I haven’t heard from our team at the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin. Maybe they are all inside hiding from the latest satellite that is about to fall back to Earth.  – Dooley

Top News Stories
SharePoint’s Mobile Picture Remains Murky for Now (Fierce ContentManagement)
I spent time at the SharePoint Conference this week and after listening to the keynote on Monday morning, I noticed the conspicuous absence of any mobile discussion whatsoever. There was a lot of talk about the cloud, but none–and I mean zip, zero, bubkes–about mobile and how it can bring together the cloud and social aspects Microsoft  was clearly emphasizing throughout the keynote. This was particularly curious for a number of reasons. First of all, you couldn’t go anywhere in the wake of Microsoft’s Build Conference last month without hearing about Windows 8 and Metro, the new programming language based on the Windows Phone 7 tile interface.

10 Planning and Governance Keys to SharePoint Success (CMSWire)
In his keynote address at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA earlier this month, Microsoft CVP Jeff Teper, who many in the community refer to as the “Godfather of SharePoint,” stated that governance “is not an issue in SharePoint 2010.” That claim caused a bit of a stir from the audience, and Twitter was suddenly jammed with feedback and speculation.

Microsoft’s Plan for Bringing its BI tools to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 Devices (ZDNet)
While Microsoft’s coming Hadoop distributions may have been the biggest announcement from the Microsoft SQL PASS Summit last week, there were a couple of other hidden gems. One of these was Microsoft’s mobile business intelligence (BI) roadmap. Microsoft is taking its BI capabilities and offerings to non-Microsoft platforms in calendar year 2012, officials said during last week’s confab.

Windows Runtime and .NET: Better Together (Visual Studio Magazine)
Microsoft  unveiled its development strategy for Windows 8 at its BUILD conference last month in Anaheim. One of the biggest development shifts was the announcement of the Windows Runtime (WinRT). WinRT is a set of common classes that exposes the Windows APIs similar to COM and .NET, but it’s accessible from .NET, C#, and JavaScript. It exposes a lot of functionality that was once only in the land of Win32 and COM, such as low-level device access. The WinRT is all native code and is itself on the same level as Win32.

Microsoft Launches Next-Generation Windows Intune (RedmondMag)
Microsoft today launched the second generation of its Windows Intune hosted PC management service. Existing Windows Intune customers will start to get alerts about the update two weeks before its arrival. Microsoft expects that all updates will be completed before the end of this year. The beta version of the Windows Intune service will end on November 17, which is when Microsoft will delete accounts. Trial version users who subscribe to the service will be able to carry over their configurations and data, Microsoft’s FAQ states.

HTML5 Will Transform Mobile Business Intelligence and CRM (Enterprise Apps Today)
HTML has evolved considerably since it was first mapped out by Tim Berners-Lee more than 20 years ago. Now we’re up to HTML 5.0, which could have a significant effect on the business intelligence and CRM landscape. “HTML5 is a big push forward, especially considering how it handles different media as well as cross-device portability,” said Tiemo Winterkamp, senior vice president of global marketing at business intelligence (BI) vendor arcplan. “Both are key areas to help us with mobile scenarios.”

 

Around the Blogosphere
I Don’t Believe in “SharePoint Governance” (AIIM)
There is this crazy idea out there that there is somehow a defined model (loosely defined, at best) for governance within SharePoint. By that I mean a generally accepted view of what it is, who owns it, what it means to manage it. At the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim last week, Microsoft VP Jeff Teper even stated that “governance is not an issue in SharePoint 2010.” When he said it, I felt a sharp pain in my temporal lobes, and experienced a short-term impairment to the organization and categorization of verbal material. In short, I flinched.

ERROR: The Column Cannot be Deleted Because it is Currently Part of a Composite Column Index. (Geoff Varosky’s Blog)
If you’ve ever seen this error before, chances are, you are attempting to delete a Managed Metadata navigation in your list(s) in SharePoint 2010. The answer to this is simple – you have indexing enabled on your column, and you are indexing multiple columns together, to create a composite index. The fix? Also simple. Go into the settings for your list or library, and under General Settings, click on Metadata navigation settings. As shown highlighted below.

SharePoint Questions: MSDN versus Stack Exchange (SharePoint News, Views and “How To’s”)
SharePoint is an enormous heaving behemoth of machinery; full of spinning cogs, churning engines, and peculiar dials. We’ve all worked with parts of it, but not even those that created it understand all of its inner workings. So where do we go when the wheel that goes ‘whir’ is going ‘squeakity’? Or when we’re having trouble bolting on some shiny new levers? What we need is an expert in that area.

A Side-by-side Approach for Upgrading SharePoint Search to FAST (SharePointDevWiki)
The scheduled downtime solution: Upgrading your search solution to FAST for SharePoint (FS4SP) involves creating two new Search Service Applications, reindexing your content, and then at some point switching out the Standard SSA with the FAST Query SSA in your application proxy group as seen in fig. 1. (You can read more about the FS4SP SSA architecture on the TechNet Wiki)

How to Delete a SharePoint Site that is Being Naughty (T3chnicalLead)
For some reason I was unable to delete a site in my SharePoint 2010 environment. This time, I wasn’t really interested in figuring out why, I just wanted the site to go away. Side note: I admit that I didn’t like this site. Let’s call it “SharePoint_DevEnv_01-Oct-2011_000004″ for brevity sake. It had done nothing wrong to me, it hadn’t insulted my family, but it just rubbed me the wrong way and had to go. You know how sometimes an SPWeb just gives you the willys? Well this one did, and I’m glad it got the axe.

Cloud Collaboration: What are the Benefits? Or, Why buy the Cow when you can get the Milk for Free? (AIIM)
Since my last blog about cloud collaboration and how easy it is to get started, I’ve been cruising some of the vendor’s web sites and several things have really made me think more about this phenomenon. What has impressed me the most is how easy it is to get started and have a site up and running within minutes and all done without IT support.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Developer / Architect – Phoenix, AZ
This person will be the technical lead when designing, building, testing, implementing and maintaining applications to meet specific customer requirements. The person in this role fully understands a range of business applications and can quickly determine how to: Estimate time and effort to complete activities. Assist in building features and functions for each release. Work with users to elaborate on requirements and document solution designs. Provide team leadership by advising other developers and creating development work plans. Prepare final product for migration and deployment. Provide technology subject matter expertise to the team. Direct and control development of production application systems . Assist in monitoring the direction and growth of business to ensure the application of appropriate technologies and support resources. Code, test and troubleshoot programs. Assist in preparing programming assignments.

SharePoint Developer – Washington, DC
Will support the development and implementation an Enterprise Level SharePoint portal solution for the Nuclear regulatory commission (NRC) Requirement will include the integration of other agency system/tools supporting Business Intelligence, Content management, communication Integration, and Work flow Management, Calendaring and Scheduling and Data search capabilities. Will support multiple customer working groups to develop an Enterprise Content Management strategic Plan as well as working groups to develop an Enterprise Content Management Strategic Plan as well as working with individual program offices to determine and document Content Management requirement . Will perform Tier 2 Share point Help Desk support for Share point users in response to submitted Help Desk ticket. Will also be required to develop and conduct customer training session for customer executive (Commissioner*s) as well as lower level customer personnel. Must have strong communication skills, both orally and written.

 

Microsoft Updates
Access Data in SharePoint 2010 Web Parts by Using LINQ (MSDN)
Getting Started with Data Access in SharePoint 2010:  Learn how to create a SharePoint 2010 Web Part that retrieves data from lists by using LINQ. Applies to:  Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 | Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 | Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

 

SharePoint Events*

• October 17-20, Berlin, Germany – SharePoint Europe
• October 18, Online - Bamboo Knowledge Management for Technology Webinar
• October 18, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Foundation Library Webinar
• October 18, Online – Executive Briefing – Empower Your Organization with SharePoint
• October 19, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• October 19, Online – “Caching-In” for SharePoint Performance
• October 19, Online – Using SharePoint Designer 2010 in the ‘Real World’
• October 20, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• October 26, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
• October 26, Online – Bamboo Knowledge Management Webinar
• October 26, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
• October 27, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Lists Workshop
• October 29, Twin Cities, Minnesota – SharePoint Saturday
• October 29, Cincinnati, Ohio – SharePoint Saturday
• November 2-3, Washington, D.C. – SharePoint Symposium
• November 3, Mountain View, California – SharePoint Intelligence Conference
• November 5, Richmond, Virginia – SharePoint Saturday
• November 9, Online – Fast and Focused Migrations to SharePoint On-Premises and Online
• November 9, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
• November 9-10, Moscow, Russia – Tech·Ed
• November 11, Washington, D.C. – SharePoint Symposium 2011
• November 12, Nottingham, UK – SharePoint Saturday
• November 12, Denver, Colorado – SharePoint Saturday
• November 14-15,  Stockholm – SharePoint & Exchange Forum 2011
• November 15, Online – Executive Briefing – Empower Your Organization with SharePoint
• November 17, Melville, New York – JPoint (jQuery + SharePoint): Hottest Buzz Ever!
• November 30, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
• December 2, Honolulu, Hawaii – SharePoint Saturday
• December 7, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
• December 8, Melville, New York – Business Process Transformation: Taking SharePoint Beyond the Intranet
• December 13, Online – Executive Briefing – Empower Your Organization with SharePoint
• December 19, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
• January 7, Virginia Beach, Virginia – SharePoint Saturday
• January 10, Online – Executive Briefing – Empower Your Organization with SharePoint
• January 11, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
• January 21, Austin, Texas – SharePoint Saturday
• January 25, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)

