Jun 01

Office 365 Launches in June; What Can & Should be Moved to the Cloud?; Eric Schmidt Talks “Gang of Four”

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Top News Stories
VMware Buys Socialcast (ComputerWorld)
VMware has acquired Socialcast, its third acquisition this year of technology for enterprise collaboration, the company said on Tuesday. Socialcast software brings together existing enterprise applications including Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook, as well as a microblogging tool and a discussion forum, in a single collaborative application. It’s designed to make it easier for workers to find and share information.

Steve Ballmer: Office 365 to Launch in June (ITWorld)
Microsoft spokespeople have been coy about when the Office 365 cloud service will launch, saying only that it will come out later in 2011. But CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed that it will launch next month. Speaking in Delhi, India, to an industry group last week, Ballmer said, “We’re pushing hard in the productivity space. We’ll launch our Office 365 cloud service, which gives you Lync and Exchange and SharePoint and Office and more as a subscribable service that comes from the cloud. That launches in the month of June.”

Windows Azure: The Right Platform Whatever Language You Choose (LifeHacker)
Building for Windows Azure gives a wide choice of programming languages, from PHP to Java to Ruby to .Net. We chatted with Tim Buntel, Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform Product Manager, about how Windows Azure fits into the overall development scene. Why is Microsoft so committed to offering Windows Azure to people who haven’t chosen to use a Microsoft development environment?

Windows Phone 7 Gives Microsoft its Beachhead in Mobile (Mobile Beat)
Microsoft faces an uphill battle in the mobile phone software competition with Google Android and Apple’s iOS (which runs on iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads). Capturing a share of the smartphone OS market with its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system is critical to Microsoft, since there’s a tectonic shift happening as users shift from PC computing to mobile computing. The question is whether Microsoft is too late or it is getting to the market just in time to keep its rivals from dominating the market.

How to Determine What Parts of Your Business Can and Should be Moved to the Cloud (Smart Business)
“Not a day goes by where I don’t read a headline talking about ‘the cloud,’” says Zack Schuler, founder and CEO of Cal Net Technology Group. “The current, overused definition of the cloud is ‘anything that happens on the Web,’ but in the business world, the more accurate definition of cloud computing is leveraging someone else’s hardware/software and services in order to complete a business task.” Smart Business spoke to Schuler about the role that cloud computing has played for businesses over the last two decades, and in what ways it can benefit their operations today and in the future.

Eric Schmidt’s Gang of Four: Who will Stumble First? (ZDNet)
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt outlined his “gang of four”—Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook—with massive platforms, scale and global reach. The big question is whether these companies can continue to execute. Speaking at the AllThingsD D9 conference Schmidt said the globe has “never had companies growing that fast at that scale.” That growth “has not been possible before,” said Schmidt. Previous tech eras were ruled by one company—Microsoft and then IBM for that.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Display News Pages with CQWP – Part I (Me & My SharePoint Designer)
One of my favorite web parts in SharePoint Server is the Content By Query Web Part (CQWP), that let us display a dynamic view of aggregate content in the site collection and present this in a web part. We can set a query that determines what content that should be displayed, and how the content presents. A common example where the CQWP is useful is when you need to display the latest 5 news at the start page. However, sometimes you may need to modify how the data renders and create a design that ties with graphic profile. To achieve this you can use XSLT, CSS, CAML and jQuery or even write your own markup in HTML.

SharePoint Workspace 2010 – Offline Working Capabilities (The SharePoint Guys)
This blog article aims to: • Highlight some of the Offline Working functionality provided by Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010, including which Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 lists and libraries can and cannot be synchronised. • Highlight the ways in which SharePoint Workspace 2010 communicates with SharePoint Server 2010 and what other functionality is available within SharePoint Workspace 2010. I hope it will act as a useful reference point for anyone considering using SharePoint Workspace 2010.

Resolve an TCP 10061 Error with the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service (C5 Insight)
I went to go run a manual sync of the User Profile Service in SharePoint, and was unable to get to the Service Application.  After reviewing the ULS logs, I found this error: UserProfileConfigManager.StartSynchronizationForOneManagementAgent: Unexpected exception: System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: Could not connect to http://<server:port>/ResourceManagementService/MEX. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it IP address:port. —> System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server —> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it IP address:port.

SharePoint 2010 – Ribbon Bar Editing Permissions (Hello It’s Liam)
While working with SharePoint in its many different versions, I noticed one component that never really got addressed. This is the issue of I have let’s say three different content author groups of internal or external employees and I want them to have different level s of permission to the editing capabilities. What I mean is restrict the ribbon bar functionality so for example the following groups would get these permission for the “Font” group:

Guest Blog by Josh Noble: Pro SharePoint 2010 Search (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the introduction to the new Apress book, Pro SharePoint 2010 Search, by Josh Noble, Robert Piddocke, and Dan Bakmand-Mikalski. The Importance of Quality Findability: If you are reading this book, then most likely your organization has decided to take the leap into SharePoint 2010. Unfortunately, more often than not the platform is selected before anyone determines how it will be used. This leaves a large gap between what the platform is capable of achieving and what is actually delivered to users. The goal of this book is to bridge the gap between what SharePoint can do to connect users with information, and what it does do for your users to connect them with their information.

 

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Microsoft Updates
Add or Delete Personalization Site Links on My Sites (SharePoint Server 2010) (TechNet)
This article describes how to use personalization site links to customize the top link bar on My Sites for users in your organization. When you add a personalization site link, it appears on all the My Sites in the site collection. You can create personalization site links to display important company information. For instance, your organization might want to give users quick access to a timesheet. The destination of the link can be a site within the company intranet or an external site on the Internet.

 

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