SharePoint and the Gov 2.0 Revolution; Windows 8 is Enough; Microsoft Kills Kin Phone
Published 07/01 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community
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Perspectives: SharePoint and The Gov 2.0 Revolution (CMSWire)
An aging workforce, new worker expectations and an embrace from the Oval Office have put the social computing revolution on a fast track, and SharePoint in a pivotal role, in a market not usually known for being in step with the technological times.
Migrating to SharePoint 2010 – What You Need to Know (ITNewsAfrica)
As Microsoft’s SharePoint Solution has matured over the last decade, more and more organisations have implemented SharePoint to make use of the Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration capabilities to overcome the obstacles of collaborating and sharing structured and unstructured data. The recent release of SharePoint 2010 means that many of these organisations will be looking to migrate from the older versions to the new release – something that is not as easy as one might expect, mainly due to content migration issues.
How Social Tools in SharePoint 2010 Encourage Engagement and Innovation (CMSWire)
Much has been written on SharePoint’s new social tools: MySites, activity feeds, tags, notes and others. However, adoption of these features is poor and many organizations lack an understanding of how the tools can actually provide them with tangible benefits and save them money. There are a number of both technical and non-technical points that create a compelling argument for the adoption of SharePoint’s new social features.
More Great Office 2010 Features for Business (BusinessWeek)
Most of us by now are familiar with all the obviously new parts of Office 2010, such as the revised Ribbon, the Backstage document view, Paste preview, and Outlook's Conversation view. But many of the really powerful changes in Office 2010 go far beyond cosmetic -- they're functional, under-the-hood improvements aimed squarely at people who use Office in a business context. Here, then, is a rundown of some key new features in Office 2010 aimed at people who use Office to make their work not just easier, but possible.
Windows 8 is Enough? Microsoft OS Family Gets Confusing (ComputerWorld)
Microsoft suddenly has more Windows than a skyscraper. Is Windows 8 just the newest member of a sprawling OS family that's growing too big too fast? With leaked slides igniting rumblings about Windows 8 this week, it dawned on me how much the Windows operating system family is expanding. Microsoft's goal is clear: cover an increasingly diverse hardware landscape.
Only Microsoft and Red Hat Have All the Pieces to Build Clouds, Red Hat Says (NetworkWorld)
Red Hat has come up with an interesting sales pitch that seems to benefit rival Microsoft as much as Red Hat. At last week's Red Hat Summit in Boston, Red Hat company executives repeatedly said that only two IT vendors have all the software necessary to build an entire cloud, and allow workloads to move from one cloud to another. And those two companies are Microsoft and Red Hat.
Microsoft Kills Kin Phone (InformationWeek)
Microsoft said Wednesday it has stopped work on the Kin to focus "exclusively" on Windows Phone 7, the company's new smartphone operating system that's scheduled to ship later this year. The Kin was built and promoted to attract a younger, social networking-oriented audience. "We are integrating our Kin team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from Kin into future Windows Phone releases," the company said in a statement emailed to InformationWeek.
Around the Blogosphere
Licensing Requirements for InfoPath Forms on SharePoint (SharePoint eLearning)
I have been asked enough times now about the licensing requirements of SharePoint to be able to show InfoPath forms in the browser that I’m finally putting together this blog entry about it . With InfoPath 2010, you can create SharePoint Form Library Forms, SharePoint List Forms and SharePoint Workflow Forms. Let me try to break down each of these briefly and talk about the licensing requirements.
Load Testing Reveals Cause of SharePoint Server Performance Problem (SharePoint Magazine)
A New System’s Poor Performance: Although it seems obvious that adding hardware resources to a system should provide improved performance, a customized Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server (MOSS) website cluster showed the opposite in recent testing for a customer. Load testing with 200 simulated users gave disappointing results, with page durations between 10 and 30 seconds, and the system handling only about four pages per second. Curiously, reducing the cluster to a single SharePoint® server improved the performance.
Validate Email Addresses and Phone Numbers in SharePoint 2007 (Screencast) (End User SharePoint)
In SharePoint 2010, setting up validation for columns is now baked right into the product, on the Add New Column screen, but how do you do it in SharePoint 2007? Common types of fields that need to have patterns are phone numbers and social security numbers. Validation is the process of setting up a pattern that column data needs to match before the form can be submitted. In this screencast, Laura Rogers shows how easy it is to set up validation in a custom form data view web part, using SharePoint Designer. The prerequisite for this screencast is the one called Customize Form Pages in SharePoint (Screencast).
Create a Corporate Sales Dashboard with PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2010 (To the SharePoint)
SharePoint Server 2010 offers new and expanded ways of creating business intelligence dashboards using PerformancePoint Services. Download this complete scenario to get detailed guidance on how to create a sample Corporate Sales dashboard that uses the business intelligence capabilities in SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, and Microsoft Office 2010. The scenario takes you step-by-step through the creation of a dashboard to include a variety of reports.
