Tag: MVP’s

Real World SharePoint 2010 Indispensable Experiences From 22MVP’S Chapter 1: Building a Perfect Test Environment for SharePoint Server 2010
Real World SharePoint 2010 Indispensable Experiences From 22MVP’S Chapter 1: Building a Perfect Test Environment for SharePoint Server 2010
Ebooks

SharePoint 2010 Indispensable Experiences From 22 MVP’s This book is a must-have anthology of current best practices for SharePoint 2010 from 20 of the top SharePoint MVPs. They offer insider advice on everything from installation, workflow, and Web parts to business connectivity services, Web content management, and claims-based security. SharePoint 2010 boasts significant updates, new… READ MORE

Let's Celebrate and Tie Ribbons Around SharePoint
Let’s Celebrate and Tie Ribbons Around SharePoint
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​SharePoint 2010 is coming up to its 2 year birthday, so it worth talking about Ribbons. Too often solutions concentrate on pages, Web Parts, lists, libraries and workflows. A SharePoint solution should be more than this – each of these components should be combined to provide users with a holistic solution, where the components work together and not as discrete entities.

Who are the SharePoint End Users?
Who are the SharePoint End Users?
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Who are the end users in the SharePoint world? This answer differs from time to time when I poll the attendees in my conference sessions and classes. Here are the three choices for you:

Responsive Web Design
Responsive Web Design
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Responsive web design is about making your web site adapt the layout to the viewing context, typically the browser window or the device that renders it. In other words, whether I watch the web site on a mobile, a tablet or a pc, and no matter what resolution I use, I should see something useful. It should respond to the context. Lately I’ve redesigned my blog to make it responsive, and here is what I’ve done.

Deciphering SharePoint Platitudes
Deciphering SharePoint Platitudes
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The best part of my job as an evangelist is that I am able to connect and talk with some of the brightest minds in the SharePoint community, tapping into their extensive backgrounds to better understand their unique perspectives to some of the more difficult business problems facing SharePoint teams. One of the more common problems — which sounds simple, and yet it sits at the core of the majority of failed enterprise application deployments — is the failure of the organization to have a shared understanding of what is to be accomplished.

Office 365|SharePoint – Migrate Your On Premises SharePoint content to SharePoint 2010 Online – Part 2 – Connection to Office 365
Office 365|SharePoint – Migrate Your On Premises SharePoint content to SharePoint 2010 Online – Part 2 – Connection to Office 365
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While writing this post, I discover an issue while migrating blog content to SharePoint Online. The issue was pictures associated with blog posts published using Live Writer (and so stored as attachments on SharePoint) were not migrated. This issue is not really a product bug as this way of blog posting is using specific SharePoint API’s. I’m really impressed by the quality and the responsiveness of AvePoint Support team. Only a week was needed to have confirmation of repro, details about the issue and get a fix. Whaou!!!

Top 10 Technical Mistakes in SharePoint
Top 10 Technical Mistakes in SharePoint
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I’ve seen plenty of technical mistakes when implementing SharePoint, particularly in larger environments when the risks of failure are higher. Here’s a countdown of my top ten “favorite” SharePoint mistakes:

SharePoint 2010 – SQL 2012 Reporting Services
SharePoint 2010 – SQL 2012 Reporting Services
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With the release of SQL 2012, Reporting Services got a remake specifically for SharePoint 2010. Reporting Services can now be configured as a service application specifically to allow for scaling within your infrastructure. To enable this in SharePoint you must first have installed the SharePoint component from SQL 2012. You can find this by running the installer for SQL and selecting the following: