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Simple Naming Conventions that Improve End User Experience in SharePoint Sites
How simple naming conventions can optimize URL length, readability and both power users and end user experience in SharePoint
Submitted by Susan Hanley on Sat, 02/18/12 - 12:50pm.
Inspired by a great blog post by Veronique Palmer about removing %20's from your SharePoint URL's, I've decided to document some additional naming convention best practices that improve the user experience for SharePoint end users and power users alike. The tips are grouped by permissions because not every user has the power to apply these best practices.
If you don't want to read all the details, here are my recommended naming conventions in three sentences: Read more
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Where are the SharePoint solutions in Nielsen Norman Group's “10 Best Intranets” for 2012?
Insights for the SharePoint community in Nielsen Norman Group’s Intranet Design Annual 2012
Submitted by Susan Hanley on Fri, 01/27/12 - 4:45pm.
Earlier this month, Nielsen Norman Group released their annual list of the 10 best intranets. In recent years, at least half of the winners featured solutions built on SharePoint. This year, the Intranet Design Annual 2012 includes only 3 intranets based on SharePoint, though an additional two companies use SharePoint for team collaboration. So, what's going on? Read more
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Sharing SharePoint at SHARE 2012 Atlanta
Business user-oriented SharePoint conference
Submitted by Susan Hanley on Sat, 01/07/12 - 5:10pm.
In April, I'll be in Atlanta to speak at and participate in the first SHARE conference in the US. Share is the only conference I've seen that is exclusively designed to showcase how business users solve business problems with SharePoint - and so I'm particularly excited to be part of the first US version of this conference following successful events in South Africa and Australia. Read more
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Winner of free SharePoint training (you can still claim your free training, too)
Our November SharePoint giveaway has been awarded, but everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 12/01/11 - 12:20pm.
Our November contest has closed and this YouTube video will reveal the winner of the big prize, free SharePoint training a $2,375 value This means the December contest has begun! Webucator will be awarding another lucky reader free SharePoint training -- and will be giving away a free self-paced to class to absolutely everyone who enters the giveaway. This means that your odds of winning are so good that you really can't lose. So treat yourself to a holiday gift from Microsoft Subnet and Webucator ... and enter our December giveaway. Read more
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Virtualization saves Microsoft almost $50 million yearly
Microsoft uses Hyper-V to virtualize a massive SharePoint environment and other apps in its data centers
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Tue, 10/04/11 - 6:06pm.
The following is a guest blog by freelance editor and self-confessed keyboard geek Marco Chiappetta. In the eat-your-own-dogfood category, Microsoft recently released a pair of documents that showcase its use of Hyper-V in its own datacenters. Microsoft has been chanting for years about how much more affordable Hyper-V implementations are than VMware and few people dispute that. But they do argue that you get what you pay for, particularly with VM density, memory over-commit and management features. Read more
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5 reasons why I'm excited to be going to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim #SPC11
Great speakers, great venue, great network: all SharePoint all the time
Submitted by Susan Hanley on Sat, 09/24/11 - 12:56pm.
In just about a week, I will be headed, along with several thousand other enthusiasts, to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA. If you aren't planning to go, here are some of the reasons you might want to join me. Read more
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IM, SharePoint tools will edge out email, CIOs say
More than half of CIOs polled see real-time communications tools becoming more popular than traditional email
Submitted by Ann Bednarz on Fri, 08/26/11 - 8:40am.
Email's popularity is waning, and within five years it could be eclipsed by other communication tools favored by employees, new research suggests.
Robert Half Technology polled 1,400 CIOs and asked if they think real-time workplace communication tools -- such as instant messaging, SharePoint and Yammer -- will become more or less popular than email among employees. More than half bet on the newcomers. Read more
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Get SMART: Make sure you have quantifiable objectives for your SharePoint solution!
Practical guidance for SharePoint metrics
Submitted by Susan Hanley on Fri, 07/08/11 - 8:25pm.
It's important to make sure that you have meaningful and realistic objectives for your SharePoint solution. If you want business decision makers to pay attention, your objectives need a measurable target. Read more
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Making screen savers and finding leaks
By Mark Gibbs on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 12:00am.
Scrollbars Missing on iPad 2 in SharePoint (problem solved!)
