Wednesday, December 30, 2009

MSFT BI Conference 2010 Details

Mark Your Calendars for Microsoft BI Conference


Mark your calendars for the 2010 Microsoft BI Conference the week of June 7, 2010 in New Orleans, LA. The Microsoft BI Conference is collocated with TechEd North America 2010.
The conference will focus on the following categories:
Empower Your Users – Microsoft Excel (including PowerPivot for Excel), SSRS (Report Builder), Microsoft Visio, Search/FAST

Improve Organizational Effectiveness - SharePoint Server 2010 (including PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services, Visio Services)

Increase IT and Developer Efficiency - SSAS, SSRS, SSIS (including best practices for implementation), MDS, PowerPivot for SharePoint

Partner Services and Solutions Delivery – Partner and ISV methodology and solution offerings that augment our BI solution, Integration with other products (e.g., CRM)

Customer Business Value – Learn how customers are using our products in the field with in-depth sit downs with a TDM angle

Registration and demand generation efforts will kick-off in early January.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

A Tough Year Is Gonna End

As 2009 comes to a close, there are many less fortunate than before the year started. I know; I have a lot of friends who are looking for a home.

It is usual (and customary), during the holiday season, to give thanks for the blessing we have. I thought a short IT list would be sufficient:

Our IT Reputation is Improving

- Our reputation has been in question in the past due to us being perceived as:

• An inhibitor to corporate progress – IT systems cannot be changed fast enough to meet market demands, seize opportunity or comply with a new requirement.

• Weakly aligned (between IT and business strategy) – marked by an intractable language barrier.

• Not strategically aligned – IT does not often know or follow corporate strategy

- Create an enterprise architecture agenda / roadmap – blueprinting the way forward for alignment

• Incorporate this EA function / COE into the PMO processes

• Iteratively get to alignment nirvana

- Implement an agile information management platform [EIM plan]

• Get it to the business so that they can “see” how to improve

• They are “screaming” for knowledge – empower them

- Implement a Services Based Business Intelligence Architecture [ERP, SharePoint, Data Management, Business Performance, SAP, Cloud, …]

• Become agile in your ability to change systems to support morphing business processes

IT Governance

- It saves money and during these times (we all could use a little of this)

- It aligns the business with Information Technology (we need that)

- Join the linked-in group: IT Governance & Management

Let’s improve our ability to provide strategic value to the business

- Let become the source of innovation

• Capture the business architecture of the organization

• Define an enterprise architecture for our business model

• Let’s provide the business with insight into their data (without their asking)

- Let’s strategically align ourselves with a common vocabulary

• Create a data governance charter and implement a governance board including key business leaders

• Create an IT strategy that is in direct alignment with the corporate mission and strategy (using our Business Architecture as the foundation)

Finally, let’s enjoy what we do

- For when you love what you do, the paycheck is gratis!

Some parting shots for 2009: Let’s all hope that the global economy improves – since no country is an island anymore. Let’s pray that our politicians can get their hands out of our pockets long enough to realize that without us working, all the money thrown at large business cannot help. Let’s all align ourselves to a common good – I have learned that a person has the right and privilege to look down at another person, only when that person needs a hand to get up! And finally, to quote a famous artist: "To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think they stop falling in love (my input: with new technologies) when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love" – Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Happy holidays to all – have a cool Yule - and a safe, healthy and prosperous New Year.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

10 Sustainability Predictions for 2010

10 Sustainability Predictions for 2010


Energy conservation and alternative energy strategies are expected to grow in importance in the coming year. Val Haskell, director of Environmental Sustainability Solutions at Hitachi Consulting, shares her list of sustainability predictions for 2010:


1.Energy management will increase as a priority. Energy price volatility will continue to threaten corporate bottom lines and the two key consumers of energy: buildings and data centers will be scrutinized. Energy management software will be implemented at more and more sites to get this spending under control.
2.LEED evolves. LEED (Leadership in Energy Efficient Design), the U.S. green building standard, will have to evolve and become more rigorous to defend its value to buildings. They will modify their practices to include post-construction building performance to maintain LEED status.

