Understand the workflow provisions around SharePoint, Office365, Windows Azure used to improve business process automation, collaboration and productivity.
Read how Service Delivery (automation, data governance, data processing, support), aligns to Information Assurance (IA) and concerns all content management systems.
Read how Office365 includes Service Assurance providing resources to carry out risk assessments and audits, and includes a wealth of reports covering security, and the relevant legislation.
Read how Web Analytics improves the usability of the SharePoint solution, drives collaboration, boosts ROI (Return On Investment); and thus enhances the overall productivity of SharePoint users
Read how a usable SharePoint solution needs to take into consideration the service standards applicable like design, development, commonality, consistency, tools and cross platform standards.
Read how automation of an enterprise solution including Maintainability, Availability, Resiliency and Supportability using multiple technologies requires an adoption of an suite that allows you flexibility.
How to connect a SharePoint 2013 Document Library to Outlook 2013
One of the key methods of gaining User Adoption of SharePoint is ensuring and pushing the integration it has with Microsoft Office to information workers. After all, information workers generally use Outlook as their 'mother-ship'. Getting those users to switch...
Getting the Windows File Explorer option in SharePoint 2013 to work in a Server 2012 sandbox
Another quick "How To" from Geoff! I needed to quickly find a way to enable multiple file upload (not Drag / Drop); because I was demonstrating the capabilities of a SharePoint site to clients, and was doing this on a VM with Office 2013 on the same box as the server...
How to Synchronize a SharePoint 2010 Task List with Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook provides a Task management feature so that users can create and manage personal tasks. These tasks can be assigned to one or more people, and can be linked into their personal Calendars in Outlook. Whilst the same functionality exists in SharePoint,...
Carrying out a SharePoint Feasibility Study
When getting an organization to make an investment into using SharePoint (irrespective of premise i.e. on-off, or SharePoint version), a SharePoint Feasibility Study should be carried out for them. A Feasibility Study identifies the following: What are the current...
SharePoint Delivery Planning Guide
As part of my book, SharePoint 2013 User Adoption Planning and Governance, below is a SharePoint Delivery Detail Plan. This plan encompasses the tasks required to deliver a SharePoint solution from Envision through to User Adoption.
SharePoint Champions of the Cause
Using SharePoint, organizations should be leveraging every asset which makes them more productive out of the platform, and as effectively as they can. This means investing time and resources to make sure users are fully utilizing the functions made available to them;...
Some key SharePoint 2013 features
User Adoption of SharePoint is based on meeting the goals and requirements of the business sponsor. To do that, there is an importance in ensuring that the correct features are applied to the relevant solutions to meet their goals. Platform Governance is key; since...
SharePoint 2007 to 2010 Migration Plan
One of the most difficult migration paths for SharePoint is from version 2007 to 2010. Not so much due to the technical requirements concerning things like content database shift, Web Application shift, Site Collection review, Third Party review. But more on the...
Office 365 becomes part of Microsoft Office Specialist Programme
A major important milestone in the step to get information workers creditations in the use of Office products. Just last year I completed the SharePoint Study guide for Microsoft Office, and now in not the too distant future (in fact in late August to be precise),...
Starting off a successful SharePoint Platform Support model
Am working on my forthcoming book concerning the delivery of user adoption and platform governance, and thought that I would share a summarised section which concerns the creation of SharePoint support. a crucial area that relates to how SharePoint services will be...









