Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint’

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 […]

I just read a great post on the Collaboration Soapbox blog by Louis Richardson titled “How to get your head out of your inbox“.  In the article Richardson explains how he is using social networking tools to reduce the amount of email he receives.  The basic concept is this:  when you get a piece of […]

Search is one of the most compelling features of a true enterprise SharePoint deployment.  In the last 6 months, our clients have expressed more and more interest in looking across the entire spectrum of search options available with SharePoint.  The question normally asked: SharePoint or FAST?  In some cases, the choice is clear.  Large document volume […]

More organizations are investing greater portions of their Intranet deployment budget on improved search functionalities.  Within the SharePoint 2010 product stack, the FAST for SharePoint option provides a whole host of enterprise search capabilities.  FAST for SharePoint not only supports more robust search results but more visual results including visual “previews”.   In the case of […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]

We often encounter companies who are trying to improve their web sites by implementing some sort of content management system.  Portal vendors will sell them on the benefits of using portal technologies to integrate applications with content.  Non-portal vendors will sell their products based on traditional content management features, such as site management, page creation, […]

Many of our Portal clients face the same dilemma:  They are implementing a new portal platform, but need to bring content into portal from a variety of places.  In most of these situations, they have an existing content management system that they can’t (or won’t) migrate into portal’s CMS. Last month I blogged about how […]

Via a tweet by our Microsoft fellows at Perficient, CMS Wire has a short post out about five things you can do to make your migration successful.  The key theme seems to be that you need to make it an enterprise solution and put some thought into it.

SharePoint 2010 offers a new way of looking at the world, the Activity Feed (a.k.a the “My Newsfeed” section of your My Site). There seems to be plenty of confusion on what exactly is tracked in your Activity Feed, who sees what, and when it shows up on the site.

First things first…the Activity Feed works on a timer job, one of many jobs that make up the User Profile Service Application (Service Applications have replaced the SSP from MOSS 2007). This job can be configured to run on any schedule you choose. SharePoint defaults to hourly, but this can changed easily enough. Every time the job runs, a crawler goes out, scans the farm, aggregates recently submitted activities and shoves them into their own database. Once inside the Activity Feed database, the activity is now available on your My Newsfeed (and via the Activity Feed APIs via the SharePoint Object Model…more on that in a future post).

Here are portal-based conferences coming in 2011: Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit – March 28-30 2011 Liferay East Coast (U.S) Symposium – May 10-11 2011 All Liferay Symposiums World-wide IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference 2011 – May 15-19 2011 Microsoft Sharepoint Conference – Oct 3-6 2011 If you know of others that I missed, […]

Enough time has passed since the release of SharePoint 2010 that a growing number of organizations with WSS 3 and MOSS 2007 deployments are taking a hard look at when and how to move to the new platform.  I’m getting more and more questions on this subject. Upgrading from earlier versions of the platform TO WSS 3 […]

I attended a session on the various products IBM offers and how they interact with Exchange, Sharepoint, etc.  My reality is that no company is a completely homogeneous entity.   I typically see multiple vendors and a large overlap of solutions.  But when you talk collaboration, you want your email system to work with your […]