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Implementation Articles
Announcing the General Availability of Microsoft Graph reporting APIs
General Availability of Microsoft Graph reporting APIs for retrieving Office 365 product usage data The usage reports...
SharePoint 2010 Service Applications
This is a list of all the SharePoint 2010 Service applications, and is presented as one of the appendices to my book Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects. For each of the services I describe the functionality and the purpose of the Service. I've also...
Project Planning
When implementing SharePoint in an organization, its not just about dropping SharePoint on a server and saying to the client 'There you go!'. This introduction to SharePoint Project Planning gives 10 useful steps to ensuring a successful SharePoint implementation....
What SharePoint Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) really means
As a SharePoint evangelist, working with users to identify their requirements can sometimes feel like an uphill struggle. We have all heard of the wishful thinkers, the my app does this so SharePoint had better too, the lets tweak this bit by bolting on that from 'XYZ...
Do you UAT SharePoint Standard Features?
Got a query today concerning User Acceptancy Testing (UAT) on SharePoint. As a SharePoint implementator, we know that the client needs to test the provision (your deliverables) of the SharePoint environment, based on exactly what they requested (the scope). However,...
My pennyworths on Third Party Product Deploy in SharePoint – Where is the Documentation then?
I have a customer who has third party developers enhancing their SharePoint platform; their questions surrounded the control of these developers from the perspective of how their products end up running in SharePoint. We all know that SharePoint is pretty...
How do you manage the size of your SharePoint sites?
Let's start this article by putting into context the reasoning behind site quotas, and of course, this means a description of exactly why the feature is required. Site Quotas, in a nutshell, allows you to define a limit on the storage capacity of a SharePoint site...
Considering and Planning SharePoint 2010 Topology
As a SharePoint Architect, it is crucially important that to create a robust SharePoint environment for your clients requires planning and considerations of opportunities and threats concerning SharePoint topologies. All too often SharePoint is implemented without a...
Reasons to be SharePoint, 1 – 2 – 3
Being asked a common question by client wanting to adopt SharePoint and I thought it a good idea to share this with you all – "why should I use SharePoint, and what can it be used for"? Ok, here's my pennyworth (or three pennies) SharePoint has been provisioned to...
SharePoint Implementation – A Plan is Needed!
Had a chat with a friend in the pub talking technical over a whiskey and rum, and got into a reminiscent of the good ole days of writing databases in DOS (Nantucket Clipper and dBase – remember that?! Wow). I was asked about SharePoint and the coding for that and then...