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For March, 2011

Mar 31

SP2010 Records Management; Could You be Fired Due to Office 365?; Are Tablets a Fad?

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SharePoint Daily LogoApril 15th is coming up fast and I am sure you all know what that means… Yup, the 15th is the final day to vote in the Andy Dale SharePoint Awards over at SharePoint Village. Categories range from ‘Favorite Free Web Part’,’ Best Mobile SharePoint Solution’ and my current favorite ‘Best SharePoint Information Site’. With SharePoint Daily being nominated I may not the most impartial person, but it is fun checking the voting every morning to see how I am doing.  –Chris

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The Record Stays in Place: SharePoint 2010 Records Management Governance Plans (CMS Wire)
SharePoint 2010 offers a brilliant records management upgrade from MOSS 2007. In addition to offering the traditional records flow from document to records repository, SharePoint 2010 may create a record from a document that continues to reside in its home page. I affectionately call the second option Records mise en place (after the literal French, putting in place) because the metadata wrapper is applied to each object without the cold (antiquated?) end user-driven experience of transferring it to the Records Center. At last, the record may stay in place. A functional improvement, Microsoft has provided a capability that should be appreciated by us Record and Information Managers as much as the end users to whom we consult. Continue reading this entry »
Mar 30

Is SharePoint Worth It?; How is IE9 on Laptop Batteries?; Collaboration Through Crowdsourcing

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SharePoint Daily LogoIs it possible to have a case of the Mondays on Wednesday?   –Chris

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SharePoint: Is It Worth Using as a Collaboration Tool? (CMSWire)
I’m in the middle of a series on SharePoint collaboration. In the first two posts, I focused on why SharePoint collaboration fails and how you can take steps to ensure that it succeeds. In this post, I want to step back a bit and ask a more existential question: should you even be using SharePoint 2010 for your collaboration platform in the first place? To answer this, we need first to compare SharePoint to the other options out there for enterprise collaboration, i.e., best-of-breed, purpose-built social computing platforms, like Jive, Lotus Connections or Socialtext. Then, we need to look at what kind of collaboration you’re planning on doing, because that’s really what should drive your decision to use a given tool. Continue reading this entry »
Mar 29

Competing With SharePoint; Working From Your Cell Phone; Browser Updates: The War Continues

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SharePoint Daily LogoThere have been three major browser updates in the last few weeks, all of which come with their own quirks. As of this latest round of updates I need at least three browsers installed to do my job. My newsletter admin tools don’t  like IE9. A polling site I use doesn’t like Firefox. Chrome displays things in odd colors (sometimes). I have been working in the tech industry long enough that I should know better than to download updates the day they are released. Maybe you can help explain… why do I feel the need to download the latest version of everything even when I know that there will be issues?   –Chris

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SharePoint Tries to Keep Up (MIT Technology Review)
The collaboration tools discussed this month in Business Impact all have one thing in common. One way or another, they will run up against the market leader: Microsoft’s SharePoint software, which is used by more than 100 million people around the world. SharePoint’s success can be attributed to several factors. One, it does a lot: among other things, it lets employees share documents, search internal files, coordinate tasks, and send each other instant messages through a central portal. Second, customers like the fact that it works well with other widely used Microsoft products, such as Exchange e-mail and the Office software package. Third, Microsoft offers a basic version of SharePoint free to companies that run servers with Windows software. Continue reading this entry »
Mar 25

20,000 New SharePoint Users a Day; Anger Over WP7 Updates; What the Cloud is Not

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SharePoint Daily LogoWow! 20,000 new SharePoint users a day. I knew that SharePoint usage was growing but I had never realized the numbers. Not only is this growth incredible, but it builds enough dedication that people willingly give up a day from their weekend to attend an event like SharePoint Saturday. I can’t begin to explain it so maybe you can tell me, what is it about SharePoint that drives this kind of growth and loyalty? –Chris

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Microsoft: We’re Adding 20,000 New SharePoint Users a Day (ZDNet)
Microsoft and its competitors are big on breaking down sales data in terms of number of units sold per day. We’ve heard that Kinect sensors were selling at a rate of about 130,000 units a day. Last fall, the Redmondians claimed that they were selling 657,534 Windows 7 copies per day. There is a copy of Office 2010 sold every second somewhere around the globe, the Softies say. Continue reading this entry »

Mar 24

Automating Collaboration with SharePoint; Social CRM on the Way; Build WP7 Apps with Azure

