May 22

Hi there, am back from a great holiday and time to jump back into things. I’ve the great pleasure in presenting at the forthcoming SharePoint User Group UK (London) meet at Microsoft UK on Thursday, 23rd May. This event runs from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM – (Europe/London) . ll be presenting between 18:30hrs – 19:30hrs on the topic “SharePoint 2013 –...

May 10

I’d like to bring to your attention to a great journal called the ‘Software Development Practice’ of which I am an Editorial Board member. This journals readership is worldwide and run by the Institute of Analysts and Programmers (IAP). Am making a call to for article submission to the Software Development Journal. For more information: The...

Apr 30

I’ve been getting quite a few calls from customers who are in the process of taking SharePoint 2013, who are currently SharePoint 2010 users and quite rightly concerned about what functionality is not available in SharePoint 2013. After a huge amount of hunting for this information I managed to find this...

The SharePoint 2010 Productivity Hub and the User Adoption Kit is a great method of centralizing knowledge in the organization, and providing materials to enable the communication of SharePoint to information workers. The Productivity hub is essentially a site collection which allows the collection of documents, videos, blogs, articles and links. It can be...

Apr 3

Hi Folks, For some time now I put down the SharePoint automates pen, but, seeing as 2013 is definitely out I thought, hey lets upgrade and develop all the tools and release new ones in my ‘suite’. GEPDOCPERMS is a new utility, one of my favourites, it’s a free download and it is available for both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013....

Mar 25

Last week, I attended a great Microsoft session concerning Compliance and Data Protection across the Office products, focusing on Archiving, Retention / Hold, Discovery and Data Loss Protection concerning compliance in 2013 products. I mentioned that I have clients who are interested in Office 365 but need some comfort concerning compliance, and queried if there...

Mar 22

In SharePoint, there are topology concepts to understand and consider. Servers have roles such as Web, Query, Index, Calculation, Application, and Database. Farms have relationships such as Authoring, Publishing, Development, Test, Staging, and Production as well as service applications covering Search, Profile, Access, Business Data Connectivity, Excel, Machine...

One of the most difficult areas of delivering a SharePoint solution is identifying not just who should be targetted for User Adoption, but, going forward, how to sustain that User Adoption through communication. Reasons include rapid changes in the business culture, direction, and changes in technology concerning the methods used to communicate (e.g. business...

Mar 11

Sustained User Adoption is vital to ensure people using SharePoint remain productive and proactive. Pro-activity is key, since the reliance on SharePoint support will grow based – success breeds success; on solving user queries, meeting and solving business information and collaborative challenges using SharePoint, delivering solutions. A significant...

Mar 7

Got a great read today I thought I should share with you all. Got to read a thought leadership piece from Forrester focusing on Cloud Change Agents. This report is the result of a study Microsoft commissioned with Forrester to explore the status of cloud as a business transformation driver among a selection of UK businesses. The Cloud Change Agents report is a...