Month: June 2012

Optimize SharePoint Storage with BLOB Externalization
Optimize SharePoint Storage with BLOB Externalization
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This white paper is the first of a series of storage optimization and management resources to be authored by a team of SharePoint MVPs. The goals of this white paper are to provide a comprehensive and balanced examination of the concepts and issues, and to equip you to fully understand, to communicate with your peers and your management, and to make an informed decision about the role of BLOB externalization in your storage architecture.

Choosing Between Cloud and On-premises Deployment for SharePoint
Choosing Between Cloud and On-premises Deployment for SharePoint
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In April 2011, Microsoft launched Office 365 – a comprehensive set of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that allow any organization to obtain hosted, cloud-based access to Exchange, Lync, Office Web Applications – and SharePoint Online. All offer guaranteed uptime, fault tolerance, contractual service levels and clear, predictable pricing.

SQL Server 2012 File Tables feature and the Benefit With SharePoint
SQL Server 2012 File Tables feature and the Benefit With SharePoint
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SQL Server 2012 comes with an amazing new feature called “File Tables”.That means that you can use a file system folder as a database table with all the fun and of cause nearly all the function of a database table. You have to enable the prerequisites for FileTable (as described here:) and the result is a new table in your database with the following properties:

Search Driven Applications with Office 365 / SharePoint Online Using the tagging feature in SharePoint 2010
Search Driven Applications with Office 365 / SharePoint Online Using the tagging feature in SharePoint 2010
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Common stuff about Search Driven Applications and a solution proposal with Office 365 / SharePoint Online.
You can build Search Driven Applications in several different ways and based on different techniques. One of the easiest is using the Query Object Model from the SharePoint Search to create “Fixed Keyword Queries”. For example this query shows all SharePoint sites which you have access to:

Why Apps Will Revolutionize Enterprise Software
Why Apps Will Revolutionize Enterprise Software
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Puzzlepart was founded on the bet of the concept of Apps arriving in the enterprise space, and that it will be a complete game changer. When we started our quest in 2008 the concept of apps was just arriving in the consumer space. Today we have app-store ready native SharePoint Apps that delivers immediate business value impact.

Securing Your Passwords: The Bottom Line
Securing Your Passwords: The Bottom Line
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Here’s password advice I give to friends and family. I encourage all technology folks to forward it to their circle of friends and family as well.

I wrote it because LinkedIn passwords have been compromised. But it applies to every password situation and every password user.

So LinkedIn passwords have been compromised. You can read more about it in this article from ZDNet. Here’s what you should do:

You MUST change your LinkedIn password.

Creating Waves During the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
Creating Waves During the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
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Review metrics ensure that everyone can be held accountable for changes made to the document… with PleaseReview, everything is kept above board.

PleaseTech Ltd is taking a humorous view on events and stories that appear in the world media. We believe that if only the right document review tool had been used, then things may have turned out quite differently!

Content Security in SharePoint
Content Security in SharePoint
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Security is a polarising topic in the SharePoint community. It seems that everyone has a slight variation to what would be considered a best practice approach to implementing security across a site.