Web Cast – SharePoint 2007 Permissions
On February 8th, I delivered a free short online web cast based on my presentation ‘Managing SharePoint 2007 Site Permissions’. Organised by Mark Miller at EndUserSharePoint.com, the event was recorded...
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SharePoint 2010 launches on May 12
Microsoft has at last announced the launch date for Office and SharePoint 2010: May 12 at 11:00am EST (4pm GMT) Click image to visit Microsoft’s announcement. I was guestimating April so out by a month…
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SharePoint 2010 and Adobe PDF
SharePoint Server 2010, like its predecessors, includes indexing and search capabilities. But what doesn’t come out of the box is the ability to index and search for PDF documents. If you want to be...
View ArticleSharePoint Evolutions Conference
Following the problems with travel caused by a certain volcano, I’ll now be presenting at the SharePoint Evolutions conference in London. My session abstract hasn’t made it onto the web site yet so...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 What’s New
This week I presented at the SharePoint Evolutions Conference and one of the sessions I delivered was an interactive tour around some of the new and improved features being introduced in SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Capacity Planning
The Microsoft SharePoint Product Group has a blog post announcing a new Capacity Management Resource Center for SharePoint 2010. The Capacity Management Resource Center is hosted on TechNet and should...
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What’s in a SharePoint name
Note: this article was originally posted on the SharePoint Guide Microsoft has recently published a TechNet article containing an Overview for SharePoint Workspace 2010. SharePoint Workspace is the new...
View ArticleSharePoint and Office Web Apps
With the release of SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 earlier this year, a new set of applications also arrived – Office Web Applications. Office Web Apps are browser-based versions of Office,...
View ArticleSharePoint and Records Management
In October I presented at a Records Management event in London for Unicom. The title of my presentation was SharePoint and Records Management: The Good, Bad and Ugly. The slides are embedded below....
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What’s wrong with SharePoint
Redmondmag.com has an article on just this subject – What’s Wrong with SharePoint?: Third-Party SharePoint Developers Weigh In, by Lee Pender. It has observations from vendors of some of the main...
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Yammer and SharePoint
On Monday Microsoft confirmed the acquisition of Yammer, an enterprise social networking tool. Until now, the emphasis for enterprise social networking solutions has been on SharePoint. Does the...
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Do you need a portal?
Back in April, I presented some sessions at the International SharePoint Conference held in London. One of the sessions was titled ‘We need a portal’. It was part of the business track, exploring how...
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A practical digital strategy
In April this year I presented at the SharePoint Evolutions conference in London, taking part in the business track. On the last day, I presented ‘SharePoint as part of a digital strategy’, looking at...
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SharePoint vs Huddle for Collaboration
TechRepublic has a detailed blog post looking at Huddle and SharePoint – Huddle vs SharePoint: A comparative analysis in three collaboration scenarios. It’s a good article and well worth a read. But...
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SharePoint and Intranet Directions
In June I presented ‘SharePoint 2013: What’s different?’ to a group of intranet and web content managers for J.Boye, who are a community of intranet and web professionals. I just repeated the session...
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Business value and SharePoint
To create business value using a platform such as SharePoint requires knowing when to apply it and when not to. Content management platforms can do many things but that doesn’t mean they do everything...
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8 steps to a successful transformation
In 1995, John P Kotter wrote an article ‘Leading Change: 8 steps to a successful transformation and why most transformation efforts fail’, that was published in the Harvard Business Review. Nearly two...
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