Category: SharePoint

According to Wikipedia, SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable and usage varies substantially between organisations.

Due to the highly configurable nature of SP and the multitude of versions available, we offer a vast collection of classic and moder SP information within this category which covers everything from Enterprise Users of the latest SP Release.

Therefore, this category is broad too, and 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.

Changes in the SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Update packaging since August 2011
Changes in the SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Update packaging since August 2011
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A couple of days ago the SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Update for August 2011 was released. Always a good time to see some things fixed and some things break. Installing a Cumulative Update is always a risky business, and you should only install them if you any experience problems that the CU resolves and only when you thoroughly tested it.

One CU to rule them all!
Without going into details about the content and fixes in the August 2011 CU there is one other thing that is of real interest – and that is how MIcrosoft has changed the packaging process for the Cumulative Updates. Since the release of SharePoint 2010 there has been talk and discussions about über-packages.

How easy can scanning to SharePoint be?
How easy can scanning to SharePoint be?
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In our last week’s article we introduced UDOCX as the only cloud-based service that integrates physical scanned documents with SharePoint and Exchange.

The UDOCX “Scan-to-SharePoint version” is not only about storing documents into SharePoint and integrating them into internal or external business workflows (which is crucial for business productivity). It’s also about being very user-friendly for both users and administrators. UDOCX is the easiest and most convenient way for employees to scan documents into SharePoint!

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.

In this model Van Buren defines Search Competancy as follows:

Context-based Information in SharePoint 2010
Context-based Information in SharePoint 2010
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Finding the right information has long been a major challenge for companies. Overall, an information Worker spends an average of 26 per cent a day looking for information. That implies a lot of potential in optimizing the process of search. Search technologies aim to solve this problem. Unfortunately search results are mostly below expectations. The reason is not the search technology per se, but the quality of data to be searched. The following topics cause considerable problems:

Knowledge is not explicitly available. Important information is not explicitly captured but available in various documents.

Content Services for SharePoint 2010 and the Web
Content Services for SharePoint 2010 and the Web
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Hyper.Net is an enterprise Web Service that automatically re-purposes documents and other information managed in SharePoint and other document storage solutions into user-optimized, multi-format content that is ready for deployment in archiving systems, intranets, information portals, Web sites and social networks. The product is widely used internationally to completely automate the flow of corporate information to the end-user community. The new version, which offers full support for SharePoint 2010 and all Microsoft Office 2010 formats, also provides full, unrestricted support for SharePoint Foundation, a battery of new content re-purposing functions, new features enabling the rapid creation of compliance solutions and an improved administrator’s interface. A special highlight of the new version is a Web Service interface that enables organizations to use Hyper.Net as a centralized, platform-independent service provider that can accept transformation requests from any application or technology and return the published results synchronously or asynchronously.

Box.net versus SharePoint 2010 – The Bell for Round One
Box.net versus SharePoint 2010 – The Bell for Round One
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While attending a major ECM conference earlier this year, it was obvious that Box.net had decided to use the event as their “coming out” party. Box.net is a cloud content management company that is positioning itself directly against SharePoint 2010. In fact, they are claiming that 73% of Fortune 500 companies are already using their service.

On their website, Box.net invites people to compare the cost of SharePoint to Box.net through the use of a simple calculator. So being the inquisitive type, I decided to give it a try!

Limits and Boundaries in SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Limits and Boundaries in SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) Service Pack 1 (SP1)
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Microsoft has released various recommendations about how large content data bases should be in SharePoint in order to still allow for optimal performance . Gökhan’s article explores the complexities of these recommendations and how to best go about managing large amounts of data in SharePoint. This blog from Gökhan will serve as extensions to the topic that Gökhan has already explored in his piece.

I wrote this while searching for ways to optimize my SharePoint 2010 farm. At the time I didn’t have many content databases, but the few that I did have were quite large. I had heard about the recommended 200 GB limitation from Microsoft and decided to do some further research in order to make sure that I operate a fully supported SP2010 environment. I found an article on Microsoft TechNet that mentions recommended terms limits, thresholds and boundaries

Turning SharePoint Governance into a Proactive Practice
Turning SharePoint Governance into a Proactive Practice
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Why not Turn SharePoint Governance into a Proactive Practice When establishing processes and the organization for governing SharePoint, you often end up with a practice that responds reactively. When managing the SharePoint environment you make changes only when issues occur instead of before they occur. The concept of proactive governance is an idea that changes the… READ MORE

Top SharePoint Competition - SharePoint & InfoPath: No-Code for dependent forms in SharePoint lists
Top SharePoint Competition – SharePoint & InfoPath: No-Code for dependent forms in SharePoint lists
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Did you ever should offer a solution for a customer and first thought of developing everything from scratch? It doesn’t matter if you’re a developer, a consultant or whatever. You should be lazy, you should use what have been already developed and tested, you should be smart! If you’re smart you just try to use standards & standard features as far as it will go and you try to offer a solution which fits the needs of your customer. But many people don’t know how far they can go with SharePoint. SharePoint has huge capabilities to offer solutions based on its out-of-the-box features which are almost in every company available. In such a scenario we surprised a customer who thought he knows that his process is not manageable with the standard features of SharePoint and he was ready to pay for development of his tool based on SharePoint. As you know a custom solution which needs to be deployed on a big SharePoint farm needs