Sounds like the NCAA needs to work on their SharePoint security.  – Dooley

Top News Stories
Breathing Life Into SharePoint’s Social Landscape (CMSWire)
According to Forrester Research, social computing is one of the primary reasons why SharePoint 2010 adoption has surpassed all goals and predictions, with over 80% adoption in the enterprise (and making solid inroads into the SMB space), much higher than previous versions of SharePoint at this stage of the lifecycle. However, expectations for social tools have also expanded since SP2010′s general availability in the spring of 2010.

Google vs. Microsoft: Not All Clouds Are Created Equal (Wired)
Amit Singh defected to Google after 20 years at Oracle because he wanted to join the revolution in the cloud. In May, he took over Google’s enterprise operations, overseeing the company’s effort to replace traditional business software with new-age web services such as Google Apps and Google App Engine. Since his move, Oracle has uncloaked its own “cloud” services. But for Singh, that’s a little different. “I don’t know what there is about Oracle’s cloud that is really the cloud,” he told Wired.com this week. “[Oracle CEO] Larry [Ellison] has never been a big supporter of the cloud. He’s recently made some changes, but Oracle are very much a traditional on-premise company.” An on-premise company is an outfit that sells hardware and software to businesses for use in their own data centers. Google is in no way an on-premise company.

Windows 8′s Metro Interface Could Slow Down Business Users (PCWorld)
Microsoft certainly made a big splash Tuesday with its demonstrations of Windows 8 at the BUILD conference in Anaheim, and it’s easy to see why. The new platform is a surprisingly radical departure from the traditional Windows paradigm. There are clearly going to be lots of improvements in Windows 8, including snappier performance, multiplatform support, and improved security features. Then, of course, there’s Metro, the software’s new, mobile-style interface, which will likely appeal to an increasingly mobile-minded world of consumers.

Microsoft: Where’s your $199 Windows Tablet? (ZDNet)
As I write this, Amazon is in the process of preparing shipments of hundreds of thousands of 7″ Kindle Fire tablets to customers, which are awaiting delivery of their $199 devices next week. It’s also now in the process of priming their retail partners such as Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart and Staples to sell the device for the holiday season. Similarly, Barnes & Noble is also preparing their own retail store channel for the 7″ NOOKTablet, which is priced at $249 and has similar capabilities.

Quest Software Shares Ten Predictions for Technology Trends and Practices in 2012 (ITWire)
Ian Hodge, managing director – Australia and New Zealand, Quest Software, said, “The IT community is responding to explosive demand for mobility, collaboration and social networking technologies. At the same time, virtualisation and cloud computing are reshaping how and where applications and computing power are managed and delivered. The implications on communications, security, provisioning, and systems management are enormous. “How organisations are addressing these opportunities and challenges are some of the most important questions the IT community faces today.”

How Google–and Everyone Else–Gets Wi-Fi Location Data (ZDNet)
When I wrote about Google making it possible to opt-out of their Wi-Fi access point mapping program, I made a mistake. I thought Google was still using its StreetView cars to pick up Wi-Fi locations. Nope, Eitan Bencuya, a Google spokesperson, tells me that Google no longer uses StreetView cars to collect location information. So, how does Google collect Wi-Fi location data? They use you. Or, to be more exact, they use your Android phone or tablet. But, it’s not just Google. Apple and Microsoft do the same thing with their smartphones and tablets.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Jeremy Thake Talks NothingButSharePoint.com (The MOSS Show SharePoint Podcast)
Born out of a merger between EndUserSharePoint.com and the SharePoint DevWiki, and with the addition of an IT Pro channel, NothingButSharePoint.com is one the leading online resources in the SharePoint community. It boasts an array of fantastic authors and a huge archive of valuable articles. More than this, it’s been custom built and actually runs on the SharePoint 2010 platform. In this interview, Jeremy Thake tells us how he and Mark Miller came to join forces for NothingButSharePoint.com and all of the work that was involved in merging these communities, customizing the platform and putting the overall experience together.

You Can’t Start with SharePoint (AIIM)
I recently had the opportunity to speak to a group of people at the University of Connecticut about ECM and SharePoint. One of the things people tell me that they like about my presentations, and my SharePoint Stories blog, is that I include the things that didn’t go according to plan. That’s easy for me, I don’t sell SharePoint and I don’t sell my services so I don’t have to give you the impression that I always know what I’m doing. That said, if I do know one thing about building an ECM solution on SharePoint, it is that you don’t start with SharePoint, you start with AIIM. When I mentioned that to the organizer of the event at UConn, I was asked if I could “tell us a little about AIIM”, and I was happy to comply.

Dealing with that Pesky SharePoint Server in Another Time Zone (Dot Net Mafia)
Working at an International company now, I found that I was often running into issues looking at the time stamps of documents.  Our collaboration server was in EST while I was in CST.  It could be confusing at times when you were working on a document for a while and you weren’t sure if the latest version had been saved.  While I was at #SPC11, I sat in a session and picked up this quick tip.  You can actually configure SharePoint to display times in your own time zone.  If you’ve been working for a large company, maybe you already knew this, but I had never noticed it before.

