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 [...]
We are pleased to announce that Michael Deller has joined WorkShares. He has joined as our Technical Director and will continue in his capacity as a seasoned SharePoint consultant and architect, amongst his other roles for WorkShares.
With over 6 years experience of working with SharePoint technologies with some of the UK’s leading Microsoft partners in [...]
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 [...]
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?
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.
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 them, [...]