Older versions of SharePoint

Older versions of SharePoint will continue to add a lot of value. But it’s true older versions of SharePoint can simply be upgraded to the latest version.

Document migration in SharePoint: Considerations

  Background I mentioned in my last post entitled “Document Migration in SharePoint – Your options”, that there are basically 4 main options available to you when deciding whether to migrate content from your file shares and other repositories. To summarise: Migrate completely into SharePoint *Partial migration of a subset of the content into SharePoint [...]

Microsoft BPOS – Business Productivity Online Standard – First Thoughts.

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 [...]

Page weight in SharePoint

When looking to design, build and introduce any SharePoint based environment into your business, like any web based development that is accessed via a variety of internet browsers, you need to consider (amongst a whole host of other things!) the page weight of your users home page. Be that the main intranet home page, internet [...]

Growth in third party tools in SharePoint

Growth in third party tools in SharePoint

We have worked with SharePoint as a framework since its first full scale release in 2001. Since then we have witnessed the steady growth in third party tools in SharePoint to provide either enhancements to weaker functionality provided ‘out of the box’ (OOTB), or new features to complement existing core functionality.

Successful SharePoint Projects, Myth or Reality?

The introduction and importantly adoption of SharePoint into any organisation is challenging to say the least, as relative novices, existing SharePoint, traditional infrastructure or software project managers whom take on the management and delivery of these projects, will tell you.

This article has highlighted many issues organisations deploying or about to will experience and indeed, many organisations will experience difficulties in some or all of the above, as a consequence of lack of experience, poor decision making or expectation management with the business sponsors.

SharePoint Best Practices or Bad Practices?!

I like Adam Bruenz post here which is entitled ’When-Best-Practices-Aren’t-Best-Practices’, which provides a interesting and thought provoking view, and is a topic that is increasingly prevalent on many blogs in the SharePoint community – SharePoint Best Practices. In short, you should not implement ‘Best Practice’ methods even if they have the mighty Microsoft name to [...]

SharePoint Project Managers – Past, Present and Future.

Introduction Winning and delivering a successful SharePoint project is something that takes time to master, but even then will present experienced SharePoint Project Managers(PMs) with a few surprises along the way. As discussed in the previous article, delivering successful projects can and will be challenging. This article continues on this theme, but looks not at [...]

Successful SharePoint Projects, Myth or Reality?

I wrote an article and published it over on the recently launched ‘SharePoint Magazine by Arno Nel. With the growing interest in deploying SharePoint (MOSS and WSS) across all manor of businesses and organisations, the article looks at the general topic areas they should look into to avoid disappointment and ensure their investment reaps the [...]

Choosing the right SharePoint resources

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 [...]