If you’re a site owner, it’s a good idea to create a governance model, often referred to as ‘Best Practices’ – that is, a model to address your site’s policies, processes, roles, and responsibilities. Naturally, commercial or professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective, are considered the best to follow.
As Best Practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to any alternatives, usually it produces results that are superior to those achieved by other means.
Therefore, this category is full of useful tips, practical examples and advise. With How To videos, eBooks, Webinars, Blogs to help you learn and become more productive in implementing Best Practices.
Yaroslav Pentsarskyy was selected as ‘MVP Takeover’ for the month of September. Yaroslav tells the European SharePoint Community about himself and what content and information he found or finds useful. Read on to find out more!
Working with search for years has given me a lot of experience with Content Sources as well as a lot of questions about them, like “should I create one huge content source or would be better to split up to smallers?” or “can I amass my small content sources into one big?” or “how to schedule the crawls for each of my content sources?”.
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This month’s webinar is a refresher of Hilton Giesenow’s exceptional session ‘REST Assured – Best Practices with the SharePoint 2013 Data Services’ which was voted as one of the top 10 sessions from ESPC 2013.
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.
Innovation on the brain, I guess. After posting some thoughts on innovation 2 days ago, I am flipping through Paul Culmsee and Kailash Awati’s book The Heretics Guide to Best Practices and come across a story that I have encountered a few times before in my own corporate experience and as a consultant: an organization decides to “institutionalize” innovation by creating a committee “to encourage and manage new creative efforts. The committee was instituted with great fanfare, even greater expectations, and chaired by a manager with a suitably pompous title.”
With part one and part two already published last week see how this uniquely informative bible of SharePoint business Governance is a real game changer by leading any reader to a practical understanding of how one should approach the subject of SharePoint Governance from a truly business perspective and how it can be simplified into a structure that really works.
SQL 2012 RTMed last month (March 2012) with much fanfare. For us SharePoint types, SQL is a big deal, as SQL is the backbone of SharePoint. SQL 2012 has a few new or updated features that are of interest to SharePoint aficionados, but this blog post is specifically about SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). SSRS got a major overhaul in SQL 2012. It is finally a SharePoint service application. Anyone that has installed SSRS previous to SQL 2012 can appreciate how big of a deal that is. SSRS 2012 is better than SSRS 2008 R2 in a whole lot more ways, but as an IT Pro, the installation and management improvements take the cake.
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.
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.
