I have had the privilege (and retain many scars!) of having worked with SharePoint since it’s first launch in 2001 and have seen successive updates to the platform over the years, as well as witness the growing adoption by businesses as one of the key ‘building blocks’ of technology being implemented to deliver both strategic [...]
Background
I mentioned in my last post entitled “Document Migration in SharePoint – Your options”, that there are basically 4 main options available to you when deciding whether to migrate content from your file shares and other repositories. To summarise:
Migrate completely into SharePoint
*Partial migration of a subset of the content into SharePoint
**Leave where [...]
When was the last time you read a business case which contained tangible (specifically financial) cost savings for recommending Microsoft SharePoint to be deployed into your organisation?
An ongoing challenge for some of our customers and no doubt many others out there is the inability of older versions Microsoft Office (Namely Office 2000, 2002 (Known as OfficeXP) & 2003) to open/edit the newer formats created in Office 2007.
The Office 2007 applications by default have document extensions typically found with an ‘X’ on [...]
When looking to design, build and introduce any SharePoint based environment into your business, like any web based development that is accessed via a variety of internet browsers, you need to consider (amongst a whole host of other things!) the page weight of your users home page. Be that the main intranet home page, internet [...]
Growth in third party tools
I have worked with SharePoint as a framework since its first full scale release in 2001. Since then I have witnessed the steady growth in third party tools to provide either enhancements to weaker functionality provided ‘out of the box’ (OOTB) by SharePoint, or new features to complement existing core [...]
The introduction and importantly adoption of SharePoint into any organisation is challenging to say the least, as relative novices, existing SharePoint, traditional infrastructure or software project managers whom take on the management and delivery of these projects, will tell you.
This article has highlighted many issues organisations deploying or about to will experience and indeed, many organisations will experience difficulties in some or all of the above, as a consequence of lack of experience, poor decision making or expectation management with the business sponsors.
Introduction
Winning and delivering a successful SharePoint project is something that takes time to master, but even then will present experienced SharePoint Project Managers(PMs) with a few surprises along the way. As discussed in the previous article, delivering successful projects can and will be challenging.
This article continues on this theme, but looks not at the challenges [...]
I wrote an article and published it over on the recently launched ‘SharePoint Magazine by Arno Nel.
With the growing interest in deploying SharePoint (MOSS and WSS) across all manor of businesses and organisations, the article looks at the general topic areas they should look into to avoid disappointment and ensure their investment reaps the expected [...]
In addition to this article I wrote recently, SharePoint Consultant/Developer Required….No!, I also responded to a posting on the ever popular LinkedIn site called ‘What skills are you looking for when hiring/recruiting a SharePoint Consultant?’.
Since receiving positive comments from others following this posting, it has be referred to in others work, including that of the [...]