Configuring a SharePoint 2010 Farm is a non-trivial undertaking. Each of the servers in the farm must have the correct software installed. In addition, a myriad of accounts, databases, applications, and services must be correctly installed, created, and configured on each server. Typically, a project team requires three or four different farms (development, integration, validation/test, […]
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Top 7 Considerations for SharePoint 2010
Over at CMS Wire, Scott Jamison (@sjam) has posted an article about SharePoint 2010 titled: The Executive Perspective: Top 7 Things You Must Consider for SharePoint 2010. Aimed at those companies looking to implement SharePoint 2010, Scott explains the following 7 things to consider: Go All-in or don’t bother. I echo that. I’ve seen too […]
Managing Social Files: IBM Connections vs Microsoft SharePoint 2010
I came across a new new YouTube video titled IBM Connections vs. Microsoft SharePoint: Social Personal File Management posted by Brandon Seppa on June 21, 2011. This video is clearly an IBM produced video that touts the file handling features of IBM Connections vs Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The video is 31 minutes long and covers […]
12 Things You Shouldn’t Do on a Portal Project: Wrap UP
We have shown you a variety of ways in which you can screw up your portal project. Glenn Kline and I had fun documenting them. Of course, we had less fun living through them or consoling clients who were living through them but time heals all wounds and now we can laugh about it. We’d […]
12 Things You Shouldn’t Do on a Portal Project: #9 When Not to Use a Portal
For all that I love portal and collaboration technology, I recognize there are time when you shouldn’t use it. It can be heavy if it’s a one-off type application. Portal can be difficult to implement if you are trying to recreate an entire application from scratch. It can be really difficult and time consuming if […]
SharePoint security using the OSI model
I recently attended Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 and had the chance to sit down with Mike DeVerter of Rackspace, a Perficient partner, after I presented at the conference about the 10 Immutable Laws of SharePoint Security. In this presentation, I talked about SharePoint security using the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model as a guide, covering where […]
SharePoint 2010 SP1 and Data Management
Along with the Office Team, the SharePoint product team has announced the availability of Service Pack 1 in June. In addtion to the usual bundling of updates and hotfixes, the following data management enhancements will be included: Site Recycle Bin – administrators will be able to recover site collections and sites accidentally deleted by their owners in a […]
Integrating OBIEE with Portal
We are going to be spending some time focusing on integration. Inevitably people ask, “But can you integrate with product x, y, or z?” Our answers is almost always yes with a lot of qualification. Everyone wants out of the box integration that just works but no vendor ever really has a good answer. Because […]
SharePoint 2010 and Virtualization
In spite of the ever increasing interest in “the cloud”, the majority of enterprise SharePoint 2010 deployments still involve architecting a set of server-based resources (e.g. CPU, Memory, and Storage) as a target for the deployment of one or more SharePoint 2010 Farms. These resources are, however, no longer limited to physical servers, but are […]
FAST for SharePoint 2010, Lessons Learned
We just did a FAST for SharePoint 2010 install & configuration at a client yesterday. The client had multiple servers; one admin and two non-admin servers. Great documentation is provided on TechNet, and really should be the outline that you use: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381267.aspx Make sure you pay attention to the hardware/software requirements; Windows Firewall needs to […]
SharePoint governance vs Portal governance
At Perficient, we view governance as a critical piece of a portal implementation. We often recommend building out your governance model early in a portal project to avoid many of the pitfalls that we see when governance is an afterthought. In fact, we have been brought into many clients to help fix a poor portal […]
Microsoft Pushes Sharepoint to the Cloud
PC Week has an article on Sharepoint in the cloud. I’m seeing the desire for cloud services among all vendors although Microsoft seems to be sprinting in that direction rather than the running by IBM and other vendors. I love the quotes about people building applications on sharepoint and that it’s “many things to many […]