Sep 16

Is SharePoint 2010′s DAM Good Enough?; IE9 Available for Download; Microsoft’s Surface May be Too Late

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Is SharePoint 2010′s DAM Good Enough for Your Organization? (CMS Wire)
During your search for the appropriate Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution, you’ve no doubt considered SharePoint as a possibility. SharePoint is probably already being utilized in your organization in some way, so it makes sense to see how it measures up. But does SharePoint 2010 offer enough OOTB features to be a legitimate candidate?

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (Softpedia)
Forget everything you know about Microsoft’s browser. With the release of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), Internet Explorer has become something else entirely. No longer is IE the exception to the rule in terms of the browsing world, instead look for it at back in the position of leader in innovation.

Sinofsky on IE9, Windows Live, and more (Q&A) (CNET)
Although he wasn’t on stage for the launch of the Internet Explorer 9 beta yesterday, Windows unit president Steven Sinofsky was paying close attention to the product’s release and to initial public reaction. It’s a sign of just how important the browser has become to the overall success of Windows. By any measure–and Microsoft does plenty of research–Web browsing is one of the main things that people do with their computers. Although Internet Explorer still is the most used browser, it has been ceding share in recent years to Chrome, Firefox, and other browsers.

Mobile Entrée Update: Enhanced Mobile BI, SharePoint Social Features and More (PRWeb)
Mobile Entrée 2.1 includes support for SharePoint 2010 My Sites, BI dashboards using PowerPivot and Excel Services, as well as new mobile web content features and support for Windows Phone 7.

DEMO: Microsoft Cloud Computing Guru Matt Thompson on Windows Azure and the Importance of Data (video) (DEMOBeat)
Microsoft’s Matt Thompson, general manager of developer and platform evangelism, hit the DEMO Fall 2010 stage this afternoon to chat about the company’s commitment to cloud computing with Windows Azure, as well as the ever-present value of data. Thompson reiterated Microsoft’s position on Azure, which remains practically unchanged since it launched in October 2008: The company sees cloud computing as its next major computing platform beyond Windows and the internet. It’s planning to have cloud computing aspects built into everything they ship, and it’s also aiming to be more open with Windows Azure than any other Microsoft platform. “We believe we have the most open cloud on the planet,” Thompson said.

Microsoft’s Surface Tablet: Three Years Too Late? (ZDNet)
Microsoft user interface researcher Bill Buxton told the Globe and Mail that he expects Microsoft to be offering three years from now a tablet device that will be like a slimmed-down mini Surface. That sounds all well and good… except for the three years part. And the Windows part (unless Buxton is expecting Microsoft to make some pretty radical changes to the version of Windows running on these things.

Is the Truth About Vulnerability Disclosure Too Dangerous for the Public to Know? (SC Magazine)
The issue of vulnerability disclosure is a difficult one to assess, on one side there is the public acknowledgement of a flaw and on the other there is the perceived ‘announcement’ of it. Will Hogan, VP of sales and marketing at Idappcom, looks at vulnerability disclosure, asks when it is appropriate and whether we should be disclosing vulnerabilities at all.

Around the Blogosphere
The SharePoint50 Project: Why We Did It (End User SharePoint)
From Mark Miller: When Debbie Rosen first approached me with the SharePoint50 results, I was floored. I told her the entire SharePoint Community would be interested in hearing about the research, why it was done and the final results. In this installment of The SharePoint50 Project, Debbie explains the history behind the project.

LINQ to SharePoint – Scope is Site Collection (SharePoint Blues)
We made a discovery earlier this year when starting to develop our first customer projects on SharePoint 2010 that the DataContext does not extend over multiple site collections in SharePoint context, while it does so out of the mentioned context. This means you can’t develop customizations on SharePoint 2010 using LINQ to SharePoint over SPMetal generated DataContexts, if you want to retrieve data from multiple site collections without obscure workarounds. This is somewhat confusing, while an MSDN article How to: Query Using LINQ to SharePoint suggests it’s possible as an example shows how to initialize DataContext from this.Site.WebApplication.Sites[0].RootWeb.Url and the quote goes: You can also use the context to get, indirectly, the URLs of other Web sites within the site collection, or even the other site collections of the Web application. Although the quote only references to getting URLs of sites from SPContext, the code sample illustrates how to use DataContext with those URLs (even the other site collections of the Web application).

SharePoint 2010 List View Threshold (Chris and Daves SharePoint and Tech Blog)
I recently encountered a problem with a custom Web Part this morning; where it had decided to suddenly stop reading from a list. As I was sitting there, gazing at the once working Web Part sat on its own in the middle of the page a thought occurred to me to check items in the list for any “rogue” values which could cause problems; as I entered the list settings page I  was presented with this:

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is Available for Download (Stefan Goßner)
Microsoft reinvents the browser. Read more about how IE 9 reveals the Beauty of the Web and how to download IE 9 Beta.

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Responsible for managing assigned projects and participating in cross-functional IT teams to address business requirements and/or issues. Will identify, evaluate, design, develop, implement, and maintain custom application solutions by leveraging out of the box functionality provided with SharePoint and/or develop custom applications. Provide enhancements and production support for existing applications as required. This candidate must assist in the development of processes, procedures and accurate documentation.

Microsoft Updates
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (ifswfe-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 (Microsoft Support)
This article describes the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package that is dated August 31, 2010.

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