3.Public-private partnerships will build out the new transmission networks for wind and solar energy to take the energy generated in remote locations and transport it to the metropolitan areas. Think of the famous oilman, T. Boone Pickens, or Hunt Energy partnering with the State of Texas to build out a transmission network that carries wind generated energy from the Panhandle to Dallas.

4.Battery technology will enter into the equivalent of the space race between the U.S. and Russia back in the 1960s. This battery technology will impact car production, consumer electronics and more. Expect a revolutionary breakthrough in early 2011 and production by 2015.

5.New regulations, Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Index and the Obama’s Environmental Executive Order drive wide-scale adoption of carbon reporting and carbon costs become part of financial reporting. The reporting standards normalize much like what GAAP did for accounting. Carbon has a cost that impacts business and green businesses increase in value while the inverse is true; brown businesses lose stock value and have a harder time getting investment dollars. (Editor’s note: read related article, “The U.S. Government, Wal-Mart, and You.”)

6.Climate change will become a high-profile security issue and its implications to coastal areas, food supply, and severe weather will be part of military preparedness. The U.S. government will solidly transition to identify, plan, budget and prepare our military for security concerns related to environmental issues.

7.Public infrastructure upgrades to green. The aging U.S. public infrastructure, bridges, traffic systems, sewers, water mains, etc., is long overdue for upgrades. Improvements can now be made greener than ever before in ways that increase safety and water quality and reduce traffic pollution. Federal buildings also make a serious effort to go green, reducing energy consumption and square footage.

8.Water becomes a headline act in 2010. Climate change will increase weather severity with some areas parched and other areas drenched. Access to plenty of fresh water will be a determining factor for corporate relocations and product decisions. Water will be managed more like a precious commodity, like oil, with similar measurement systems for verifying volumes and pressures.

9.Agribusiness’ focus will be food for 9 billion people. It is a blessing for agribusiness and a curse: it’s a blessing because the demand is high for a solution to feed 50 percent more people in 40 years without increasing the land area farmed. It’s a curse because agribusinesses have not had the technical breakthrough that will make this possible. Ambivalence about engineered seeds will remain. In parallel, small, local farms will continue to grow and have their best year ever.

10.Cities jockey for green positioning. Urban districts will see green initiatives as a determinant in attracting the best, the brightest and the affluent. Cities will upgrade quality of life amenities, tackle traffic, pollution, and market their “green living” credentials.

Summarizing Data with CUBE and ROLLUP

Is an aggregate function that causes an additional column to be output with a value of 1 when the row is added by either the CUBE or ROLLUP operator, or 0 when the row is not the result of CUBE or ROLLUP?
Grouping is allowed only in the select list associated with a GROUP BY clause that contains either the CUBE or ROLLUP operator.CUBE and ROLLUP function is useful for generating reports. If you’re just doing a simple GROUP BY, with just one GROUP, or multiple GROUPS but with only one possible combination, than use a ROLLUP. The ROLLUP will eliminate showing any values with NULL in the first column.
http://www.sql-programmers.com/Blog/tabid/153/EntryId/7/Summarizing-Data-with-CUBE-and-ROLLUP.aspx

Microsoft Download Notifications: December 25, 2009

Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization


Use this tool to synchronize local directory services to Microsoft Online Services

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version x86

Download Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial for Standard and Enterprise editions with Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version x64
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2e6e5a9c-ebf6-4f7f-8467-f4de6bd6b831

Download Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial for Standard and Enterprise editions with Service Pack 2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3015fde4-85f6-4cbc-812d-55701fbfb563

Monday, December 21, 2009

Securing Federal Information Systems: Privileged Identity Management

Is your business ready to face any unannounced audits? Is your data protected against external and internal threats? If there's a breach, will you know who is responsible? How will you track who did what to which system, and when?
Join ( http://budurl.com/liebsoft2) this FREE webinar to know this and much more about making your business data secure.
Securing Federal Information Systems: Privileged Identity Management

Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010

Time: 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM ET
Register ( http://budurl.com/liebsoft2) NOW and interact with experts to know if having HSPD-12 compliant applications is enough for business data security.

