Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint’

So if you are like me you have more development VMs than SSD space and do everything you can to keep your VM space down. One of the biggest things you can do is set your database options to Simple recovery model. This means that you won’t be able to do point in time backups […]

Are you looking to learn the steps to a successful SharePoint 2013 migration? Ready to join the SharePoint 2013 revolution but not sure how to prepare and plan for it?  Or, in the middle of a migration that is falling behind schedule? With the arrival of SharePoint 2013, many organizations are preparing to make the […]

Lately, I’ve been thinking about ways to manage and re-use existing code. Right away I thought of code snippets. Snippets are handy for methods or small segments of code, but what I was really looking for was a faster way to repurpose common class libraries and patterns. Functionality such as caching, logging, abstracting the SharePoint data layer, etc. […]

​Here’s a quick way to implement custom sort functionality in a Content Query web part. Since the out-of-the-box options only offer ascending or descending alphanumeric sorting, you can use a Calculated Column to provide the necessary logic. For example, say you have a list called ‘Defects’ that has the following two Choice fields: ‘Impact’ and […]

No less than Bono once told a UK music monthly, “The blogosphere can put you off democracy. Use it sparingly.” Substitute “enterprise social networks” for “democracy” and you’ll find that statement to be a fairly accurate assessment of the way many companies view the concept of enterprise social, and within that, the subset that is […]

Forbes had an interesting article this week – An Interview with the Most Powerful Woman in Health Care.  The woman is Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic Systems. According to  KLAS’ 2012 Best in KLAS Report, Epic was rated as the #1 Overall Software Vendor, #1 Overall Software Suite, and #1 Overall Physician Practice Vendor based […]

I recently posted a script to export term sets in SharePoint (vetted in both 2010 & 2013).  I was prompted to write that script, because the client I was working on had a very particular (and large!) managed navigation structure that I wanted to replicate across all environments to make testing code much simpler. This […]

We recently hosted a webinar on Office 365, where my colleague Rich Wood discussed what’s new and improved when it comes to the latest release of SharePoint Online. Rich, Director of Perficient’s National SharePoint Practice, gave attendees nine great reasons to love the new SharePoint Online. The tenth topic focused on Yammer, as Rich delved into SharePoint Online […]

I’m excited to share that Perficient client Marshfield Clinic has won top site on TopSharePoint.com  for the month of March!  TopSharePoint.com is a site that showcases the best examples of SharePoint design globally, featuring top quality, creative and unique SharePoint-based websites from around the world. They carefully select SharePoint websites based on their usability, design, […]

We recently hosted a webinar on SharePoint’s social business capabilities and Microsoft’s social roadmap, SharePoint as a Social Business Platform. Guest speaker Rob Koplowitz from Forrester, and Perficient’s own SharePoint Practice Director, Rich Wood, dug into SharePoint from a social perspective, and shared their thoughts on where Microsoft is headed in terms of social business. […]

I recently purchased the book Microsoft SharePoint 2013 App Development to try to get more familiar with the changes coming about in SharePoint 2013 apps.  The link points to the O’Reilly site, but you can also get it from Amazon too.  (As a side note, I find it very hard to read a printed book […]

Today, Perficient announced that we’ve partnered with analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. to host the webinar, “SharePoint as a Social Business Platform,” next week, on Wednesday, March 27, at 1 p.m. CDT. From the press release: The webinar will explore Microsoft’s recent investments in social enterprise platforms, and the power SharePoint 2013 has in helping […]