January News Letter

Spot one of my New Year resolutions :-) To write a monthly letter summarising the past month's news and links I've collected about SharePoint and friends. Here's the first. Please note, some links will be news-specific and others will be topic-specific (i.e. something I've recently researched for a client). You can view the full set of links and comments at my FriendFeed room - SharePoint Guide

Highlights

• PerformancePoint Server now available as a free add-on for SharePoint Enterprise Edition - announcement on the product group blog
• SharePoint most popular Intranet choice in 2008
• Conferences in 2009
  • SharePoint Best Practices arrives in London, April 6th
  • Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, October 19th to 22nd

SharePoint

Business

• Book review: Seamless Teamwork using SharePoint technologies
• Problems with SharePoint Governance
• Conflicting characteristics of content requirements in SharePoint
• Microsoft's partnership with EMC
• The Enterprise of the Future - nothing to do with SharePoint directly, but relevant

Technical

• Silverlight-based UI for SharePoint
• Silverlight slideshow of a SharePoint picture library
• All about Alternate Access Mappings - from the MS product group
• Redirection options in SharePoint - vanity URLs aren't as easy as they should be
• Deploy a SharePoint list template to MySites - customising MySites not so easy either
• All the Microsoft SDKs - single page on MSDN that links to them all
• Inspecting SharePoint - codeplex tool

SharePoint's Friends

• Tough Love for Microsoft Search
• Office Communications Server 2007 Architecture - MS web cast
• Office Business Applications (OBA) Resources
• Project Virtual Reality Check - info about virtualisation
• Free eBook on Microsoft Virtualisation
• Excel Sample Data - links to download sources, useful for demos and testing
• Build Line-of-Business Enterprise Apps with Silverlight
• Free eBooks on Architecture

Microsoft Online

• Microsoft SharePoint Online Standard Developer Guide - 35Mb doc to download
• Microsoft Online white papers - Exchange, SharePoint and security

If you want to receive this news letter by email, please subscribe here. If you want to know more about any topic covered in the news letter, please leave a comment here on the blog. I'll expand popular topics into fuller blog posts where possible, and usually happy to have an informal phone chat if you want to explore an idea.