Month: June 2012

Watch on-demand webcast
Watch on-demand webcast “Top 3 Reasons You Should Upgrade to FAST Search”
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European SharePoint Community are proud to present this webinar recorded by SurfRay with speaker Mikael Svenson, Microsoft SharePoint search MVP, who will present the top 3 reasons you should upgrade your search solution to FAST Search for SharePoint. Mikael will outline some of the key features in FS4SP and give live examples of how they work.

SharePoint Photo
SharePoint Photo
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That frustrating feeling of explaining why SharePoint is better than email attachments to someone who just doesn’t get it!

Branding the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 – Part II
Branding the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 – Part II
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This post is the last one of two articles about some branding tips and tricks for the Quick launch in SharePoint 2010. In this article I’ll show you a simple way to add rounded corners with help of two background images at the top and bottom. Take a look at the first article here.

Branding the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 – Part I
Branding the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 – Part I
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This post describes how to customize the standard Quick Launch in SharePoint by using SharePoint Designer 2010.

Branding the Quick Launch with only CSS could be a bit tricky and it takes a little while to become a friend with the markup of this navigation and have it to look the way you want. This first article in a series of two will show you how to create a simple custom look and feel with only CSS code.

5 Reasons Why You Have SharePoint Performance Issues
5 Reasons Why You Have SharePoint Performance Issues
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As SharePoint user adoption increases, so does the amount of data that must be stored in SharePoint. Although rapid adoption indicates effective collaboration, this content explosion can easily outstrip SharePoint’s basic storage configuration.

Insightful IT Pro Webinars
Insightful IT Pro Webinars
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Continuing with our IT Pro theme, we have a fantastic webinar presented by the talented Chris McNulty. Chris will present on the topic “Governance – the Gateway to SharePoint Adoption and Management”.

Eliminating End User and Application Downtime
Eliminating End User and Application Downtime
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The rapid adoption of server virtualization has enabled many organizations to significantly reduce their IT capital expense, operating costs as well as adapt to changing business requirements more easily and improve overall server availability. However, when it comes to extending the benefits of server virtualization to their missioncritical business applications, many organizations often struggle with how to re-architect their environment and strike the right balance between performance, scalability, manageability and most importantly, high availability and disaster recovery.
This white paper outlines many of the common deployment scenarios that such organizations face and describes how Neverfail Continuous Availability and virtualization can be used to deliver a more complete, consistent and cost effective availability solution for mission-critical, business applications.

Neverfail Solutions for VMware:
Neverfail Solutions for VMware:
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One of the hottest topics in today’s IT corridors is the uses and benefits of virtualization technologies.IT professionals everywhere are implementing virtualization for a variety of business needs, driven by opportunities to improve server flexibility and reduce operational costs.

Pinterest -- News Aggregation on Steroids
Pinterest — News Aggregation on Steroids
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What is it about Pinterest that has more people using it than Twitter, Google+ and YouTube combined? Honestly, I didn’t get it at first. I thought it was right up there with Groupon: short on functionality, long on hype. But now I think I have it figured out: It’s information aggregation on steroids.

Going a few years back, I was a daily user of the free NewsGator aggregator, using their tool to build out a site that collected information and stories from various sources that I plugged in via RSS. The themes and stories, of course, were defined by the editors for the sites and news agencies that fed them, which limited how much control I could have over the data I consumed (other than by ignoring the content or removing the feeds).

Enable Multilingual SharePoint 2010 UI Without A Drop of Code
Enable Multilingual SharePoint 2010 UI Without A Drop of Code
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It’s amazing to me how much better multi lingual support has gotten in 2010, and I think many don’t even realize just how easy it is to setup to support. When language packs first came out, we worried we’d need to have support people for each language pack we rolled out. This is NOT the case today. With the ability to have users simply pick their preferred display language someone supporting someone’s site could simply change the language display to their own preference. A site simply displays by default in its language and supports alternates with a simple click of a checkbox after the language packs have been installed. I was amazed how easy it was to setup