Year: 2012

Baby-Stepping Your Way into Project Management
Baby-Stepping Your Way into Project Management
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After spending the first 15 or so years of my career largely in Project Management roles, I’m sort of a PM junkie when it comes to books and tools and methodologies of how to move something from ideation (PM wonk term for idea creation, or initiation phase) to delivery and, ultimately, support. When Arpan Shah moved from the SharePoint product team at Microsoft over to Project Server (he’s now working on Office365), I shared some advice with him (which I’m sure he doesn’t remember): don’t try to solve too many problems at once, but simplify the tool. As I got to know Christophe Fiessinger on Arpan’s team over the past couple years, I told him the same thing. So when I met with members of the revamped Project team a couple weeks back to talk about SharePoint 2013 and roadmap for SharePoint Online and Office365, I expected to have much the same conversation.

10 End-of-Year Things to do on Your SharePoint Sites
10 End-of-Year Things to do on Your SharePoint Sites
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With one week left before most people go on leave, chances are most people are working all that hard anymore. We’re all too tired and ready for a break. If you don’t really feel like doing your day job, why not do some annual maintenance on your team sites?

The Role of Reporting in Governance
The Role of Reporting in Governance
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Central to your SharePoint governance planning activities should be understanding what is happening within your SharePoint environment. Before you organize, you need to identify the actors and key use cases of your system, assessing and prioritizing team requirements, and figuring out measurements and monitoring of current systems — and your ongoing efforts. Your governance strategy should be reviewed and updated based on changing data, and based on any risks that you identify so that you can create policies that secure and protect, but are also flexible enough to meet the growing demands of your organization to collaborate. To accomplish this, you need a plan for reporting.

End of Year Special Offer from Axceler
End of Year Special Offer from Axceler
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As a valued member of the SharePoint community we’re always on the look out for exciting innovations in SharePoint management to share with you. I’m excited to pass along the latest promotion from our partner Axceler. In case you haven’t heard, Axceler is the leader in SharePoint governance, administration and migration. They have a reputation for first class support and are running a special end of year promo you’ll want to check out. It could be your complimentary pass to SharePoint Conference this February.

Fantastic Tutorials at the European SharePoint Conference 2013
Fantastic Tutorials at the European SharePoint Conference 2013
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Find out what SharePoint 2013 has to offer, how to get the best out of it, learn how to harness its potential and improve your SharePoint skills by attending the Euopran SharePoint Conference from the 4-7 February 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark. With over 110 sessions and 8 top class tutorials to choose from – making the decision to book is the easy one!

SharePoint 2013 Base Fonts and Sizes
SharePoint 2013 Base Fonts and Sizes
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After reviewing the main CSS files that make up the base look and feel for the SharePoint 2013 look and feel. The number one font is“Segoe UI” which is applied to the global BODY element.