Submitted by Rand Morimoto on Wed, 06/08/11 - 11:42pm.I was just asked how one can scroll around on a Webpage in SharePoint using an Apple iPad 2? The problem is that when you go to a SharePoint site that is optimized for a screen size greater than what the iPad screen provides, or if the document library or whatever is just long and you want to "scroll down" to the rest of the content in the library (or list), Safari on the iPad doesn't give you the scrollbars on the side of the screen to scroll around. Read more
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Microsoft security expert warns over SharePoint data at risk
Users are sharing sensitive data and audit controls are weak
Submitted by Robert Mullins on Mon, 05/02/11 - 2:29pm.
A Microsoft security expert warns that users of Microsoft’s SharePoint are increasingly putting sensitive, highly regulated data in the collaboration platform with little security and auditing. Worse yet, the audit tools in some versions of SharePoint are so convoluted as to be practically useless. Read more
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Microsoft Hyper-V Is Ready For Tier-1 Application Workloads
ESG lab test demonstrate scale, but server virtualization maturity goes beyond technology alone
Submitted by joltsik on Mon, 03/28/11 - 12:50pm.
Large and small organization have embraced server virtualization technology as a way to consolidate workloads like web applications and file/print services but what about Tier-1 application workloads? You know, transactional applications that depend upon high performance and multi-tier application communications? Virtualizing these types of applications is just beginning, even at organizations with lots of server virtualization experience. Read more
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Best Practices at Configuring Applications for IPv6 in a Microsoft Windows Environment
Getting Apps like Exchange, SharePoint, Web Servers on IPv6
Submitted by Rand Morimoto on Fri, 02/11/11 - 1:09am.
In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover: Read more
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Major Dell revamp melds consumer and enterprise IT
Upgrades include improved Unified Communications and coming Windows 7 tablet
Submitted by Robert Mullins on Tue, 02/08/11 - 8:19pm.
Dell unveiled a major renovation of its enterprise-targeted laptop, desktop and workstation computers Tuesday but in doing so, combined the features that attract consumer users with the demands of enterprise IT. Included are enhancements in tools used for workplace collaboration such as with Microsoft’s SharePoint and Lync unified communications platforms. Read more
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HP-Microsoft collaboration bears fruit
Companies unveil HP appliances running Microsoft software
Submitted by Robert Mullins on Wed, 01/19/11 - 1:30am.
This post has been updated to include comment from a Forrester industry analyst.
Just over a year ago, HP and Microsoft announced a $250 million partnership to jointly develop HP appliances running Microsoft software platforms including Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server. Today, some of the fruits of that collaboration are coming to market. Read more
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December SharePoint Training Contest Winner
Here is the winner of Webucator's SharePoint class for up to three people AND an iPad
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Sat, 01/15/11 - 5:31pm.
We've selected and contacted the winner of the December Webucator contest. I don't want to spoil the surprise of the video that reveals the winner, but will tell you that the person won SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people, plus a brand new iPad.
The Prize Wheel spins to select a winner at 1:57 (but I'd be remiss if I didn't encourage to go ahead and watch the whole video) Read more
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‘We’ve seen this movie before’
Enterprise resistance to social networking typical, can be overcome
Submitted by Robert Mullins on Wed, 11/10/10 - 5:03pm.
I worked for a newspaper a decade ago where a reporter, of his own volition, set up a wi-fi network in the newsroom. We loved it but when corporate found out about it, they shut it off, believing our competitors would park outside our office and see what stories we were working on. Sigh. Read more
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November giveaway: SharePoint 2010 training for three worth $4,000, and an iPad
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 11/01/10 - 1:06pm.We're tickled to announce a new alliance between Network World and online training provider Webucator. Network World has teamed up with Webucator, a premier provider of SharePoint2010 training, to give away SharePoint classes for up to three people. Read more
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Answers to your questions about Office 365
Microsoft puts Office apps and collaboration tools in the cloud
Submitted by Robert Mullins on Tue, 10/19/10 - 5:17pm.
Microsoft made a big splash today with the launch of Office 365, it’s cloud offering combining Office applications with programs such as Exchange, SharePoint and Lync. But we felt the 30-minute Web cast left a number of questions unanswered that we’d like to try to tackle.
Here’s what we know: Read more
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250% of Microsoft SharePoint users satisfied, 367% hate it, 230% of survey takers can't count
Submitted by Jon Brodkin on Tue, 09/28/10 - 2:38pm.Surveys in the tech industry often have to be taken with a grain of salt, but I was intrigued this week when I saw the headline "New survey reveals dissatisfaction with SharePoint."
This isn't necessarily a surprise. As widely used as Microsoft's SharePoint is, it requires customization and sometimes third-party tools to unleash its full potential.
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