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For June, 2011

Jun 30

SharePoint Isn’t Just for IT; Office 365 More than a New Platform; IE10 Preview 2 Available for Testers

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SharePoint Daily LogoMonday is a holiday in the US and the SharePoint Daily office will be closed. To speed this week along I am going to start my weekend early and take tomorrow off as well. To make the weekend even more fun, I am giving all of you the day off work as well. Tell your managers I approved it and they should talk to me if they disagree.  ;-)  Have a great weekend and I’ll see you bright and early on Tuesday.  –Chris

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SharePoint Isn’t Just for IT (ITBusinessEdge)
It’s been about half a year since I wrote about the sometimes slapdash adoption of Microsoft SharePoint, which apparently is often brought into organizations without a clear strategy in mind. My post cited some good advice from Martin White, managing director of consulting company Intranet Focus Ltd and author “The Intranet Management Handbook,” who advised creating a strategy document to help determine if SharePoint is the best option for the company intranet and sitting down for a discussion about SharePoint’s benefits and possible shortcomings. Continue reading this entry »
Jun 29

Office 365 Reviews, (Missing) Features & What’s Next; SharePoint 2010 SP1 Released; Taking Tech on Vacation

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SharePoint Daily LogoWelcome to Office 365 Daily, Day 2. At least SP1 was released, so there was some SharePoint news yesterday.  –Chris

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Ballmer Focuses on Enterprise Collaboration, SMBs at Office 365 Launch (CMSWire)
After all the hype, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer finally unveiled Office 365 in New York. For those who were expecting, or even hoping, for something new, it would have been a disappointment. If, however, you were to count the number of times he used the words “collaboration” and “SMB,” you get a clear idea of where Microsoft is hoping to go with it. Leaving aside  a number of demonstrations of how it will work, Balllmer was at pains to stress how good this will be for those looking for an enterprise collaboration suite. “Office 365 is where Office meets the cloud,” Ballmer said at the event. Continue reading this entry »
Jun 28

SharePoint ECM on the Rise; Office 365 Launches; Windows 8 in April?

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SharePoint Daily LogoI hadn’t intended to make today an almost all Office 365 day, but every Microsoft related term I searched on pulled up Office 365 articles. Maybe I should change the site name to Office 365 Daily.  :-)  –Chris

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SharePoint 2010 Used Mainly for Collaboration; Enterprise Content Management to Grow, AIIM Says (CMSWire)
Like many, we have been following the evolution of SharePoint 2010 since its general release last year. Anecdotal accounts suggest widespread deployment and use across enterprises with further deployments on the way. A little over a year later, we still wonder whether it has lived up to its initial promise and what exactly it is being used for at the moment and where it will go in the future. Continue reading this entry »
Jun 27

IBM: SharePoint 2010 Not Ready for Social Business; What Office 365 Means for Us; Firefox Meets Corporate Backlash

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Improving SharePoint Performance Across the WAN (Data Center Journal)
Remote users and branch offices have come to rely on Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 for collaboration and document management. Performance and connectivity issues have put those outside corporate headquarters at a disadvantage, however. Can those issues be resolved quickly and easily? Continue reading this entry »

Jun 24

PowerPivot for SharePoint; Microsoft: ‘We Can Hand Over Office 365 Data”; Social Networking in the Workplace

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Understanding SharePoint 2010 Claims Based Security (video) (Channel 9)
Learn real world tips for configuring SharePoint claims based security from Altaf Gilani and Mark Massad. In this episode, we discuss how to implement claims based security in SharePoint, including lessons learned and general guidance. Altaf and Mark also give some valuable instrumentation and debugging tips that can save you hours of time. They also discuss implementing claims augmentation to add additional custom claims. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 23

Patch SharePoint’s Social Weak Spots; BPOS Cloud Out Again; Microsoft Buying RIM?

