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 [...]
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 [...]
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?
Background We were experiencing some issues with our hosted email provider through 2008 and were looking to move away from them at some point this year. Together with our own business strategy of providing hosted solutions we were keen to continue ‘consuming our own food’ so to speak. Hence we were on the look out [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]