May 22

Hi there, am back from a great holiday and time to jump back into things. I had the great pleasure of presenting at the forthcoming SharePoint User Group UK (London) meet at Microsoft UK on Thursday, 23rd May, which was awesome fun! The session was concerned with the the topic “SharePoint 2013 – Building a Project Management solution using OOTB...

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...

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...

Nov 13

Excerp: “For those entrenched in trying to get information workers to buy into using SharePoint, SharePoint User Adoption seems to be a black art. In a way, it is because the kind of enticements and methods you use will be relative to the product that is being supplied. In reality, complexity of User Adoption is based on the breadth of the SharePoint...

Sep 19

Am getting quite a few queries now from people who have seen the buzz concerning SharePoint 2013 and want to know what features there are that may affect user adoption. Additionally, in one of my chapters of my forthcoming book I give a basic description of the key features of SharePoint 2013. This article is a snippet of the forthcoming chapter. So why write...

Jul 18

Am in the land of setting up quite a few 2013 environments to demo and test. Some using VMware, HyperV, Cloudshare to name a few. Ran into a ‘gotcha’ starring SQL which I thought I would share. In this scenario I’m setting up a Dev / POC environment which is a single server SharePoint 2013 environment and not set as a Domain Controller. SQL is...

Jul 17

Yaaaay, SharePoint 2013 is now available on preview – there’s a whole pile of blogs coming your way concerning Office integration and SharePoint 2013 from me. Also, watch out for my new book which I will announce shortly – for now, get the download and start trying it out! Download...