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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 »

Nov 02

SharePoint Cloud Found Lacking for Enterprise; EPA Moves to Cloud Email; Ballmer Not Envious of Apple

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SharePoint Daily LogoIs it Friday yet? Oh, wait… it is.  :-)  -  Dooley

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SharePoint in the Cloud Found Lacking for Enterprise Customers (Yahoo! News)
Microsoft’s SharePoint cloud offering, part of Office 365, does not co-exist easily with existing on-premise installations, and should be considered primarily for “greenfield” environments, according to research released this week by The Real Story Group, an independent analyst firm. “SharePoint Online shares most of the benefits and drawbacks of its on-premise cousin, but with one key twist,” notes The Real Story Group founder, Tony Byrne. “It doesn’t play nicely with the on-premise version.” 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 »
Jul 11

Do-It-Yourself SharePoint Solutions; Microsoft Will Not be Out Innovated; Azure Cloud Services Come to Windows Server

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SharePoint Daily LogoIs it Friday yet?  -  Dooley

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SharePoint 2010 Composites: Do-It-Yourself Business Solutions (CMSWire)
This is the final article in this series “What is this SharePoint Thing All About Anyway?” and in this article we are going to be looking at the concept of SharePoint Composites. Composites are a type of solution that allows you to pull together items from multiple applications to build a complete solution. In this article we are going to highlight some of the various types of things you can build using composites as well as provide an overview of the tools you will utilize. Continue reading this entry »
Jun 25

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

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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 »
May 18

SharePoint for Innovation; Office 365 Web App Benefits; Steve Ballmer Worst CEO

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SharePoint Daily LogoCan we retire early now that we are all Facebook millionaires?  -  Dooley

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Choosing SharePoint: An Innovative Approach to Just About Anything (CMSWire)
I recently spoke with a client of mine on a new prospective project using SharePoint to deliver a records management solution. The solution was to replace an existing, outdated product that was in major need of a facelift. “Great!” I said. I prepared my finest consulting slides and brushed up on a few records management topics that I had become rusty on, and I was on my way to winning a new project. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 26

Do SharePoint Right; SOPA vs. ECM; Vote Via the Cloud

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SharePoint Daily LogoThere has to be a better way to avoid the snooze button.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint Implementation the Right Way (CMSWire)
In my last post, I outlined the decision point that the SharePoint user community faces right now. I caught some flak after the post that I want to address here head-on: some folks pointed out that whatever SharePoint can or can’t do in theory, in practice SharePoint implementations frequently fail to provide improved document management…and organizations find themselves with as big (or bigger) of a mess as they had with shared drives, Lotus Notes or whatever else was in place before SharePoint came along. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 10

Reinventing Enterprise Collaboration; Steve Ballmer at CES; 2012′s Top Cloud Trend

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SharePoint Daily LogoToday I have included a link to an Enterprise Collaboration White Paper that requires you register with the site. I have generally avoided links like this because it annoys me to have to register to see content. But… this isn’t really about me. Tell me what you think. Should I include links to sites that may require registration?  -  Dooley

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Understanding Cultural Requirements (AIIM)
I saw a Wi-Fi placard in a hotel recently and laughed that it still touted the service as being “50 times faster than dialup.” I can’t remember the last time I even owned a computer with a modem, much less care about that useless comparison. I marvel at the speed of change in technology during my 20+ year career, largely in IT roles. I occasionally share a story of years back when I was excited to gain access to a bulletin board service (BBS) in which dungeon masters shared maps and monster charts and other role playing guidance (which makes me a nerd on a couple different levels, I know). Jump forward to today, and the way in which the rising generation communicates with each other, and with the world at large, has changed dramatically. Collaboration tools have become ubiquitous. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 21

SharePoint 2010 Deployments Increasing; Microsoft Q1 Sales Beat Estimates; Building a Mobile Enterprise

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SharePoint Daily LogoWhat do you think? Should Bing give up due to the new search engine from MC Hammer?  :-)  Have a great weekend everyone.  – Dooley

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OpenText Global 360 SharePoint Survey: 2010 Deployments Increasing, Strategies Lacking (CMSWire)
Global 360 has done another SharePoint in the Enterprise survey and the results are on track with what’s being said at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim this week: SharePoint 2010 deployments are increasing. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 11

The Mile-High View of SharePoint; What’s on Microsoft’s Priority List?; Bing Is All About Verbs

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SharePoint Daily LogoI guess Mondays are a necessary evil but they are not quite as bad when you can start things off with a FREE Slurpee from 7-eleven. Get ‘em while they’re hot cold. While I can’t offer a free drink to everyone I can point you to Bamboo’s free World Clock & Weather Web Part, just one of the many free Web Parts listed by our friends over at SharePoint Reviews.  –Chris

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Inside SharePoint 2010, Part 1: The Mile-High View (Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows)
While most readers are likely familiar with the name SharePoint, it’s equally likely that many of you, like me, rarely if ever actually use the product. I aim to change that. Thanks to my testing of the Office 365 service over the past nine months, I’ve become more and more intrigued by this jack-of-all-trades product which, like an old SNL skit, is both a dessert topping and a floor wax, a product so versatile and useful that it defies you to describe it quickly and simply. Continue reading this entry »

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