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The Grill: Microsoft’s Chris Capossela on Google, Twitter and that Blue Screen of Death (Computer World)
Chris Capossela’s career is a throwback, just like Dom’s, the Italian restaurant in Boston’s North End his parents ran for 45 years. Capossela has been at Microsoft ever since graduating 18 years ago, working his way up from being Bill Gates’ speechwriter to head of the Microsoft Project business, to his current role running marketing for some of Microsoft’s most lucrative products: Office, SharePoint, Exchange, as well as their new hosted equivalents. He talked to Computerworld about how his family background prepared him for Microsoft, how Microsoft plans to beat Google Apps, and how it is adding Twitter-like features to Office.

Microsoft Investigating Charges it Stole Rival’s Code (CNET)
Microsoft said on Monday afternoon that it’s investigating allegations that a recently launched microblogging site in China lifts the code and interface of a start-up’s rival service. “Microsoft takes intellectual property seriously, and we are currently investigating these allegations,” company spokesman Mark Murray said in a statement. “It may take some time due to the time zone differences with Beijing.”

Top 10 Business Technology Trends for 2010 (Sydney Morning Herald)
Technology never stops moving, but what are the technologies that CIOs and IT managers really need to consider in 2010? We sampled opinions among analysts, vendors, users, IT professionals, system integrators and pundits and came up with the following 10 to watch:

Microsoft Launches Environment Tool (On Windows)
As part of its initiative to use technology to improve access to timely, accurate and relevant environmental data, Microsoft has released Environmental Atlas of Europe (Atlas). This online portal uses the intuitive interface of Bing Maps to allow people to view stories about the impact of climate change across Europe. Atlas was launched during the COP 15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and is another demonstration of the power of technology in helping citizens and policy advisers understand the issues that surround climate change.

Can Windows 7 Dominate Over Snow Leopard and Chrome OS? (ITVoir)
After the release of source code for Google Chrome operating system to developers, the software giant, Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Apple’s Snow Leopard, who leads the operating systems market, had received reasons to respond for the growing competition from the search giant. However, Google will launch the stable release in the second half of 2010 for netbooks. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Whereas, Windows 7 can handle designers’ requirement and Apple’s Snow Leopard can have an edge over other operating systems for handling daily routine works.

Public or Private, the Cloud Makes Its Business Case (Defense Systems)
Testing and developing software is like a roller coaster: They both have big highs and lows. For example, a large amount of computing power might be required to run simulations for a short time, but the need drops precipitously when testing the system in the field. That cycle of highs and lows is one reason why government agencies should adopt cloud computing, said Dave Wennergren, the Defense Department ‘s deputy chief information officer.

Around the Blogosphere
How to Set Replication Directory Changes (Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog)
In November, we posted guidance to help setup User Profile Synchronization for those evaluating SharePoint 2010 public beta.  In order for the sync to work, the SharePoint WFE farm admin account or UPA admin account must have “Replicated Directory Changes” permissions in Active Directory.  To help the SharePoint admins that are not Active Directory admins, here is a step-by-step walk-thru to complete this task on Windows Server 2008 R2.  Finally, the User Profile Service administration content on TechNet has been updated based upon feedback from the public beta release.

SharePoint 2010 – Everything Old is New Again (End User SharePoint)
“You Must Un-learn what You Have Learned!” The public beta of SharePoint 2010 has been out for a few weeks now. Many people are discovering and blogging about some of the great new features you’re going to find. Yet there have also been some significant changes to existing features. These are things you may have been using every day in SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0, but which in SharePoint 2010 have moved or changed in ways could cause confusion to experienced users.

SharePoint: Garbage and Governance (SharePoint Pro Connections)
The last few days, I was feeling a bit under the weather, which is unfortunate because the weather here in Hawaii has been unusually gorgeous the last few weeks. All I wanted to do was be outside watching surfers, snorkeling with seals and turtles, and whale watching—it’s been a great few weeks here to be sure. Instead, I was in my office having trouble focusing on anything and finding myself deluged with a mountain of digital garbage. My business hit the “tipping point” as several of our storage options—servers, NAS devices, and cloud-based storage—all managed to fill up at just about the same time. Most problematically, one of my SharePoint content databases was much bigger than I would want it to be for manageable backup and restore.

Debugging SharePoint Commands – Extending Visual Studio SharePoint Development Tools Tip #8 (Waldek Mastykarz)
One of the cool things about the new Visual Studio SharePoint development tools is the ability to communicate with SharePoint to retrieve and work with SharePoint content. Running SharePoint code in the context of a Visual Studio SharePoint development tools extension is pretty simple, but you do have to know one thing in order to be able to debug it.

SharePoint Job Listings**
Application Architect (Microsoft SharePoint MOSS Architect / SME) – Washington, D.C.
The architects will have a direct responsibility in the Architecture and Engineering elements of SharePoint MOSS project. They will be responsible to ensuring the project scope and requirements are met by the final architecture and engineering designs. The Architect will be responsible for completing the necessary documentation required as part of the project IT Risk assessment. Architects on SharePoint applications within a multi-organizational/component Microsoft SharePoint Portal environment. Coordinate with frontline support staff to ensure that all hardware and software configurations are optimized in support of the SharePoint environment.

SharePoint Developer – Denver, CO
Research, design and develop new features for company’s applications. Design technical specifications for assigned features and architectural improvements. (This may include writing use cases and other supplemental requirements specifications). Review and pass technical designs to test engineers in an effort to ensure quality delivery of product. Actively participate in code design and code reviews with appropriate team members as necessary. Develop and deliver to aggressive product release schedules in a cooperative team environment utilizing the agile development methodology.

Microsoft Updates
Values for some crawled properties are lost when you perform a full user profile import in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site (Microsoft Support)
A HighConfidenceDisplayProperty type is mapped to two or more crawled properties that have the People category in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. When you perform a full user profile import, the values for those crawled properties are lost.

Bamboo Partner Events*

• January 14, Online, Boost Business Results with SharePoint – StreamLogic
• February 10, New York, NY, 2010 IMAGINE SharePoint Event:  SharePoint in the Real World – Impact Management

SharePoint Events**

• December 15, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• December 16, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• December 16, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• December 16, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• December 16, Online, Project Management Using SharePoint Webinar
• December 17, Online, Project Management Using SharePoint Webinar
• December 17, Online, ‘What’s New from Bamboo?’ Webinar
• January 9, Virginia Beach, Virginia, SharePoint Saturday
• January 14, Online, Boost Business Results with SharePoint
• January 18-19, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010
• January 23, Online, SharePoint Saturday EMEA
• January 30, Indianapolis, Indiana, SharePoint Saturday
• January 30, New York, New York, SharePoint Saturday
• February 6, Perth, Australia, SharePoint Saturday
• February 19, Iceland, SharePoint Saturday
• February 27, Boston, Massachusetts, SharePoint Saturday
• April 19-21, London, England, SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference
• August 24-27, Washington, DC, SharePoint Best Practices Conference

* If you are a Bamboo Partner please contact Janet Goda (janet.goda@bamboosolutions.com) to have your event included in the Bamboo Partner Events.

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