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Using SharePoint for Your Intranet? Get a Strategy First (ITBusinessEdge)
When I interviewed Rob Helm, managing VP of research at Directions on Microsoft, about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 back in July, he said the newest version of SharePoint will involve a steep learning curve for existing users, telling me: Administrators and architects will need a lot of ramp-up time to understand the new product version. In some areas, it’s an even bigger jump than we saw moving from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007.

SharePoint--What is it Good for? (WindowsITPro)
I’ve been thinking a lot about SharePoint governance lately. It could be because of Dave Chennault’s article, which is coming up in the February issue of SharePointPro Connections magazine. It could be because of the new year coming, and the very human desire to clear the decks and start anew. At any rate, his article has opened my eyes to the need for planning before you do any migration or deployment of SharePoint. In other words—and I love the irony of it—you need to collaborate BEFORE you ever get this collaboration platform up and running.

6 Things to Do to Ensure Security of SharePoint Development Project (US News Source)
Security in any SharePoint development project refers to restricting data access to privileged users only. SharePoint development is widely adopted for information sharing and management. Usually companies use different SharePoint servers which work as a shared online workspace, reporting and business intelligence source and document library. Access to some servers is defined and some are still in the growing process for use in the company.

Q&A: Microsoft's Tom Rizzo Gives Partners the Skinny on Office 365 (Redmond Channel Partner)
For partners, the transition from selling the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite to Office 365 will involve a lot of moving pieces. As senior director of online services for Microsoft, Tom Rizzo is in a good position to help partners make sense of those details. Rizzo is pounding the pavement talking up his company's next big cloud offering: Office 365. With the product released to beta this month, Rizzo has been meeting with analysts and the press to explain the next generation of Microsoft's online productivity offering. In part one of his interview with Redmond Channel Partner magazine, Rizzo talks about the implications of Office 365 on Microsoft's partner ecosystem and describes how the transition from BPOS to Office 365 is supposed to work.

Microsoft BPOS Configuration Screw Up Causes Data Disclosure (Ars Technica)
Customers of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite—a cloud-based suite including Exchange, SharePoint, LiveMeeting, and Office Communicator—may have had certain data leaked after a configuration error left their contact information exposed. The configuration problem left information in customers' Offline Address Books exposed to other customers. The Offline Address Book is an Exchange feature that allows Outlook users to download a copy of all the e-mail addresses and mailing list aliases that an organization uses, so that they can be used even when disconnected from Exchange. It's e-mail addresses on those lists that could have been made available.

Internet Explorer 9 Downloaded 20 Million Times as IE6 Reaches Record Lows (Neowin)
Microsoft announced today the latest iteration of their web browser Internet Explorer 9 has been downloaded more than 20 million times, although at this stage it's unclear whether or not this figure is unique downloads or includes multiple downloads by the same person. In a post on the official Windows Team blog earlier today to celebrate the new year, Microsoft's Roger Capriotti, Director of Internet Explorer Product Marketing, called the amount of downloads of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 "overwhelming".

Windows Phone 7 Has Chance of 2011 Success: Analyst (eWeek)
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 can gain market-share throughout 2011 and beyond, provided it continues to add capabilities and applications, according to a new research note from IDC. Much of that potential growth will rely on Microsoft’s expanding Windows Phone 7’s portfolio to CDMA-based (Code Division Multiple Access-based) networks such as Verizon Wireless. The platform is currently available on GSM-based AT&T and T-Mobile.

Why Microsoft Should Buy Nokia And Not RIM (Business Insider)
If Microsoft decides to boost its smartphone position with a major acquisition, it should buy Nokia, not Research in Motion. Some would argue that Nokia isn't really a smartphone maker and Symbian isn't really a smartphone OS, and that RIM would be a much better fit with Microsoft's traditional enterprise focus. All true.

Looking Ahead to 2011: What's on the Microsoft Calendar (ZDNet)
It’s that time: Time to start plotting the travel schedule and penciling in the Microsoft events (that we know about so far) for the new year.

Software Patents Have Got to Go! (PC Magazine)
All the brouhaha with Paul Allen suing, well, everyone makes it even clearer that software and process patents need to go. If you haven't noticed, Paul Allen has sued Apple, Yahoo, Google and other websites over some patents he holds that preclude just about anyone from doing anything modern via a website or browser. I find the brouhaha highly amusing, and it brings up a number of questionable situations.

