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.
Office365 SharePoint Blues
Ok, so I have been working with several clients who are 'interested' in Office 365, particularly from a SharePoint perspective. During demonstrations of the platform with them, and through my own use I've come across several issues. So I've of course raised tickets...
What is Office365
This article describes the Office365 offering as a question / answer format. This is particularly useful when explaining exactly what Office365 is, what it entails, the costs and benefits. Note that I offer Office 365 as a Microsoft Partner and am happy to provide...
SharePoint Governance
SharePoint governance planning adds legitimacy to a SharePoint implementation. Defined governance rules, roles, and responsibilities in the Plan phase ensure the business is provided with the resources to make the SharePoint implementation a success. A SharePoint governance plan describes the business-critical nature of the SharePoint implementation and provides the evidence for requesting the necessary people and money investments.
Administration in SharePoint Office 365 – What can you do
As we move into the land of Office365 and SharePoint in the cloud, time to look at the key areas of Administration available to site collections. It's very important for existing SharePoint Administrators working in SharePoint 2010 in server land to understand these...
Office365 and the Multiple Upload Moan
Ok, So working with a user on Office 365 SharePoint and looking at uploading several folders of information to a document library. Creating the document library, yep thats fine. Tried to create a folder? Oooo... There's no New Folder option. Ok, lets try Windows...
Training
Back from a long haul writing the 2nd book - Whew! Back to the articles. With the large amount of training resources out there, this is my take on the different types of training I've seen so far, along with some places and the reasoning behind the training provision....
My Software Intro
Even though I focus on SharePoint, thats not all ! I have over 20 years experience in software development, covering CTI, Client Server, Single Tier, Multi, Web based and more. We follow the development life cycle which marries practical software design principles...
SharePoint 2010 Service Applications
This is a list of all the SharePoint 2010 Service applications, and is presented as one of the appendices to my book Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects. For each of the services I describe the functionality and the purpose of the Service. I've also...
Productivity 2010 Hub and the SharePoint Service Pack 1 Gotcha
Had some fun with the Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010 today… Now, for those who don't know about the Productivity Hub, go here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7122 The Hub gets installed into a Site Collection. So, after downloading then...
Project Planning
When implementing SharePoint in an organization, its not just about dropping SharePoint on a server and saying to the client 'There you go!'. This introduction to SharePoint Project Planning gives 10 useful steps to ensuring a successful SharePoint implementation....









