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Feb 21

When SharePoint Governance Lacks Accountability; Business Isn’t Happy with SharePoint; Design Over Usability

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SharePoint Daily LogoDo you plan to attend SHARE 2013 Conference in Atlanta? Register now and Bamboo can help you save $300.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint Gone Wild: When Governance Lacks Accountability (.NET Developers Journal)
In a webinar entitled ‘Business Drivers and Checklists for Successful SharePoint Governance’, Randy Williams, SharePoint MVP and AvePoint Enterprise Trainer & Evangelist, and I discussed the business drivers that come from individuals outside the IT department for SharePoint as a service within an organization. These drivers often result in policies being defined to set the expectation with the business and to focus alignment with the IT department. Continue reading this entry »
Jan 07

SharePoint Internet Sites; Skipping Office 2013; Microsoft in 2013 Predictions

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SharePoint Daily LogoWhat do you mean I have to work 5 days this week?  -  Dooley

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Prediction 2013: An Explosion of SharePoint Internet Sites… and a Grain of Salt (CMSWire)
Microsoft has crafted the latest edition of its Web Content Management platform to make it more appealing as a solution for building public websites. SharePoint has long been the go-to platform for intranets and document management solutions for small to large businesses. But now SharePoint 2013 is poised to make dramatic inroads as a WCM for internet sites. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 02

SharePoint in Review; What’s Missing From Windows RT Office 2013; Microsoft in 2012

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SharePoint Daily LogoWOOHOO, it’s finally 2013! Hopefully it will be better than 2012.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint in Review 2012: Planned Deployments, Information Access Still Key (CMSWire)
What would a year in information management be without SharePoint — any kind of SharePoint? We have to be careful to clarify now as talking about SharePoint could involve any one of four groups of products. In other words, we could be talking about the 2003 version — and yes it is still being used — the 2007 and 2010 version, and SharePoint 2013. Continue reading this entry »

Dec 19

SharePoint Metadata; Windows 8 Business Skepticism; Over Google Apps? Try Office 365

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SharePoint Daily LogoIs the world supposed to end at a specific time on Friday?  -  Dooley

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Best Practice – Metadata in SharePoint and Beyond (AIIM)
Last time, I talked about the recent SharePoint conference and some of the ECM gaps that have been carried forward into the soon-to-be-released 2013 version of SharePoint. This week I will focus on metadata and share some of my best practices for the use of metadata in ECM systems like SharePoint. You will find most of these recommendations apply equally to any ECM implementation whether you’re using SharePoint or not, and that’s an important point. Although SharePoint is often seen as a transformational platform, its core functionality is not that different from most ECM platforms. Although there are some quirks in SharePoint, most of the advice I will offer can be applied to out-of-the-box SharePoint or any other ECM platform. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 06

SharePoint Storage Performance Killers; You Should Consider Windows 8; Surface Makes More $$$ Than iPad

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SharePoint Daily LogoIf you live in the US, please make sure to get out there and vote today.  -  Dooley

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The Top Five Performance Killers in SharePoint Storage – Download (TechRepublic)
SharePoint is an excellent collaboration platform. For this reason many organizations see extremely rapid adoption, which often leads to an explosion of the SQL Server content database that can seriously degrade SharePoint performance. This technical brief explores the top five SharePoint performance killers and explains how you can addresses each of them, enabling organisations to maintain the high SharePoint performance while ensuring data integrity and keeping costs in check. Continue reading this entry »
Oct 22

SharePoint 2013 Social Intranets; Azure Mobile Services for iOS; IE10 Comes to Windows 7

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SharePoint Daily LogoSorry for the very long, very unplanned break. My schedule has been insanely crazy, but I think I finally have it under control again.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint 2013: Intranets with a Side of Social (CMSWire)
For many years organizations have used SharePoint to create Intranet environments, a single location that can be used as a starting point to obtain all the information needed for employees to complete their work. Because SharePoint offered a rich set of tools that allowed for non-technical users to update the content, it became a platform of choice for many organizations. SharePoint 2013 offers additional functionality that will greatly enhance SharePoint’s capability for providing these types of solutions internally. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 12

SharePoint/Exchange Integration Considerations: Microsoft White-Labels Its Cloud; Deploying an Enterprise App Store

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SharePoint Daily LogoBecause I say so. That’s why.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint Integration Considerations for Every Exchange Organization (SearchExchange)
Many companies that rely on Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook also use SharePoint for things like data warehousing, workflow reporting and social networking. However, not every company integrates these products in a way that takes full advantage of SharePoint’s capabilities. We recently spoke with Errin O’Connor, founder and CEO of the EPC Group, a SharePoint consulting firm based in Houston, about some little-known ways to take advantage of Exchange, Outlook and SharePoint. We also discussed some common issues, some of the least efficient ways to use these tools and when to consider a move to the hosted version of these offerings as part of the Office 365 suite. Continue reading this entry »

May 10

SharePoint Deployment Pitfalls; Firefox Banned on ARM-based Windows; Don’t Ignore Office 365

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SharePoint Daily LogoDidn’t we see this happening in “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”? Maybe it really is the end for humans.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint 15: 8 Things to Help You Prepare (CMSWire)
It seems like only yesterday that we were shouting about the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010. In fact, it is just about two years ago (May 12, 2010) that it was released. And with a mere two years on the market, we’re starting to shout about the release of the next edition — SharePoint 15. Continue reading this entry »

May 09

SharePoint Migration Odyssey; Windows 8 Security Hole; Azure Rebranded

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SharePoint Daily LogoSince when is it OK to fire someone because they “Like” a political candidate on Facebook?  -  Dooley

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SharePoint 2010: A Migration Odyssey (ZDNet)
Last Summer, the University of Brighton embarked on an ambitious project to roll out SharePoint 2010 from scratch. Between them, 12 servers provide both a test and production environment that will eventually deliver personal file storage for the university’s 4,000 staff; departmental storage areas for all schools, faculties and central admin departments; and a fully functional staff extranet. With eight years’ experience in PHP/MySQL development and teaching staff the basics of web authorship, I got the job of deployment. Continue reading this entry »

May 07

SharePoint Notes from the Field; Office 365 now FISMA-certified; Betting Against the Web

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SharePoint Daily LogoMicrosoft sponsored a horse in the Kentucky Derby. Who knew?  -  Dooley

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Notes from the Field 2012 (AIIM)
I have been out in the field lately (apologies to Bryant for not posting more often) and this post is on what I have heard clients talking about lately.  Obviously, this sample isn’t a complete sample, but it has been an exciting first four months of 2012. SharePoint continues to roll for document-centric business applications: Companies are looking at SharePoint for document-centric business applications, not just Records Management (RM) or content governance (or portals or collaboration or all the things SharePoint does so well).  So far this year, we’ve seen many instances where companies wanted to migrate document-centric business applications to SharePoint from their legacy ECM products.  These are applications like accounts payable, contracts, HR, and purchasing.  Gartner used to call them “Content Enabled Vertical Applications” (CEVA’s). This has been especially true in SAP shops where the SAP ArchiveLink protocol makes it so easy to migrate from one ECM platform to another.  The SAPGUI controls the user experience, so the migration is unloading documents from one platform and loading the documents to another platform.  There is some important validation work to be done, but this is not nearly as hard as the traditional ECM product migrations have been.  Several of these migrations have required less than 6 months of product maintenance of the legacy ECM products to fund the software, the full conversion effort and the complete migration of the content. Continue reading this entry »

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