 

Around the Blogosphere
A Look Back at 2010 (Arpan Shah's Blog)
With the year coming to an end, I want to thank everyone for their support & wish everyone a very happy new year! 2010 was a busy & exciting year for Microsoft! As I mentioned in a previous post, we saw some great exciting technology on the consumer and the enterprise side: Kinect, Office 2010 (including Project 2010 & SharePoint 2010), Windows Phone 7, IE 9.0 beta, Office 365 beta just to name a few.  It was nice to see some recognition – for example the article from TheStreet @ http://www.thestreet.com/story/10953596/1/10-top-innovative-companies.html that lists Microsoft as the most innovate company.

Resources for Virtualizing SharePoint 2010 (Bill Baer)
As more organizations seek to reduce operating and capital expenditures, solve the challenges of datacenter density, and provide elasticity to their SharePoint deployments – virtualization becomes the focal point of discussion.  SharePoint 2010 provides more flexibility in support of virtualization and similar to other server technologies requires proper planning to ensure those goals are met.

Interesting ChangeToken Problem When Mixing Complete and Selective Deployment (Stefan Goßner)
Just today I noticed a new flavor of the frequent Change Token problem: "The changeToken refers to a time before the start of the current change log." As discussed each content deployment job is responsible to update the change tokens for the selected objects defined in the content deployment job. But there is one scenario where a content deployment job fails to update the associated change tokens in the content deployment path.

200+ Business Uses for SharePoint (Views from Veronique)
There is so much you can do with SharePoint out of box.  Here’s a list of tasks you could perform with some of the functionality. Combine these tasks with Alert Me’s,versioning, metadata and views, workflow, content approval, permissions management, RSS feeds or syncing to Outlook and you’ll have some quick wins that really make your admin day easier.  This list is by no means complete, there are hundreds more uses.  This is just to get you going and thinking about what you work with that you could possibly do on SharePoint more efficiently.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Bamboo Content Migration for SharePoint Now Available in Bamboo Labs (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Bamboo Content Migration for SharePoint is an application that allows users to move content between SharePoint environments. Use the application to migrate content from sites within the same SharePoint version. For example, you can migrate content from a SharePoint 2007 environment (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) to another SharePoint 2007 environment (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007). Or, migrate content from a SharePoint 2010 environment (Server 2010 and Foundation 2010) to another SharePoint 2010 environment (Server 2010 and Foundation 2010). You can migrate content from full site collections, or you can migrate specific subsites within a site collection.

This Week in Bamboo (December 19th, 2010 - December 25th, 2010) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
For this week at Bamboo, we released the patches for the following 2 products: World Clock and Weather Web Part for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, and SharePoint Project Management Central for SharePoint 2010. See more details below.

Meet this Year's Model of the World Clock & Weather Web Part: Now with RSS Feeds, Calendar and Bing Maps Integration (The Bamboo Team Blog)
It's the last day before the holiday break, and there are still several to-do's in need of crossing off my list, but how could I leave without continuing my annual tradition of blogging the release of the this year's model of our popular World Clock & Weather Web Part, Bamboo's annual holiday gift to the SharePoint community?  I couldn't, of course...

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Lead - Jersey City, NJ
The SharePoint onshore lead will oversee and participate in the development, customization and integration efforts of enterprise solutions involving Collaboration, Portals, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Business Process and Forms, and Business Intelligence (BI), utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0), SharePoint Designer 2007 and Visual Studio 2008/.NET 3.5. The SharePoint Lead will work closely with multiple groups such as Infrastructure, QA, Corporate Communications, and various internal groups as the SharePoint environment expands.

SharePoint Developer (MOSS 2007) - New York City, NY
Senior developer with minimum of 5-10 years of development experience using Microsoft technologies on .Net platform and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). The individual selected will be responsible for working with technical lead and senior developers in implementing a new Business Activity Monitoring Portal for monitoring and reporting EDI transactions for Healthcare industry.

 

Microsoft Updates
SharePoint 2007: A user's presence information does not appear correctly in People search results intermittently (Microsoft Support)
Consider the following scenario you have user accounts in Active Directory with different SMTP and SIP addresses (msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress). You import these users into your MOSS 2007 SSP using a profile import connection. You perform a full crawl to have these users show up in search results.

 

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