7 SharePoint Predictions For 2012
Blog PostsWith social media and cloud computing on the rise, the introduction of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office 365 marked major developments for SharePoint users in 2011. So, what will the trends be in 2012?
With social media and cloud computing on the rise, the introduction of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office 365 marked major developments for SharePoint users in 2011. So, what will the trends be in 2012?
One of the things I have learnt is give people reasons to go to SharePoint and this will help with your user adoption strategy. I have written before about ways to achieve this but I thought I would share one solution that we use.
The SharePoint Enterprise Search Migration Tool (SMT), created by Microsoft, is a great little tool for moving/migrating search settings from one SharePoint Search Service Application to another, and even from a SharePoint 2007 SSP to a SharePoint 2010 SSA or FAST for SharePoint. The tool is available for download from the MSDN Archive – both as a binary and its source code. It is a console application that creates an XML when exporting the settings and uses the same XML when importing the settings, and it works great in a scripting environment. The SMT that’s available from MSDN Archive allows you to migrate Best Bets, Search Scopes and Site Collection Search settings
Even if technology is providing the company with capabilities that it never had before, value is not realized before users start to embrase these capabilities – correctly – in regards to the job each individual is doing. People are generally not interested in any kind of change, unless the change will help them do their job better, faster or easier – and very importantly – they need to feel this themselves!
You may have heard of this new cloud service that is about to become available for us all – IFTTT (pronounced “lift” without the “l”). It’s currently in Beta, but you can use it online today at ifttt.com
Thought leader interview with Danny De Witte, an IT and Learning expert in Belgium
Danny, what is your background?
I started at Elsevier Training (part of the Reed Elsevier group), where we did some early work on PC learning. Then I was one of the co-founders of U&I Learning, which was one of the first Belgian e-learning companies, and I worked there for 12 years. About 2 years ago I joined Xylos, I wanted to broaden my work and one of the systems I wanted to work with was SharePoint.
What better way to build on your knowledge, than with a keynote presentation from the European SharePoint Conference 2011. Offering you the first in a series of keynote presentations to download, starting with Mirjam van Olst and Spencer Harbar’s presentation on “Successful Deployment: Lessons Learned From the Field”.
The Content Organiser is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 that provides the ability to move content based on a set of rules.
The Content Organiser can be activated on a per site bases and when activated creates a “Drop of Library” which is where you upload your documents and then have them moved based on the rules you create.
In this post we will take a look at how to activate the content organiser and make use of it by setting up a rule.
I searched like crazy for a while to find where these came from, there was nothing in the logs of any kind related to this. I could not locate any documents related to the Crawled Properties. I could not delete them, somehow they are connected to some content (at least that’s what the system says), but there were no document samples. I created a new SSA and crawled the same corpus and the same (almost) corrupted junk crawled properties appeared.
Social computing is the topic de jour. End users want it, enterprises apparently must have it. But what does it all mean? What is the enterprise applicability of these largely consumer-focused technologies? With all the focus on efficiency, cost cutting and doing more with less, does it make sense to offer users what may be nothing more than a productivity-sapping application boondoggle? And once these tools are deployed, what can a company do to track usage and productivity? What are the best practices for managing SharePoint social computing in the enterprise?