Category: Content Management

Content management (CM) is a set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. When stored and accessed via computers, this information may be more specifically referred to as digital content, or simply as content.
Content management can also be described as the process for collection, delivery, retrieval, governance and overall management of information in any format. The term is typically used in reference to administration of the digital content life cycle, from creation to permanent storage or deletion. The content involved may be images, video, audio and multimedia as well as text.
Therefore, within this topic, we offer a vast amount of information from the basics of version history to Principles and Concepts of Information.

Video: Roll Up Content from Across Multiple Sites in SharePoint 2013
Video: Roll Up Content from Across Multiple Sites in SharePoint 2013
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If you’re currently working with SharePoint 2010 you know that it’s not a power user task to build content roll ups spanning across multiple sites. With SharePoint 2010 you can do that with one web part and without requiring a knowledge of a query language, at least in basic scenarios.

Check out the below video to see what else is available with Content Search web part; highlights from the video:

1. Building Content Search query
2. Managing result types
3. Your results depend on the recency of the search crawl
4. Adding refiners to your query
5. Presenting your results as a list, slideshow etc

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.

Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2013 Preview: What’s new and changed
Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2013 Preview: What’s new and changed
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SharePoint 2013 Preview introduces a number of new elements and additional considerations for multi tenancy deployments. This article is intended as a companion to my Rational Guide to Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2010 article series and will cover what’s new and changed in this release with respect to configuration and functionality. It is assumed you are familiar with the material in the article series.

Dell SharePoint Infrastructure Optimization with AvePoint
Dell SharePoint Infrastructure Optimization with AvePoint
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This white paper provides an overview of Dell’s SharePoint Infrastructure Optimization solution. Details of the solution stack, which includes components of AvePoint’s DocAve Software Platform and Dell hardware components, are discussed along with the set of functional and performance tests that were used to verify the solution.

Document Preview in SharePoint 2013
Document Preview in SharePoint 2013
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Microsoft is very excited for the new release of SharePoint 2013 and the buzz around the new features that it is adding to search. One of these main features that your users will be able to take advantage of is document preview in your search results.

New Features In SharePoint 2013
New Features In SharePoint 2013
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SharePoint 2013 will, without a doubt, be a huge success for Microsoft. The SharePoint platform has come a long way and SharePoint 2013 (code named SP15) is another leap forward. Search is one of the areas where Microsoft has, once again, made huge investments and the new functionality is astounding.

SharePoint 2013 Top 10 New Features
SharePoint 2013 Top 10 New Features
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Here are some Top Features of SharePoint 2013 that will start to sell your business on investigating the Preview. All of these features are documented in TechNet. I’ll do a Top 10 for each audience as more information becomes available.

Form vs. Function
Form vs. Function
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Our current challenge is to decide which systems or parts of systems are going to be hand-crafted fat-client desktop applications (the stuff Microsoft has labeled ‘legacy’), which are going to end up in SharePoint and which will land on a phone or tablet. This is heady stuff, but like my bowl, I think our results will be defined by balancing our goals between form and function.

Some Guiding Principles for SharePoint Service Delivery
Some Guiding Principles for SharePoint Service Delivery
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Service Delivery in SharePoint is simply the methods used to ensure that the clients SharePoint vision and goals align with the users, and includes focusing how those responsible for managing the platform (the technical teams) fit and provide that service through guiding principles. These, if followed will ensure that your SharePoint environment can be managed in a structured way.