Blog Postings

• Happy Birthday SharePoint!

  David Long | Apr 06, 2011

  SharePoint celebrates its 10th birthday this week (see here). It's crazy to think I have been working with SharePoint for over a decade. Yes, I go back even to Tahoe the original code name of the product. We did exactly one implementation of SharePoint Portal Server 2001 besides rolling out our own internal environment. WCI continues to be a great client of ours ...
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• Stewardship as a Governance Model

  David Long | Mar 28, 2011

  Bob Lewis has been a favorite trade magazine columnist for years and always has interesting views on our industry. While this article isn't directly related to SharePoint governance it definitely touches on the philosophy around developing the governance models for our implementations. We typically talk about the "benevolent dictator" versus the "absentee landlord" models. Most tend to want to take on the benevolent dictator role ...
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• Managed Metadata Cautionary Tales...

  David Long | Mar 24, 2011

  One of my favorite SharePoint blogs - Paul Culmsee at CleverWorkarounds posted on some of the gotchas with Managed Metadata. I originally found this when looking for how to use metadata in the Open dialog box of an Office 2010 application.  In the mantra of metadata good/folders bad, the one hole was how Office Apps rendered large document libraries without folders in the open dialog ...
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• Crossing the Collaboration Chasm

  Ben McMann | Mar 04, 2011

  In a series of articles I wrote entitled, A Process to Showcase SharePoint's Value to Your Organization, I walked through the process of easily displaying the different business processes that SharePoint supports in your organization. The whole intent of the process is to get visibility with management to show how SharePoint has been used to support the business. This is needed because in most ...
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• Systems Integration

  Chris Quick | Feb 21, 2011

  As I was returning from our company retreat this past weekend, I had a great discussion with a co-worker concerning how to find integration points between different software systems. He works with our CRM practice and has done some great work using WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) to model business processes that update the appropriate data in Microsoft CRM. The solution he provided to the organization allows for ...
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