Am working on my forthcoming book concerning the delivery of user adoption and platform governance, and thought that I would share a summarised section which concerns the creation of SharePoint support. a crucial area that relates to how SharePoint services will be managed.
Nb. Am also working on an article which goes into further detail looking at SharePoint support and what are the necessary items to put in place to guarantee success (rather like my Ten Steps for SharePoint implementation article :D). This will be available soon…
Please read on though – hope the summary is useful!
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I’ve published to TechNET UK an article concerning the use of some great Microsoft Word functionality called Research. This provides individuals with the ability to customize options to suit their research needs. This feature can be used to expose SharePoint search, meaning that individuals can locate information they have access to on SharePoint within Microsoft Office Word, without having to go to the SharePoint site.
To read the summarised blog go here.
A full article is here
Enjoy !
Am in the land of setting up quite a few 2013 environments to demo and test. Some using VMware, HyperV, Cloudshare to name a few. Ran into a ‘gotcha’ starring SQL which I thought I would share. In this scenario I’m setting up a Dev / POC environment which is a single server SharePoint 2013 environment and not set as a Domain Controller. SQL is also deployed to that box. Using the UI it’s not possible to create a new farm due to the fact I’m using a local account as farm admin, therefore, had to use the wonderful New-SPConfigurationDatabase Powershell command to create the SharePoint config database).
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Yaaaay, SharePoint 2013 is now available on preview – there’s a whole pile of blogs coming your way concerning Office integration and SharePoint 2013 from me. Also, watch out for my new book which I will announce shortly – for now, get the download and start trying it out!
Download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30345
Installation Details here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc262485%28office.15%29?ocid=fwlink
A key component of Platform Governance (i.e. the management of the infrastructure and related services) on SharePoint is the understanding of security and how that affects user collaboration. Here’s a webcast I attended as a guest speaker concerning security challenges through SharePoint collaboration. Please note, this is high level, and not technical.
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