Four Ways the Red Sox are Scoring with SharePoint

The Boston Red Sox have many weapons to keep the team winning on the field: powerful hitters, a seasoned pitching rotation, and an experienced coaching staff.

But off the field -- and in the data center -- a key role player for the Sox has been SharePoint 2010.

At the SPTechCon SharePoint conference in Boston last week, Red Sox IT director Steve Conley stepped up to the plate for a Q&A with Microsoft's (MSFT) SharePoint Product Management Director Christian Finn.

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My Site Organization Browser is Blank in 2010

This can happen especially if an underlying "User Profile" is edited or deleted.

The issue may present itself as an empty silverlight web part or if you clink "HTML View" of the organization you may receive an error "error processing this request".

To resolve:

1: Clear the end user browser cache

2: If Step 1 does not work Reset IIS on the SharePoint front end server.

Facebook Dominance

Interesting story on Facebook dominace. I have to say there are some networks globally I have not yet had any exposure to.

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Office 365 Web Content Management - Somewhat Lite

I have spent some time on the new Office 365 WCM feature and find it most limited. Please see screenshot below in Edit Mode. Note in reality it has no realtionship functionality wise to On-Premise WCM in SharePoint.

The entire interface is quite different.

SharePoint 2010 WCM Improvements

- Ratings
- Ribbon
- In place editing
- Metadata (unstructured Tagging)
- Media Content (video, audio, web parts etc.)
- Web Analytics more advanced
- AJAX less refreshing
- Multi Browser Support
- SharePoint Designer 2010

Office 365 SharePoint Highlights

Current highlights of Office 365 SharePoint. Vast improvements over BPOS.

- SSO (Ad Synchronization)
- MySites
- Enterprise Search
○ All Sites
○ Search Scopes
○ Search Keywords
- Public facing sites support albeit limited
- Term Store
- InfoPath forms services
- Sandboxed solutions
- Friendly URLS
- Invite outside domain users (extranet) (not on domain)
○ Directs to set up a Live ID and hotmail (not good)
- More OOB Workflows
- Records Management
- Document Sets
- Office Web Apps
- eDiscovery
- Content Organizer
- Customization deployments
- Access Services
- Dual editing of Office Docs
- lots more Site Templates
- Composites? No
- Insights? No
- Office Professional Desktop license part of the deal (for more monthly fees)
- Incoming email? No

Office 365 Roundtable

Office 365 SharePoint: Is It Right for You?

Microsoft Office 365 is a subscription service that combines Microsoft Office Web Applications with a set of web-enabled tools that are easy to learn and use, that work with your existing hardware, and that come backed by the robust security, reliability, and control you need to run your business. Office 365 helps you communicate and collaborate more effectively with always-up-to-date software. Microsoft Office 365 lets you work from virtually anywhere and on almost any device.



Join us at this Executive Roundtable for a lively and focused discussion that will include:

- Cloud Overview

- Economics of the Cloud – Why is Office 365 Important to Me?

- What is Office 365 SharePoint Online?

- What’s New in Office 365 SharePoint Online?

- What are the Differences Between Office 365 SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premise?

- How Do I Deploy?

http://www.clearwaypartners.com/office-365-sharepoint-executive-roundtable/