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Corey Roth (@ Dot Net mafia)
Corey Roth is a consultant at Infusion specializing in SharePoint for clients in the energy sector. He has more than ten years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey specializes in delivering ECM and search solutions to clients using SharePoint. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, and Silverlight. He is a member of the .NET Mafia where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint. He is dedicated to the community and speaks regularly at user groups and SharePoint Saturdays. He is also a member of the board of directors for the Houston SharePoint Users Group.- http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/default.aspx
Editors Choice
Worldwide Intranet Challenge
The Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC), founded by group member Andrew White is an opportunity for organisations to obtain and benchmark feedback about their intranet from the people that matter the most - the employees. Participation in the WIC allows you to anonymously benchmark your intranet against other organisations and view case studies from organisations who have ranked well in each question. The WIC covers the topics such as Quality of content, Ease of finding information, Employee interaction & engagement, Intranet maintenance, Look & feel, and Performance & availability.
Group Discussion
What's the salary range for a "SharePoint Analyst" ?
Mike Erter asked this question and has prompted answers ranging from $60 / hour to $200 / hour. Do we have SharePoint Analysts in the group who can provide input ? To read the answer or improve upon it, visit the discussion.
Microsoft Surface - keynote
Group Discussion
Workflow or Event Receivers for business processes ?
Pedro Rosa wants to know whether SharePoint Workflow should be developed to implement logic (presumably when a document is added/updated), or whether code should be used in list / site event receivers. - go to the discussion on LinkedIn.
Cool tool(s)
This week we have 5 SharePoint IPad apps you may want to check out. These have kindly been provided by Klint Finley on ReadWriteWeb.com.
Filamente
Filamente is a SharePoint client for iOS from Aircreek. It gives users a touchscreen optimized interface for SharePoint, the ability to upload files from a mobile device and offline access to resources. It costs $12.99 in the App Store.
Forms Central
Formotus offers a SharePoint client for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile called Forms Central. Like Filamente, it provides offline access to SharePoint data. It's free to download, but requires a subscription.
Mobile Entree
Instead of a native app, H3 Solutions offers a SharePoint plugin called Mobile Entree that enables SharePoint administrators to create touchscreen optimized interfaces for their sites. ReadWriteWeb.com covered Mobile Entree last week as part of their iPad for business round-up.
Moprise
Moprise is an iOS SharePoint client. The free version allows users to view SharePoint documents, but not edit them. The paid version, which costs $5 a month per user, provides more features such as uploading new documents, and Quickoffice integration for editing. Moprise also offers customized installations.
SharePlus
SharePlus is an iOS SharePoint client from SouthLabs. The lite version allows users to view documents and send them by e-mail. Pro and enterprise editions provide additional features like offline syncing and list item editing.
Selected SharePoint
SharePoint Data Doc – Access your SharePoint list data from MS Word
We featured SharePoint Data Doc last week and by all accounts it was very popular! SharePoint Data Doc is now fully supported on Office 365. Read more about the product in the Full Article.
How Claims encoding works in SharePoint 2010
If you have ever had to develop with Claims Authentication in SharePoint, or just get under the hood then you will have to deal with the claims token. This token isn't a secret code, it's actually something that conforms to a pattern. Full Article.
Why Metadata rules and folders suck in SharePoint
This is probably one of the best write-ups showing how using folders in SharePoint document libraries isn't really always the best approach. Instead of using folders, Michael explains how to use metadata. Full Article
Microsoft buy Yammer for $1.2 billion
Recently, there has been speculation that Microsoft are about to buy Yammer - the 'Facebook for business' - for $1.2 billion. This does make you wonder how this will affect SharePoint 2013 which is weeks away from a beta. Full Article.
How to implement a 3-tier SharePoint Farm
The purpose of this article is to describe how to implement a medium SharePoint Farm – three-tier, four-servers. This article is provided by Denis Stadler on denisstadler.com. Full article.
The Missing Pieces in Most SharePoint Server Administrators’ Skill Sets
Very interesting post explaining how being a SharePoint Administrator requires not only the tech skills of how to move through Central Admin, but also requires a good grasp of the 'business'. Full article.
Auditing in SharePoint Server 2010–Part I
The audit feature in SharePoint is used to track what actions users are taking within your SharePoint Server 2010 environment. It is typically activated to comply with compliance guidelines governing your business or the sector in which your organization is operating. Full Article
Group Promotions and Offers
As part of being a member of the SharePoint Group you are entitled to exclusive deals that we have arranged with vendors, conferences and service providers.
DocRead : Get 750 Users FREE when you buy Professional Edition
DocRead is a compliance solution that allows publishers to request that employees read and confirm their most important documents. If you purchase the Professional edition of
DocRead before June 30th, 2012, you will be given
750 FREE users licences giving you
1500 users for just
$11,950 USD (one-off cost).
Vendor : Collaboris; Validity : Until 30th June 2012; Voucher : DR-PRO-JUN-250
Get to SharePoint & SQL Server Intelligence - Win a FREE Pass!
To try and win a free pass to the above event go to this this page and add a comment explaining why you want to attend.
Vendor : QuickStart Intelligence; Validity : Before Fri 25th June; Voucher : N.A.