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Published 08/18 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

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How SharePoint 2010 Brings BI to the Next Level (InfoWorld)
Microsoft SharePoint has a long history of bringing BI (business intelligence) capabilities to users, but it's generally done so with a mishmash of acquired technologies revamped to fit the Microsoft model, look, and feel, and pieced together like Frankenstein. SharePoint 2010 changes that, taking BI to the next level.

Application Development: Microsoft SharePoint 2010: 20 Reasons Developers Are Excited (eWeek)
Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 may be one of the industry's most under-rated products, largely because it means so many different things to different people so no one group or demographic claims it over another. However, Microsoft has been adding more and more features to enable developers to better leverage SharePoint 2010. And as such, developers have responded, prompting SharePoint's popularity to rise among developers, according to Microsoft. SharePoint Server is one of the fastest-growing products in Microsoft's history, with over $1.3 billion in revenue, representing more than a 20 percent growth over the past year. Microsoft attained a significant share of the collaborative content workspace market in 2008 and had the highest growth rate among top vendors with its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, according to IDC. Here are 20 reasons why Microsoft SharePoint 2010 appeals to developers.

Microsoft to Lead SMBs to the Cloud with New Windows Server (Network World)
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Microsoft's newest Small Business Server, codenamed “Aurora” works great. If so, Microsoft will be doing a big service for the small and mid-sized business -- leading them gently to the cloud. A preview version of Aurora was released by Microsoft yesterday.

Good News for Windows Phone 7? (Redmond Developer News)
Microsoft's Windows Mobile is in a freefall. Oracle is going after Google over licensing fees for 7 Java patents that may affect the open source Android OS. Will these developments help the launch of Windows Phone 7 later this year?

Google Boss Eric Schmidt Warns on Social Use of Media (BBC News)
Young people may have one day have to change their names in order to escape their previous online activity, Google boss Eric Schmidt has warned. Mr. Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal he feared they did not understand the consequences of having so much personal information about them online.

IE9 Beta: Better Is Not Enough (Tom's Hardware)
There is no doubt that IE9 will be a much better browser than IE8 and Microsoft is absolutely heading into the right direction, but IE9 does not deliver what I hoped it would. The performance we have seen so far is mediocre at best and the screenshots that were leaked make IE9 look like a half-baked product. Is this the best Microsoft can do or will the company surprise us on September 15 with a truly innovative browser?

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet (Wired)
Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures.

Tracking the Tech that Will Make Government Better (O'Reilly Radar)
Will crowdsourcing and next-generation data mining tools enable the federal government to find innovative solutions to grand challenges and reduce fraud? Last week, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security held a hearing on "Transforming Government Through Innovative Tools and Technology" that looked at the potential for technology to improve government transparency and accountability. The first part of the hearing featured testimony from Daniel Werfel, controller of the Office of Federal Financial Management within the Office of Management and Budget, and Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB). You can view their written testimony and archived webcast at Senate.gov.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Why Does SharePoint Put Those Blasted GUIDs in its Databases? (Todd Klindt's SharePoint Admin Blog )
This question came up a couple of times today, so I thought I'd address it in a blog post. The question goes something like this; "Why does SharePoint put %*&@ing GUIDs at the end of its databases? Argh!!!" This is a very good question, and has a very good answer. Before we go any further, let me be clear. I'm not defending the practice, I'm just explaining it.

Sandbox Tiers (SharePoint Thoughts)
How many of you have started using Sandboxed Solutions?  What's the first thing you do in order to make them work?  Start the Sandboxed Code Service. For the most part, once the service is started, most folks don't think twice about the configuration.  That's pretty nice in many ways - it clearly shows the service is pretty easy to activate and use.

Episode 26 – Enterprise Social (and Search) in SharePoint 2010 With Matthew McDermott – Part 1 (The MOSS Show SharePoint Podcast)
The new and improved Social features in SharePoint 2010 make for tremendously improved enterprise Social capabilities. In this episode, SharePoint expert and MVP Matthew McDermott takes us through some of these new features, explaining how they work and they can be used in a cohesive way to unlock their value in an organisation. We talk about features like the Activity Feed, rating, tagging, improved My Sites, managed metadata, taxonomies, folksonomies and more. with Matthew being an expert on Search as well, we spend a bit of time talking about that too, especially how it ties into Social.

Re-Create Default Security Groups in Multi-Tenant SharePoint 2010 Environment (Ask SharePoint)
If you’ve been dabbling in SharePoint 2010 hosting (multi-tenant) environment and been creating host-named site collections, you have may noticed that the default security groups typically created by default are not there.  These include: <Site Name> Members, <Site Name> Owners, <Site Name> Visitors

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Best Practice: Plan Your Best Practices Conference Schedule in Advance (The Bamboo Team Blog)
We're now less than a week away from the Tuesday morning kickoff of this year's Best Practices Conference (BPC), which returns for a second year to the Hyatt Reston Town Center in the Washington, D.C. 'burbs. I've learned from past experience to begin my BPC session preparation well in advance of walking up to the registration booth on "opening day," and I heartily encourage all attendees, especially any first-time attendees who may be reading, to adopt a similar approach.  To do otherwise is to invite panicked last-minute decisions, and who's got that kind of time to spare when the goal is to soak up as much knowledge as possible during your time at the BPC?  Unless you're following one specific track, it can be difficult to narrow your schedule down to just a single session in each time slot, especially given the quality of the presenters you'll  find at the BPC.  Given that fact, I find it's best to at least get a rough draft of my intended schedule prepared in advance, even if that rough draft includes some time slots where I might only be able to narrow it down to an either/or between two competing sessions.  I'll end up making a game-time decision on those time slots later, but at least I'll have narrowed the field by preparing in advance.

This Week in Bamboo (August 8th, 2010 - August 14th, 2010) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
If you are interested in our SharePoint 2010 products, check out our storefront this week for more releases.  At Bamboo this week we rolled out another set of SharePoint 2010 products and released some patches for our SharePoint 2007 products.  For more details about the list of new releases, patches and bugs fixed, please see below.

Early Results from the Bamboo Customer Survey (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Bamboo is currently conducting a survey of customers and visitors to our Web sites.  Participants are eligible to win an iPad, an iPod Nano and other prizes.  So far the response to the survey has been amazing!  We invited over 20,000 individuals to participate, and so far we have over 1,200 responses.   We will continue to run the survey through August 31st, so there is still plenty of time for you to voice your opinion and get a shot at winning the iPad.  Click here to enter now: https://bamboo.questionpro.com/

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
Job Description - Houston , TX
Robert Half Technology is looking for a SharePoint Administrator for an IMMEDIATE Contract to Hire Opportunity. This SharePoint Administrator will maintain and administer Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, including daily monitoring, troubleshooting and performance analysis. The SharePoint Administrator will be a critical resource during the implementation of SharePoint 2010 and the support and maintenance upon going live.

SharePoint Solution Architect - Palo Alto, CA
The SharePoint Solution Architect is responsible for architecting the enterprise infrastructure and solution architecture for MOSS. This is a highly visible technical position that requires the knowledge and hand on support experience of a wide range of technologies related to enterprise-level infrastructure and software, the intricacies of system configuration and administration across an enterprise, capacity and throughput parameters, and business objectives.

 

Microsoft Updates
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (coreserver-x-none.msp): July 27, 2010 (Microsoft Support)
This article describes the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 issue that is fixed in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package that is dated July 27, 2010. This article describes the following items about the hotfix package:

 

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