New Microsoft Certification Exam prices

The new U.S. price of a Microsoft exam is $150, effective July 1st, 2011. You can find out the price changes for other countries cost here.

SharePoint Simple CMS

I surfed upon a new CMS site template for SharePoint at SharePoint Simple CMS.  It looks quite a bit like Joomla! or Drupal, but runs on SharePoint 3.0/07.  To publish articles, users have TinyMCE at their disposal.

This means most EcmaScript browsers can post complex articles, and CMS users can easily cross a bridge to the world of SharePoint.  SharePoint Simple CMS is currently looking for developers/designers to create new templates and code.  You can trade for a commercial license of SharePoint Simple CMS.

The SharePoint Security Model

SharePoint "Users" (also known as Security Principals) may be either Active Directory users or Active Directory groups.  These "Users" are contained in SharePoint "Groups."  SharePoint Groups are mapped to a permission level for a "Securable Object."  The mapping of groups to permission levels occurs at various "Scopes".  Although any site, subsite, list, library, folder or item is a securable object, not every object creates a scope.