Microsoft Learning have a number of great courses covering implementing SharePoint solutions. If you or your team require some extra training in this area, go check these out! Each of these courses contains modules representing days of instructor led training, including video lessons and hands on labs.
Ok, so I have been working with several clients who are ‘interested’ in Office 365, particularly from a SharePoint perspective. During demonstrations of the platform with them, and through my own use I’ve come across several issues. So I’ve of course raised tickets with MS support and submitted discussion threads to cover, and the helpdesk are very fast to respond. However, some of the issues I am mentioning in this blog I would consider serious; and most relate to the SharePoint public facing site collection.
I’ve decided to list them here as I come across them. Please note, there have been some indicated third party fixes for some of these, however, I have not put them in unless anyone can confirm they work 100% of the time!
If you have anymore, please feel free to comment on them. Please note I am not representing Microsoft here, but, at least I can use this as an avenue to pass likewise issues directly to them concerning SharePoint Office365…. More blogs to follow!
06/09/11: Updated: SharePoint Blog Site and the Anonymous Authentication – update from MS Support -> Design “Change Request has been submitted to the Operations Team for this issue and we have added your Service Request information to it. Anonymous blog access has been a known global issue and Operations will be working for a Community Solution in the future. Unfortunately, there is no estimated time of arrival for a solution.”
This article describes the Office365 offering as a question / answer format. This is particularly useful when explaining exactly what Office365 is, what it entails, the costs and benefits.
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SharePoint governance is not a hardware, software, or people resource solution. It is an organizational strategy and methodology for documenting and implementing business rules and controls related to your client’s data. It brings cross-functional teams together to identify data issues impacting the company or organization.
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 areas. Working on SharePoint 2010 in the cloud presents not different, but new possibilities and management potentials.
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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 Explorer View then… Oooo… No Windows Explorer View.
Agh… How to we upload the folders then?
Step in SharePoint Workspace 2010!
Here’s the solution.
Fire up SharePoint Workspace 2010, go NEW and create a new connection to your Office 365 SharePoint site.
Sync up.
Now drag the folders into the relevant document library.
Sync Up again – aha ! Problem solved.
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. If you can think of more examples of good training delivery for SharePoint please let me know. Note that this article does not sell or advocate any of the training providers or resources – rather, you are advised to build a strategy based on some of the principles in the article. Happy Reading!
An Update also, a PDF download of the same article is on the Institute of Analysts and Programmers website here:
http://www.iap.org.uk/main/geoff-evelyn-on-sharepoint-training/
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 with SSADM.
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 included links to articles which I found very useful since some of these are quite complex in configuring and more importantly the people who put the articles together have much much more experience in configuring these service applications than I have!!!
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 unpacking the Hub, and attempting to run the Powershell command to install the following error message appeared:
Restore-SPSite failed with: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version ‘14.0.0.4762’ or later and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version ‘14.0.0.4762’ or later.
Looking at the install.ps1 file I noticed this:
LogMessage(“Restoring the Productivity Hub 2010 backup to ” + $targetUrl)
Restore-SPSite -Identity $targetUrl -Path $backupFileName -Force -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction Stop
# Restore-SPSite -Identity $targetUrl -Path $backupFileName -Force # remove Confirm switch to see restore debug info
return $true
Ah, so the productivity hub was trying to do a restore. Seems that the download was created for the original version of SharePoint – not Service Pack 1.
So, how to install? Try this workaround.
Ok, so is dirty, but it works! Am in the process of finding out from MS when the productivity.bak file will be upgraded to reflect service pack 1.
Update: 01/08/2011 : 19:00 BST. Got a reply from MS and have been advised they are aware of this issue and there will be a communication going out over the summer.
Update: 18/03/2013: 21:00 BST. There is a Service Pack 1 version available on this link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28178
