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Enterprise Portals & SharePoint Posts
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Aliasing SQL Server in the SharePoint World
Posted 4/11/2012 by Eric VanRoy, Senior Portal System Engineer
My goal was to pull together and present different pieces of information on how SQL aliasing can benefit a SharePoint environment. The information contained here is really based on a lot of different sources that can be readily research by Binging SQL aliasing. At the core of all of this is how it affects SharePoint since there are truly some impacts to the SharePoint structure itself.
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What is a SharePoint Administrator?
Posted 2/17/2012 by Tim Van Hammond, Director, Enterprise Portals
The role of the SharePoint Administrator is often a topic that comes up when beginning to plan out a SharePoint implementation, as it should. The various roles and responsibilities should be clearly defined upfront, but I often receive the initial feedback from customers that we should be able to just tell them what those responsibilities are. The problem with that philosophy is that the organization, management, goals, and skill sets of every organization are not the same.
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SharePoint Predictions for 2012
Posted 2/7/12 by Eric VanRoy, Senior Portal System Engineer
I recently ran across a blog post where many SharePoint experts were asked their opinions on what they think SharePoint will bring to 2012. After reading the article I had to pause a minute and think about what I think it will bring.
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Office 365 - SharePoint Online Explained
Posted 1/23/12 by Tim Van Hammond, Director, Enterprise Portals
Several months ago I published a brief introduction to Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 is a suite of very popular Microsoft products hosted in the cloud which has several features you should be aware of; please refer to that brief introduction at the following here. This article will dig a bit deeper, specifically into the SharePoint Online features of Office 365.
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What's An Intranet and What Can It Do For My Company?
Posted 1/10/2012 by Jonathan Schultz, Senior Portal Software Engineer
An intranet needs to be an information sharing channel in an organization. Almost all organizations use email to communicate to their associates and some still have hard copy newsletters distributed to their teams. An intranet could, and should, be used to centralize all of this information, along with other topics associates need to be made aware of, to excel in their job. An intranet is a powerful communication channel that allows different areas of the company to communicate as a dynamic organization.
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Posted 10/12/2011 by Mark Lezotte, Director, Online Marketing
Over the last several years I’ve been hearing that SharePoint is not as user friendly as other content management systems (CMS). When I stand back and look at the challenges I see our content managers encountering, I’ve decided that those challenges are present regardless of the CMS product implemented … SharePoint or otherwise.
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Posted 10/7/2011 by Mike Lauer, Project Manager
Did you know you can import your Access database into SharePoint (sort of)? Well, this isn’t an article about that. SharePoint has a host of great features that will help you solve your business needs, but this isn’t an article about that either. This is an article that only begins to explore the role of SharePoint in the business and IT community by comparing and contrasting it with a tool seemingly more familiar to all of us … Microsoft Access.
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Posted 9/16/2011 by Sarah Buruin, SharePoint Portal Analyst
Today I’m going to introduce the latest version of My Sites for SharePoint Server 2010. The My Site feature has been a part of SharePoint since the 2003 version. However, the latest version of SharePoint delivered an overhaul to make it more up-to-date and include many features of social networking. My Sites now include even more features to provide higher levels of interaction and collaboration with colleagues.
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Posted 8/16/2011 by Marla Krause, Software Engineer
How many times have you been asked by your designer to get rid of the default “Search this site…” text? This was one of those things that drove me nuts until I figured out a way around it and, once again, I turned to my new favorite thing, jQuery.
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Posted 8/10/2011 by Jonathan Schultz, Senior Portal Software Engineer SharePoint is a complex system with many architectural components. To succeed with an implementation you not only need to have the right technical architecture but you will also need a solid information architecture to get the best return on your investment. This is where Information Organization and Access (IOA) concepts can help.
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Posted 8/4/2011 by Jonathan Schultz, Senior Portal Software Engineer Content management or enterprise content management (ECM) can mean different things to different people. It could even be argued that the term is so broad it no longer has any real meaning on its own. Content management started with the need to manage physical pieces of paper that were being produced by organizations and now is trying to deal with the exploding amounts of electronic information that is being created in ever-evolving forms of social media such as blogs, wikis and Tweets.
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Older Blog Posts
7.27.11 - Records Management in SharePoint 2010
7.11.11 - jQuery and SharePoint
6.30.11 - SharePoint Governance
6.27.11 - Microsoft Office 365 - What Is It? And, Why Should You Care?
6.22.11 - Staffing Your SharePoint Team
4.13.11 - SharePoint Search - Think Outside the (Search) Box!
1.12.11 - The Many Faces of SharePoint - Extranets
10.05.10 - Using SharePoint for Efficient Project Management
07.08.10 - SharePoint 2010 Boasts Major Improvements to Document Management
02.12.10 - The Latest Buzz in the SharePoint World
02.12.10 - Using SharePoint as a Platform for Your Public Website |