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 Synchronize a SharePoint Document Library with Outlook 2010
Users focus on email as the key productivity hub. Therefore, Microsoft Outlook is seen as the application that gets the most attention. To ensure that users can still access SharePoint document libraries without having to visit the document library, document libraries...
What SharePoint Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) really means
As a SharePoint evangelist, working with users to identify their requirements can sometimes feel like an uphill struggle. We have all heard of the wishful thinkers, the my app does this so SharePoint had better too, the lets tweak this bit by bolting on that from 'XYZ...
SPUpdatedConcurrencyException Fix when trying to install June 2011 CU for SharePoint Server
Fun and laughter installing the June CU 2011 for SharePoint Server. After installing the CU, and then running an update as per the instructions at: You may get this error just after step 2 of the Config Wizard: === An exception of type...
How to synchronize a SharePoint Contact List with Microsoft Outlook 2010
A SharePoint Contact list can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook; so that features available in Microsoft Outlook contacts would be available to a SharePoint Contact list displayed in Outlook. Another benefit of this approach is that users would be able to see all...
Thoughts on a SharePoint Study guide
Well, its been sooo busy with me writing the MOS Study Sharepoint section for the MOS exam 77-886, and being inundated with queries concerning what is the best study guide to use for SharePoint, that I thought lets drop my thoughts in this short blog for you to mull...
Do you UAT SharePoint Standard Features?
Got a query today concerning User Acceptancy Testing (UAT) on SharePoint. As a SharePoint implementator, we know that the client needs to test the provision (your deliverables) of the SharePoint environment, based on exactly what they requested (the scope). However,...
My pennyworths on Third Party Product Deploy in SharePoint – Where is the Documentation then?
I have a customer who has third party developers enhancing their SharePoint platform; their questions surrounded the control of these developers from the perspective of how their products end up running in SharePoint. We all know that SharePoint is pretty...
Import Failure – Parent Web Site does not Exist – A Possible Fix
If you carry out Exports and Imports using the good ole stsadm –o commands this will may be of interest if you run into the following error: Content deployment job 'Remote import job for job with sourceID =
Usage Data Import Job Fail 8075 and Execute Method SPUsageImportJobDefinition Fail 6398 – How to Fix
Scenario is a two front end, index and crawl server which had just been migrated into a new server group in a different datacentre. Following the migration and startup, Front End servers both show this message every 15 minutes: The Usage Data Import timer job failed....
How do you manage the size of your SharePoint sites?
Let's start this article by putting into context the reasoning behind site quotas, and of course, this means a description of exactly why the feature is required. Site Quotas, in a nutshell, allows you to define a limit on the storage capacity of a SharePoint site...









