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Simplicity Ensures SharePoint Success; Huddle for the Enterprise; Microsoft Kills MIX

Published 01/25 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

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Keeping Things Simple to Ensure SharePoint Success (SDTimes)
People often ask about tips for getting started with their SharePoint project, and usually my advice is to keep things simple and focus on what SharePoint does best (and avoid what it doesn’t do as well). Normally whenever these words come out of my mouth, I’m very aware of how silly it must sound to someone because it sounds rhetorical. But the fact of the matter is that failure to follow these two little tips is the reason why most SharePoint projects jump the tracks.

Opening Enterprise Collaboration to the World (ZDNet)
Cloud collaboration platform Huddle is seeking to cement its enterprise appeal with the launch today of a new unlimited user edition and a 99.9% total uptime guarantee. The UK-headquartered, venture-backed start-up is less well known than US rivals such as Box, Dropbox, Jive and Yammer but it believes it has a unique market opportunity because of its focus on external enterprise collaboration.

The Rule of Three (AIIM)
I once had the privilege of working for a Corporate Sponsor who forgave mistakes easily. “If you don’t make mistakes,” he encouraged, “you’re not working fast or hard enough.” I cannot tell you how much his employees appreciated his clemency--especially the matrix team comprised of Records and IT personnel implementing the company’s electronic records management system. He was beloved by all of us. I’ve mused over his recommendation many times as I’ve built SharePoint 2010 records management environments and their governance plans. One of Chris Sterling’s assertions in Managing Software Debt is “the way we design can always be improved”. He writes:

IBM Joins Google, Microsoft In Cloud Productivity War (CRN)
IBM is looking to flex its cloud muscle against rivals Google and Microsoft with a cloud-based productivity and collaboration play that pits the three tech titans against each other for cloud dominance. Dubbed IBM Docs, Big Blue's new cloud productivity offering, which IBM unveiled in a brief video, includes a word processing application, spreadsheets and slide presentation software. IBM Docs is tied into IBM's SmartCloud for Social Business suite, which is the new moniker bestowed upon IBM LotusLive.

How in The World will Microsoft Convince People to Buy a Windows Tablet? (Yahoo! Finance)
Later this year, Microsoft and its hardware partners are expected to put out the first Windows 8 tablets. By then, the iPad will have been around for more than two years with basically zero competition. Nobody outside the tech industry thinks "tablet." They think "iPad." So how will Microsoft and its hardware partners convince you to pass on an iPad and buy a Windows tablet instead? What possible advantages will it have?

Microsoft's MIX, CES Pullouts Hint at Broader Strategy (eWeek)
Microsoft seems in a conference-killing mood. First the company decided to pull out of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) after this year, where for years it had maintained a sizable presence. Now it plans on eliminating its MIX developer conference, in favor of an event later in the year. “We have decided to merge MIX, our spring Web conference for developers and designers, into our next major developer conference, which we will host sometime in the coming year,” Tim O’Brien, Microsoft’s general manager for Developer and Platform Evangelism, wrote in a Jan. 24 posting on The Official Microsoft Blog. “There will be no MIX 2012.”

Rumor: Microsoft to Give Windows Phone a Heart Transplant, Give it the Desktop Windows 8 Kernel (IntoMobile)
Let’s be honest, Windows Phone isn’t exactly a success. Everyone in the media says that it has incredible potential, that it’s beautiful, and that it’s the freshest take on a mobile smartphone operating system they’ve ever seen, but has that praise translated into actual sales? No. It hasn’t. Anyone remember the Palm Pre? Anyway, for the longest time we’ve been saying that the public should ignore Windows Phone until “Apollo” comes out, which we think will end up being called Windows Phone 8. It’s supposed to support high resolution screens, dual core processors, NFC, and integrate beautifully with the desktop version of Windows 8. Now every version of Windows Phone that has shipped thus far has been based on Windows Compact Edition, which is a subset of the Windows kernel that powers the full blown version of Windows that most PCs on the market run on. Rumor has it that “Apollo” is going to change that, that it’s going to use the same kernel that Windows 8 uses.

