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A Quick Look at Phonetic People Search in SharePoint 2010 (AjaxWorld)
Maybe you hadn’t noticed, but talking about Search is my favorite topic in SharePoint (with ECM closely following it). :)  This is why I am so excited about the new features we are seeing in Enterprise Search.  Wildcards and built in refinement were enough to bring a tear to my eye, but People Search is what I think a lot of people will be impressed by.  You see People Search is the gateway to many of the new social aspects in SharePoint 2010.  Your old stuffy CIOs are going to absolutely hate it (since they were probably the ones that blocked Twitter and Facebook at your organization).  The new hip CIOs that find value in social media are going to totally embrace it and organizational efficiency and the sense of community is really going to go up.  Not to tangent on the whole social thing though, let’s just take a look today at how it’s easier to find people in SharePoint 2010.

Work Smarter With Online Collaboration Tools (San Francisco Chronicle)
Budget constraints and limited technical support make it critical for most small and medium-size companies to work as efficiently as possible. An important first step in getting more and better work from relatively few people is to enable them to work together in real time, no matter how distant they actually may be. In this brief guide, I'll explain how to select collaboration tools to match your business's needs. The free Google Apps service is a sensible starting point for many companies. But in some instances, a more-robust paid service, such as HyperOffice or even Google's Apps Premier Edition, can be worth the expense.

What Makes Microsoft Office 2010's Future Foggy? (ITvoir)
Microsoft Corp, the software giant has confirmed that Office 2010 suite will be released in the first half of 2010 (in May for businesses and June for masses). The new suite will support extended file compatibility, user interface updates, and a refined user experience. Users can upgrade their PCs with the Office 2010 as it will be available for Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), Windows Vista SP1 and Windows 7.

Are Microsoft Partners 'All-In' the Cloud? (Redmond Channel Partner)
A week after trying to sell customers on its "we're all in" campaign to the cloud, Microsoft is now trying to bring its vast network of partners onboard. Allison Watson, the corporate vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group, made her pitch Wednesday in a prepared and edited video presented via a 10-minute webcast.

Microsoft Tells Enterprise Mobile Customers To Stuff It (BNET)
Just a few weeks ago, Microsoft seemed poised for a mobile resurgence, particularly among corporate users, with Windows Phone 7. However, as it has so many times in the past, the company is about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. How? By making all current Windows Mobile phone applications incompatible with the newest version. That includes every corporate app that companies have bought or tailored for the platform.

 

Around the Blogosphere
FREE and Public Question and Answer Session with SharePoint MVPs (Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden)
If you are a SharePoint Developer, a SharePoint Administrator, or a SharePoint Fan of any type or sort, you should join the Worldwide Chat with SharePoint MVPs that is scheduled for MONDAY, MARCH 15th, at 9:00AM PDT (5:00PM GMT). This is a chance for you to ask the hard SharePoint questions that you may have.  This is a chance to see and hear (via your chat window) the questions that other SharePoint users haven’t been able to figure out yet.  The experts that will be answering the questions include the following All-Stars of the MVP World.

Introducing Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010 (Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog)
Hello everyone! My name is Sangya Singh and I am a Program Manager on the SharePoint engineering team working on Web Content Management (WCM) features. We are very excited about the WCM capabilities that will be shipping in SharePoint 2010 and the possibilities they will open up for our customers to create rich WCM solutions. In this first post, I want to talk about the broad investments we have made in this release around WCM and share with you how we approached it from an engineering perspective.

Register SharePoint Themes by Using a Feature (Weblog Ton Stegeman [MVP])
We are currently breaking down our current SharePoint environment and moving to a new farm. In the current farm we are using a custom SharePoint theme. This has to be installed on the new farm also. This custom theme was created and installed in the early SharePoint 2007 days, when we copied themes by doing an xcopy deployment and registered the theme manually in spthemes.xml. For our new farm we wanted to do this the proper way. To register the themes in the file, I have created a farm scoped feature that registers the theme(s) upon installation of the feature. They are unregistered when the solution is uninstalled.

Forms Authentication vs. Windows Authentication in SharePoint (SharePoint Magazine)
Now that you’re aware of the Authentication types in MOSS 2007 and MOSS 2010 I thought it would be necessary to go into the differences and pros and cons between the two. Note: Both authentication, methods can be applied to both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
SharePoint 2010 to Launch Ahead of Schedule in May & SharePoint 2010 Training Portal Now Available (SharePoint 2010)
In case you haven't already heard the happy news, the launch date of SharePoint 2010 has been moved up from the previously reported June release, and will be arriving a month earlier in May.  Microsoft has announced that the official launch date for both SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 has been set for May 12, with Release to Manufacturing (RTM) intended to occur in April.

 

SharePoint Job Listings**
SharePoint Systems Administrator - Billerica, MA
A large, internationally-recognized company defense company has a contract position available in Billerica, MA for a SharePoint Systems Administrator. This position will initially go for six (6) months, but could possibly extend to a year and a half. Our Client is looking to fill this position as soon as possible. Specifically, they are looking for a SharePoint-focused Sys Admin to work in a multi-tiered farm of up to ten different server types. They need to find a person with excellent SharePoint and IIS skills, who is extremely competent and excited to tackle the Company environment. They will be migrating their servers into Win2K SP4 in the near future.

SharePoint Administrator - Arlington, VA
Develops enterprise content management systems using Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) 2007.  Participates in the development and implementation of internal .NET and SharePoint web applications using Visual Studio and Designer.  Works with customers to gather requirements and create customized applications and complex workflows.  Analyzes and defines the organizations information architecture. The qualified candidate must have experience in developing custom web parts and integrating enterprise content with SharePoint to include content.

 

Microsoft Updates
You cannot add members to a distribution group that is created across forests when the Incoming e-mail message feature is set up in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft Support)
Consider the following scenario: You have a computer that is running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. You set up the Incoming e-mail message feature. You add members to a distribution group that is created across forests.

 

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