In this second of a three part blog I will describe Value Management in SharePoint and how it can be applied when creating or implementing a new SharePoint solution. Note that in fact this can also be applied to existing SharePoint environments where there is a requirement to extend or enhance...

This is an except from my book ‘Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects‘ – enjoy! SharePoint governance is not a hardware, software, or people resource solution. It is an organizational strategy and methodology for documenting and implementing business rules and...

This is a list of all the SharePoint 2010 Service applications, and is presented as one of the appendices to my book Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects. For each of the services I describe the functionality and the purpose of the Service. I’ve also included links to...

When implementing SharePoint in an organization, its not just about dropping SharePoint on a server and saying to the client ‘There you go!’. This introduction to SharePoint Project Planning gives 10 useful steps to ensuring a successfull SharePoint implementation.

As a SharePoint evangelist, working with users to identify their requirements can sometimes feel like an uphill struggle. We have all heard of the wishful thinkers, the my app does this so SharePoint had better too, the lets tweak this bit by bolting on that from ‘XYZ Consultants Are Us...

Fun and laughter installing the June CU 2011 for SharePoint Server. After installing the CU, and then running an update as per the instructions at: You may get this error just after step 2 of the Config Wizard: === An exception of type...

Got a query today concerning User Acceptancy Testing (UAT) on SharePoint. As a SharePoint implementator, we know that the client needs to test the provision (your deliverables) of the SharePoint environment, based on exactly what they requested (the scope). However, some may think that simply...

I have a customer who has third party developers enhancing their SharePoint platform; their questions surrounded the control of these developers from the perspective of how their products end up running in SharePoint. We all know that SharePoint is pretty ‘laissez-faire’ about...

If you carry out Exports and Imports using the good ole stsadm –o commands this will may be of interest if you run into the following error: Content deployment job ‘Remote import job for job with sourceID = <id>’ failed.The exception thrown was...

Scenario is a two front end, index and crawl server which had just been migrated into a new server group in a different datacentre. Following the migration and startup, Front End servers both show this message every 15 minutes: The Usage Data Import timer job failed. You can rerun this job...

Let’s start this article by putting into context the reasoning behind site quotas, and of course, this means a description of exactly why the feature is required. Site Quotas, in a nutshell, allows you to define a limit on the storage capacity of a SharePoint site collection. A TechNet...

Best way to start is to show you those errors in the good ole event log: Error 1001: Fault bucket , type 0 Event Name: CLR20r3 Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: owstimer.exe P2: 14.0.5128.5000 P3: 4cace1f1 P4: mscorlib P5: 2.0.0.0 P6: 4bebe8e2 P7: 420f P8:...

This article explains how to install the PDF filtering ability in SharePoint 2010. As you may be aware, without this ability text within PDF files will not be included in any SharePoint index, and as such, only the PDF filename itself will be indexed. As always with any third party...

First blog of the Year and its good ole Administration in SharePoint 2010 land, starring User Profiles. Now back in SharePoint 2007 SSP User Profiles, you may have thought that configuration was easy and simplistic. You know, setting a property to a value in AD was a done deal,...

Being asked a common question by client wanting to adopt SharePoint and I thought it a good idea to share this with you all – “why should I use SharePoint, and what can it be used for”? Ok, here’s my pennyworth (or three pennies) SharePoint has been provisioned to...

Had a chat with a friend in the pub talking technical over a whiskey and rum, and got into a reminiscent of the good ole days of writing databases in DOS (Nantucket Clipper and dBase – remember that?! Wow). I was asked about SharePoint and the coding for that and then someone piped up...

Just had to blog this one – are you running with a public facing SharePoint Foundation site will find that anonymous users will not see any theme you apply, and instead will see the default even if you change it to something else? Found a way to get around this, you will need to force...

SharePoint Project Planning Template in Microsoft Project format

I use this presentation for stakeholders in communicating to them the key reasons for Sharepoint implementation and the stages of implementation following project methodologies. Whilst it focuses on Document Management in SharePoint it is purposefully made generic to cover the general process...