SharePoint 2013 Has Too Many Features; Serious SharePoint Mistakes; Hate Windows 8 Already?

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SharePoint 2013 Needs Less Features, Not More (CMSWire)
Anyone interested in Microsoft SharePoint will have by now seen the new version. SharePoint 2013 is packed with lots of new and exciting features. Users can experience the revamped MySites, with Facebook style activity feeds and the ability to ‘follow’ pretty much anything. Developers have ‘apps’ to get their teeth into, allowing them to create SharePoint components in pretty much any language they wish. Then there’s the new interface, the ‘Modern UI’ (as we must now call it), with its stripped back look and feel. The list of new features goes on and on.

10 Serious Mistakes Companies Make with SharePoint (IDM)
There are many challenges to implementing SharePoint, both seen and unseen. As a result there are plenty of pitfalls and traps to fall into, and it is very challenging to pick just 10 mistakes. Poor governance, not having an intranet strategy, or not having an intranet committee are traditional mistakes, but hopefully there is more awareness about these issues now. Marcus Dervin, director of Sydney SharePoint/Office 365 consultancy WebVine. focusses on more specific issues that are often overlooked, but can derail a SharePoint project team’s best intentions.

Office 365′s Lingering Enterprise Problem (CIO)
Microsoft’s move over the past three years to an affordable cloud-based email, collaboration and productivity suite was a necessity to combat Google Apps. But getting past the education/small business level and into the enterprise has proven difficult. A brief history: In 2009, Microsoft launched BPOS (business productivity online suite), which made lightweight online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Live Meeting and Office Communicator (later Lync) accessible via the cloud. Microsoft charged businesses — mostly small businesses, schools and government agencies — $120 per user, per year.

Office 2013 Feature Focus: Office on Demand (Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows)
Anyone with a paying Office 2013 subscription can access streamed versions of several popular Office applications from any PC, even those over which they have no control. This feature, called Office on Demand, lets you temporarily use a cloud-based version of an Office application without installing anything on the local PC.

Does the US Understand Cloud Computing? (ZDNet)
The average American consumer doesn’t understand what cloud computing is or how it works, according to a national survey. The survey, undertaken by Wakefield Research and commissioned by cloud-technology firm Citrix, showed that many U.S. consumers believed it was weather-related, or something to do with pillows, drugs, heaven, outer space and toilet paper.

Windows 8: Hate It Already? Why Waiting for Windows 9 Won’t Help (PCWorld)
Conventional Windows wisdom seems to hold that every other version of Windows is terrible and needs to be fixed by whatever version comes after that. Does this mantra sound familiar? Windows XP, good. Windows Vista, bad. Windows 7, good. Windows 8, bad. Windows 9, good. That’s how it’s supposed to go, right?

Big October for Microsoft? Windows Phone 8 Rumors Heat Up (VAR Guy)
Microsoft appears headed for two big October splashes, first with its slated Oct. 26 Windows 8 and Surface RT debuts, and, according to the latest reports, a second extravaganza three days later for Windows Phone 8, perhaps in San Francisco or Los Angeles. When asked to confirm, Microsoft declined to comment, but the company didn’t deny it, either. Here’s what we think we know at this point:

What Comes First, the Software or the Solution? (AIIM)
In the SMB market it’s still hard to find a company that’s pleased with their SharePoint implementation. While the IT group may say that it’s coming right along, the end users frequently do not. Don’t get me wrong, SharePoint is a terrific collaboration tool if properly adopted. But the “if properly adopted” part of that statement is a giant “if.” There are many reasons any project can go right or wrong. I’d recommend that before you go down the road of building a platform from scratch, consider the software packages that have already been built, tested and supported.

Around the Blogosphere
August 2012 CU for SharePoint 2010 has Been Released (Stefan Goßner)
The product group released the August 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the August Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the August CU.

Windows PowerShell Cmdlets Available in SharePoint Server 2013 Preview (SharePoint IT Pro Blog)
This post gives information about Windows PowerShell cmdlets that are available in SharePoint Server 2013 Preview. There are several new areas in SharePoint Server 2013 Preview that you can administer by using Windows PowerShell.

3 Ways to Save Your (Reluctant) Project Manager Bacon (meetdux)
I’m happy to share this space with my colleague, Mike Taylor, President of Innovative-e. So check out his awesome insights on 3 Ways to Save Your (Reluctant) Project Manager Bacon. Whether you’re a seasoned PM or what we like to call a “Reluctant PM,” someone who has taken on PM duties in addition to other job functions, you’ll find that seeking clarity, finding the proper direction, and taking correct action will help your projects run as smoothly as a well-maintained machine.

Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint Solutions Team Blog)
Now that the first beta for SharePoint 2013 is available, I thought it would be a good idea to walk through the process of configuring Forms Based Authentication “out of the box” without an add-on such as Extranet Collaboration Manager (ExCM). Doing this will allow us to see both the similarities and differences between SharePoint 2010 and 2013 as well as highlight the limitations of a “basic” FBA site that ExCM addresses so well.

Strategize App Authentication In SharePoint 2013 (ARB Security Solutions)
App authentication is the validation of an external app for SharePoint’s identity. It also allows for the authorization of both the app and an associated user. For this to occur, the app requests access to a secured SharePoint resource. An external component from SharePoint Store App or an App Catalog App that is located on the intranet or internet attempts to serve content. This allows for a new set of functions to be achieved. It enables the apps to include data that comes from SharePoint resources that can be displayed for users.

This Week in Bamboo (August 19th, 2012 – August 25th, 2012) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
At Bamboo this week, we resolved many customer issues and released the following patches: Workflow Conductor, List Search Simple, Alerts Administrator, Lookup Selector Column, Column Level Security and Cross-Site Display Web Part. We added new feature on latest release of List Search Simple for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 versions. Please check out those new features and review the list below for more details about the patches of this week.

SharePoint Job Listings*
Senior SharePoint Developer – Columbus, OH
Kforce is currently interviewing candidates in the Columbus, Ohio area for a large client. Our client is looking Sr. SharePoint Professionals to design, code, develop, and unit test SharePoint. Practitioners of the IT Application Development profession primarily focus on providing high quality, cost effective information technology solutions to business partners by creating new or modifying and/or supporting existing software applications. Associates are expected to design, code, analyze, configure, unit test, and maintain applications.

SharePoint IT Specialist – Washington, DC
URS is looking for a Mid-level analyst to provide subject matter expertise as it relates to the organization of MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007 and SharePoint 2010 sites for a Federal agency. The successful candidate will act as the primary point of contact for all SharePoint related questions and issues for client organization, gather user requirements, analyze requirements, configure/design sites based on client direction; maintain current SharePoint sites; provide user support and new user training; consult on best practices as it relates to utilizing SharePoint sites; integrate Bamboo web parts; participate in large-group SharePoint community administrator meetings; and perform technical writing as needed.

Microsoft Updates
New SharePoint Technical Content (SharePoint IT Pro Blog)
These are indeed exciting times for the Microsoft Office Division as a whole, and definitely for those of us who work on the technical content. First off, we hope you like the refreshed look and feel of this blog. Look for more design evolutions as time goes on, and of course, lots of SharePoint IT pro content! Check out the TechNet home page and feature package that launched today. They cover top-level IT professional content for new Office, Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, and Project and even include an Editor’s note by yours truly.

SharePoint Events*