Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint’

In run up to the Sharepoint 2011 conference this year, I’m seeing a lot of articles about Sharepoint.  This includes an interesting article by CMS Wire on next steps for Sharepoint.  Their quick answers is something I believe in. It’s all about planning and governance: Establish core competencies Champion the Optimized enterprise Consider product, platform, […]

In run up to the Sharepoint 2011 conference this year, I’m seeing a lot of articles about Sharepoint.  This includes an interesting article by CMS Wire on next steps for Sharepoint.  Their quick answers is something I believe in. It’s all about planning and governance: Establish core competencies Champion the Optimized enterprise Consider product, platform, […]

Rick Taylor, one of our well published and sought after Sharepoint gurus, has a two minute video out on Sharepoint governance.  He’s usually so busy working and presenting he doesn’t get much time to blog.  I thought I’d point this out.

This is the fourth entry of my PowerShell for SharePoint Admins series.  I am basing this series on what SharePoint Administrators have said are the most important tasks to accomplish in PowerShell.  Here is the list: Create/Delete Sites, Webs and Web Applications Backup and Restore Sites, Webs and Web Applications Deploy Solutions and Features Add/Delete […]

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, […]

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 […]

Admittedly, search hasn’t been IBM’s game for a bit.  Slowly over the years we have seen their search product, Omnifind, come together and now with 9.1 it all changes – for the better.   I have reviewed pretty much every major player in the search market from Autonomy to Google to Endeca to Lucene and […]

I’ve blogged before about the need for a marketplace of portlets.   I’ve lamented the lack thereof in fact.  So I was happy to hear about a new offering in the Widgr Marketplace site.  Widgr, in beta right now, intends to offer a variety of portlets, widgets, gadgets, iframes, and other pieces of functionality for use […]

From an organization perspective, after getting a decent project manager or scrum master, you need to have a place to share everything about the project.  I personally don’t care if you use IBM Quickr, Microsoft Sharepoint, Confluence Wiki, or eProject.  You just need to get a place to share the following: Documents that are deliverables […]

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

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 […]