Month: December 2012

The Truth Behind Shredded Storage
The Truth Behind Shredded Storage
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Chief Architect and Microsoft SharePoint MVP Jeremy Thake writes about SharePoint 2013 Shredded Storage in relation to Remote BLOB Storage and offers recommendations around the new feature.

A Christmas Message for Europe
A Christmas Message for Europe
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Gimmal is looking forward to participating in the European SharePoint Conference next February in Copenhagen. At the conference, we will demonstrate how you can transform SharePoint into a platform that consistently governs and manages all of your content, documents, and records stored in every SharePoint site across your organization.

Maintaining Governance in the Cloud
Maintaining Governance in the Cloud
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During his keynote presentation at SPTechCon in February 2012, Jared Spataro, Director of SharePoint at Microsoft, announced that SharePoint 2013 was being developed using a “Cloud First” strategy. He went on to explain that as the platform reached parity with current installations, Office 365 customers could expect to have access to the benefits of new features sooner than on-premises deployments. This was a major shift for Microsoft, and for the SharePoint platform. At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto in July 2012, Kurt DelBene, President of the Microsoft Office Division, announced that Office 365 is growing faster than predicted, and is likely to eclipse SharePoint as the fastest growing Microsoft offer ever.

Tips for End-User Productivity and ROI with SharePoint
Tips for End-User Productivity and ROI with SharePoint
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SharePoint MVP, Christian Buckley, recently blogged “Planning for Productivity in SharePoint”, which insightfully captures how to measure success and focus on the outcome of an application deployment, particularly a collaboration application like SharePoint. Here’s how Buckley sums it up:

OpenText and Microsoft: Excellence in Enterprise Asset Management
OpenText and Microsoft: Excellence in Enterprise Asset Management
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Check out this brand new demo of how OpenText and Microsoft optimize the efficiency of plant asset documentation and maintenance activities for Manufacturing & Resources customers in Power & Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining, Manufacturing Discrete and Process Manufacturing. This solution integrates and extends SharePoint with information from ECM and ERP systems to improve quality, consistency, and compliance of a customer’s plant maintenance procedures, management of change (MoC) and asset documentation.

The Successful Path to PDF/A Compliance with SharePoint
The Successful Path to PDF/A Compliance with SharePoint
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Requirements to manage and deploy millions of documents with built-in workflow processes, versioning and rights management are no longer limited only to the largest businesses. The issue of compliance alone, with its mandates for auditable processes and long-term digital storage of content, has made such requirements commonplace.

SharePoint 2013 Drag and Drop Load Test Results and a Few Tips
SharePoint 2013 Drag and Drop Load Test Results and a Few Tips
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I have been anxious to better understand SharePoint 2013 / Office 365 preview and the new drag and drop. I’ve learned a few things in the process. I’m a fan of the drag and drop… love seeing that you can drag and drop on Surface, Mac, Chrome, Safari, Firefox and even drag between folders and libraries. I hope we can keep up the sharing…