Categories and tags are the two default taxonomies that we use at the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community website. By design, all posts must be filed under at least one category. As you can imagine, ‘General’ is where we can list almost any topics that is not filed under the other subject headings.
However, some subjects are wide and broad in subject and need to be included in our blog, but don’t quite fit under the existing taxonomies. Hence the ‘General Category’. Content covered can vary from a .NET Runtime for AOT to a SharePoint Conference North America Keynote Summary, Pulse Survey or monthly top SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure resources.
If you’ve followed my writing and speaking over recent years, you know that I regularly share the experiences I gain helping customers understand what has become one of the most overburdened and misused buzzwords in SharePoint: governance.
After writing a product review on harmon.ie, I had a discussion on twitter with @ericatoelle where she argued that software and tools don’t really don’t increase SharePoint adoption. At first, I was taken back and thought, “Wow, how can you say that?” To me, it seems like a lot of SharePoint’s barriers to entry have to do with the complexity of performing what should be simple tasks. Third party tools can fill these tools and dramatically improve the user experience. When it comes to managing documents and document metadata, simplifying the user experience seems to me to be something that would really make a difference. Erica talks about SharePoint adoption as intrinsic motion on her blog with a great reference to a Ted Talk. I love Ted Talks.
PZ Cussons is a FTSE 250-listed consumer products organisation based in the UK, with operations in Europe, Africa and Asia. Its brands include Imperial Leather, Carex, Charles Worthington, Sanctuary Spa, St Tropez and Morning Fresh. PZ Cussons needed a fast and simplified approach to SharePoint development in order to drive collaboration across its global organisation, and turned to Quest to help address its challenges
I’ve been dreaming about visiting Antarctica for a number of years. At first it was thoughts of completing a visit to each of the 7 continents, then it was wow I’ve spoken on all of the peopled continents. How can I speak at a conference in Antarctica? Well, as one of the founders of the concept of Sharing the Point the mission of the non profit organization is to reach the ends of the earth, and find those communities and individuals who feel alone and disconnected with the community.
The widespread adoption and use of SharePoint 2010 forces organizations to place a great deal additional importance on the availability and protection of the valuable content they place in their SharePoint environments—an undertaking not to be taken lightly. The good news is that throughout its numerous releases, SharePoint has provided many tools and features to aid organizations’ disaster recovery (DR) efforts of that valuable content
There are many uses for having a number of SharePoint farms within your organization; Geo-replication is the most common distributed enterprise SharePoint solution scenario. Geo-replication refers to the replication and synchronization of SharePoint structure, content, metadata, security, workflows and decisions from a SharePoint environment running in one part of the world (headquarters or a central command) to one or more SharePoint environments operating in several different locations around the world
Migration Manager for SharePoint Supports Migrations to SharePoint Online and Office 365 as well as Hybrid Cloud Scenarios with SharePoint 2010
Washington, DC – February 13, 2012 – Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange® and Cloud platforms, today announced that Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint won the award for Most Innovative SharePoint Cloud Solution in the 2012 European SharePoint Community Awards
About a week ago an official mentioning of the forthcoming SharePoint version – now codenamed “SharePoint 15″ – was released from Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Development, PJ Hough. The Office Division has built a version of the software that is ready to distribute to companies participating in the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and individuals that has been awarded MVP status. This milestone has traditionally created a lot of buzz, and it looks like the same thing is happening this time.
One of the most powerful features of SharePoint 2010 is its search capability. In addition to being able to search entire site collections for pages, documents, and list items, SharePoint users can take advantage of a customizable feature of search called search “scope.” Learning to use search scopes effectively will save you a lot of time, especially within intranets that have tens of thousands of items for you to sift through.
There are many ways to get SharePoint 2010 in your school, whether you’re using it as part of a package from a supplier, using a hosting company to host your own SharePoint or using your EES license to host your SharePoint internally.
