Month: March 2012

Building your SharePoint intranet from the ground up or employing a standard intranet solution?
Building your SharePoint intranet from the ground up or employing a standard intranet solution?
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Employing SharePoint as the platform for the organisation’s new intranet, you face at least one very decisive question: Will you build the new SharePoint intranet from the ground up or will you employ a standard intranet solution??

This blog post should have been an objective overview of the pros and cons related to both ways of building an intranet on SharePoint. The process of researching and writing, however, has brought us to the conclusion that we cannot make such an objective overview. As one of our developers puts it when asked about the advantages of building a SharePoint intranet from the ground up:

Coalition and Extranet Information Sharing
Coalition and Extranet Information Sharing
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Now more than ever coalition military forces must have the ability to work together collaborate and share information in a real-time and secure manner. This need for information sharing is further extended to include NGOs, civilian agencies, and Aid organizations as they work alongside military entities to provide quick and effective responses to natural disasters around the world.

What’s New in Visual Studio 11 Beta for SharePoint Developers
What’s New in Visual Studio 11 Beta for SharePoint Developers
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As most of you already know, Microsoft has released a new version of its IDE, with a public beta program. This version has a new graphic style (following the famous “metro style”) and a lot of new capabilities for developers. You can read about them directly from the public beta SDK.

Increasing Our Focus on Adoption
Increasing Our Focus on Adoption
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One of the great things about traveling for my job is that I get more time to catch up on reading while traveling than I often have sitting at home. On a recent trip from Seattle to New York City, I was reading through a Harvard Business Review article on our current recession, and the impact on the technology sector. The article presented an interesting idea which correlates, I believe, to patterns in many SharePoint deployments: increasing productivity without increasing demand leads to resource disparities, to which many companies compensate by decreasing headcount – instead of retooling and reusing those people. That is my theory, anyway.

Axceler, SharePoint Pros Announce Partnership In Microsoft SharePoint Solutions Market
Axceler, SharePoint Pros Announce Partnership In Microsoft SharePoint Solutions Market
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SharePoint Pros to Recommend Axceler’s Solutions for SharePoint Governance, Administration and Migration in the Southern California Region

WOBURN, MA and LA CANADA, CA – March 12, 2012 – Axceler®, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint administration, governance and migration, and SharePoint consulting firm SharePoint Pros, Inc. today announced a partnership to offer high-quality professional services and software solutions to support and optimize customers’ SharePoint investments with a focus on governance.

The Cost of Changing to SharePoint
The Cost of Changing to SharePoint
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We’re not talking about the cost of migration tools. We’re not talking about the servers that you’ll have to buy or even the licensing. The true cost of changing to SharePoint is the people costs.

The costs are in the cost of the change itself. They don’t change from product-to-product, but the cost of change is real. Let’s take a look at what it takes to keep from being a victim of the trough of reduced productivity.

Resources for SharePoint Governance and Storage Optimization
Resources for SharePoint Governance and Storage Optimization
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As I’ve been traveling, I’ve received a number of questions from folks about where they can get my content to view “offline”, on the road, etc. With many thanks to Franklin Teagle, who spearheads our SharePoint Community Site, I can share with you a list of recent videos and recordings that he compiled. These are “live” recordings, with questions and answers, glitches, demos and “uh’s and ah’s”, but they’re a great way to catch up with some (if I may say so) pretty good SharePoint content