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...
SPUpdatedConcurrencyException Fix when trying to install June 2011 CU for SharePoint Server
Fun and laughter installing the June CU 2011 for SharePoint Server. After installing the CU, and then running an update as per the instructions at: You may get this error just after step 2 of the Config Wizard: === An exception of type...
How to synchronize a SharePoint Contact List with Microsoft Outlook 2010
A SharePoint Contact list can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook; so that features available in Microsoft Outlook contacts would be available to a SharePoint Contact list displayed in Outlook. Another benefit of this approach is that users would be able to see all...
Thoughts on a SharePoint Study guide
Well, its been sooo busy with me writing the MOS Study Sharepoint section for the MOS exam 77-886, and being inundated with queries concerning what is the best study guide to use for SharePoint, that I thought lets drop my thoughts in this short blog for you to mull...
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...
Import Failure – Parent Web Site does not Exist – A Possible Fix
If you carry out Exports and Imports using the good ole stsadm –o commands this will may be of interest if you run into the following error: Content deployment job 'Remote import job for job with sourceID = <id>' failed.The exception thrown was...