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Maurice Prather named Windows SharePoint Services MVP again!Maurice Prather, a Senior Architect here at ShareSquared, was named Windows SharePoint Services MVP for the second year in a row. This honor is in recognition of Maurice's many contributions to the SharePoint community. Read more about Maurice and his thoughts on SharePoint at his blog here. Availability of Infrastructure UpdatesMicrosoft released to web three new important updates that affect SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express and Project Professional 2007.
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Coming soon to a Cineplex near you: SharePointKeeping track of unstructured data can be a real pain, but many businesses – including Cineplex Odeon Corp. – are using Microsoft Corp.'s SharePoint as an ad hoc enterprise search solution to find what they need within the e-clutter. Exchange Online and SharePoint Online Out of Beta and Ready for PurchaseLast November 17, 2008, at a launch event in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division at Microsoft Corp., was joined by customers and partners to announce the availability of Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online for businesses of all sizes in the United States. These subscription services offer businesses a new way to purchase, deploy and manage the industry-leading e-mail and calendaring solution, and the industry-leading solution for portals and collaboration. Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007The Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 program provides the most in-depth and comprehensive training available today for Office SharePoint Server 2007. This three-week training program is delivered by recognized experts from Microsoft and Microsoft partner organizations. Chesapeake Energy Deploys SharePoint to Meet Growth ChallengesHelping one of the nation's leading energy companies meet the challenges of rapid growth while boosting worker productivity, workflow and collaboration, Microsoft Corp. today announced that Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. has deployed an extensible and scalable enterprise solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 across its entire enterprise. SharePoint scores with Web developersMicrosoft has forecast that SharePoint will hit US$1 billion in revenue for 2008, and some analysts are predicting that it will steamroll the Web 2.0 market. SD Times interviewed several experts to discuss what is drawing enterprises to use SharePoint as a development platform and how it should evolve going forward.
SharePoint is a boon for Windows shops. The platform leverages the Microsoft stack that many have already paid to license, and they do not need to purchase additional software for development. It lets developers use their existing .NET programming skills to develop Web applications, and it provides timesaving pre-built components that would otherwise have to be built from scratch. Microsoft Expands SharePoint Learning Kit, Partners With Houghton
At the NECC 2008 conference in Texas this week, Microsoft unveiled an addition to its SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), a suite of tools deigned for helping developers build education solutions. The company also announced a partnership with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to launch the new Learning Village, a teaching and learning portal.
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Central Coast Code CampA code camp is a FREE 2 day seminar put on by software developers in the community and abroad. It welcomes all people with an interest in sharing development ideas, philosophies, and most importantly CODE.
Click on the title to read more about it. The SharePoint Connections ConferenceThe SharePoint Connections Conference in Las Vegas, NV on November 10-13, 2008 (yes, it overlaps with the MS TechEd Developers conference in Barcelona) is one of the few non-Microsoft hosted conferences that the SharePoint product group supports in a significant way. Aside from the sessions presented by SharePoint experts from Microsoft and the industry, a key benefit of this conference is that it's an integral part of a larger conference that includes technical deep-dive SQL Server, Visual Studio, and Exchange sessions, so you can easily hop into one of the other conference sessions and/or network with people doing interesting work with those other Microsoft products. Register by August 27th for a $100 discount!
Please click on the title to read more about it. The SharePoint Technology Conference 2009For three exciting days in January, you'll be eating, drinking, sleeping, talking and living Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The first day at SPTechCon is filled with intense half-day workshops, half in the morning, half in the afternoon. The next two days contain dozens of 75-minute concurrent classes that you won't want to miss.
SharePoint Best Practices ConferenceThe first SharePoint Best PracticesTM Conference in Washington, DC in September, 2008 was an overwhelming success. This second conference promises to be just as popular.
FASTforward '093 days of compelling discussion on the evolving business environment and how search is enabling companies to succeed.
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