Month: February 2012

Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010 - Index Post
Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010 – Index Post
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This post serves as an index for all the articles in the Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010.

This series is a set [not yet determined amount] of articles where I show you how to leverage the Azure Access Controls Services (ACS) in combination with SharePoint 2010 to make it easier for you to use identity providers such as Google ID, Windows Live ID, Facebook AuthN etc.

Can Software Increase User Adoption?
Can Software Increase User Adoption?
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After writing a product review on harmon.ie, I had a discussion on twitter with @ericatoelle where she argued that software and tools don’t really don’t increase SharePoint adoption. At first, I was taken back and thought, “Wow, how can you say that?” To me, it seems like a lot of SharePoint’s barriers to entry have to do with the complexity of performing what should be simple tasks. Third party tools can fill these tools and dramatically improve the user experience. When it comes to managing documents and document metadata, simplifying the user experience seems to me to be something that would really make a difference. Erica talks about SharePoint adoption as intrinsic motion on her blog with a great reference to a Ted Talk. I love Ted Talks.

Quest Adds Sparkle to PZ Cussons’ SharePoint Applications by Cutting Development Time from Weeks to Days
Quest Adds Sparkle to PZ Cussons’ SharePoint Applications by Cutting Development Time from Weeks to Days
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PZ Cussons is a FTSE 250-listed consumer products organisation based in the UK, with operations in Europe, Africa and Asia. Its brands include Imperial Leather, Carex, Charles Worthington, Sanctuary Spa, St Tropez and Morning Fresh. PZ Cussons needed a fast and simplified approach to SharePoint development in order to drive collaboration across its global organisation, and turned to Quest to help address its challenges

Sharing The Point Antarctica
Sharing The Point Antarctica
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I’ve been dreaming about visiting Antarctica for a number of years. At first it was thoughts of completing a visit to each of the 7 continents, then it was wow I’ve spoken on all of the peopled continents. How can I speak at a conference in Antarctica? Well, as one of the founders of the concept of Sharing the Point the mission of the non profit organization is to reach the ends of the earth, and find those communities and individuals who feel alone and disconnected with the community.

A Sandbox for System Planning
A Sandbox for System Planning
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Your corporate governance strategy is an organized, orderly way to approach business problems and quickly come to an agreement on solutions. At a high-level, it is a pre-determined framework for how the business will address and solve problems. In many organizations, governance is a key part of the company culture, helping drive decisions across IT and operations. When it comes to SharePoint governance, it can also play an important role in end user adoption. As user adoption increases, the platform reaches the limits of its default settings, introducing concerns around managing and scaling the platform, business productivity, and, inevitably, governance issues.

New Disaster Recovery Features In SharePoint 2010
New Disaster Recovery Features In SharePoint 2010
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The widespread adoption and use of SharePoint 2010 forces organizations to place a great deal additional importance on the availability and protection of the valuable content they place in their SharePoint environments—an undertaking not to be taken lightly. The good news is that throughout its numerous releases, SharePoint has provided many tools and features to aid organizations’ disaster recovery (DR) efforts of that valuable content

Dansk Standard Systematizes Business Procedures and Enables Knowledge-Sharing
Dansk Standard Systematizes Business Procedures and Enables Knowledge-Sharing
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With the adoption of the SharePoint 2010-based WorkPoint solution developed in Denmark, Dansk Standard annihilates an array of extremely time-consuming, paper-based procedures and processes while sharing information across the organization.
A far more efficient application of the resources of the employees results in an increase in productivity. This efficiency-increase makes Dansk Standard able to pick up the gauntlet and stand tall against much bigger, international certification institutes.

Geo-Replication, Improving Branch Office Performance
Geo-Replication, Improving Branch Office Performance
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There are many uses for having a number of SharePoint farms within your organization; Geo-replication is the most common distributed enterprise SharePoint solution scenario. Geo-replication refers to the replication and synchronization of SharePoint structure, content, metadata, security, workflows and decisions from a SharePoint environment running in one part of the world (headquarters or a central command) to one or more SharePoint environments operating in several different locations around the world

Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint Named Most Innovative SharePoint Cloud Solution in the 2012 European SharePoint Community Awards
Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint Named Most Innovative SharePoint Cloud Solution in the 2012 European SharePoint Community Awards
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Migration Manager for SharePoint Supports Migrations to SharePoint Online and Office 365 as well as Hybrid Cloud Scenarios with SharePoint 2010

Washington, DC – February 13, 2012 – Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange® and Cloud platforms, today announced that Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint won the award for Most Innovative SharePoint Cloud Solution in the 2012 European SharePoint Community Awards