Month: January 2012

Enhanced Search Migration Tool for SharePoint 2010
Enhanced Search Migration Tool for SharePoint 2010
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The SharePoint Enterprise Search Migration Tool (SMT), created by Microsoft, is a great little tool for moving/migrating search settings from one SharePoint Search Service Application to another, and even from a SharePoint 2007 SSP to a SharePoint 2010 SSA or FAST for SharePoint. The tool is available for download from the MSDN Archive – both as a binary and its source code. It is a console application that creates an XML when exporting the settings and uses the same XML when importing the settings, and it works great in a scripting environment. The SMT that’s available from MSDN Archive allows you to migrate Best Bets, Search Scopes and Site Collection Search settings

SharePoint Adoption rule #1: “Forget about SharePoint”
SharePoint Adoption rule #1: “Forget about SharePoint”
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Even if technology is providing the company with capabilities that it never had before, value is not realized before users start to embrase these capabilities – correctly – in regards to the job each individual is doing. People are generally not interested in any kind of change, unless the change will help them do their job better, faster or easier – and very importantly – they need to feel this themselves!

SharePoint: Useful or useless for corporate learning?
SharePoint: Useful or useless for corporate learning?
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Thought leader interview with Danny De Witte, an IT and Learning expert in Belgium

Danny, what is your background?

I started at Elsevier Training (part of the Reed Elsevier group), where we did some early work on PC learning. Then I was one of the co-founders of U&I Learning, which was one of the first Belgian e-learning companies, and I worked there for 12 years. About 2 years ago I joined Xylos, I wanted to broaden my work and one of the systems I wanted to work with was SharePoint.

Keynote Presentation Now Available
Keynote Presentation Now Available
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What better way to build on your knowledge, than with a keynote presentation from the European SharePoint Conference 2011. Offering you the first in a series of keynote presentations to download, starting with Mirjam van Olst and Spencer Harbar’s presentation on “Successful Deployment: Lessons Learned From the Field”.

Free Microsoft eBook to Download!
Free Microsoft eBook to Download!
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We are delighted to present a brilliant new eBook provided to us from Paolo Pialorsi which we hope you will enjoy. This eBook contains chapter 4 “Linq to SharePoint” from Paolo’s book “Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer”. Download your eBook now to see how it will help you as an individual, team or leader to excel in your organisation and make a difference as you start the New Year.

Taking Advantage of Social Computing in SharePoint 2010
Taking Advantage of Social Computing in SharePoint 2010
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Social computing is the topic de jour. End users want it, enterprises apparently must have it. But what does it all mean? What is the enterprise applicability of these largely consumer-focused technologies? With all the focus on efficiency, cost cutting and doing more with less, does it make sense to offer users what may be nothing more than a productivity-sapping application boondoggle? And once these tools are deployed, what can a company do to track usage and productivity? What are the best practices for managing SharePoint social computing in the enterprise?

Naval Group Endorses Syntergy and Microsoft for Maritime Information Warfare
Naval Group Endorses Syntergy and Microsoft for Maritime Information Warfare
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Following a battery of at-sea testing within a network-challenged environment, AUSCANNZUKUS (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom & United States). Reported that they are endorsing Syntergy as a SharePoint replication engine “able to provide reliable and timely transfer of documents and information in a Maritime Tactical Network environment” across the enterprise and out to the tactical edge.

OpenText: Integrating SharePoint with SAP Extended ECM
OpenText: Integrating SharePoint with SAP Extended ECM
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At the last OpenText Content World I was asked to do a session about Microsoft SharePoint and SAP Business Suite. When Adrian, my colleague from the SharePoint line of business, and I discussed about the content of this session we quickly agreed that SharePoint perfectly fits into the content enriched business process story of SAP Extended ECM. In another session, and based on this in my post Improve Customer Interaction Efficiency, I described the concept of content enriched business processes in the context of customer interaction. Therefore we enhanced this context by assuming that the professional services department uses SharePoint for collaboration about customer projects. Looking more into the details we identified quickly business processes like:

Press Release - Hyper.Net 6 Service Pack 3 for SharePoint Scheduled for Q1 2012 Release
Press Release – Hyper.Net 6 Service Pack 3 for SharePoint Scheduled for Q1 2012 Release
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Ostfildern, Germany,11 January 2011 — Coextant Systems today announced the release date for Hyper.Net 6 Service Pack 3, the latest update of its Enterprise Content Services technology for Microsoft SharePoint and other platforms.

Hyper.Net is an enterprise Web Service that automatically converts and re-purposes documents and other information managed in any document storage solution, e.g., SharePoint, into user-optimized, multi-format content and publishes it into archiving systems, intranets, information portals, Web sites and social networks running on any platform. The product is widely used internationally to completely automate the flow of corporate information to the end-user community.