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...
Microsoft Office Research and Office365 Public site connectivity
Just back from holidays and back into the throes of things – checking my mails find one from a client stating they want to migrate some of their in-premise SharePoint to SharePoint online. To give this more of a scenario, here goes. The client is using SharePoint...
Documenting SharePoint 2007-2010 Migrations
There’s plenty of technical articles discussing what tool to use, what commands to use, what products to use and more in the face of migrating one or more SharePoint environments from 2007 to 2010. However, this article describes the process that a SharePoint...
How to quickly list documents and sub folders from a Document Library in SharePoint to a file
I have been asked by quite a few people on listing documents from document libraries that include sub-folders; so I'd like to share with you a poor-man method of listing all files and folders in a document library in SharePoint with hundreds of files and folders, and...
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...
Office Web Applications – Gotcha when trying to deploy to SharePoint 2010
Time to tell a tale of a rather interesting scenario concerning deploying Office Web Applications to a SharePoint farm. The installation of the product was intended to go directly after the initial deploy of SharePoint to the servers in the farm. Following the...
Excel Web App Video from Microsoft
One of the most difficult areas to engage users with in the adoption of SharePoint is sometimes wrongly perceieved to be the easiest because the assumption is the user must already be using the product. And when needing to get users productive with their client and...
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...