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Managing SharePoint – Know Your Data (CMSWire)
The only way you can truly manage your content is to understand it. Depending on who you are, that may sound really simple. The reality? It’s something organizations struggle with every day. SharePoint libraries, lists, file shares, Dropbox folders, Google Drive, Amazon EC2 storage, SkyDrive — need I go on? Your employees can, and likely already do, store documents in one or more locations. So how do you ensure that your data is secure? How do you ensure that compliance is enforced? That your governance processes are being followed?
5 Tips for Working with SharePoint 2010 (ComputerWorld)
Now that you have a good feel for what is possible in SharePoint 2010 and how to do common tasks, here are some tips for taking advantage of some more advanced functionality and getting the most out of your SharePoint site. This story accompanies our SharePoint 2010 cheat sheet, which provides a full introduction to the software’s interface and features.
SharePoint is Not Just an IT Solution (Image & Data Manager)
Welcome to SharePoint is often the initial statement you hear when you begin your SharePoint journey. But what is SharePoint and how on earth is it going to benefit your business, also where do you start? These are questions that take a while to answer, so you look for a definition, an explanation from an expert on what it can do “It’s a collaborative platform from which users can create multi-dimensional portals of information and document collaboration”.
The Apple-Microsoft Spat Over App Store Fees Could Shape the Future of Both Office and iPad (The Next Web)
A disagreement over subscription fees in the iOS App Store has Microsoft and Apple sniping at each other behind closed doors, and, increasingly, on the pages of the technology press. What was initially thought to be a disagreement over SkyDrive, Microsoft consumer cloud storage product, has become known as a more existential disagreement over a much more core Microsoft product: Office. Office 365, to be precise, the firm’s cloud-powered version of the Office brand.
Q&A: Microsoft Explains Windows 8 Value in the Enterprise (SearchEnterpriseDesktop)
Microsoft executives have claimed record sales of Windows 8 — some 40 million licenses sold in the first month after it became commercially available. However, the company refuses to break down that figure, so it’s difficult to know how many of those licenses have gone to corporate customers. TechTarget met with Pieter Uittenbogaard, marketing director in Microsoft’s worldwide Windows marketing team, to discuss who should consider moving to Windows 8 and when, as well as who shouldn’t and why.
Mozilla: Windows 8 RT is a Return to the ‘Digital Dark Ages’ (PCR)
Harvey Anderson, a member of Mozilla’s general counsel, has slammed Microsoft for its refusal to share API’s that are critical to making browsers work on Windows 8 RT.
Microsoft Ups Surface Production, to Sell in More Stores (Yahoo!)
Microsoft Corp has stepped up manufacturing of the Surface tablet, its new device designed to counter Apple Inc.’s iPad, and will introduce it to third-party retailers this week. The moves suggest Microsoft is seeing some demand for its first own-brand computer in the crucial holiday shopping season, although it has yet to divulge any sales figures.
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SharePoint 2010 and Styling Dialog Windows for Responsive Sites (Shane Perran)
As you start to build responsive SharePoint 2010 sites, you will likely run into a hurdle with dialog windows. Most responsive websites rely on CSS media queries to style the site according to the size of the viewport. So, when you only have a 180 pixels for example to work with, you should style your content accordingly.
Upgrading Forms Based Auth – SharePoint 2013 (ACS Blogs)
I recently upgraded our SanSpug.org and the instructor.architectingconnectedsystems.com sites to SharePoint 2013. As part of the process, you have to build a new farm and all the web apps, then attach the content dbs. As long as you have put your membership providers in the machine.config files (32 and 64bit), you shouldn’t have any problems right? Wrong! With the same config as in 2010, I just kept getting this error:
James Madison University Students Create Infomercial on the Benefits of Using SharePoint (GetThePoint Blog)
The original goal of the independent study was to make three instructional videos demonstrating SharePoint’s capabilities to students in JMU’s College of Business (COB) that can be used by this school as well as others. After extensive work and research, we concluded that filming, editing, and delivering one video was more suited for our time frame and limited video expertise.
