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...
Managing SharePoint Platform Risk
Many organisations, taking SharePoint on for the first time, opt to go for a single server instance deployment of SharePoint. However, they find it easy to forget in the heat of getting a single SharePoint production environment deployed, that without defining...
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...
Ten Steps to a successful implementation of SharePoint
People have been requesting me do a shortened article to cover SharePoint Implementation from a higher level; a kind of whats my the key steps required to deliver SharePoint to a client. Please note there's a whole bunch of webcasts coming soon to go into some more...
FAST Search Server 2010 – Resolving Unexpected error occurred while communicating with Administration Service
Had issues when configuring FAST on SharePoint 2010, specifically with resolving unexpected errors occurred while communicating with Administration Service. Needed to configure FAST Search Keywords. But, visiting Site Settings for the FAST Search Centre and clicking...
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...
SharePoint Conference Full Farm Failover Demo – SPC11
At the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim was demoed using SQL Server “Denali” Always On to fail-over a 14.4 TB SharePoint content database to a secondary database server in 45 seconds. Very impressive, and you are able to get more information here including seeing the...