Month: August 2011

Limits and Boundaries in SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Limits and Boundaries in SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) Service Pack 1 (SP1)
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Microsoft has released various recommendations about how large content data bases should be in SharePoint in order to still allow for optimal performance . Gökhan’s article explores the complexities of these recommendations and how to best go about managing large amounts of data in SharePoint. This blog from Gökhan will serve as extensions to the topic that Gökhan has already explored in his piece.

I wrote this while searching for ways to optimize my SharePoint 2010 farm. At the time I didn’t have many content databases, but the few that I did have were quite large. I had heard about the recommended 200 GB limitation from Microsoft and decided to do some further research in order to make sure that I operate a fully supported SP2010 environment. I found an article on Microsoft TechNet that mentions recommended terms limits, thresholds and boundaries

A Selection of Microsoft Sessions That Will Interest You!
A Selection of Microsoft Sessions That Will Interest You!
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We have been updating our conference programme with more sessions and here we would like to highlight some Microsoft Sessions that we think would be of interest to you.

Sessions Aimed at IT Professionals,

Sessions Aimed at IT Developers,

and Sessions Aimed at IT Decision Makers.

Email Records Management: SharePoint or Managed Folders?
Email Records Management: SharePoint or Managed Folders?
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As SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010 upgrades are being undertaken worldwide, there has been considerable discussion around the use of Exchange Managed Folders and their suitability for storing email in records management scenarios. While Managed Folders are a viable solution for basic use cases; most organizations require SharePoint’s more flexible and robust solution to meet their retention, disposition, and compliance requirements.

Top SharePoint Competition - SharePoint & InfoPath: No-Code for dependent forms in SharePoint lists
Top SharePoint Competition – SharePoint & InfoPath: No-Code for dependent forms in SharePoint lists
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Did you ever should offer a solution for a customer and first thought of developing everything from scratch? It doesn’t matter if you’re a developer, a consultant or whatever. You should be lazy, you should use what have been already developed and tested, you should be smart! If you’re smart you just try to use standards & standard features as far as it will go and you try to offer a solution which fits the needs of your customer. But many people don’t know how far they can go with SharePoint. SharePoint has huge capabilities to offer solutions based on its out-of-the-box features which are almost in every company available. In such a scenario we surprised a customer who thought he knows that his process is not manageable with the standard features of SharePoint and he was ready to pay for development of his tool based on SharePoint. As you know a custom solution which needs to be deployed on a big SharePoint farm needs

Lessons Learned from Enterprise SharePoint Adoption Trends
Lessons Learned from Enterprise SharePoint Adoption Trends
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SharePoint Server 2010 is entering its third year of product life, after having been introduced to the public in beta form in October of 2009. The product’s adoption has been nothing short of astounding and many lessons have been learned by enterprises large and small, across geographies and industry verticals.
Among the most important trends in SharePoint adoption that I see as an analyst and consultant are the following.

Free Pass Competition Entries
Free Pass Competition Entries
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We are offering one person a fantastic opportunity to win a free pass worth €950 to the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin from the 17th-20th October. All you have to do is ” Tell us in 20 words or less why you should win a free pass to the Conference”! The person with the best answer will be selected by the European SharePoint Conference Team. We are getting a hugh response and here is sample of a few entries already

Improve SharePoint Search Relevance
Improve SharePoint Search Relevance
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I recently developed a SharePoint 2010 solution which includes an advanced search web part which allows the users to perform enterprise searches and view the returned results in a graphical rich representation.

As an architect I want to ensure that the search results that are returned to the user match what the user wanted to find and that the results that are returned on the first page are the most relevant, so the user does not have to look through several pages of results to find the best matches for their search. This is called Search Relevancy.

It is very important to realize the difference between Sorting and Ranking. In my own words I would describe Sorting as the process or arranging objects according to a specific attribute of the item. An example would be the books in a library.

Ranking is where an item takes precedence over other items based on a combination of attributes. Examples of this would be how tools in a workshop are arranged, how equipment is arranged in an E.R. room, how individuals are ranked based on the role they play in the military, or even how food items are arranged in the supermarket. One realize from these examples that there is no single property which can be used to determine the ranking of such items and that Ranking is based on the importance an item has in a given situation.

You’re Missing Out if You Use SharePoint Just as File Share
You’re Missing Out if You Use SharePoint Just as File Share
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I guess you know you are in Los Angeles when people in the audience include someone from 20th Century Fox. No, I wasn’t at an audition… I was a presenter at the SharePoint 2010 Solutions seminar being held by Adlib, K2 and other Microsoft partners (KnowledgeLake, AvePoint, and BA Insight) yesterday.

The audience included a representative of MySpace, and about 60 other people from universities, government agencies and large businesses in the LA area, such as the Orange County Superior Court and Medseek, Inc.

“How to use SharePoint to track annual competency tests: Part 1 – Lists”
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How do you ensure that your employees know and understand key policies and regulations?

For a lot of organizations, the answer is to have employees take a test or exam each year. Taking a test is a reliable way of checking understanding – more reliable than simply tracking training or checking people have read documents. And by testing every year, you ensure that people refresh their memory and still know the policy.