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Top News Stories
The Right Way to Approach SharePoint 2010 (CMSWire)
SharePoint 2010 is like the Swiss army knife for information management. It is a versatile platform with capabilities covering many areas of information management, from publishing and document management to business intelligence and collaboration. However, just as you can cut yourself on a knife, there are ways you can either cut yourself on SharePoint 2010. In other words, there are ways to fail even with a capable and modern platform as SharePoint in your hands, and whether you will fail is determined by how you approach it.
Backing Up SharePoint 2010 Content, Configurations, and Components (SQL Server Magazine)
Backing up and restoring SharePoint 2010 databases, content, and configurations can be a complex endeavor. Microsoft has made some significant improvements to the native tools, including the addition of features that let administrators back up an entire farm configuration, an individual web application, an individual site collection, or even specific content. In addition, administrators can now connect to unattached content databases and restore content from them. With that said, it isn’t immediately obvious which backup and restore tools are best for which situations and how to use them. So, I’ll first shed some light on the available backup and restore tools, then concentrate on the tools with which administrators should be familiar.
How Lotus Notes Changed the Collaboration Landscape (ReadWriteEnterprise)
Sheldon Laube has been around tech for decades, holding executive positions at leading consulting firms and working most notably at Price Waterhouse Coopers these last few years as chief innovation officer. I caught up with him this week and recorded a short podcast interview that you listen to here. I spoke with him about his thoughts about collaboration and social media and how things have changed over the decades with these tools.
Gmail Now Credible Rival to Microsoft Exchange: Gartner (eWeek)
Google’s Gmail application commands only 1 percent market email market share in the enterprise, but that’s enough for Gartner to proclaim the application has become a credible competitor to Microsoft Exchange Online and other Web-based email services, proclaimed Gartner. Gmail is the search-engine provider’s cloud-computing messaging software, which became a household application in July 2009 after five years in beta.
Cloud Migration Won’t Happen Overnight (SYS-CON Media)
There is a massive difference between migrating some code to the cloud and migrating an entire application to the cloud. Yes, the heart of any application is indeed its codebase, but code can’t execute without data and there lies the biggest challenge of any cloud migration. “No problem,” you say. “We can just move our database to the cloud and our code will be able to access it.” Sounds great, apart from most storage services in the cloud tend to run on cheap disk which is often virtualized and shared across several tenants. It’s no secret that databases store and access data from disk; the problem these days is that disks have got bigger and cheaper, but they haven’t exactly got much faster. The assumption that Cloud will offer your application a better Quality of Service (QoS) at a cheaper price is therefore not always true when you include application tiers that manage data. Your code might run faster with cheaper and elastic computing power, but it can only go as fast as the data which it retrieves and processes.
BUILD 2011: Windows Azure Tackles the ‘One True Login’ Puzzle (ReadWriteCloud)
This could be a nightmare: another ReadWriteWeb story about “Facebook login.” Actually, we’re being serious: The way security is ensured in any modern operating system is by authenticating the user, and certifying that processes are only run by certified sources. If cloud services are to play the role of application servers, then every online transaction will need to be certified. And we are far from that point.
Windows 8: Ballmer’s Vindication or Damnation (TechNewsWorld)
One of the biggest things that separates losers from winners is the tendency to spend what they think the effort is worth and not first find out what it would cost to ensure success. A lot of large companies fail not because they don’t have the potential for success, but because they are doing too many things and can’t afford to properly fund all of them. The result is they don’t properly fund any.
Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 Windows Phone App Now Available (WM Power User)
Microsoft SharePoint conference 2011 scheduled for Oct 3-6 this year will be held at Anaheim, CA. The whole event is dedicated to SharePoint and its related technologies. It will provide you with training, insight and networking you need to develop, deploy, govern and get most out of SharePoint. This event’s official app is now available on Windows Phone Marketplace.
Around the Blogosphere
How to Customize a Grouped View in the Data View Web Part (Me & My SharePoint Designer)
How about to use a Data View Web Part (DWWP) to display a grouped view of news pages by year and month? Let’s improve the findability and give the users a simply way to browse the news pages in a news archive page. This technique could be useful for any kind of item in a list; you could for example do the same to display documents from a library or items in an announcement list.
SharePoint 2010 Posters / Technical Diagrams (Asif’s Blog)
Have you seen the SharePoint 2010 posters by Microsoft? They are especially helpful if you are in one of the following roles: SharePoint Administrator; SharePoint Developer; SharePoint Governance Guru (or a Governance team member); A Business User (asked/forced to act like a SharePoint Expert in the company); “The SharePoint Guy/Gal” at your company. Imagine having a bunch of reference charts you can put up in your office or cubicle that guide you with a specific need or role like Governance, Services available in SharePoint, Authentication models, Farm Topologies, Search mechanisms, SharePoint Databases and more. Of course, they are all available from Microsoft at no-cost.
Delivering Business Applications with SharePoint Composites: Don’t Get Stuck! (Point Beyond)
Suppose that you are in New York and you want to come to my house. You could look at a map of the world that has New York and my house marked on it. Looking at the map you can see that London Heathrow airport is pretty close to my house. So you think, hey that’s cool I’ll fly over. You pay for your flight, tell me what time you are arriving, and tell your wife/husband/partner how much it costs. Sorted. Easy.
How Can I Save a Custom View and Reuse it in Another Document Library? (ITPro)
A question came up about how to save a custom View for use in another document library, so I decided to play around with it some to see what I could come up with for a solution to this. Basically, what I’ve found is that there appears to be two ways to approach this: First, you can do the “Save library as a template” option which will copy over any custom views you have…which sounds simple enough for creating any new libraries, but what about if you have an existing library? How do we get the view transferred over?
Process Automation = Paranoia (AIIM)
Demand for process automation is rapidly increasing as organizations struggling to compete in a stressed economy work to survive and hopefully grow. The concept of process automation is a sound direction to take and will provide beneficial results ranging from cost reduction to increased efficiency for the organization as a whole yet at the same time, potentially create a sense of angst in the employee base. This angst of course is the sense that process automation will eliminate jobs, which is not always the case and should be communicated.
SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint 2007/2010 Developer – Subject Matter Expert – Telecommute
International Knowledge Management (www.ikmnet.com) is currently seeking Subject Matter Experts to serve as authors and reviewers to create a web-based assessment test for SharePoint Developers. These are part-time, contract, telecommuting positions where you work from home. Our authors and reviewers typically work at night or on weekends over a 6-8 week period to prepare an assessment that, on average, consists of a pool of 150 questions. All work is done in an online tool, which is accessed through the company’s website. Authors write original test questions and reviewers validate these for technical correctness. Some creative thinking and creative writing involved. Compensation is based upon the number of questions developed. Please contact Craig with a resume if you are interested at csernotti@ikmnet.com.
Sr. SharePoint Developer – Houston, TX
Skilled SharePoint Developer needed to provide user support and development with the ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions using SharePoint. Also support the delivery of technical requirements to off-shore resources for custom development. Follow change management processes to Unit Test, assist users with UAT, and facilitate migrations to productions.
Microsoft Updates
Using SharePoint Online for Enterprises (TechNet)
SharePoint is the established enterprise collaboration platform and now, with SharePoint Online (included in Office 365), the same capabilities can be extended off-premises, opening up new communication channels.
