SharePoint as a business application framework We described previously that businesses should be viewing SharePoint as a business application framework rather than just a piece of software that ‘handles your documents’ or as I once heard it called ‘it’s just an intranet application’! Indeed, it provides an underlying application development and ‘hosting’ environment in which to [...]
When was the last time you read a business case which contained tangible (specifically financial) cost savings for recommending Microsoft SharePoint to be deployed into your organisation?
Background We were experiencing some issues with our hosted email provider through 2008 and were looking to move away from them at some point this year. Together with our own business strategy of providing hosted solutions we were keen to continue ‘consuming our own food’ so to speak. Hence we were on the look out [...]
An ongoing challenge for some of our customers and no doubt many others out there is the inability of older versions Microsoft Office (Namely Office 2000, 2002 (Known as OfficeXP) & 2003) to open/edit the newer formats created in Office 2007. The Office 2007 applications by default have document extensions typically found with an ‘X’ [...]
In addition to this article I wrote recently, SharePoint Consultant/Developer Required….No!, I also responded to a posting on the ever popular LinkedIn site called ‘What skills are you looking for when hiring/recruiting a SharePoint Consultant?’. Since receiving positive comments from others following this posting, it has be referred to in others work, including that of [...]
A short note about how easy it is to take your SharePoint content offline using Microsoft Outlook 2007
Case Study for Deployment of SharePoint at Kingston Communications.
WorkShares has gained a lot of experience of working with many well known organisations across the UK, from small businesses, start-ups, to larger enterprises; all of whom have had a common need to provide collaborative solutions for their staff, suppliers or clients alike. We have provided a few case study samples of our work below [...]
I came across a useful article from Microsoft which describes how to stop users whom have SharePoint Designer installed, from modifying their WSS or other MOSS sites. Though SharePoint Designer shouldn’t ordinarily be installed on most users PCs, this article provides you with the steps on how to prevent them from editing the sites. It [...]
After an exhausting week at Training Camp in Oxford last week I successfully completed (Thanks again to Marzanne Bruwer ) the MCTS exams for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 configuration. General Information on the courses can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcts/default.mspx. Overall the course was well run, instructed and we were looked after in terms of [...]