Category: General

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.

Microsoft FAST versus Google Search Appliance 6.8
Microsoft FAST versus Google Search Appliance 6.8
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I was recently asked to compare Microsoft Search (FAST / SharePoint Search) to Google’s Search Appliance Version 6.8. Both companies have solid search technology, but they are approaching the market very differently. This is reflected in their products making each better suited for specific types of search deployments.

Qualifying business processes for SAP/SharePoint integrated solutions
Qualifying business processes for SAP/SharePoint integrated solutions
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Most large companies running on SAP are increasingly deploying SharePoint as an enterprise-wide business productivity and collaboration platform. With a growing number of business users feeling comfortable in the SharePoint environment, there is an opportunity to leverage SharePoint as a platform for accelerating SAP transactions. But exactly which business processes does it make sense to automate with an SAP/SharePoint integrated approach?

Operational Steps to Boosting your SharePoint Search Maturity Level
Operational Steps to Boosting your SharePoint Search Maturity Level
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Getting the best out of a SharePoint deployment requires meticulous planning, as well as a series of milestones and guidelines against which the success of the SharePoint project can be measured. Sadalit Van Buren’s SharePoint Maturity Model version 2.0 ( https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/The-SharePoint-Maturity-Model,-Version-2-0.aspx )is a good place to look for some answers.

Free Webinar: LINQ to SharePoint by André Vala
Free Webinar: LINQ to SharePoint by André Vala
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The European SharePoint Conference organization committee has been setting up a series of free SharePoint-related webinars in preparation for the conference. I’ll be presenting one of these webinars, next Tuesday, June 14th 2011, at 12PM CET, about LINQ to SharePoint.