SharePoint Events*
- September 19, Malvern, Pennsylvania – Understanding the Social Benefits of Enterprise Social Computing
- September 20, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Calendar and Scheduling Workshop
- September 20, Online – The Power of 3: Adding OpenText to Deliver Maximum Value from SharePoint Webinar
- September 21, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- September 21, Online – SharePoint Branding & Design from Beginner to Advanced Webinar
- September 22, Online - Business Process Automation for Human Resources
- September 24, Manchester, New Hampshire – SharePoint Saturday
- September 27, Bellevue, Washington – SharePoint Intelligence Conference
- September 27, Online – Office 365: Customizations and Development for SharePoint 2010 Online
- September 28, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
- September 28, Online – SharePoint Energy Solutions: No Programming Required Webinar
- September 28, Online – Streamline Your Everyday SharePoint Storage Management Tasks
- September 28, Online – Create and import workflow from Visio 2010 to Designer 2010. Is it worth it? Webinar
- September 28, Online – Workflow in SharePoint 2010: How It Works, What It Entails, and How To Get Started With It Webinar
- September 29, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- September 29, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Lists Workshop
- September 29, Online – FAST for SharePoint: Search and find information with efficiency Webinar
- October 1, Bend, Oregon – SharePoint Saturday
- October 3-6, Anaheim, California – Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011
- October 5, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- October 5, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
- October 6, Online – SharePoint and the Cloud: How to Best Utilize the New Possibilities Offered by Office 365 Webinar
- October 10, Online – Connect Nintex Workflow to Office 365 and a World of Cloud Services Webinar
- October 11, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Calendar and Scheduling Workshop
- October 12, Online – Bamboo Knowledge Management Webinar
- October 12, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Foundation Library Webinar
- October 12, Online – Simplify Your Everyday SharePoint Recovery Tasks
- October 12, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- October 12, Online – Designing SharePoint 2010 for Business Webinar
- October 13, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- October 13, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Administration Webinar
- October 13, Online – Community Management 101 for the Social Enterprise Webinar
- October 17-20, Berlin, Germany – SharePoint Europe
- October 18, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Foundation Library Webinar
- October 18, Online – Executive Briefing – Empower Your Organization with SharePoint
- October 19, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- October 20, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
- October 26, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
- October 26, Online – Bamboo Knowledge Management Webinar
- October 26, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- October 27, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Lists Workshop
- October 29, Twin Cities, Minnesota – SharePoint Saturday
- October 29, Cincinnati, Ohio – SharePoint Saturday
- November 2-3, Washington, D.C. – SharePoint Symposium
- November 3, Mountain View, California – SharePoint Intelligence Conference
- November 5, Richmond, Virginia – SharePoint Saturday
- November 9, Online – Fast and Focused Migrations to SharePoint On-Premises and Online
- November 9, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- November 9-10, Moscow, Russia – Tech·Ed
- November 11, Washington, D.C. – SharePoint Symposium 2011
- November 12, Nottingham, UK – SharePoint Saturday
- November 12, Denver, Colorado – SharePoint Saturday
- November 14-15, Stockholm – SharePoint & Exchange Forum 2011
- November 15, Online – Executive Briefing – Empower Your Organization with SharePoint
- November 30, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- December 2, Honolulu, Hawaii – SharePoint Saturday
- December 7, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- December 13, Online – Executive Briefing – Empower Your Organization with SharePoint
- December 19, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- January 7, Virginia Beach, Virginia – SharePoint Saturday
- January 10, Online – Executive Briefing – Empower Your Organization with SharePoint
- January 11, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- January 21, Austin, Texas – SharePoint Saturday
- January 25, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
SharePoint Training*
- September 19-23, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
- September 19-23, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
- September 20-21, Denver, Colorado – Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop – Innovative-e
- September 21-23, Online – Organizing Information Using SharePoint 2010 – Mindsharp
- September 21-23, Minneapolis, Minnesota – Organizing Information Using SharePoint 2010 – Mindsharp
- September 22, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Administration Enhancers – Bamboo Solutions
- September 23, Online – Executive Briefing – Empower Your Organization with SharePoint – Innovative-e
- September 26, Online – Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 Online – SusQtech
- September 27, Online – Bamboo Component Training – List Extenders – Bamboo Solutions
- September 29, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS) – Innovative-e
- October 3-7, Winchester, Virginia – SharePoint 2010 Developer – SusQtech
- October 5, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
- October 10, Online – Business Intelligence & Reporting – SusQtech
- October 10-13, Huntsville, Alabama – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- October 10-13, Online – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- October 10-14, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator – Mindsharp
