCM) platform has a sweet spot, and making the right technology decision really depends on what is at the heart of your online business model. Understanding the business model for your website is fundamental in understanding whether Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is the right WCM platform for you. Should the website provide brand awareness? Should the website connect people with people, products or services? Should the website drive revenue directly through online commerce? These are just some of the questions that should be asked, but are so often overlooked, before deciding on which WCM platform suits your requirements.

Preventing Authenticated Visitors from Browsing System Pages (Waldek Mastykarz)
When building an Internet-facing website on the SharePoint 2010 platform, the last thing you want is to have your visitors browse your system pages. To prevent this from happening, SharePoint 2010 has the ViewFormPagesLockdown Feature. But what if your visitors are authenticated?

Technology Misuse or a Lack of Common Sense (AIIM)
While having lunch today, I was reading an article by Eric Zeman of Information Week Titled “Cell Phone Driving Ban: Good Idea?” and the thought crossed my mind that this is perhaps not a misuse but lack of common sense in relation to use of great technology which caused the government to react and take the actions it is now taking. The article points out that this week, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) voted to ban cell phone use for any purpose, while behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. It further cites that the Governors Highway Safety Association indicates distractions caused by smartphones can be tied to 25% of automobile accidents in the United States. So once again, the government has to step in and protect us from ourselves when it comes to technology. The next step is that each State will now have to address this issue individually using the NTSB ruling as a guideline. In essence, we will likely have 50 different though similar variations.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Best Practices: Turning Uncertainty into a Predictable Process via Tasks in a Project Schedule (The Bamboo Team Blog)
As the holidays approach, you know you need to plan for what to cook, what to buy, and timing everything so that your holiday feast is ready on time for your family and guests. For example, if you need to serve a turkey with a selection of side dishes at 3 P.M., what time do you have to start cooking each dish? With anything (whether work or home projects), it's good to have a plan so you can take uncertainty out of the equation.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Consultant - Jacksonville, FL
This team is looking for a SharePoint consultant to come in and help consolidate websites and web servers, and SQL Servers by moving content from Classic ASP, SharePoint, and other servers to a SharePoint 2003 server. This person must be project focused and self-directed as they will be creating sites to move content into and compacting 15-20 web servers to 1-2 (a SharePoint server and an IIS server).

ASP.net Developer SharePoint - Melville, NY
The purpose of the position is to make changes and enhancements to the look and feel of the website, as well to design within SharePoint. This is an estimated 3-4 month contingent / temporary position in Melville, NY, through Volt Technical Resources, based in New York City. We are among the largest staffing companies in the US for contingent/temporary and direct hire placements, and support most of the top-rated companies on the East Coast.

 

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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