Friday, December 18, 2009

MSDN: Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites

***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites


The article, Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites, explains some tips and tricks on getting the most out of your WCM sites built on SharePoint Server 2007.
Here’s the article summary on MSDN:

Learn about the Web Content Management features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that enable organizations to deploy Internet-facing publishing sites, and considerations for developers and designers when designing and building high-performance publishing sites.


It covers benchmarking, resolving common coding performance issues, site structure & taxonomy, improving the page load time, caching and compression.

SPTechCon – The SharePoint Technology Conference








Coming February 2010, there is another SharePoint Conference – SPTechCon in San Francisco

February 10-12, 2010. Whether you are a SharePoint user/developer/IT pro, this conference covers everyone and has a total of 101 sessions and workshops for your needs!

SharePoint provides a wealth of features and services which allow developers to quickly develop solutions to organizational problems. Developers can quickly create solutions with relate data, connect to other systems, manage a process flow, and can be deployed anywhere. SharePoint 2010 opens up a wide range of options, namely:

1. SharePoint List Lookups and Relationships
2. LINQ to SharePoint
3. Client Object Model
4. REST/ADO.NET Services
This three hour deep dive workshop will take you through the various steps of building SharePoint applications using the new Data Technologies.
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint
Audience: Developers
Technical Level: Intermediate
When: Friday, February 12, 11:30am - 12:45pm

For SharePoint developers, Visual Studio 2010 not only provides a provides the development environment and native tools, but also the opportunity to engage in SharePoint development. Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (VSTS) provides a rich developer experience for building SharePoint 2010 applications.

Whether you are looking to build a simple web part or advanced SharePoint development, VSTS helps developers to get started right away on solution development. The most interesting part is the ability to extend this framework. This session will take you through the various features of VSTS, building complex and simple SharePoint applications using VSTS and also extending the framework.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008
http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urss1q2we6

http://www.server2008training.com/

http://blogs.technet.com/robcost/archive/2007/09/21/free-exchange-2007-storage-system-ebook.aspx

FREE BPM for Dummies


http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/res/books/bpm_for_dummies/default.asp

Welcome to SQLSaturday #35 - Dallas

SQLSaturday is a free day-long training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held on May 22, 2010 at the Region 10 Education Service Center, 300 E Spring Valley Rd, Richardson, TX.

Admittance to this event is free - the only cost to you is the $10 lunch fee, which will get you a nice boxed lunch and drinks. Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleages know about the event.

Want to speak at SQL Saturday Dallas? The call For speakers is currently open. Please submit your session abstracts as soon as possible so we can plan out the event tracks and schedule.
Questions, comments or suggestions? Please contact us

PASS DW/BI Virtual Chapter Presents: Looping, Moving Files, and Splitting Data Streams: Intermediate SSIS Tasks for the DBA

Date / Time
Date: 12/15/2009
Start Time: 12:00:00 PM
End Time: 1:00:00 PM
Timezone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Short Description

In this session, we'll explore some of the intermediate-level tasks and data flow components of SSIS. Join in as we review the File System Task and the For Each Loop container, as well as data flow components including the Lookup Transformation, the Conditional Split, and the Derived Column. This session will include various demonstrations using SSIS 2008.

