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For June, 2012

Jun 29

What Yammer Acquisition Mean for SharePoint; I Collaborated—And Survived; The Evil Empire Re-Surfaces

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SharePoint Daily LogoRoad Trip anyone? This so looks worth the drive.  -  Dooley

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Discussion Point: What Does the Yammer Acquisition Mean for Microsoft SharePoint? (CMSWire)
Microsoft made it official this week — it is taking the enterprise social network provider Yammer under its wing. The news has brought up a number of questions, including what this means for SharePoint. In this week’s discussion point we went out and asked a number of industry analysts and Microsoft partners for their views. Here’s what they said. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 28

Successful SharePoint 2010 Records Management; Office 365 Free for Education; Desktops are Dead

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SharePoint Daily LogoThere’s nothing quite like getting to the office only to find that your Internet access is down.  -  Dooley

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Five Policy Considerations for Successful Records Management in SharePoint 2010 (Information Management)
The funny thing about the essential policy decisions to successfully implement a records management program is that none is directly dependent on the technologies supplied in SharePoint 2010 (such as the records repository or managed metadata). The essential policy decisions that underlie a solid records and information management (RIM) program are technology independent.  Before launching into the decisions themselves, here are five level-setting concepts for those of you who may not be familiar with records management. Continue reading this entry »
Jun 27

SharePoint Going Online Only?; Do You Collaborate Effectively?; Why Microsoft Surface Matters

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoIs there any news out there that isn’t about the Microsoft/Yammer deal?  -  Dooley

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How Long Before Microsoft Drops SharePoint ‘On Premise’ Altogether? (Beta News)
So Microsoft went ahead and bought Yammer. Amongst the wider coverage were some interesting comments from Kurt Delbene, President of the Microsoft Office Division. In the official press conference he seemed to suggest that any future Yammer integration would be limited to cloud products: “Yammer provides Microsoft best-in-class enterprise social networking service, as well as a phenomenal list of talented employees that know how to deliver rapid innovation in the cloud. Yammer will be an important addition to Microsoft’s cloud services, and this acquisition underscores our commitment to helping customers move to the cloud.” Continue reading this entry »
Jun 26

Microsoft Confirms Yammer Purchase; Is Windows 8 Ready?; What’s Wrong with Windows Phone?

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoIs this the beginning of Skynet?  -  Dooley

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Microsoft Confirms $1.2 Billion Yammer Buy (InformationWeek)
Rumored for more than a week, Microsoft’s plan to acquire Yammer became official Monday. Early business news reports turned out to have just about everything right, down to the $1.2 billion price. Microsoft did confirm that Yammer will be integrated into the Microsoft Office division, making it part of the same product family as SharePoint, which was one detail that hadn’t been clear previously. Some analysts thought it would be more likely to be positioned as an adjunct to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, as a counter to Salesforce.com’s Chatter service, which is similar to Yammer. Instead, Yammer is to be integrated with SharePoint, Dynamics, and other products but will also have a life of its own. Continue reading this entry »
Jun 25

Securing SharePoint Data; Are You a SharePoint Developer?; Ballmer’s CEO Legacy

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoIt is officially summer here in Virginia which means it is time to dig out your grills. Can anyone suggest the best BBQ sauce for cooking your cell phone?  -  Dooley

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Five Tips for Securing SharePoint Data (VoiceAndData)
SharePoint’s ability to function as a data repository and a collaboration platform has made it popular with many organisations. SharePoint does include some basic security building blocks – like permissions and auditing – but successfully harnessing these, and addressing some of the gaps in native SharePoint, is critical for achieving effective data security. Not only can SharePoint store an organisation’s sensitive business data, it can help automate business processes around that data. When organisations begin to leverage SharePoint as a core business system, the importance of securing SharePoint data and applications comes into focus. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 21

Evolution of the SharePoint Ecosystem; ECM is Dead; Lawmakers Push ‘Do Not Track’

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SharePoint Daily LogoDon’t forget to sign up for a FREE webinar “5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives” hosted by Bamboo and Innovative-e. TODAY at 2PM Eastern.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint Ecosystem Evolves as Next Release Looms (LTN)
A recent rush of add-on products for Microsoft SharePoint may benefit law firms and legal departments, even as a whole new version of SharePoint itself is fast approaching. SharePoint, born in 2001, is a web content platform that allows collaboration in a variety of ways. Its current version is SharePoint 2010, released in May that year. Customers will continue to need aftermarket support for it, especially in the slow-moving realm of legal technology adoption, long after SharePoint 2013 rolls out in the near future. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 20

SharePoint Cloud vs. On-Premises; Moving to Office 365; Windows 8 Phone Coming Soon

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoIt’s not too late to sign up for a FREE webinar “5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives” hosted by Bamboo and Innovative-e. June 21 2PM Eastern.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint in the Cloud and On-Premises: One of These Things is Not Like the Other (AIIM)
Recently Google announced the acquisition of QuickOffice – a “Cloud” based office productivity solution known for its ability to provide better than average Microsoft Office file format support and cross-device support.  The thought that immediately came to mind wasn’t so much that Google is once again ramping up its capabilities in its battle against Microsoft Office 365, rather, it’s the misconceptions folks have with regards to functionality between Cloud and on-premise solutions. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 19

Secure SharePoint Sharing; Microsoft Surface Details; Reinvention of Microsoft

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoThat loud CRACK you heard this morning may have been my back. Ouch…  -  Dooley

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SharePoint: Caring about Secure Sharing (CMSWire)
If there is an engine room for driving the development of social collaboration within the enterprise at scale, SharePoint is it. Yes, it may be fashionable to bash Microsoft, but for the scores of enterprises who use the Microsoft stack (Microsoft Office and Azure, along with SharePoint), there are levels of familiarity, usability and productivity that have yet to be matched by other options. However, while SharePoint has the built-in advantages of being a core part of the Microsoft stack for the enterprise, it may surprise you that there really isn’t an effective and secure way for SharePoint users to share sensitive documents within the enterprise. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 18

Can Yammer Save SharePoint?; Cloud Secrecy Causes System Meltdown; Windows 7 vs. Windows 8

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoRainy mornings mean I get to sleep late. Right?  -  Dooley

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Designing SharePoint Solutions: Start with the Business Problem and Look Backwards! (NetworkWorld)
This week, my friends from Microsoft invited me to participate in a customer meeting at one of the Microsoft Technology Centers. The challenge: helping a large global organization new to SharePoint understand the information architecture and design trade-offs for deploying SharePoint to support distributed teams. The overwhelming theme was the following: if you want to make the best possible design decisions, start with the business problem and work backwards. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 14

Future of Collaboration is Not The Intranet; Microsoft Buying Yammer?; TechEd 2012

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily Logo :-)  -  Dooley

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The Future of Collaboration and Communication is Not The Intranet (CMSWire)
Strong title, but if you asked Adam Pisoni, Yammer CTO and Co-founder, that’s exactly what he will tell you. The future is, you guessed it, enterprise social networks and the cloud. Continue reading this entry »

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