Overview As I mentioned in my last post there are a number of in-built tools and other options to help you migrate your content into and around your SharePoint environments. “SharePoint is the natural replacement for your ageing file shares and other data repositories” The very real and important question arises over what to do [...]
Introduction Migration is always a thorny topic that comes up on a project at the beginning in terms of scoping a project, towards the end during rollout or adoption phases, or once the project is closed and users are left on their own. The activity of migrating or moving data into or between team [...]
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?
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’ [...]
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
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]