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Archive for June, 2011

Creating a managed metadata field

Creating managed metadata fields is a bit different than creating fields of other types. Managed metadata fields are required to be linked to a term set before they can be used. The two types of taxonomy fields are TaxonomyField and TaxonomyFieldTypeMulti. The TaxonomyFieldTypeMulti is used for a multi valued managed metadata. TaxonomyField field = new […]

Creating Bulk AD User Accounts using PowerShell

I am sure most administrators have received a request to create several AD accounts due to acquisitions, mergers, or for other reasons. I had one of those requests which consisted of populating an AD environment that was to be used for Directory Synchronization with BPOS/Office 365. There are a lot of Bulk AD scripts out […]

Office 365-SharePoint Online Disabling the “My Site” Feature

ISSUE: When working with several clients to get them started with SharePoint Online, many clients are not yet ready to give users the full functionality/customizations that the “My Site” feature provides. Whether it is the social features, personal features, or just the creation of a personal site, many clients feel like they need their users […]

Required properties when using Official File web service

The Official File web service in SharePoint is used to submit files to a record repository. When the file gets submitted the metadata of the document is parsed and matched to a routing rule in the record center. One of the parameters passed to the SubmitFile method is metadata (properties) of the document.   publicstatic […]

White Paper: Achieving Financial Effectiveness Through Physician Loyalty

The one-to-one communication solutions provided by CRM have been the answer to an increasing number of issues faced by the healthcare industry. CRM can be used to improve care delivery, lower costs, and increase loyalty among the key stakeholders most necessary to organizational success. This is particularly true in light of the growing physician shortage, […]

12 Things Not to Do on Your Portal Project: webinar

Yesterday I presented our 12 Things series as a webinar.  The presentation is the abbreviated version.   If you want to read the whole series you can look at the recap with all the links to each post here.  

12 Things You Should NOT Do on a Portal Project

Yesterday Perficient’s portal experts held a webinar entitled “12 Things You Should NOT Do on a Portal Project”. The webinar was highly entertaining. You can view the entire webinar here. Considering the growth of social media, collaborative care, and patient engagement in healthcare, I felt it was important to recap the 12 things not to […]

Eliminating Dirty Data from your Sustainability Report

Today is the last day of the July-June fiscal year, which means many organizations, such as Proctor & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and Ford Motor Company, are winding down the period covered under their annual Sustainability Report.  There are many reasons that these organizations choose to release sustainability reports.  Many believe these reports lend an air of […]

Present It Like You Mean It

Being able to present your own work is a core design skill. If you’re working somewhere that won’t let you present your own work, get out of there. Though I believe in designers presenting their own work, let’s face it, some of us are better at presentation than others. I’ve been presenting design to clients […]

Can Social Media Save Lives?

I attended a webinar today entitled “Can Social Media Save Lives?”. This webinar was organized by the HealthWorks Collective. While a good portion of the agenda rehashed commonly used statistics about the use of social media in healthcare and the fact that there is still a lot of confusion about social media as a tool […]

Working With Exchange 2010 Recovery Databases

Background Brien Posey has an excellent post explaining the steps required to mount a recovery database in Exchange 2010. His post can be found here. While assisting one of my customers restore email data using a recovery database, I learned some lessons that I thought I’d share. In this instance, my customer needed to restore […]

Braindrawing: Another insight from UPA 2011

The last session I attended at UPA 2011 Chauncey Wilson’s “Brainstorming and Beyond: Ideation, Innovation, and Insight.”  The slides from his presentation aren’t yet available online (I’ll update this post with the link when available), but I’m including an earlier version that he presented with Amy Cueva. In the session he shares a number of […]

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