Year: 2012

How to Clean Up SharePoint to Prepare for SharePoint 2013 Migration
How to Clean Up SharePoint to Prepare for SharePoint 2013 Migration
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Many organizations will soon be upgrading or migrating to SharePoint 2013 when it releases and soon thereafter. Today, with SharePoint 2013 Preview being publicly available, best practices call for preparing for and testing your upgrades. A published Microsoft article fully describes the steps you’ll need to follow in order to better prepare your environment for an upgrade and increase the chances of it being a successful one.

The best cloud app, ever, by a country mile
The best cloud app, ever, by a country mile
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I’m always being asked about tools. Tools to help me cheat, tools to help me be quicker, tools to avoid the need for thinking. Tools that make a SharePoint person’s life better. That sorta thing. Often times tools I will mention have nothing to do with SharePoint, but are simply what I consider to be core elements of operating a Windows based infrastructure.

SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows
SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows
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Automating your business processes is obviously an essential part of SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 provides us with multiple ways in which we can implement this automation – using workflows. This beginner-level article is to help you get started with this functionality. Check out the resources cited at the end of the article to continue your journey.

Migration is an Opportunity for Refining Governance
Migration is an Opportunity for Refining Governance
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There is so much content out there on governance, it can get confusing. The most common question I get on my travels is “How do I get started?” My answer may sound overly simplistic, but it really is essential to building out your strategy: understand, get organized, and plan.

The Maturity Model of Social
The Maturity Model of Social
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In a CMSWire article today entitled The Social Networking Phenomena is Coming Apart at the Seams, Virginia Backaitis discussed a recent Forbes.com article in which the health of several social technology-based companies are examined.