Introduction We described previously that you should be viewing SharePoint as a ‘business applications’ framework, rather than just a piece of software that ‘handles your documents’ or as I once heard it called ‘it’s just an intranet application’! Indeed, it provides an underlying application development and ‘hosting’ environment in which to provide a repository to [...]
SharePoint has matured in recent years to become pretty good at being an ‘all things to all people’ platform, or as I would prefer to refer to it as a ‘business applications’ framework. The introduction in SharePoint 2003 of ‘Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), licensed as part of the Windows Server 2003 operating system as a [...]
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 [...]
Overview As I mentioned in my last post there are a number of in-built tools and other options to help you migrate your content into and around your SharePoint environments. “SharePoint is the natural replacement for your ageing file shares and other data repositories” The very real and important question arises over what to do [...]
Introduction Migration is always a thorny topic that comes up on a project at the beginning in terms of scoping a project, towards the end during rollout or adoption phases, or once the project is closed and users are left on their own. The activity of migrating or moving data into or between team sites, [...]
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?
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.
I like Adam Bruenz post here which is entitled ’When-Best-Practices-Aren’t-Best-Practices’, which provides a interesting and thought provoking view, and is a topic that is increasingly prevalent on many blogs in the SharePoint community – SharePoint Best Practices. In short, you should not implement ‘Best Practice’ methods even if they have the mighty Microsoft name to [...]