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Jan 09

SharePoint Upgrade Problems; Committing To The Cloud; Ballmer Crashes CES

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SharePoint Daily LogoHaven’t we learned anything from every asteroid related disaster movie ever filmed?  -  Dooley

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SharePoint Upgrades Cause Problems for Some Users, Developers (PCWorld)
Recent back-end upgrades by Microsoft to Office 365′s SharePoint Online are causing problems for some users and developers whose workflows and applications have been disrupted by a variety of bugs. At SP Marketplace, a Sacramento, California, developer of business applications that run on SharePoint, staffers are now constantly monitoring their software in case Microsoft back-end changes break functionality in their products. Continue reading this entry »

Dec 03

SharePoint Online or On Premises?; Windows 8 Adoption Slow; Is This the End for Microsoft?

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SharePoint Daily LogoHappy Monday! -  Dooley

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SharePoint Online or On Premises: Who is Microsoft Betting On? (CMSWire)
This year’s SharePoint conference is now over, and as people return for Las Vegas there is time to reflect on the many announcements made at the show. The keynote speech, kicked off by Senior Director of Product Marketing for SharePoint Jared Spataro, touched on a few topics before addressing Microsoft’s purchase of Yammer — something everyone was keen to learn more about. Ever since Microsoft paid US$ 1.2 billion for the company people have been wondering just how it was going to integrate with Microsoft’s flagship enterprise product. Continue reading this entry »
Jun 27

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

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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 19

Secure SharePoint Sharing; Microsoft Surface Details; Reinvention of Microsoft

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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 »
Feb 03

SharePoint Information Architecture Planning; Cloud Strategy ROI; Windows Phone 8 Preview

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SharePoint Daily LogoIs it Friday yet?  -  Dooley

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5 Critical Steps to SharePoint Information Architecture Planning (CMSWire)
If you want to successfully implement SharePoint in your organization, then you need to clearly define and manage your information architecture (IA). There are a number of things you need to do to define your SharePoint IA and here are five critical steps to ensure you are on the right track. Information Architecture in SharePoint: The best way to think about information architecture is that it’s a blueprint, a way to organize your information so it’s easy to find by the right people. And while SharePoint isn’t the only platform that is in need of a well-defined IA, it is one, that if badly defined, can cause more information silos and frustrated employees than you can even imagine. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 12

Selling SharePoint 2010 to Your Enterprise; TechNet Content on Amazon; Windows 8 in October?

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SharePoint Daily LogoMy photography skills are severely lacking so I always look forward to seeing what others did in the National Geographic Photo Contest. Maybe it would help if I had a better camera than the one built into my phone.  -  Dooley

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Selling SharePoint 2010 to Your Enterprise (CMSWire)
Communicating how your organization may implement SharePoint 2010 best is a very delicate message. Clearly communicating the value for every department, while acknowledging their different needs, is an important step in the implementation process. Introduce the language below to market gingerly towards the user community and the project implementation team. Intersperse these phrases in tandem with less records jargon-specific terms. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 04

Office 365 Includes Customizable SharePoint Online; Linux on Windows Azure; Could Chrome Overtake IE?

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SharePoint Daily LogoIs the world ready for a Steve Jobs action figure?  -  Dooley

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Office 365 Cloud Product Includes Fully Customizable SharePoint Online (SearchContentManagement)
By now, most content management professionals have heard of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud offering. It comprises four distinct software products: Exchange, Lync, SharePoint (all hosted on Microsoft servers at datacenters around the world) and Office (which exists on users’ local PCs). One of its best features is that the collaboration platform, SharePoint Online — based on SharePoint 2010 — offers many valuable customization capabilities. In fact, of the three cloud-based products, SharePoint Online offers the greatest opportunities for business modification to aid enterprise content management and collaboration. Continue reading this entry »

Dec 16

SharePoint as a Knowledge Management Infrastructure; Web Predictions for 2012; Free Webinars from Mindsharp

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SharePoint Daily LogoHow do I get on the list to go into space?  -  Dooley

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The Art of SharePoint Success: Strategy – SharePoint as an Information & Knowledge Management Infrastructure (CMSWire)
This is article seven in the series exploring the Art of SharePoint Success, a framework for achieving long term business benefits from investments in SharePoint-based change initiatives. There are four elements to the framework: 1.Governance; 2.Strategy; 3.Architecture; 4.Transition. We are discussing the strategy element which began with the question, “What is SharePoint?” I suggested the following answer: SharePoint is a set of integrated technologies which provide a platform upon which an organization can build a flexible, long-term information and knowledge management infrastructure. The past two articles have explored the concepts of SharePoint as a set of integrated technologies, as an application development platform and the nature of infrastructure. This month we are going to wrap up the definition of SharePoint by looking at the idea that SharePoint is all about information and knowledge management. Continue reading this entry »

Dec 02

SharePoint vs. Email; Windows 8 Beta in February; New SharePoint Online Features

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SharePoint Daily LogoHow do they get data for Indoor Google Maps? For some reason I am imagining the Google Streetview camera/antenna thingy attached to a Segway rolling through all the local malls.  :-)  –  Dooley

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We Can Live in Our Inbox and Have SharePoint Too (CMSWire)
I know that for most the idea of getting rid of their inbox for good is simply a pipe dream (it’s certainly my pipe dream). But until that dream comes to fruition we need to learn how to make that inbox more useful. For those who also use SharePoint in their organization, harmon.ie offers a tool to do just that. And they have the stats to back it up. Taking the SharePoint User Challenge: The SharePoint User Challenge is something that harmon.ie has done for the last couple of years. It’s like contest that gets users to run through some tests to see how much faster they can get information into and out SharePoint from their email as opposed to directly using SharePoint. Continue reading this entry »

Nov 15

Creating a SharePoint Hybrid in the Cloud; Developers Love Windows Phone; Is Duqu a Big Deal?

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SharePoint Daily LogoEveryone picking up a Kindle Fire today? Knowing that there are about 5 bajillion of them shipping this week makes me glad I don’t work for UPS or FedEx.  – Dooley

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Combining SharePoint Online, SharePoint On-Premise as a Hybrid in the Cloud (CMSWire)
Running in tandem with the release of SharePoint 2010, there are two other elements that, along with SharePoint, point to a more efficient and agile future for management of content. Those two elements are the proliferation of cloud computing possibilities and, combining these two other elements, the development of hybrid online/on premise computing environments. SharePoint deployments are hitting up to 70%, according to the State of the ECM Industry report from AIIM earlier, while an October report — also from AIIM — suggested that half of companies will be using it as their principal enterprise CMS. Continue reading this entry »

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