Event Description

PASS DW/BI Virtual Chapter Presents: Looping, Moving Files, and Splitting Data Streams: Intermediate SSIS Tasks for the DBA

Speaker: Tim Mitchell

Date: Tues Dec 15th 12pm EST

Topic Description:

In this session, we'll explore some of the intermediate-level tasks and data flow components of SSIS. Join in as we review the File System Task and the For Each Loop container, as well as data flow components including the Lookup Transformation, the Conditional Split, and the Derived Column. This session will include various demonstrations using SSIS 2008.

About Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell is a Microsoft SQL Server consultant, developer, speaker, and trainer. He has been working with SQL Server for over 6 years, working primarily in database development, business intelligence, ETL/SSIS, and reporting. He has earned a number of industry certifications and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M at Commerce. As an active member of the community, Tim has spoken at venues including SQL Saturday and the PASS Business Intelligence virtual chapter, is an active volunteer and speaker at the North Texas SQL& #32;Server User Group in Dallas, and is a volunteer for PASS. Tim is an author and forum contributor on SQLServerCentral.com and has published dozens of SQL Server training videos on SQLShare.com. Read Tim's blog at www.TimMitchell.net, or follow him on Twitter (twitter.com/tim_mitchell).

Event Type

Community Webcast

Location:    Online
RSVP

RSVP Not Required

Event Link

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=JJCP8T&role=attend&pw=2%24%25%3CM%2Fxdz

Technologies:  Integration Services

Language(s):   English

Monday, December 14, 2009

SharePoint 2010 Readiness Resources

Overview and what’s new for SharePoint 2010 (check out the videos)http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/products/Pages/try-it.aspx?fbid=_RNEDd5-SXH

Other SharePoint 2010 videos
http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/videos.aspx

SharePoint 2010 documentation links
http://blogs.technet.com/vedant/archive/2009/10/20/update-sharepoint-2010-documentation.aspx

What’s new for end users in SharePoint Search 2010
http://www.sharepointchick.com/archive/2009/10/19/whatrsquos-new-for-end-users-in-sharepoint-search-2010.aspx

Get Started Developing on SharePoint 2010
http://msdn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/sharepoint/ee513147(en-us).aspx

Web Content Management in SharePoint Server 2010
http://blog.mastykarz.nl/web-content-management-sharepoint-server-2010/

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 - Q&A with Steve Ballmer
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/sharepoint/Default.aspx

Introduction SharePoint 2010
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010.aspx

SharePoint 2010: Developer and IT Professional Learning Plan
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ac9a3851-c298-4f4f-b7f0-63d756d2bde9&displaylang=en

Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 (Developer)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx

Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 (IT Pro)
http://www.mssharepointitpro.com/

SharePoint 2010 forum
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010general/threads

SharePoint 2010 Learning Snacks - Developing Solutions with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/_silverlight/learningsnacks/SP10/snack01/Default.html
SharePoint 2010 Learning Snacks - Experiencing the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 User Interface http://www.microsoft.com/learning/_silverlight/learningsnacks/SP10/snack02/Default.html

SharePoint 2010 Learning Snacks - Managing and Troubleshooting with Microsoft SharePoint 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/_silverlight/learningsnacks/SP10/snack03/Default.html

Infrastucture

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Approaches
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e8b66eb3-27c7-4a39-a2e1-3e7d18b12ee1

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Test Your Upgrade Process
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d7389d9f-f70f-4226-89aa-a96a05a497f0

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Services Upgrade

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8a6ce527-1ac3-4642-bd04-5e93efc364f6
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Planning
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=eef6f604-9faa-4ea8-b000-569c656b7420

Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5141c91c-0922-44fc-aaf4-64c5156209ef

Hosting Environments for SharePoint 2010 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=326845d1-95db-4e55-b65a-218509debe24

Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fd686cbb-8401-4f25-b65e-3ce7aa7dbeab

Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d7c0091e-5766-496d-a5fe-94bea52c4b15

Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=22ffc029-2c08-457d-8311-ca457c6d160e

Design Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5a3ca177-fb9a-4901-9797-0c384277db7c

Search Environment Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5655eaca-22df-4089-bcd3-38a1f5318140