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SharePoint Daily LogoI hope that everyone noticed the post last week from Dux Raymond Sy on Operation ShareLove. If you didn’t, you should take a look. If you did, look again as the prize list has more than doubled. For a small donation you could receive a great prize from Bamboo, Fpweb, Lightning Tools and many others. You get to pick the charity of your choice and the money goes to a great cause. –Chris

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5 Considerations for Setting up a SQL Server 2008 Backend for SharePoint 2010 (SQL Server Magazine)
At next week’s SQL Server Connections (March 27-30), you’ll find dozens of sessions, including topics such as programming SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server clustering,  DBA myths debunked, and many more. One session, titled “Remote BLOB Storage: The Questions and the Answers,” will focus on issues around externalizing BLOB data to remote storage or the cloud (a new feature in SQL Server 2008 R2), which is a key capability for using SQL Server with document-centric solutions, such as SharePoint. As a quick teaser for the session, we asked speaker Victor Isakov for the top five things DBAs must consider before setting up a SQL Server 2008 backend for SharePoint. Below are his responses. Continue reading this entry »

Mar 22

Enterprise Goes Mobile; Microsoft Customers Moving to the Cloud; No IE9 Support for XP

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A Metrics System for the CIO (ComputerWorld)
Metrics can have a very interesting effect. You just have to present them properly. I spent the past week deciding which metrics I want to collect and present to the CIO on a quarterly basis, and how I will present them. I’m using Microsoft SharePoint to collect my metrics and will export the results to an Excel spreadsheet so that I can create some interesting pivot tables and charts. The idea is that I simply have to input the data, and the resulting presentation will be automated. I can even incorporate the Excel charts into PowerPoint so that I only have to open the presentation each quarter and the data will be updated automatically. And, if I can pull it off, I can have some of the metrics automatically populate my SharePoint list. Gotta love automation! Continue reading this entry »

Mar 21

SharePoint Usage Increasing; Challenges for IE9; Can Xbox Save Microsoft?

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SharePoint Usage Set to Increase (On Windows)
According to the study, conducted by Lightning Tools on more than 800 businesses, 75 per cent of companies surveyed used SharePoint. Of the respondents that didn’t use SharePoint 2010 26 per cent stated that they are hoping to upgrade in the ‘third or fourth quarter of 2011’ whilst a further 25 per cent are planning to use the new system by the first quarter of 2011. Continue reading this entry »

Mar 17

SP2010 Disaster Recovery; IE9 Downloaded 2.35 Million Times; Cloud Buzzword of 2011: Hybrid

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SharePoint Daily LogoI started this morning with some great news, SharePoint Daily has been nominated for an Andy Dale SharePoint Award. If you take a look at the “Best SharePoint Information Site” category you will see I am up against some VERY strong competition. The sites that I am competing with are among the best in the industry and are on the top of my reading list every morning. If you haven’t checked out their sites, do yourself a favor. You will not regret it. Then, once you are done, be sure to head back to the award site and vote for SharePoint Daily. –Chris

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SharePoint Workspace: Tips for Collaborating Effectively (CMS Wire)
Enterprise collaboration isn’t always online, live and interactive. It needs to fit with employees’ work patterns and behaviors, so it can often be offline and “local” — think of the travelling salesman, updating sales numbers on the road. Head offices need up-to-date numbers at the end of every week, and they also need to work together on reports for the board. Continue reading this entry »

Mar 16

Enterprise Collaboration with Office and SP2010; 10 Reasons to Use IE9; Giving Up On WP7?

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SharePoint Daily LogoOur friend Dux Raymond Sy is working to raise money for relief efforts in New Zealand and Japan. Thanks to Microsoft Press, O’Reilly Media, Innovative-e, Bamboo Solutions, SPTechCon, Nintex and Fpweb, you can benefit too. For a small donation you will receive a free ebook and be entered for a chance to win an iPad, conference passes and more. Full details are available at meetdux.com –Chris

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SharePoint Collaboration: Build So They Will Come (CMS Wire)
In the last post, I talked about the if we build it, they will come mentality, i.e., give people something, anything, to use, and they’ll use it. After all, they have no dedicated tool now to use for collaboration, so whatever we give them will be better than nothing, right? As I discussed there, adopting the if we build it approach to SharePoint is the number one reason I see out in the field for implementation failure — users will always avoid a solution that’s simply better than nothing and fall back on the ways they work today, turning your SharePoint collaboration environment into shelf-ware overnight. Continue reading this entry »

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