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Extending SharePoint 2010's Enterprise 2.0 Capabilities (CMS Wire)
In my last article “Evaluating SharePoint 2010 as an Enterprise 2.0 platform” I did a quick and dirty evaluation of SharePoint 2010 against Prof. McAfee’s SLATE framework. The average score for SP2010 was 7 out of 10 which I characterized as “pretty good”. But the article noted some obvious gaps in the lower scores in some areas. I was contacted by NewsGator to discuss how their Social Sites product helps fill those gaps in the SharePoint 2010 “out of the box” Enterprise 2.0 experience.

Microsoft Releases Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (Redmond Channel Partner)
Microsoft has released Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint, which provides protection against viruses and spyware being spread through shared files. In addition, it can be set to block certain file types and has a keyword filtering feature that allows organizations to block the sharing of sensitive documents.

SharePoint Q&A: Microsoft's Arpan Shah (Redmond Developer News)
Microsoft on May 12 released Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. You can read the Visual Studio Magazine cover feature here . While the Office launch is certainly notable, the impact of SharePoint 2010 on .NET developers is potentially huge. The combination of Visual Studio 2010 (launched in April) and SharePoint 2010 has transformed SharePoint application development from an often-frustrating challenge into a first-class development experience.

What is SharePoint 2010? Vision and Reality (CMS Wire)
Most of our readers have a pretty clear idea of what SharePoint is. However, many people misperceive its core functions. And Microsoft's product websites — with their broad ambitions — aren't always clear enough for new-comers. So for the confused amongst us, here's a concise response to the simple question: What is SharePoint?

Microsoft Unveils Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 (Ars Technica)
After unveiling what's next for the most popular Windows Live client application, Messenger, and the most popular Windows Live web service, Hotmail, Microsoft is now ready to zero in on (most of) the remaining client applications in the Windows Live Essentials suite.

Microsoft’s Susie Adams: Cloud Will be Next Big “Disruptive” Technology (Executive Biz)
Cloud adoption by government customers isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition, says Susie Adams, chief technology officer for Microsoft Federal’s Civilian business. “We encourage agencies to take baby steps and really do a cost benefit analysis,” she says, adding, “In some instances, it may not be a wise business decision to move a particular workload to the cloud.” Those reasons may include an already sizable investment in server and data center infrastructure, for which a move to the cloud may not generate significant cost savings.

Reaching for the Cloud (Redmond Channel Partner)
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made his "we're all in" the cloud proclamation back in March, he wasn't just aiming at the largest of enterprises. Microsoft wants its small and midsize customers to start shifting their IT functions to the cloud as well. To reach small to midsize businesses (SMBs), Microsoft is embarking on an effort to enable its channel partners -- those who typically sell traditional software such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server bundled with servers, storage and networking infrastructure -- to offer those and other solutions as cloud-based hosted services.

Google Readies 'Late Fall' Chrome OS Release (The Register)
Google is planning to spin out its browser-based Chrome OS "operating system" in the "late fall" of 2010, according to a Mountain View wonk. Sundar Pichai, who was speaking at the Computex show yesterday, said the company's Windows rival would arrive later this year. However, Google's product management veep didn't nail a specific date.

 

 Around the Blogosphere
Delivering SharePoint Success: Why Collaboration is More Than Just Technology @ SPEX (Meet Dux)
Greetings from Sacramento, CA! I'm attending The SharePoint Exchange conference and this morning, I presented the session "Delivering SharePoint Success: Delivering SharePoint Success: Why Collaboration is More Than Just Technology".

Office Web Apps for Microsoft SharePoint Products 2010 (To the SharePoint)
As part of your SharePoint 2010 rollout, have you been asked to coordinate with or deploy Office as well? Office Web Apps is a suite of online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that enable people to access and do light editing or sharing of Office documents from virtually anywhere. Yes, all of those Office documents in your SharePoint environment can now be viewed and edited from almost any browser, anywhere. Office Web Apps also includes PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show, allowing users to view PowerPoint presentations live, even when they’re a thousand miles away!

Understanding Rows In SharePoint 2010 (ARB Security Solutions)
Understanding columns and rows in SharePoint 2010 is important when considering the holistic product. As you add columns to a list in SharePoint 2010 they get mapped to columns in the SQL Server database table. The rows in the database table supports a fixed number of column types. With a single database table row you can support eight date and time columns and then twelve number columns. When you have more than eight date and time columns then you need to use two database table rows.

The SharePoint User Group – Why You Should Attend (End User SharePoint)
Before I started working for myself the thought of doing out of hours work, attending meetings or even a conference was something that would make me gasp – “what?! continue working after the hours of 5pm, I think not”. Now I do work for myself and my attitude has taken a complete turnaround and as a byproduct has made me a better person and I will tell you why I think that.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Web Edit in SharePoint 2010, Part 3: Working with Text (1 of 3) (SharePoint Blank)
When last we spoke, I provided a tour through the out-of-the-box Picture Tools for editing images in SharePoint 2010 (via the contextual Ribbon), so the natural next stop on the tour seemed to me to be the text-editing equivalent of those tools.

This Week in Bamboo (May 23th, 2010 - May 29th, 2010) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
For This Week in Bamboo, we fixed some bugs and released patches for the following products: HW18 List Bulk Import (R2.0) and HW11A List Simple Search Web Part (R1.8).  Please review the information below for more details.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
Senior Graphic Designer - Reston, VA
This is an exciting opportunity to take a leadership role in design at Bamboo. The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible both for producing & executing, as well as leading and directing an established team of talented artists. We are looking for an auteur to establish a style guide and define best practices while taking a hands on role in evolving our Web site and producing collateral. The ideal candidate will have robust experience in Web design coupled with background in user interface design and a zealous passion for optimizing the end user experience. Our experienced team of artists is located in our technology center in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. The ability to connect with and leverage this remote team of non-native English speakers will be key to the success of the position. This may require unusual hours and occasional travel to Bamboo’s offices in Vietnam. The ability to produce fully rendered HTML and work directly with CSS would be extremely beneficial. Most importantly, we are looking for a well rounded, hard working, fun loving individual who will complement Bamboo’s existing Marketing team. Intelligence, personality, and flexibility are critical traits for the successful candidate.

Senior SharePoint Developer - Chicago, IL
Our SharePoint Sr. Developers will be implementing total solutions with SharePoint with various Portals, Intranets, Internets & Extranets. You will have the opportunity to lead teams both onshore & offshore. You will provide developmental guidance to the team & have opportunities to migrate & upgrade to SharePoint 2010.

 

Microsoft Updates
SharePoint 2007 site manager is not hidden for users who are not listed as site collection administrators (Microsoft Support)
If you add a user as a member of the Contributor/Approver/Hierarchy Manager/Owner group in Office SharePoint Server 2007, the user can use the Copy option for SharePoint sites. When this user tries to copy a sub site to another destination in the same site collection, they may experience different errors, depending on the user permission.

 

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