One of the most compelling challenges for Office 365 is centralised monitoring. Those working in the SharePoint arena...
Office 365 Monitoring using System Centre Operations Manager
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Cyber Security – a Service Delivery Context
Cyber security is about data loss prevention, detection and response. Service delivery includes ensuring the...
Starting off a successful SharePoint Platform Support model
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...
Security Challenges of Connecting and Collaborating
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...
Consumerization and SharePoint security challenges
I was a guest speaker on a general SharePoint Security Webcast today, which was great fun. On the agenda was security of SharePoint relating to mobile devices. Unfortunately, the session did not manage to get into that topic, and I was so keen to talk about it. To...
Some thoughts on process of building SharePoint solutions
From a planning perspective, what are the very basic areas that one needs to think of when going down the route of creating a SharePoint solution, whether its a site, or farm, or even a workflow solution. I have attempted to answer this by building a presentation key...
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for SharePoint Server 2010 available.
Located some great guides whose goal is to assist the reader through the process of planning a SharePoint Server 2010 infrastructure by addressing the following: Step 1: Identify the Requirements Step 2: Apply the IT Policies Step 3: Define the High-Level Architecture...
Value Engineering in SharePoint – Part 3
Welcome to the third and final part of my Value Management article concerning how to define and apply a model for solution architecture in SharePoint. If you have just jumped into this article, without reading the first two I urge you to go back and read the first two...
Value Management in SharePoint – Part 2 of 3
In this second of a three part blog I will describe Value Management in SharePoint and how it can be applied when creating or implementing a new SharePoint solution. Note that in fact this can also be applied to existing SharePoint environments where there is a...
Resolution to UpgradeTaskFailConfigSyncDisplayLabel in December CU SharePoint 2010
You may come across this error when attempting to carry out a PSConfig upgrade using office2010-kb2597014-fullfile-x64-glb: An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException was thrown. Additional exception information: An update...
Service Delivery – Working in harmony with external SharePoint agencies
Time for a service delivery article, looking at working with external SharePoint agencies in a SharePoint environment in BAU… If you are operating and managing SharePoint environments for your clients, you may find that there is a business requirement for enhancements...