  

Around the Blogosphere
Server Ribbon Architecture in SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team Blog)
Ribbon customizations, deployed as custom actions, in SharePoint 2010 can be categorized in two ways: filtered and unfiltered. A filtered custom action is one that uses the RegistrationId and RegistrationType attributes, for example to target a specific list. An unfiltered custom action is one that does not use these attributes. Ribbon custom actions are handled in different ways depending on the type. Both filtered and unfiltered custom actions are passed into the SPElementProvider internal class. SPElementProvider retrieves the Server ribbon XML from the custom action and sends it to the internal classes SPToolbar and SPUIProcessor depending on the type of custom action.

SharePoint. Useful or Useless for Corporate Learning? (SharePoint and Assessment Blog)
Thought leader interview with Danny De Witte, an IT and Learning expert in Belgium. Danny, what is your background? I started at Elsevier Training (part of the Reed Elsevier group), where we did some early work on PC learning. Then I was one of the co-founders of U&I Learning, which was one of the first Belgian e-learning companies, and I worked there for 12 years. About 2 years ago I joined Xylos, I wanted to broaden my work and one of the systems I wanted to work with was SharePoint.

Troubleshooting SharePoint Search iFilter Registration (ITPro)
Troubleshooting SharePoint Search: When I first started working on SharePoint Search I was troubled by how hard it was to figure out what was actually happening when the crawl was running. The crawler/indexer is a black box that I could not see into. This made it very challenging when I would open the crawl logs and see a cryptic error message. (Often the cryptic message is not the fault of SharePoint Search, the log is just bubbling the error up, often from the iFilter.) Here are two approaches that I use to troubleshoot specific errors. The first is a tool for troubleshooting iFilters the second for watching the actual crawl activity.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Dan Holme’s ‘Architecting SharePoint for Scalability and Enforceable Governance’ at STP Montevideo (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Dan Holme, Chief SharePoint Evangelist for STP South America sponsor AvePoint, presented his session on 'Architecting SharePoint for Scalability and Enforceable Governance' this afternoon at STP Montevideo. Addressing governance management, Dan defined governance as "defining the people, processes, and technologies that deliver a service." Sharing a visual representation of the layers involved, Dan explained that "the communication that has to happen between the business and the service" is where governance fits, whereas the management layer is about the operations.

This Week in Bamboo (January 15th, 2012 - January 21st, 2012) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
For this week in Bamboo, we fixed some bugs and released the patches for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 products using our new Web License Manager Version 2.0.10.0.  More details about the patches can be found below.

 

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Premier Field Engineer - SharePoint - Annapolis Junction, MD
A SharePoint Premier Field Engineer will be responsible for delivering SharePoint support for a designated set of US Public Sector National Security Group Community customers. This person will be responsible for delivering Microsoft SharePoint technical support and optimization for Microsoft Enterprise customers. The ideal candidate should have a 4-year technical degree or equivalent work experience, plus 3 years of experience in technical support in an Enterprise environment is required. Current SharePoint MCTS certifications preferred, Windows Enterprise Server MCITP helpful. SharePoint MCITP required within 6 months of joining the team. This candidate should possess a strong knowledge of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010 including related technologies. Occasional after-hours and on-call work will be required.

Software Development Engineer in Test II-SharePoint - Redmond, WA
The Base team within SharePoint is responsible for shipping a highly reliable, scalable, and secure SharePoint kernel that is the foundation for other teams and partners. We own functionality like file IO, security, and the database tier, both for the enterprise and the service. Within the SharePoint Base team, the AuthZeN is responsible for user identity and security features; bringing harmony to authorization and authentication. This specific position would include feature ownership for areas in the product related to user login and identity management. The team coordinates with other teams across the company to bring to life integration scenarios which enrich our customers and continue to make SharePoint a cornerstone for any business; from small to enterprise level. As a member of the SharePoint Base test team, you will own the quality of your features. You'll be responsible for participating in design reviews to ensure testability and shape the architecture, authoring a test plan for your area of the product, coding a set of automated tests and tools to aid in testing, and partnering closely with your dev and PM to ensure your features ship on time, predictably, and at the level of quality expected of world-class software.

 

Microsoft Updates
Installing, Uninstalling, and Upgrading Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010 (MSDN)
This topic describes how site collection administrators can install, uninstall, and upgrade sandboxed solutions.

 

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