First, please read what my friend Marc Anderson has to say about it. More, and More and even more. Also, my friend Asif Rehmani has some views on it as well.
They bring up some important points, but in short, everything that allows for Visual Editing of pages, is gone! And anything that concerned visual editing, (and there are many such scenarios), is now gone.
What is the practical upshot of all this?
European SharePoint Day is a live, interactive, virtual meeting of the world’s leading SharePoint experts, brought to you by the European SharePoint Community, for free! The first ever European SharePoint Day will be held on 27th November 2012, focusing on SharePoint 2013.
Microsoft will launch Windows 8 on Thursday, the software is designed to work on PCs, tablets and smartpones.
A couple years back, my team posted to our company blog a brief article on what it takes to become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). While short on information, it has continued to be the most viewed article on our company blog. Microsoft gives out these awards quarterly as a way to recognize individuals for their past 12 months of technical and community excellence. In recent weeks, I’ve had several conversations with fellow MVPs about their path to MVP status, as well as questions from a few folks who would like to get onto the path of earning their MVP, and so I thought I’d share my perspective on the process.
This month, we are continuing with the third webinar in the ‘Governance Rules!’ series “Risk Management in SharePoint Governance”.
I promised a constructive blog, and that’s what I plan to provide, but I do need to share what I’ve seen happen over the last couple of days. Yammer doesn’t suck. The inbox definitely pushes buttons on fundamental functionality and that’s why it’s so important that they get this right.
While the case for taking an enterprise view of data capture into Microsoft SharePoint is persuasive, actually implementing the strategy is more challenging. In the US and Europe alone more than 20 million tons of office paper is produced and consumed every year. The use of paper remains pervasive across many industries, resulting in high administrative overhead costs and too many points of failure as documents are routed throughout the organization. The cost to file a single paper document is $20, while searching for a misfiled document costs $120 and reproducing a lost document is estimated to cost $220. The total cost of printing, copying, storing and mailing is 10 times the original purchase price of the paper itself. Despite these costs, a recent survey by AIIM showed less than 30% of SharePoint users are managing scanned documents in SharePoint.1 Those that are scanning documents to SharePoint are doing simple ad-hoc scanning, capturing single documents for storage in SharePoint. They are not performing scan to process, capturing documents at the point of origination, and entering them directly into the business process with minimal manual intervention.
There is nothing more frustrating than rolling out a shiny new SharePoint farm to notice that 6 months later not a lot is going on. This isn’t some sort of conspiracy theory but it’s the simple fact that we have many ingrained business processes around sharing documents and it is very very hard to change those, even with a clearly more superior system being availalbe.
In the new SharePoint 2013 App model, there are essentially two ways to host apps – within SharePoint itself or from an external web site (also known as “provider hosted” or “autohosted”). One of the disadvantages of external apps is that they don’t look or feel like SharePoint. All the familiar navigation menus and shortcuts are missing, resulting in a stark contrast between the default SharePoint visual experience and whichever app is currently being used unless the app developer went the extra mile (or ten) to style their app.
Workflow is comprised of the progression of the processes a work fuction undergoes from its start to finish. This includes processing in administration commercial exchange, industrial use, IT, marketing strategy, product specification, sales proposals or related categories of enterprise activity.