Interesting Access Denied Problem on Publishing Pages (Stefan Goßner)
In a recent case I was analyzing an interesting access denied scenario related to publishing pages. In the specific scenario permissions were broken on the Pages library and all rights except for the site owners group were removed from the pages library. In addition permissions were broken on the publishing pages and individual permissions were granted to different groups of users on each of the publishing pages.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
Sr. Systems Administrator – SharePoint – Charlotte, NC
This position is responsible for the day-to-day operational support of the corporate internal SharePoint systems. This position will work closely with IT management and corporate SharePoint COE team to design, develop, deploy, and administer the company’s web-based SharePoint environment. This position will be responsible for the following: Responsible for administration and support of SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint 2010 systems. Design, implement, and maintain SharePoint-based solutions. Monitor and resolve SharePoint helpdesk problem tickets and respond to end-user questions and inquiries. Develop and maintain documentation pertaining to standards, procedures and techniques for administration, change management, and problem resolution. Collaborate with Infrastructure and DBA groups on backup/recovery operations and disaster recovery testing. Advise and train IT Service Desk personnel. Configure, tune, and troubleshoot enterprise SharePoint and search.

SharePoint Developer – Seal Beach, California
In this newly-created role you will have the opportunity to make an impact in all areas of our organization as you take the lead on designing, implementing and administering our SharePoint, intranet and reporting environments. We are just beginning to build out the SharePoint environment and bringing this function in-house, although you’ll be able to take advantage of contract consultants to complement your skill set.

 

Microsoft Updates
Deploying Branding Solutions for SharePoint 2010 Sites Using Sandboxed Solutions (MSDN)
The SharePoint development tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 provide a simple and effective approach to packaging and deploying the files and code that are required to apply branding to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 sites using a sandboxed solution. This article describes a best practice for creating sandbox-compatible branding solutions by using custom master pages, cascading style sheets (CSS files), and images that can be deployed to SharePoint 2010 farms that are running either SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010.

 

SharePoint Events*

• November 17, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
• November 17, Online - Bamboo Knowledge Management Webinar
• November 17, Online – 4 Ways to Overcome Limited SharePoint Expertise in the Enterprise
• November 17, Melville, New York – JPoint (jQuery + SharePoint): Hottest Buzz Ever!
• November 18, Online – 5 Steps to Effective SharePoint Adoption & Training
• November 22, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Lists Workshop
• November 29, Online - Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• November 30, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Community Central Webinar
• November 30, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
• December 2, Honolulu, Hawaii – SharePoint Saturday
• December 3, Sandy, Utah – SharePoint Saturday
• December 7, Online – How to Build a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
• December 7, Online - Adding PowerShell To Your SharePoint Admin Tool Belt
• December 8, Online - How eBay Successfully Deployed Enterprise Social Networking on SharePoint 2010
• December 8, Melville, New York – Business Process Transformation: Taking SharePoint Beyond the Intranet
• December 10, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida – SharePoint Saturday
• December 10, Kansas City, Kansas, SharePoint Saturday
• 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)
• February 26-29, San Francisco, California – SPTechCon
• February 27-29, Johannesburg, South Africa – Share Conference
• March 20-22, San Francisco, California - AIIM
• March 21, New Orleans, Louisiana – SharePoint Saturday
• April 23-26, Atlanta, Georgia – Share Conference

 

SharePoint Training*

• November 17, Online – Project Management Central End User Training – Bamboo Solutions
• 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
• November 29-December 2, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 No-Code Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
• 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 6-7, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• December 6-9, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• December 6-9, Chicago, Illinois – Mission: Automation – Workflow and InfoPath – SharePoint Solutions
• 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 15, Online – Project Management Central End User Training – Bamboo Solutions
• 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 20, Online – Project Management Central Application Administrative Training – Bamboo Solutions
• 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 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint 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
• January 17, Online – Project Management Central Application Administrative Training – Bamboo Solutions
• January 17-18, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• January 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• January 19, Online – Project Management Central End User Training – Bamboo Solutions
• January 24-25, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2010 – New Features – SharePoint Solutions
• January 24-27, Nashville, Tennessee – Applying MOSS Core Features – SharePoint Solutions
• January 24-27, Nashville, Tennessee – SharePoint 2010 Upgrade and Planning – SharePoint Solutions
• February 1, Online – Knowledge Base Accelerator Application Administration – Bamboo Solutions
• February 13-17, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia – Professional SharePoint Server 2010 Administration – Intelligent Decisioning
• February 16, Online – Project Management Central End User Training – Bamboo Solutions
• February 21, Online – Project Management Central Application Administrative Training – Bamboo Solutions

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

 

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