Administration in SharePoint Office 365 – What can you do
As we move into the land of Office365 and SharePoint in the cloud, time to look at the key areas of Administration available to site collections. It's very important for existing SharePoint Administrators working in SharePoint 2010 in server land to understand these...
Office365 and the Multiple Upload Moan
Ok, So working with a user on Office 365 SharePoint and looking at uploading several folders of information to a document library. Creating the document library, yep thats fine. Tried to create a folder? Oooo... There's no New Folder option. Ok, lets try Windows...
Training
Back from a long haul writing the 2nd book - Whew! Back to the articles. With the large amount of training resources out there, this is my take on the different types of training I've seen so far, along with some places and the reasoning behind the training provision....
My Software Intro
Even though I focus on SharePoint, thats not all ! I have over 20 years experience in software development, covering CTI, Client Server, Single Tier, Multi, Web based and more. We follow the development life cycle which marries practical software design principles...
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...
Productivity 2010 Hub and the SharePoint Service Pack 1 Gotcha
Had some fun with the Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010 today… Now, for those who don't know about the Productivity Hub, go here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7122 The Hub gets installed into a Site Collection. So, after downloading then...
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....
How to Synchronize a SharePoint Document Library with Outlook 2010
Users focus on email as the key productivity hub. Therefore, Microsoft Outlook is seen as the application that gets the most attention. To ensure that users can still access SharePoint document libraries without having to visit the document library, document libraries...
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...