Reflecting Back on SPC12 (SharePoint Development Blog by Jeremy Thake)
With an official announced 10,000 attendees at the SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas this year from 85 countries and over 7000 watching live on the webcast and #SPC12 hash tag trending even with extremely poor Wi-Fi access during the week…this year’s SPC12 was a major hit! The conference was sponsored by over 200 companies and if the 250+ sessions over four days wasn’t enough the expo hall was packed the brim full of vendors ready to pitch their latest add-ons to SharePoint.
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A Preview of Chart Plus Web Part for SharePoint 2013 (The Bamboo Team Blog)
SharePoint 2013 is the new way to work together. A simplified user experience helps you organize, sync, and share all your content. Users around the world are eager to use these new features, lists, sites, and user interface in SharePoint 2013, and Bamboo is pleased to introduce you to some new Web Parts for SharePoint 2013 which we’ll be releasing in the near future. In this article, we will take a look at Chart Plus Web Part for SharePoint 2013.
SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Engineer – Philadelphia, PA
This position will be responsible for Global SharePoint Solutions and related technologies. This includes a migration from 2007 to 2010 as well as supporting data center consolidation efforts. Additionally, this role will be involved in an upgrade to the clients’ internal intranet and the external website, which are SharePoint-based.
SharePoint Administrator – Omaha, NE
SharePoint Administrator will manage all aspects of the SharePoint environment, including design, architecture, availability, reliability, performance, monitoring and security of the portal. This position plays an integral part in the development of strategies for optimal use of SharePoint and other collaborative tools within the organization. Candidate must be able to work with little supervision in a cross team and cross functional manner.
Microsoft Updates
Edit Permissions for a List, Library, or Individual Item (Microsoft)
In some cases, your site might contain content only meant for certain users or groups. For example, if you have a list on your site that contains sensitive data, you would need to restrict who could see it. Restricting access take two steps: break permissions inheritance, and then edit permissions for the content on its own permissions page. This article shows you how.
SharePoint Events*
- December 12, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
- December 13, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Community Central Webinar
- December 14, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- December 14, Online – How to Build a PMIS with SharePoint 2010
- December 15, Dubai, United Arab Emirates – SharePoint Saturday
- December 18, Online – Bamboo Time Tracking & Management with PM Central Integration Webinar
- December 19, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- December 19, Franklin, Tennessee – Delivering SharePoint Success
- December 20, Online – “Managing Up” in the midst of tension or dysfunction
SharePoint Training*
- December 12, Online – Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training – Bamboo Solutions
- December 14, Online – Bamboo Select – Bamboo Solutions
- December 17-21, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Developer – Mindsharp
- December 17-21, Washington, D.C. – SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administration – Mindsharp
- December 18-21, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
- January 8-9, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
- January 8-11, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
- January 14, Online – Office 365 – Moving to the Cloud - Combined Knowledge
- January 14-18, Midlands, Ullesthorpe – SharePoint 2010 Administrator – Bootcamp – Combined Knowledge
- January 15, Online – Office 365 for Power End Users – Combined Knowledge
- January 15-18, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
- January 21-25, Midlands, Ullesthorpe – SharePoint 2010 Advanced Infrastructure – Bootcamp – Combined Knowledge
- January 22-24, Nashville, Tennessee – Business Intelligence Training – the Microsoft Self-Service BI Toolset – SharePoint Solutions
- January 28-30, Midlands, Ullesthorpe – SharePoint 2013 Updating Skills for Administrators / IT Pro’s – Combined Knowledge
- January 29-30, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2013 – New Features: Preparing Users for Upgrade and Migration – SharePoint Solutions
- February 19-21, Chicago, Illinois – Business Intelligence Training – the Microsoft Self-Service BI Toolset – SharePoint Solutions
- February 26-27, Dallas, Texas – Exploring SharePoint 2013 – New Features: Preparing Users for Upgrade and Migration – SharePoint Solutions
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