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.
Following a hugely successful conference check out this very exciting new eBook that is jam-packed with all the hot topics & success stories from the event. The conversations and connections continued long after the conference on the web with a fantastic amount of tweets, incredible blogs, photos and lots more. The “SharePoint Diaries” features a number of unedited blogs, tweets, testimonials and conference highlights.
One of the things I have learnt is give people reasons to go to SharePoint and this will help with your user adoption strategy. I have written before about ways to achieve this but I thought I would share one solution that we use.
Here is a round-up of all the latest exciting news from the European SharePoint Conference team.
This week we were delighted to announce the winners of the European SharePoint Community Awards 2012. Thanks to everyone who took part in the awards, to all those who submitted entries, the runners up in each category and especially to our community for casting their votes and selecting their favourites. After a close run campaign and a nail biting finish we have crowned the overall winners.
When you remove field from the Sharepoint list either from UI or programmatically you may encounter with the following exception (I faced with this problem when removed managed metadata field, but it can be also any type of field):
Thought leader interview with Danny De Witte, an IT and Learning expert in Belgium
Danny, what is your background?
I started at Elsevier Training (part of the Reed Elsevier group), where we did some early work on PC learning. Then I was one of the co-founders of U&I Learning, which was one of the first Belgian e-learning companies, and I worked there for 12 years. About 2 years ago I joined Xylos, I wanted to broaden my work and one of the systems I wanted to work with was SharePoint.
What better way to build on your knowledge, than with a keynote presentation from the European SharePoint Conference 2011. Offering you the first in a series of keynote presentations to download, starting with Mirjam van Olst and Spencer Harbar’s presentation on “Successful Deployment: Lessons Learned From the Field”.
We are delighted to present a brilliant new eBook provided to us from Paolo Pialorsi which we hope you will enjoy. This eBook contains chapter 4 “Linq to SharePoint” from Paolo’s book “Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer”. Download your eBook now to see how it will help you as an individual, team or leader to excel in your organisation and make a difference as you start the New Year.
Social computing is the topic de jour. End users want it, enterprises apparently must have it. But what does it all mean? What is the enterprise applicability of these largely consumer-focused technologies? With all the focus on efficiency, cost cutting and doing more with less, does it make sense to offer users what may be nothing more than a productivity-sapping application boondoggle? And once these tools are deployed, what can a company do to track usage and productivity? What are the best practices for managing SharePoint social computing in the enterprise?
Following a battery of at-sea testing within a network-challenged environment, AUSCANNZUKUS (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom & United States). Reported that they are endorsing Syntergy as a SharePoint replication engine “able to provide reliable and timely transfer of documents and information in a Maritime Tactical Network environment” across the enterprise and out to the tactical edge.
At the last OpenText Content World I was asked to do a session about Microsoft SharePoint and SAP Business Suite. When Adrian, my colleague from the SharePoint line of business, and I discussed about the content of this session we quickly agreed that SharePoint perfectly fits into the content enriched business process story of SAP Extended ECM. In another session, and based on this in my post Improve Customer Interaction Efficiency, I described the concept of content enriched business processes in the context of customer interaction. Therefore we enhanced this context by assuming that the professional services department uses SharePoint for collaboration about customer projects. Looking more into the details we identified quickly business processes like:
