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4.7 Million Dumped IBM Lotus Notes and Domino for Exchange and SharePoint (Softpedia)
Microsoft indicated that it was continuously eroding IBM’s market unified communications share, and that customers dumping the hardware giant were in the millions. The Redmond company pointed out that almost five million people switched from IBM Lotus Notes and Domino to Exchange and SharePoint in the last year alone. According to the software giant, the main aspects that drew customers away from IBM’s unified communications products and onto Microsoft’s solutions are cost reductions and the boost in efficiency.

10 Things SharePoint Can Do for Your Firm (Law.com)
I often find myself staring at Microsoft SharePoint and wondering how I can do more with it to enable a 21st century law firm; one in which attorneys, clients and staff can easily share ideas, expertise and information across time and distance. How can it be used to reduce costs while expanding the ways in which we collaborate?

Microsoft Opens Mobile App Store to Developers (PC World)
Microsoft officially opened its Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store to software developers on Monday as the giant software maker moves to catch up to the success of Apple’s iPhone App Store. Microsoft is now accepting submissions of mobile phone software applications from registered developers in 29 countries and is offering prizes for the most popular applications as judged by downloads, revenue, usefulness and more, said Todd Brix, leader of Windows Marketplace for Mobile at Microsoft, in a blog posting.

Microsoft Forges 3 New Security Tools (Tech News World)
Organized crime, disorganized crime, petty theft, fraud — the Web has it all, and combating it requires and ever-evolving set of tools. Microsoft offered some details on three new security projects at the Black Hat security conference. It also unveiled the progress it’s made with some of the projects it announced at last year’s event.

MS Will Sandbox, Not Patch, Office 2010 Vulnerabilities (Info Packets)
Microsoft has a reputation for rarely admitting or accepting defeat in any market. But the company is now waving the white flag of surrender after admitting that they can no longer keep up with hackers when discovering file format bugs in time to stop them from exploitation.

Microsoft Plans Emergency Patch Tuesday (Information Week)
Microsoft late Friday said it would issue two security bulletins on Tuesday, July 28, outside of its regular monthly patch cycle. The company typically releases “out-of-band” bulletins to address vulnerabilities that demand immediate attention.

Microsoft Windows 7: Getting More Bullish (Business Week)
On the day Microsoft unveiled the next version of its Office suite of productivity programs, company executives were hoping they could also generate buzz for the next version of the Windows operating system. During a July 13 keynote, Windows marketing chief Bill Veghte noted that companies running Windows 7 include BMW, T-Mobile, and Del Monte Foods and that Microsoft has had to turn away others that wanted to become early testers. He also outlined discounts for corporate customers and marketing programs for the thousands of IT companies that resell and install Windows on its behalf.

Twitter Breach Revives Security Issues with Cloud Computing (Computer World)
Security and privacy issues over cloud computing are not very different from those surrounding any sort of IT outsourcing and need to be treated that way, security managers and analysts say in the wake of breaches involving Twitter and Google Apps. The incident has resurfaced many familiar concerns relating to cloud computing and is raising questions over a multimillion-dollar plan by the city of Los Angeles to move its e-mail and office applications to the cloud.

Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint 101 (Part 1) (Meet Dux)
I had the opportunity to facilitate a 4-hour, hands-on, SharePoint 101 workshop during SharePoint Saturday Baltimore last July 25, 2009. As I have previously mentioned, registration for the workshop was sold out in 3 minutes! The SharePoint 101 workshop is designed for individuals who are not familiar with SharePoint. After the presentation, attendees were able to leverage the fundamental capabilities of SharePoint. Here’s the slide deck from the session.

Bullet Proof Ways to Increase End User Buy-in: Rock the Rollout! (End User SharePoint)
When I first saw the video that I’m linking to below, I almost jumped out of my chair, I was so excited. These people know how to do a rollout. After watching, think about what it took to pull this off and you’ll see it is very similar to trying to get End User buy-in for your project. Look at the people’s faces right before everything starts. Watch closely as they figure out… “Oh, oh. This isn’t going to be normal!” Then watch as the enthusiasm and the heartfelt performances of the presenters win EVERYONE over, even someone you wouldn’t expect.

