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Upcoming Webinar - The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security

Joel Oleson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:14:53 GMT

The iPad invasion is here, ready or not. Used for an increasingly wide range of business applications, iPads can be found at every level, from executives to assistants, board members to sales teams. With workplace use skyrocketing, these devices – whether corporate-sanctioned or personally-owned – present security, compliance, and legal challenges that cannot be ignored. Is your organization prepared?

Join Ernst & Young's mobile data security expert, Matthias Bandemer, as he explores the security challenges presented by mobile devices in the workplace, with a focus on leveraging your existing SharePoint infrastructure to secure corporate data on the iPad.

Joining Matthias is Colligo's CEO, Barry Jinks, and Director of Product Management, Trevor Dyck, who will provide valuable insight on integrating iPads into your enterprise SharePoint environment.

Register now for the live webinar on February 22 at 8AM Pacific (11AM Eastern, 4PM GMT). In this webinar, you'll learn:

Strategies and techniques for securing enterprise data on mobile devices
Balancing the mobile user experience with IT and security requirements
Replacing consumer-grade file sharing services such as Dropbox with SharePoint
Increasing security and simplifying administration using tools such as MDMs and Colligo Administrator
Securely accessing and storing SharePoint content on an iPad using Colligo Briefcase

Enterprises that embrace the iPad and other mobile devices report significant productivity gains. This webinar will give you the strategy, tools, and techniques to capitalize on this trend and securely integrate iPads into your SharePoint environment.

Even if you can't make the date, register now and we'll be sure to send you on-demand link following the live event. We look forward to seeing you at the webinar.

(Webcast sponsored by Colligo.)

Come Hear the STP Antarctica Crew at SPTechCon San Francisco - Feb 26

Joel Oleson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:39:49 GMT

David Rubinstein at BZMedia has made room for us to tell our crazy adventures and stories. I'll be making a surprise visit to the conference and join in the festivities over the weekend. Our time slot is Sunday night at 5:30pm. Come by to get behind the scenes stories and join in with the conversation. Learn more about SPTechCon San Francisco, there are still discounts available.

I'm also currently planning on making a quick stop at SPTechcon Boston July 22^nd. This will likely to be my only U.S. show outside of SharePoint Conference in November and local/regional SharePoint Community events. Otherwise chase me down in Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria in March or Russia and Central Asia in the summer or Slovenia next winter.

So it begins… SharePoint 15 & Office 15 Wave of Products - Happy Days

Joel Oleson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:48:12 GMT

With the Facebook IPO filing I'm starting to get excited about stocks again and my whole outlook on the market is getting brighter. This morning I bought a bunch of Zynga ZNGA shares, Linkedin LNKD shares, and even picked up more Amazon AMZN. I'm even looking at adding the SOCL ETF to my long term portfolio. I've never really talked about stocks on this blog, so why start now? Because that's the mood I'm in right now. Not only am I excited about what's happening in the market, but I'm even more excited about what's coming out of Microsoft! Yes, I did just get back from Antarctica and I'm sure that whole trip has my mood up as well.

The biggest bet I'm getting excited about is this next wave of Office 15 products especially SharePoint. There's a great mood in the air with SharePoint sharing information about the Technology Adoption Program, the Technical Preview, and the SDK. "This morning, we reached an important development milestone: the beginning of the "Office 15" Technical Preview Program." From CVP of Development, Microsoft Office Division.

For the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio," PJ Hough, corporate vice president of development for Microsoft's Office Division, wrote in a Jan. 30 corporate blog posting.

I do want to caution my friends in the community, please don't get caught up in publicly sharing information about this 15 wave of products until Microsoft is publicly sharing the bits. It's very easy to extrapolate what the next version of SharePoint might have in it based on some of what's been mentioned, but sharing this information openly like it's already shipped and nothing will change is bad juju. Not only does it make Microsoft concerned and think you're a loose cannon, it will also get you put on a short list. I'm sure the MVPs and TAP customers are getting reminded about the all so common NDA agreements, and while you're not in an NDA, it will still be assumed that the entire community is in an NDA until public beta. Please don't blog about SharePoint 15 content that could be considered NDA. It may get you some popularity in the short term, but there are also career limiting risks. There are some who understand these risks and decide they will take these risks anyway, but I suggest you be aware of how it is perceived to those in the NDA and it can look like you're sharing information that's private and not to be shared publicly. With social media so pervasive in our lives it makes it very easy to even pass on the details with a simple retweet. I suggest avoiding it.

"While we make every effort to ensure the technical accuracy in this documentation, it is preliminary documentation and is subject to change."

There are some very public things that Microsoft has revealed and it's totally ok to check them out. It's also good to get excited about our futures. We live in an exciting time. Great to not have to get bogged down with everything else that's going on. We've got something to celebrate. By the way, I am already thinking about some crazy launch party ideas…

Here's a few articles to catch you up…

"Office 15" Technical Preview Program (Microsoft's Office Executive Blog)

You can download the very very early SDK from the Download Center

EWeek: Office 15 Now in Tech Preview

MSNBC: Office 15 Goes Out for Testing