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SharePoint Daily LogoI’ve been playing around with a few of the “social sharing” widgets, like addthis.com, lately. So far they all look very similar in that you plug in a few lines of code and away you go. I am curious what you think though. Is there one service that is better than the others? What features do you like that the others may not have or do not do as well?  –Chris

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How To Plug SharePoint’s Social Holes (InformationWeek)
Microsoft and SharePoint were only occasionally in the forefront of the conversations this week at Enterprise 2.0, a UBM TechWeb event, but ever-present in the background. Pure play social software competitors may slight SharePoint for not providing a complete enterprise social media environment, but the product is ubiquitous in corporate computing and SharePoint 2010 added fundamental social media features like richer user profiles and news feeds. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 22

Tips on Migrating Data to SP2010; Celebrate Adoption, Not Deployment; Cloud Computing Isn’t Overhyped

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Top Five Tips on Migrating Data from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 (ComputerWeekly)
The business appeal of Microsoft SharePoint has grown rapidly since the release of SharePoint 2010, and users of SharePoint 2007 are now looking to migrate corporate databases to continue driving business efficiency, while empowering end-users to make more informed decisions. However, migrating to SharePoint 2010 does pose some challenges. Here are five tips to help you succeed: Continue reading this entry »

Jun 21

Introduce Collaboration Software in Your Business; Windows SkyDrive Embraces HTML5; Windows 8 Killing Windows Phone 7?

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Your SharePoint Records Governance Plan and ISO 15489: The Objectives (CMSWire)
Last time, I introduced the SharePoint 2010 Records Governance Plan to you. Today we continue the plan with the objectives section — answering the question, “what are we trying to accomplish through our SharePoint 2010 implementation?” Continue reading this entry »

Jun 20

ROI for Enterprise Collaboration Tools; Office 365 Security; Out of the Office & on the Cloud

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SharePoint Daily LogoHappy Monday! It seems I left out one little detail from my aquarium story last week… As far as I can tell all the fish are fine. They were swimming around this morning so I guess I didn’t do anything too bad in trying to stop the water leaks.  –Chris

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Why Your SharePoint Deployment Needs Intelligent Capture, Storage Management (CMSWire)
Recently, we took a look at the importance of defining developing a metadata strategy for SharePoint, predicated on the basis that an enterprise has already made a decision on how and what content will be taken into its environment. But what about the step before that? How are you going to get that content in the first place, and how will you manage the storage of business critical information? Continue reading this entry »

Jun 16

Are You Good at Collaboration?; Benefits of SharePoint Virtualization; Microsoft’s Unification Plan For PCs, Phones, Tablets

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SharePoint Daily LogoMost days I am the first person in the office and I take my time to get coffee, answer a few emails and generally breathe a bit before everyone else comes in. Today I wish someone else had been here first. I turned on the lights and noticed that the carpet looked a bit odd, took one step and heard a loud squish. Carpet shouldn’t generally be squishy, so I knew something was wrong. After a bit of searching, I found our office aquarium water filtration system had backed up and overflowed. I have no clue how to fix this, so I followed my instincts and took a picture of the flooded floor with my phone.  :-)  I did finally find a pitcher and was able to scoop some of the water out to at least stop the overflow. So, to make a long story even longer… I believe that cleaning up fishy water at 7:30 AM means it is time for a long weekend. SharePoint Daily will be back Monday morning with hopefully dryer carpets. Have a great weekend everyone. –Chris

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Help Shape Steve Ballmer’s WPC 2011 Keynote Speech! (Microsoft)
WPC 2011 is your event, and we would love to get your comments on topics you want to hear from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO. Help us shape his 2011 WPC Keynote speech by leaving your requests below. Are you interested in learning how Microsoft is leading the industry transformation to the cloud? Or how Microsoft is committed to partner success? Is there something specific about the business vision, commitment, or consumerization of business that relates especially to you, the partner, which you want to hear Steve Ballmer speak to? Continue reading this entry »

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