Below is another video from our BPOS Support series . In this video we learn how to Troubleshoot Missing Items in SharePoint Online . SharePoint Online is a powerful web based collaborative tool that is a part of Microsoft Online Service. The video below will assist administrators and users troubleshoot missing items in SharePoint Online. This is a very helpful video that will increase your productivity through identifying what happened to missing items. Some ways an item could go missing include: Deleted and in Recycle Bin of a SharePoint site or site collection Hidden because of the View settings of its SharePoint list or document library or misconfigured Web Part. If you use SharePoint Online, then be sure to take a look at the video below. Learn more about Microsoft Online Services with our other support and how to blog posts . What support videos would you like to see? We want to hear from you in the comments section below or send an email to our community mailbox . Follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page.

Microsoft announces expanded BPOS-Standard support for the Mac OS with the introduction of a new Microsoft Online Services Sign In application that supports the recently released Office for Mac 2011 . The new Sign In application for Mac OS is scheduled to be available by the end of March 2011. In addition to support for Office for Mac 2011, the new Sign In application includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements that improve the performance and stability of the application for the Mac OS.

Alex Burton, a Project MVP in Australia, wrote a blog post, Creating a Internet Explorer 9 Jump List for Project Server . Very handy and easy to deploy by a Project Server administrator, to be available to any PWA user with IE9 who pins the PWA landing page to the Windows 7 taskbar.

Many of you have given us feedback over the years that you enjoy having role guides in the EPM community much like what we had for the Project Server 2003 release. Well we’ve answered the call and created a Project Server 2010 Administrator’s Guide which has been published and gone live today. You can now download the guide here: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=212383 We are currently planning more role guides, so please email us ( epmdocfeedback@microsoft.com ) with any feedback you may have. If you like this role guide, please let us know so we know we’re on the right track by creating more. Watch this space for more info as we make hard copies of the guide available for purchase, along with announcing new guides. Thank you all, Robert Hoover, PMP

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This week in BPOS news is a recurring segment on the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog that covers news from all sectors of Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Online Services business suite known as the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). You can read all past This Week in BPOS News segments here. For this week in BPOS news we take a look at the U.S. government’s commitment to the Cloud, and find out how 90,000 public sector jobs are being crated with Cloud adoption. 1. Obama banks on cloud, consolidation, to hold down IT costs The United States has been going through some budget cuts from a recent economic deficit that impacted the entire country and numerous industries. Many eyes are focused sharply on U.S. President Obama’s upcoming 2012 federal budget that will help determine how the country recovers from this downturn. IT costs, that include cloud computing, are outlined in the president’s budget that sets aside $79.5 billion for IT spending during the fiscal year of 2012. Much like Microsoft, the U.S. government seems to be committed to the Cloud. This is outlined by federal CIO, Vivek Kundra , who “released a report outlining a ‘cloud first’ strategy for federal agencies.” According to Kundra, the Cloud could save the government 30% through the reduction of data center expenditures. There are conflicting views from the VP of consulting firm McLean, Ray Bjorklund, who is unsure about the cloud savings. He believes the savings apply less to government, and more to commercial businesses. You can read more about how the government is planning on spending and saving on Cloud computing in this ComputerWorld article . Do you think it’s the right move for the government to invest in the cloud? Do you think it will save the government money? What are your thoughts? Leave your comments below. 2. Cloud Adoption ‘Will Create 90,000 Public Sector Jobs In our second story , we take a look at how the adoption of Cloud computing is increasing public sector jobs in the UK. The Center for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has determined that 90,000 jobs in the public sector are going to appear due to the prediction that government IT will be more open to cloud computing technologies which drive efficiencies. It is forecasted that “289,000 jobs are expected to be generated cumulatively over the 2010 to 2015 period in the UK,” meaning that 199,000 jobs will be created outside of the public sector. This article from CIO.com breaks down the CEBR report that outlines where Cloud jobs will be created across the UK are predicted. The CEBR also looks at profitability which will depend mainly on “efficiency, rather than volume growth, due to the pressures of reduced household spending power and rising commodity prices.” What do you think of the surge in Cloud jobs as predicted in this article ? Do you agree? Leave your comments below. What are your thoughts about the stories we shared with you this week? Did you see a story you want to share with us? Let us know what other topics you’d like to see. You can comment on this blog post or send an email to our community mailbox . Follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page.

The Microsoft Office 2007 interactive developer map has been available for several years, which is very handy for finding documentation on all Office 2007 products. Now Office 2010 has its own: See Microsoft Office 2010 Developer Map . Want to find documentation for OneNote Mobile on Windows Phone 7? Just click Mobile Applications in the Developer Map, click OneNote Mobile , and it takes you to the correct documentation

MS Press has just published Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 , which will also be very useful for Project Server 2010 developers – since, as we all know, Project Server is an application service in SharePoint Server, PWA is a SharePoint application (a somewhat restricted one with a few specialized Project Server Web Parts thrown in), and project sites are pure SharePoint (with some custom lists). Although Chapter 11 on Creating and Developing Workflows primarily discusses SharePoint Designer, which we can’t use for Project Server workflows, it does provide a good overview of workflow concepts.

Some of you may have seen the recent Office blog post from the Microsoft Office sustained engineering team.