Breakfast with Dr. Wicked of SharePoint (Part 2) (Meet Dux)
Here’s the second half of my breakfast with Paul Culmsee. Make sure you watch Part 1 if you haven’t. Watch as we discuss: the value of sound processes, chaos vs. shared understanding, poor estimation, custom workflows in SharePoint Designer, wicked problems vs. tamed problems, SharePoint vs. Skype, waterfall vs. agile, big bang approach vs. bottoms-up iterative approach, scrum, and Best Practices Conference.

Adoption Tip 1 of 7: Use SharePoint’s Flexibility for Success (End User SharePoint)
SharePoint’s flexibility is both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness.  The capabilities of SharePoint far exceed those that user communities are accustomed to receiving in a software solution.  Given this, when they are first exposed to these capabilities your users may feel intimidated by SharePoint’s complexity and frustrated by its menus and cryptic options.  Here are some ideas about how best to use SharePoint’s flexibility to gain greater adoption of the platform within your environment. 

SharePoint Job Listings**
SharePoint Project Manager – San Jose, California
cPrime (www.cprime.com) is looking for a SharePoint Project Manager. During this 6 month + contract engagement, you will be working on a variety of SharePoint projects including 1) Central Infrastructure Portal Upgrade and 2) Operations support of the website.

Systems Developer III/SharePoint Platform Team Lead – Cleveland Ohio
To provide team and group leadership in the areas of project leadership, business requirements analysis, systems design, application development, and application maintenance and support. Leads staff members and other members of the Firm in technology initiatives. Provides project leadership responsibility for projects of medium to large (3-5 person teams, 200+ impacted users) scope.

Technical Assistant-SharePoint, Excel – Warrenville , Illinois
Strong to excellent Microsoft Office skills with emphasis on EXCEL. Able to work with a team on engineers/technicians. Working knowledge of SharePoint, as the role will be responsible for uploading documents to the team site. Good organizational skills.

Microsoft Updates
Introduction to libraries (Windows SharePoint Services)
A library is a location on a site where you can create, collect, update, and manage files with team members. Each library displays a list of files and key information about the files, which helps people to use the files to work together.

Manage lists and libraries with many items (Windows SharePoint Services)
When a list or library has a large number of items, you must carefully plan its organization and how users need to access the data. By planning and using a few key list and library features, you can ensure that users can find information without adversely affecting the performance of the rest of your site.

About Web Part zones and their properties (Windows SharePoint Services)
Web Part zones are containers of Web Parts that are used to group and organize Web Parts on a Web Part Page. Web Part zones also have a set of properties that serve a dual-purpose. You can use one subset of properties to organize the layout and format of Web Parts on the Web Part Page. You can use another subset of properties to provide an additional level of modification protection (or “lock down”) of the Web Parts within the zone.

Bamboo Partner Events*
July 29, New York, New York, Got Policies & Procedures? – Impact Management

August 8, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint Saturday
August 13, Online, Business Process Automation from SharePoint to GP: Workflow, e-forms, Budgets. Avoid the BIG PAPER chase – InterDyn AKA
August 15, Adelaide, Australia, SharePoint Saturday
August 19-21, Reston, Virginia, Ensuring SharePoint Success: How to Effectively Deliver the Promise of SharePoint – Innovative-e
August 22, Copenhagen, Denmark, SharePoint Saturday
August 24-26, Washington, DC, Best Practices Conference – Mindsharp

SharePoint Events**
July 28, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
July 29, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
July 29, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
July 29, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
July 29, Online, Project Management Using SharePoint Webinar
July 29, New York, New York, Got Policies & Procedures?
July 30, Online, Project Management Using SharePoint Webinar
July 30, Online, What’s New from Bamboo? Webinar
July 30, Online, Bamboo 101 – Chart Plus and SharePoint Poll Web Part Webinar

August 8, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint Saturday
August 13, Online, Business process automation from SharePoint to GP: Workflow, e-forms, budgets. Avoid the BIG PAPER chase
August 15, Adelaide, Australia, SharePoint Saturday
August 19-21, Reston, Virginia, Ensuring SharePoint Success: How to Effectively Deliver the Promise of SharePoint
August 22, Copenhagen, Denmark, SharePoint Saturday
August 24-26, Washington, DC, Best Practices Conference

September 12, New York, New York, SharePoint Saturday
September 21-25, Chicago, Illinois, SharePoint Branding Bootcamp
September 21-24, Germany, ShareConnect

October 19-22, Las Vegas, Nevada, SharePoint Conference 2009

November 14, San Antonio, Texas, SharePoint Saturday

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