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=110318ec-0238-4811-8fc7-ec4399d3c100

Development


Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b9ca7745-ffa4-43ca-a638-e1ad868187ce

Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fc97d587-ffa4-4b43-b77d-958f3f8a87b9

SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cffb14e8-88a9-43bd-87aa-4792ab60d320

SharePoint 2010: Developer and IT Professional Learning Plan
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ac9a3851-c298-4f4f-b7f0-63d756d2bde9

SharePoint 2010: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5

SharePoint 2010: SharePoint Developer Platform Wall Poster
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=04ba41fd-f088-4d7c-a86e-3855c16e23a2

SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5184cb27-98d9-4cc0-bb0b-4b24d5b62db6

New Blogging Platform Launched on SharePoint

The division between these two was enhanced during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages by a number of events. The Western Roman Empire collapsed starting the Early Middle Ages. By contrast, the Eastern Roman Empire, mostly known as Byzantine Empire, managed to survive and even to thrive for another 1000 years. The rise of the Frankish Empire in the west, and in particular the Great Schism that formally divided Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, enhanced the cultural and religious distinctiveness between Eastern and Western Europe.

The conquest of the Byzantine Empire, center of the Eastern Orthodox Church, by the Muslim Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, and the gradual fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire (which had replaced the Frankish Empire) led to a change of the importance of Roman Catholic/Protestant vs. Eastern Orthodox concept in Europe.
Historical events like the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation by Martin Luther and the Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church, the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution are considered to be common During the final stages of World War II the future of Europe was decided between the Allies in the 1945 Yalta Conference, between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.
Post-war Europe would be divided into two major spheres: the West, influenced by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc, dominated by the Soviet Union. With the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain.
This term had been used during World War II by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and later Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk in the last days of the war; however, its use was hugely popularised by Winston Churchill, who used it in his famous "Sinews of Peace" address March 5, 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri:
“ From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow. ”
Although some countries were officially neutral, they were classified according to the nature of their political and economical systems. This division has largely defined the popular perception and understanding of Western Europe and its borders with Eastern Europe till this day.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

SharePoint Camp in Progress - Exciting news from the camp on Performance Point... (Transferred Post)

SharePoint Camp in Progress - Exciting news from the camp on Performance Point... (Transferred Post)

Big News straight from MS!

Camp is about half over... we have over 170 participants and 30 presenters in progress currently... One of our contact at MS today announced that Performance Point... is immediately available as part of the MOSS Enterprise license...
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/23/microsoft-business-intelligence-strategy-update-and-sharepoint.aspx

This is a win-win for MS and the Enterprise customers... I can hardly wait to put this to use...

Friday, December 11, 2009

SharePoint 2010 Blog Posts







SharePoint

SharePoint Overview from the Microsoft SharePoint Team – http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Home Page -
http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/default.aspx

SharePoint Conference 2010 Home Page (Keynote video soon) –
http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

SharePoint Conference Video Highlights –
 http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/videohighlights.aspx

SharePoint 2010 MSDN Site –
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd776256.aspx

SharePoint 2010 TechNet Site –
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx

Pre-Register for SharePoint 2010 Beta –
http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

Arpan Shah, Welcome to SharePoint 2010 –
http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2009/10/19/welcome-to-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Andrew Connell’s Blog (Several SharePoint 2010 posts already) –
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/

SharePoint Sharpener, Rundown of New Features –
http://sharepointsharpener.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/spc09-sharepoint-2010-unveiled-rundown-of-new-features/

SharePoint 2010 Installation (not in English, but has screen shots of the install) – http://sharepointsisters.de/2009/10/installation-sharepoint-server-2010/

SharePoint 2010 Preview by Knowledge Management Associates –
http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge/2009/10/sharepooint-2010-preview.html

A listing of SharePoint 2010 Documentation and Posters published by Microsoft –
http://bink.nu/news/sharepoint-2010-documentation.aspx

