Over the last few weeks we’ve enriched the functionalities of UDOCX and the interface displayed on the screen of the multifunctional devices in order to provide additional features to the “Scan to SharePoint” operation.
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In recent months, we’ve seen customers who are doing major migrations of documents—for example, from file servers—to SharePoint. Far too often, one of the complaints I hear voiced in these scenarios is how slow the upload can be, particularly when uploading huge numbers of documents. I thought it would be worth starting a discussion of lessons learned related to performance of mass uploads. This is a fairly targeted business scenario—most organizations don’t do this too often—but it also brings up some key points to consider about performance in other SharePoint scenarios.
The following are among the factors that can cause performance of mass uploads to suffer:
• The recovery model for the content database (a SQL Server setting) is set to full by default.
It sometimes can be hard for customers to understand the value of products that are added to SharePoint. Many times it is very difficult for customers to compare tools that appear similar but are yet different. The SharePoint “Shoot Out” at the 2011 European SharePoint Conference in Berlin aims to have three top Microsoft partners in each of two categories (Workflow and Administration) shoot it out in public to help customers see the unique value and the differences. Customers will also be able to interact and meet the “top guns” from these companies. These two moderated sessions promise to be very informative and lots of fun.
Partcipating companies include… AvePoint, Axceler & Quest
It sometimes can be hard for customers to understand the value of products that are added to SharePoint. Many times it is very difficult for customers to compare tools that appear similar but are yet different. The SharePoint “Shoot Out” at the 2011 European SharePoint Conference in Berlin aims to have four top Microsoft partners in each of two categories (Workflow and Administration) shoot it out in public to help customers see the unique value and the differences. Customers will also be able to interact and meet the “top guns” from these companies. These two moderated sessions promise to be very informative and lots of fun.
Fenestrae are Sliver Exhibitors at the the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin from the 17th – 20th October
Over the last few weeks we’ve enriched the functionalities of UDOCX and the interface displayed on the screen of the multifunctional devices in order to provide additional features to the “Scan to SharePoint” operation.
A couple of days ago the SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Update for August 2011 was released. Always a good time to see some things fixed and some things break. Installing a Cumulative Update is always a risky business, and you should only install them if you any experience problems that the CU resolves and only when you thoroughly tested it.
One CU to rule them all!
Without going into details about the content and fixes in the August 2011 CU there is one other thing that is of real interest – and that is how MIcrosoft has changed the packaging process for the Cumulative Updates. Since the release of SharePoint 2010 there has been talk and discussions about über-packages.
In our last week’s article we introduced UDOCX as the only cloud-based service that integrates physical scanned documents with SharePoint and Exchange.
The UDOCX “Scan-to-SharePoint version” is not only about storing documents into SharePoint and integrating them into internal or external business workflows (which is crucial for business productivity). It’s also about being very user-friendly for both users and administrators. UDOCX is the easiest and most convenient way for employees to scan documents into SharePoint!
I’m speaking at the European SharePoint Conference on “Measuring Social Learning in SharePoint with Assessments” and thought you might be interested in some recent articles around the web on SharePoint in learning, education and training.
SharePoint has taken the world by storm-it’s the defining collaboration and information management product on the market today. Numerous risks and issues that undermine the effective use of SharePoint for collaboration, however, have matched its rapid ascendency. These include poor integration into the enterprise information management approach, a lack of usage by business users, and team site sprawl, among others.
A new wave of collaboration software, with Microsoft SharePoint leading the charge, is being used to create better ways for people to work together in the organizations. The vision is to replace ineffective forms of communication and collaboration with more effective approaches-for example, the transition from email messages with attachments to team sites with document libraries, or the replacement of a static printed manual with a community wiki and discussion area. As these transitions begin to take hold across our organizations, and groups adopt the new ways of working together, SharePoint increasingly becomes a mission critical platform.
