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.

New SharePoint White Paper on Office 365 by AvePoint
New SharePoint White Paper on Office 365 by AvePoint
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Earlier this year, Microsoft released the next iteration of its cloud offering for customers: Microsoft Office 365 -including Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, Office Web Apps, and Lync 2010. This is a compelling set of cloud-based applications, compared with industry competitors such as Google.

6 SharePoint Headaches GSX Cures!
6 SharePoint Headaches GSX Cures!
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GSX Solutions recently attended SharePoint conferences in Europe and the United States. We had the opportunity to speak with many individuals regarding their experiences with Microsoft SharePoint. As a result we’ve put together a list of common headaches that administrators experience on a day to day basis. Let’s take a look below at the headaches, the questions that are being asked and what solution is needed for each.

SharePoint Functionality Overkill and How to Deal With It by PASS Consulting Group
SharePoint Functionality Overkill and How to Deal With It by PASS Consulting Group
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Last week when I was consulting one of my clients I came across a situation that felt to me like a Déjà-vu. The “usual suspect”, someone within an organization with sufficient management influence gets convinced by some Microsoft marketing campaign or other coincidental event that SharePoint and/or ProjectServer is the solution for all problems regarding project and content management within organizations. Licenses are bought and someone from the internal IT installs the software according to some installation manual found in the web. Now, according to Microsoft’s marketing campaign the magic should happen! But – nothing happens, no Harry Potter, no Houdini act – just the same usual problems as every time. Congratulations, you just installed another software that will never be used were Sliver Exhibitors at the European SharePoint Conference 2011. Stay tuned for more information on the next European SharePoint Conference event and keep a look out for more content by joining our community or by following us on twitter or facebook.

Seasons Greetings from Syntergy!
Seasons Greetings from Syntergy!
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Syntergy is the leading provider of enterprise replication solutions. Our award-winning, flagship product, Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint, supports the data moving needs of companies all around the globe. Using minimal bandwidth to provide customizable bi-directional replication to all your SharePoint farms, Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint is integrated directly into the SharePoint interface to deliver consistent, reliable access to site content – even in the event of a network failure.

Architecting your SharePoint application–things you shouldn’t miss out on by Radi Atanassov
Architecting your SharePoint application–things you shouldn’t miss out on by Radi Atanassov
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So a few people recommended I post my slides or content from my European SharePoint Conference session. I cover a list of considerations that makes a good reference for people undertaking the design of custom applications on SharePoint.

Usually in projects you would have people responsible for the design of the infrastructure and then a development team would dig into the technical design of the SharePoint application. They will try to answer how different components will be used to satisfy the requirements. Solution Architects explore various options for meeting each requirement and all these options and choices intertwine into a proposed design, maybe a model or a proof of concept, and hopefully a document. Projects that miss this communication are either chaotic, or extremely agile.

Issue with Azure SDK on a SharePoint Server
Issue with Azure SDK on a SharePoint Server
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Few weeks ago I and Hilton Giesenow prepared togheter a SharePoint & Azure session for the TechEd Africa and the European SharePoint conference. During the preparation we discovered an issue running the Azure Compute Emulator on a SharePoint box (Azure SDK 1.5 and 1.6). First it seemed that the user profile service screwed up after you had started the emulator for the first time, but further investigations had shown that many service applications didn’t work properly anymore. The problem was, that the emulator sets the IIS anonymous user account to the application pool’s identity. Many thanks to Wictor Wilen for telling us which IIS setting has been affected ( we owe you a pint=>summit 2011 🙂

European SharePoint Conference – Updated slides from governance session by Anders Skjoenaa
European SharePoint Conference – Updated slides from governance session by Anders Skjoenaa
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Made it back from the Berlin European SharePoint Conference 2012. A very succesful event that hopefully is the first of a long row of yearly european gatherings of the european SharePoint community.

It was great to meet so many people from all around Europe. I made new connection with some very nice people from a lot of different places; Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, UK and Russia – just to name a few – , and got to refuel a lot of old relatioships with people from Denmark, US etc. To an extend, this conference actually felt even more global than the Microsoft conference in Anaheim. It was very interesting to be a part of this.

European SharePoint Conference 2011– Berlin – Day 3
European SharePoint Conference 2011– Berlin – Day 3
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Day 3 starts – the real warriors are up and at it ready for another day. Some are still in bed after the night before!

Expert Panel Session – “Will Public Offerings or Private cloud Solutions influence the Adoption of SharePoint as a Web and Application Platform”. Some selected quotes: