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Top News Stories
Whose SharePoint is It Anyway (AIIM)
Lately, I’ve been reading a series of articles and blog entries aimed at promoting techniques for building solutions faster by using “standard” parts and reusable components – good thoughts, but it makes me worry.

Enterprise Collaboration Coming Together (Information Management)
Few enterprises are at a high functioning and desired level of collaboration and communications, but there are strong indications that could change in the next few years, according to responses to a new IT advocacy organization survey. CompTIA’s  “Unified Communications and Collaboration Trends” report boils down and assesses answers received during March 2012 from 500 IT and business executives involved in work data sharing and telecommunications processes at small, medium and large companies.

Office 365 Mailbox Statistics (WindowsITPro)
A recent tweet took me to a script repository for Office 365 maintained by Microsoft’s Thomas Ashworth. Now, despite the best efforts of Twinbox to integrate my Twitter feed into Outlook (a job it does quite nicely), I don’t always respond to tweets or even read their content. After all, there’s so much rubbish you can deal with during any one day. But discovering an exception to the normal dross is always wonderful and so it is when you discover something useful.

Windows 8 Boots ‘Too Quickly’ to be Interrupted, Microsoft Adding a New ‘Boot Options’ Menu (The Verge)
Did you know that an SSD-equipped Windows 8 PC can boot up in under seven seconds? Watch the video below if you don’t believe it, Microsoft has really optimized the hell out of the startup operations of its next OS — although that has come at a somewhat amusing cost: you no longer get enough time to interrupt the boot process. The current ability to press F8 while your PC is powering up and the ever-familiar BIOS menu prompt of “Press F2 to enter setup” will both be missing from Windows 8 computers, simply because the hardware and software have advanced to such an extent as to leave users with too little time to access them.

Microsoft vs. Google: This Time, it’s Social (Networking) (InfoWorld)
I know. It’s been Facebook Facebook Facebook all the friggin’ time lately. The IPO was a bit of a flop, Mark Zuckerberg took off his hoodie long enough to change his relationship status in public, yadda yadda yadda. I totally understand if you’ve filled your quota for news about social networks for the next six months. But I’m afraid I have some news you may want to sit down for.

Windows Phone 8 ‘Leaked’ Concepts Reveals Significant Changes? (ITProPortal)
A collection of sketches of the upcoming Windows Phone 8 has been leaked, revealing numerous changes to the user interface. These “improvements” mainly affect the way the user will perceive multitasking, tile grouping, the lockscreen and other elements of the OS. First of all, some pictures suggest that multitasking will bring the currently used application to the forefront of the screen, but will not occupy the entire display.

 

Around the Blogosphere
What SharePoint Cloud Hosters Don’t Tell You (Things that Should be Easy)
Seeing how much hype there is about cloud computing / hosting / software as a service, I thought it would be good to share some of cloud computing’s dirty little secrets. Few people in the industry talk about these, and customers usually don’t find out until there’s no going back.

Adding and Deploying Sandboxed Solutions Using PowerShell (Dot Net Mafia)
One of my most popular posts on DotNetMafia.com is my post on using PowerShell to add and deploy SharePoint solution packages (.wsp files).  However, in that post, I never went in detail in deploying sandboxed solutions.  Today, I want to talk about that and show you what you need to know.  I started by using Visual Studio 11 to build a sandboxed solution using the new Visual Web Part.

Brand SharePoint: Quicklaunch – The Menu (Part 2) (EndUserSharePoint)
The Quicklaunch menu, probably the most used navigation inside SharePoint collaboration sites, is on the menu today. Last time, I laid out all the CSS classes I found in the CSS Chart. Today I am going to explore some of them and their impact on my Navigation.

Count List Items in InfoPath (SP365)
In some cases you want to count the number of items in a SharePoint list and do something with that value. Let say show or hiding a control in InfoPath. This is how you can do this: Add a new data source to you InfoPath form that points to your list that you want to count:

On Planning for Project Planning (The Bottom-Line PM)
I’ve been talking to Mike, the founder and President of my company, Innovative-e, about my recent PM dry spell and my nervousness about approaching Microsoft Project. It certainly isn’t that I think Microsoft Project is a bad piece of software (I’ve only used it once; I wouldn’t know). It’s that, despite what I have previously penned in these very “pages” about the apparent usefulness of Project, I am still intimidated by what is a very, very powerful piece of software. And despite the entire premise of this blog, I am still intimidated by the concept of being a Project Manager. No matter how many times in my daily life I do the same things that a PM does – planning, budgeting and allocating resources, projecting a timeline, and so forth – to give what I’m doing so lofty a name as “Project Management” changes it and makes it seem so much more A Thing.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Developer – Jersey City, NJ
The SharePoint developer will participate in the development, customization and integration efforts of enterprise solutions involving Collaboration, Portals, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Business Process and Forms, and Business Intelligence (BI), utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0), SharePoint Designer 2007 and Visual Studio 2008/.NET 3.5. The SharePoint developer will work closely with multiple groups such as Infrastructure, QA, Corporate Communications, and various internal groups as the SharePoint environment expands.