- October 11, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers I – Bamboo Solutions
- October 13, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers II – Bamboo Solutions
- October 17-18, Online – SharePoint 2010 Web Content Management – Mindsharp
- October 17-18, Cleveland, Queensland Australia – SharePoint 2010 for End Users – Intelligent Decisioning
- October 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – SharePoint Power User 2010 – SusQtech
- October 17-20, Cleveland, Queensland Australia – SharePoint 2010 for Power End Users – Intelligent Decisioning
- October 17-21, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
- October 17-21, Online – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
- October 18, Online – Bamboo Component Training – List Extenders – Bamboo Solutions
- October 19-20, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia – SharePoint 2010 for Site Collection Administrators – Intelligent Decisioning
- October 20-21, Chicago, Illinois – Styling & Branding in SharePoint 2010 – SusQtech
- October 25, Online – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Online – SusQtech
- October 27, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Administration Enhancers – Bamboo Solutions
- October 27, Online – Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 – SusQtech
- October 31-November 4, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
- October 31-November 4, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator – Mindsharp
- October 31-November 4, Winchester, Virginia – SharePoint 2010 Administration & Architecture – SusQtech
- October 31-November 11, Winchester, Virginia – SharePoint 2010 Immersion – SusQtech
- November 2, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
- November 7-10, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia – Creating No-code SharePoint Designer Solutions for SharePoint 2010 – Intelligent Decisioning
- November 8, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers I – Bamboo Solutions
- November 10, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers II – Bamboo Solutions
- November 14-18, Calgary, AB, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
- November 14-18, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
- November 14-18, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint Designer 2010 – Mindsharp
- November 14-18, Online – SharePoint Designer 2010 – Mindsharp
- November 18, Online – Using Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 – SusQtech
- November 22, Online – Bamboo Component Training – List Extenders – Bamboo Solutions
- November 24, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Administration Enhancers – Bamboo Solutions
- November 28-December 2, Online – SharePoint 2010 Web Content Management – Mindsharp
- November 28-29, Minneapolis, Minnesota – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- November 28-29, Online - Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- November 28-December 2, Washington, DC – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
- November 28-December 2, Online – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
- November 29-December 1, Minneapolis, Minnesota – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- November 29-December 1, Online – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- November 29-December 1, Winchester, Virginia – Power User 2010 – SusQtech
- December 5-8, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- December 5-8, Online – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- December 5-9, Huntsville, Alabama - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
- December 5-9, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
- December 5-9, Washington, DC - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator – Mindsharp
- December 5-9, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
- December 5-9, Online – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
- December 5-9, Chicago, Illinois – SharePoint 2010 Administration & Architecture – SusQtech
- December 5-16, Chicago, Illinois – SharePoint 2010 Immersion – SusQtech
- December 7, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
- December 8, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers II – Bamboo Solutions
- December 8-9, Reston, Virginia – Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop – Innovative-e
- December 12, Online – Business Intelligence & Reporting – SusQtech
- December 12-16, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
- December 12-16, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
- December 12-16, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint Designer 2010 – Mindsharp
- December 12-16, Online – SharePoint Designer 2010 – Mindsharp
- December 13, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers I – Bamboo Solutions
- December 13-16, Washington, DC – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- December 13-16, Online – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- December 16, Online – Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 – SusQtech
- December 19-20, Online – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- December 19-21, Minneapolis, Minnesota – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- December 19-21, Online – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
- December 27, Online – Bamboo Component Training – List Extenders – Bamboo Solutions
- December 29, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Administration Enhancers – Bamboo Solutions
- January 4, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
- January 10, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers I – Bamboo Solutions
- January 12, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers II – Bamboo Solutions
- January 16-20, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia – Developing Solutions with SharePoint Server 2010 – Intelligent Decisioning
- February 1, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
- February 13-17, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia – Professional SharePoint Server 2010 Administration – Intelligent Decisioning
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