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This Week in Bamboo (June 20th, 2010 - June 26th, 2010) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
This Week in Bamboo we’re so excited to announce some of our products are now available for SharePoint 2010. More information on all of the changes can be found below (see table), along with enhancements and known issues related to additional products.
SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Consultant / Solution Designer - Reston, VA
Bamboo Solutions is currently interested in recruiting a SharePoint® Consultant / Solution Designer to work at our headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The SharePoint Consultant / Solution Designer position will require an experienced, client-facing business professional who provides a variety of information directly to clients for their ongoing SharePoint-related programs, new initiatives, strategic plans. In addition to a strong technical understanding of MS SharePoint and how SharePoint can be used to solve business problems, the Consultant/Solution Designer must have a strong customer service orientation and be experienced contributor who remains current on SharePoint industry and customer trends. The SharePoint Consultant/Solution Designer will value team-work and can work effectively in both the implementation and client-acquisition phases of a project.
Senior Software Engineer/SharePoint - New York, NY
Provide technical leadership in the full lifecycle of design, development, unit testing and deployment of various Web-based products and SharePoint-based platforms for a large and complex online application in the medical research space. Serve as technical mentor to fellow developers in the creation of innovative technical solutions for a variety of Web-based customer-focused initiatives, and provide advice and guidance in the adoption of new technologies and industry best practices.
Microsoft Updates
Refreshing External Data, using SSO, from an Oracle Database (Microsoft Support)
When refreshing an Excel Workbook, in Excel Services, using SSO, from an Oracle Database a user receives the error: "Data Refresh Unable to retrieve external data for the following connections:"
SharePoint Events*
- July 7, Online, PM Suite Webinar - Building Blocks for Implementing Your Own Project Management Solution
- July 7, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- July 7, Online, Workflow Conductor – Automating Business Processes Webinar
- July 8, Basingstoke, England, SharePoint 2010 - Social Computing and Collaboration
- July 14, Online, Workflow Conductor – Automating Business Processes Webinar
- July 14, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- July 14, Online, PM Suite Webinar - Building Blocks for Implementing Your Own Project Management Solution
- July 20, Reading, England, SharePoint 2010 - Overview and Introduction
- July 20, Reading, England, SharePoint 2010 - ECM and Records Management
- July 21, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- July 21, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- July 21, Online, SharePoint Administration Webinar
- July 21, Online, Workflow Conductor – Automating Business Processes Webinar
- July 21, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- July 24, Chicago, Illinois, SharePoint Saturday
- July 28, Online, Workflow Conductor – Automating Business Processes
- July 28, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- July 28, Online, PM Suite Webinar - Building Blocks for Implementing Your Own Project Management Solution Webinar
- July 31, New York, New York, SharePoint Saturday
- August 5, Basingstoke, England, SharePoint 2010 - Internet Development
- August 7, Denver, Colorado, SharePoint Saturday
- August 14, Columbus, Ohio, SharePoint Saturday
- August 18, London, England, SharePoint 2010 - Overview and Introduction
- August 18, London, England, SharePoint 2010 - Social Computing and Collaboration
- August 24-27, Washington, DC, SharePoint Best Practices Conference
- August 28, Baltimore, Maryland, SharePoint Saturday
- September 8, Basingstoke, England, SharePoint 2010 - Overview and Introduction
- September 8, Basingstoke, England, SharePoint 2010 - Internet Development
- September 11, San Francisco, California, SharePoint Saturday
- September 16, Anaheim, CA, SharePoint Intelligence
- September 23, Basingstoke, England, SharePoint 2010 - ECM and Records Management
- September 23, Denver, Colorado, SharePoint Fest
- October 20-22, Boston, Massachusetts, SPTechCon
SharePoint Training*
- Online, Enterprise Social Computing at Deloitte
- July 5-9, Online, Online Administrating Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Mindsharp
- July 6-9, Online, Online Office SharePoint 2007 Power End User from Minneapolis - Mindsharp
- July 12-15, Minneapolis, Minnesota, SharePoint 2010 Power End User Beta - Mindsharp
- July 12-15, Online, Online SharePoint 2010 Power End User Beta - Mindsharp
- July 12-16, Online, Online SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator Beta - Mindsharp
- July 19-22, Washington, DC, Office SharePoint 2007 Power End User - Mindsharp
- July 19-23, Washington, DC, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Beta - Mindsharp
- July 26-30, Minneapolis, Minnesota, SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta - Mindsharp
- July 26-30, Huntsville, Alabama, Administrating Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Mindsharp
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