Category: Intranet

Microsoft believe in sharing and collaboration on the intranet. Users are encouraged to broadcast messages and drive communications or share resources and news with teams.

Users can build sites and portals that engage people, connecting them to expertise, content, actionable insights and collective knowledge.
Intranets drive organisational efficiency by sharing applications that streamline processes. Build communities of interest or practice with SharePoint sites and Yammer.

In this category we cover subjects related to all things Intranet – articles range from The 5 pillars of Enterprise Intranets to The changing shape of modern intranets.

Therefore, the Intranet category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.

Meetings Calendar Customization
Meetings Calendar Customization
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The need of a meetings calendar has pursued me to look deeper into SharePoint’s OOB calendars and the customization possibilities for this type of list. There are several content types available in SharePoint, which can be added to a list, but they do not appear in the UI interface (site content types). For the calendar list, besides the usual event content type, there are several others: Schedule Content Type which enables the calendar as a scheduler for the members of the site, Reservation Content Type, which enables the calendar to reserve from a list of resources, and provide a reservation/availability checkup for it. There is also a Schedule and Reservations Content Type, which provides both of the functionalities of the previously described content types. This was also the one I used in my solution.

SharePoint Multilingual Sites – Determining Languages to Deploy
SharePoint Multilingual Sites – Determining Languages to Deploy
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Where do I start? The users demand support for multi lingual. First step I see is to start supporting the language packs… but which ones? You need to figure it out. You may not be best served by simply installing all of them. What would happen if MS decided to stop supporting one of them? I’ve found a few places that make me sound smart when I recommend languages to support… It doesn’t have to be a guessing game. 1)

Improving SharePoint Search: How to Increase Content Findability in 5 Simple Steps
Improving SharePoint Search: How to Increase Content Findability in 5 Simple Steps
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SharePoint is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in organizations as a method to manage content. Of course, no content management system is complete without an excellent search function whereby the model always serves up the exact set of relevant documents demanded by the user. While this ideal is not always attainable in practice, SharePoint’s search functionalities can be customized to achieve vast improvements in the overall search experience.

How to Improve SharePoint Search with Best Bets in SharePoint 2010
How to Improve SharePoint Search with Best Bets in SharePoint 2010
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SharePoint has become an integral part of many enterprise content management solutions, with a reported adoption rate of 78% percent of Fortune 500 companies as of this writing. The software is attractive due to its clean UI, collaboration tools, seamless integration with Microsoft Office, and the ability it gives IT administrators to deploy and securely manage intranet, extranet and Internet sites from one centralized platform.

Five Web Parts Which Bring Life to Your Intranet
Five Web Parts Which Bring Life to Your Intranet
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An intranet build on SharePoint can offer several social features which motivates employees to interact vividly and socially with one another. We in Webtop have assigned ourselves the difficult task to choose among these and pick out five web parts which, we find, in particular bring social to the intranet. This blog post will introduce to these five special web parts.

Building your SharePoint intranet from the ground up or employing a standard intranet solution?
Building your SharePoint intranet from the ground up or employing a standard intranet solution?
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Employing SharePoint as the platform for the organisation’s new intranet, you face at least one very decisive question: Will you build the new SharePoint intranet from the ground up or will you employ a standard intranet solution??

This blog post should have been an objective overview of the pros and cons related to both ways of building an intranet on SharePoint. The process of researching and writing, however, has brought us to the conclusion that we cannot make such an objective overview. As one of our developers puts it when asked about the advantages of building a SharePoint intranet from the ground up:

Announcing the Finalists for the European SharePoint Community Awards 2012
Announcing the Finalists for the European SharePoint Community Awards 2012
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We are delighted to announce the finalists for the European SharePoint Community Awards 2012. After long deliberations and discussions the programme team have chosen the finalists for each award category.

This is your community, so we are opening the voting polls & you have the final say! As a valued member of the European SharePoint Community you have the power to decide on who should be crowned worthy winners of the 2012 European SharePoint Community Awards.