Year: 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

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.

SharePoint Workspace 2010 | 500 – 1800 – 7500 - 10000 by Hans Brender
SharePoint Workspace 2010 | 500 – 1800 – 7500 – 10000 by Hans Brender
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Those, who want to take SharePoint documents offline, may be faced with problems under certain circumstances. Je nach Anzahl der Dokumente, die in unterschiedlichen SharePoint Servern in den Dokumenten Bibliotheken liegen und mit SharePoint Workspace 2010 synchronisiert werden sollen, wird es behäbig bis langsam Depending on the number of documents that are in different SharePoint servers in the document libraries and are synchronize with SharePoint Workspace 2010 it is ponderous and slow.

What’s with the numbers 500, 1800, 7500 and 10000?

Workflows now are able to make coffee and to open beer by Mapilab
Workflows now are able to make coffee and to open beer by Mapilab
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It is strange how many developers wince when they face SharePoint and become melancholy when talking about workflows. Workflows are not just like programming, or something very special or something very complicated or something very limited or something for documents. Some people tried to solve simple tasks with SharePoint workflows, but failed somewhere when it became clear that they cannot read the manual from the middle and they have no time to read it from the very beginning.

Digital Signatures Allow CPI to Realize the Full Value of its SharePoint solution by ARX
Digital Signatures Allow CPI to Realize the Full Value of its SharePoint solution by ARX
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“Adding digital signatures to our SharePoint deployment has changed the way we’ve done business,” said Hans Christansen, CEO, CPI. “It has saved us money and significantly improved our customer service.”

At C&P Inspection (CPI), an inspection and quality assurance firm, the investment in SharePoint centered on the need to make it easier for the firm’s worldwide team of inspectors to manage reports generated at customer locations around the world. However, signature approvals required on these reports forced printed documents into the workflow, preventing CPI from leveraging the full benefits of its investment in business automation.

Archiving Content in SharePoint with PDF/A by Adlib
Archiving Content in SharePoint with PDF/A by Adlib
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Many organizations use Microsoft® SharePoint® in addition to existing ECM solutions from companies like EMC or OpenText, to manage their unstructured content. This is typically a large number of documents of various file types: Microsoft Office, graphics files, CAD drawings, etc. In some cases, this content would be converted to PDF to make it more suitable and accessible for sharing with employees, partners, and customers.