Document Management in SharePoint 2010 –
|http://dotneteers.net/blogs/aghy/archive/2009/10/19/document-management-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

ZDNet SharePoint 2010 Announcement –
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=427

Corey’s SharePoint 2010 Observations –

http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2009/10/19/corey-s-big-post-of-sharepoint-2010-observations.aspx

Ballmer, SharePoint and the Economy –
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/microsofts-ballmer-shows-sharepoint-and-cites-its-link-economic-prosperity-587

Another index of some SharePoint 2010 postings online –

http://webpartner.com/PNPT#7fc51a6079d86e3841db

Mike Gotta Notes from SPC09 Day 1 –
http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2009/10/sharepoint-2009-conference-morning-keynotes.html

SharePoint 2010 Public Beta to be released next month –
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10377483-56.html

StoragePoint for SharePoint 2010 –
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS164545+19-Oct-2009+PRN20091019

SharePoint 2010 Central Admin –
http://planetmoss.blogspot.com/2009/10/central-administration-in-sharepoint.html

Eli Robillard, Sandbox Solutions and Security in WSS 4.0 (SharePoint Foundation) –

http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/

SharePoint Conference 2009, Morning Keynote from The Burton Group – http://ccsblog.burtongroup.com/collaboration_and_content/2009/10/sharepoint-2009-conference-morning-keynotes.html

SharePoint 2010 Links from S.S. Ahmed, SharePoint MVP –

http://vspug.com/ssa/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010-links/

Lookup Columns in SharePoint 2010 –
http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2009/10/19/sp2010-what-s-new-lookup-columns-spc09.aspx

Overview of SharePoint Conference 2009, Day 1 –

http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2009/10/19/the-kimono-is-open-the-veil-is-lifted-the-gags-are-removed-spc09.aspx

Business Intelligence


BI in SharePoint 2010 –
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=8d9e2a99-f288-47c2-916b-2f32864f7b82&ID=268

Office 2010


PivotPoint for Excel 2010 –
http://www.powerpivot.com/

Office 2010 Public Beta to be released next month –
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10377483-56.html

Visual Studio 2010


Announcing Visual Studio 2010 –
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/10/19/announcing-visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-2.aspx

Feel free to email me addition blog posts or add them as a comment as I will try to continue updating this list throughout the week.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

What is being announced?

As part of this vision, and feedback from a wide variety of customers, PerformancePoint scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities will now become part of SharePoint Enterprise CAL and available to customers who are on SharePoint SA. This means that customers who want to deploy PerformancePoint can do so today at no additional cost.

In mid 2009, we will release PerformancePoint Server 2007 “service pack 3” which will include updates to the current product’s planning module. Thereafter, customers should not expect further investment in standalone versions of PerformancePoint Server. However, we will continue to invest in a performance management platform and increased functionality through Excel, SharePoint and SQL Server to support broad-based performance management models and simulations. These changes enable customers to deploy a complete BI solution with existing investments in SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Excel.
What does this mean for you?

Microsoft is removing the barriers for customers who want to deploy a complete Business Intelligence solution, leveraging their existing investments in SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Excel. Customers with SharePoint ECAL SA will have rights to deploy PerformancePoint Server today.
PerformancePoint’s scorecard capabilities are certified by the Balanced Scorecard Institute/Palladium, building on the capabilities first introduced in Business Scorecard Manager. This means companies can implement their scorecards, following any methodology they choose, and accurately reflect this with their company strategy. The contextual dashboards allow organizations to create data-rich views that are interactive and change based on the users context. Organizations can create rich views that combine Excel, Excel Services, SharePoint Lists, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, and relational information to accurately reflect the business, measure the right information, and quickly understand changes in real-time.

For detail info please visit this site:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/23/microsoft-business-intelligence-strategy-update-and-sharepoint.aspx

Business Intelligence Update - December 2009

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