 

SharePoint Training*

• October 18, Online – Bamboo Component Training – List Extenders – Bamboo Solutions
• October 19-20, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia – SharePoint 2010 for Site Collection Administrators – Intelligent Decisioning
• October 20-21, Chicago, Illinois – Styling & Branding in SharePoint 2010 – SusQtech
• October 25, Online – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Online – SusQtech
• October 27, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Administration Enhancers – Bamboo Solutions
• October 27, Online – Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 – SusQtech
• October 31-November 4, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• October 31-November 4, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator – Mindsharp
• October 31-November 4, Winchester, Virginia – SharePoint 2010 Administration & Architecture – SusQtech
• October 31-November 11, Winchester, Virginia – SharePoint 2010 Immersion – SusQtech
• November 2, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
• November 7-10, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia – Creating No-code SharePoint Designer Solutions for SharePoint 2010 – Intelligent Decisioning
• November 8, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers I – Bamboo Solutions
• November 10, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers II – Bamboo Solutions
• November 14-18, Calgary, AB, Canada - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• November 14-18, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• November 14-18, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint Designer 2010 – Mindsharp
• November 14-18, Online – SharePoint Designer 2010 – Mindsharp
• November 18, Online – Using Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 – SusQtech
• November 22, Online – Bamboo Component Training – List Extenders – Bamboo Solutions
• November 24, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Administration Enhancers – Bamboo Solutions
• November 28-December 2, Online – SharePoint 2010 Web Content Management – Mindsharp
• November 28-29, Minneapolis, Minnesota – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• November 28-29, Online - Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• November 28-December 2, Washington, DC – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
• November 28-December 2, Online – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
• November 29-December 1, Minneapolis, Minnesota – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• November 29-December 1, Online – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• November 29-December 1, Winchester, Virginia – Power User 2010 – SusQtech
• December 5-8, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• December 5-8, Online – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• December 5-9, Huntsville, Alabama - SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• December 5-9, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• December 5-9, Washington, DC - SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator – Mindsharp
• December 5-9, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
• December 5-9, Online – SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer Course – Mindsharp
• December 5-9, Chicago, Illinois – SharePoint 2010 Administration & Architecture – SusQtech
• December 5-16, Chicago, Illinois – SharePoint 2010 Immersion – SusQtech
• December 7, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
• December 8, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers II – Bamboo Solutions
• December 8-9, Reston, Virginia – Delivering SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop – Innovative-e
• December 12, Online – Business Intelligence & Reporting – SusQtech
• December 12-16, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• December 12-16, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• December 12-16, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint Designer 2010 – Mindsharp
• December 12-16, Online – SharePoint Designer 2010 – Mindsharp
• December 13, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers I – Bamboo Solutions
• December 13-16, Washington, DC – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• December 13-16, Online – SharePoint 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• December 16, Online – Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 – SusQtech
• December 19-20, Online – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• December 19-21, Minneapolis, Minnesota – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• December 19-21, Online – Introduction to InfoPath 2010 for Business Users – Mindsharp
• December 27, Online – Bamboo Component Training – List Extenders – Bamboo Solutions
• December 29, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Administration Enhancers – Bamboo Solutions
• January 4, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
• January 10, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers I – Bamboo Solutions
• January 12, Online – Bamboo Component Training – Collaboration Enablers II – Bamboo Solutions
• January 16-20, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia – Developing Solutions with SharePoint Server 2010 – Intelligent Decisioning
• February 1, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
• February 13-17, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia – Professional SharePoint Server 2010 Administration – Intelligent Decisioning

* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to be included in SharePoint Daily™.

 

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