Mar 21

Is SharePoint Late to Enterprise Social?; Successful Office 365 Migration; Windows 8 on ARM vs iPad

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

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Microsoft: SharePoint Isn’t Late to Enterprise Social Networking (ComputerWorld)
Although enterprise social networking (ESN) products that replicate Facebook-like and Twitter-like functionality for workplaces have been around for about five years, Microsoft sees a big opportunity in that market, to which some feel the maker of Windows and Office has been slow to respond. The value of ESN is undeniable in enhancing employee collaboration and communication, but many ESN implementations have failed to deliver on their promise for various reasons, such as lack of integration with third-party business software and poorly planned deployments, a Microsoft official said.

Video Blog: Leveraging Office 365 for Project Collaboration – Team Document Creation (CMSWire)
Continuing our series showing how to use Office 365, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Windows Phone 7.5 technologies to put together a streamlined, standardized project management system, today we will look at how to project documentation can be worked on collaboratively.

Is Storage A SharePoint Killer? (Network Computing)
Unstructured data is becoming an IT buzz word these days, and it’s something organizations are grappling with: how to get a handle on email, Office documents and PDFs, among other data-clogging sources. Microsoft’s SharePoint document repository was built to provide content collaboration and version control. But as user adoption increases, so does the amount of data that is stored in SharePoint, which critics say can wreak havoc on its infrastructure and lead to poor performance, along with the corresponding management headaches.

Steps to a Successful Office 365 Migration (Computing)
Officially launched in June 2011, Office 365 is Microsoft’s response to the runaway success of online and cloud-hosted application suites – most notably Google Apps – which are steadily eating away at its bedrock of revenue from sales of on-premise software licenses. Office 365 is a significant upgrade to previous Microsoft online apps, including the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), based on 2007 versions of Microsoft’s Exchange messaging platform as well as Lync communications app, SharePoint collaboration app and Live@Edu and Office Live Small Business.

Windows 8 on ARM vs. iPad: Has Microsoft Lost Already? (The Register)
MicroBite 34 Steve Ballmer’s company has released a consumer preview of Windows 8, something Microsoft’s chief executive has called his company’s riskiest bet. After some rowdy Apple-style rah-rah fanboidom, it has quickly become apparent that the focus on tablets makes Microsoft’s Windows 8 difficult and frustrating to use for those running a Windows 7 or even a Window XP machine.

Microsoft Says Windows Phone Will Pass Apple in China (Bloomberg)
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, said its Windows Phone operating system will propel it past Apple Inc. in China’s smartphone market as its partners release devices costing as little as $158. Passing Apple is an “interim goal” as the company’s longer-term objective is to supplant Google Inc.’s Android as the local market leader, Simon Leung, Microsoft’s chairman and chief executive officer for the Greater China region, told reporters in Beijing today. He didn’t give a time frame for reaching the targets.

Around the Blogosphere
Making Sense of HTML5 with SharePoint (EndUserSharePoint)
Many of you have heard that there’s something new coming, and that it’s called HTML5. Or maybe that it’s here but you can’t take advantage of it due to the browser you use or because you use SharePoint. As with most new things these days, there’s way too much information available about HTML5 to sift through. HTML5 is a technology, but it’s also turned into almost a philosophy about “modern” Web development. HTML5, along with the concept of the “modern” Web, is an evolving set of ideas and specifications, so it’s a moving target. The core idea is that with HTML5, we can build lighter, faster, and more interactive Web pages than we could in the past.

How Microsoft’s Secrecy Policy is Hurting the SharePoint Community (Furuknap’s SharePoint Corner)
You may have heard that there’s a ton of new software from Microsoft on the near horizon.  Windows 8, Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, and pretty much anything on which you can slap 2013 will come out in the very near future. You may also have heard that I’m not particularly fond of how Microsoft talks to the market about these things. I’m fairly negative, not because I’m offended by not being part of ‘the inner circle’ but rather because Microsoft’s silence is hurting the community. How? Well, I’ll tell you how.

What is Project Management? (The Bottom-Line PM)
I was talking with Tim Cermak, Innovative-e’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM) guru about this “Bottom-Line PM” project. Tim, who is also a PMP, is kind of my guide through the wilderness that is learning about project management when you haven’t an inkling. One thing became apparent to me as we talked: everybody knows of project management, but it seems that, for us outsiders, it’s a pretty nebulous concept. It would be helpful to simply define what “project management” is.

Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator: New SharePoint 2010 Release Offers Improved Performance and Usability (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Centralized. Expert verified. Supervisor approved. Format standardized. Turn-key solution. These are just a few of the terms that describe Bamboo’s knowledge management solution, Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator (KBSA). KBSA provides end users with published, expert certified corporate knowledge in the form of articles, grouped by categories, and searchable based on associated metadata.

 

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Microsoft Updates
Migrating Managed Metadata in SharePoint Server 2010 (MSDN)
Learn how to use the Managed Metadata Service application to migrate managed metadata among Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 development, testing, and production environments.

 

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