SharePoint Software Systems Spec IV – Houston, TX
Provides technical application, systems administration and programming skills in the development, installation, maintenance, security, performance, data integrity and support of key Internet and Intranet systems, including institutional web servers, enterprise web applications and system-wide infrastructure environments.

 

Microsoft Updates
National Careers Service Website on Track to Meet the Needs of 20 Million Citizens (Microsoft Case Studies)
The National Careers Service for England is a United Kingdom (U.K.) government initiative. The Skills Funding Agency is responsible for developing the service, built around an interactive learning and careers website. Working with Microsoft Services and using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 communications and collaboration software, the agency is confident that its site meets government expectations and the needs of 20 million users.

 

SharePoint Events*

• May 23, Online – 5 Risky SharePoint Human Resource Temptations
• May 23, Online – How to Slash SharePoint Development Costs and Get More from Your Investment
• May 24, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• May 24, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
• May 26, Brisbane, Australia – SharePoint Saturday
• May 29, Online – The Missing Link in SharePoint Projects
• May 31, Birmingham, U.K. – Effective SharePoint Requirements with Serious Games
• June 2, St. Louis, Missouri – SharePoint Saturday
• June 2, Silicon Valley – SharePoint Saturday
• June 2, Atlanta, Georgia - SharePoint Saturday
• June 5, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• June 6, Online (APAC Region) – Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?
• June 6, Online – The Essentials of SharePoint Disaster Recovery Planning
• June 7, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Knowledge Management Webinar
• June 7, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• June 9, Orlando13, Florida – SharePoint Saturday
• June 13, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• June 14, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Workflow Conductor Webinar
• June 19, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Community Central Webinar
• June 20, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• June 20, Online – Selecting and Protecting the Right SharePoint Backup Targets
• June 21, Online – Executives Beware: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives
• June 25-27, Denver, Colorado – SharePoint Fest
• June 26, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
• June 28, Online – Bamboo SharePoint Time Tracking & Management Webinar
• June 30, Dayton, Ohio – SharePoint Saturday
• June 30, Adelaide, Australia - SharePoint Saturday
• September 25-27, Chicago, Illinois – SharePoint Fest

 

SharePoint Training*

• May 25, Online – Project Management Central End User Training – Bamboo Solutions
• May 30-31, Online – InfoPath 2010 Power End User – Mindsharp
• May 30-31, Nashville, Tennessee – Exploring SharePoint 2010 – New Features – SharePoint Solutions
• June 4-8, Calgary, Alberta, Canada – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• June 4-8, Washington, D.C. – SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer – Mindsharp
• June 5, Online – Workflow Conductor Designer Training – Bamboo Solutions
• June 5-6, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• June 5-7, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
• June 5-8, Nashville, Tennessee – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• June 7, Huntsville, Alabama – SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar – Mindsharp
• June 8, Online – Bamboo Select – Bamboo Solutions
• June 11-15, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Advanced Administrator – Mindsharp
• June 11-15, Calgary, Alberta, Canada – SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer – Mindsharp
• June 12-15, Dallas, Texas – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
• June 18-21, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Power End User – Mindsharp
• June 18-22, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer – Mindsharp
• June 20, Online – Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training – Session 1 – Bamboo Solutions
• June 21, Online – Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training – Session 2 – Bamboo Solutions
• June 25-29, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• June 26-27, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• June 26-29, Arlington, Virginia – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• July 3, Online – Workflow Conductor Designer Training – Bamboo Solutions
• July 9-13, Online – SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer – Mindsharp
• July 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee – InfoPath 2010/SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deep Dive – SharePoint Solutions
• July 10-13, Online – SharePoint 2010 Power End User – Mindsharp
• July 13, Online – Bamboo Select – Bamboo Solutions
• July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer – Mindsharp
• July 16-20, Minneapolis, Minnesota – SharePoint 2010 Designer – Mindsharp
• July 17-18, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Foundation 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• July 17-20, Chicago, Illinois – Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 – SharePoint Solutions
• July, Online – Project Management Central (3.0) Application Administrative Training – Session 2 – Bamboo Solutions
• July 19, Online – SharePoint Re-Design And User Adoption Seminar – Mindsharp
• July 23-27, Online – SharePoint 2010 Core Technologies – Mindsharp
• July 24-26, Dallas, Texas – Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators – SharePoint Solutions
• July 30-Aug 3, Online – SharePoint 2010 Power End User – Mindsharp
• July 30-Aug 3, Online – SharePoint 2010 Foundation Developer – Mindsharp

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

 

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