tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25712634408980163952024-03-13T18:00:23.812+01:002ShareItUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-34785999521591291862010-11-25T17:22:00.000+01:002010-11-25T17:22:43.324+01:00Kleinere bedrijven leggen grotere nadruk op sociale marketing<a href="http://www.express.be/business/nl/marketing/kleinere-bedrijven-leggen-grotere-nadruk-op-sociale-marketing/136251.htm">Kleinere bedrijven leggen grotere nadruk op sociale marketing</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-83361569243787931222010-11-11T21:14:00.000+01:002010-11-11T21:14:01.337+01:00Survey Says E-Mail Rocks; Social Networking Used by Some, Rejected by Few, Investigated by Most<a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/microsoft/vol14/article6/article6.html">Survey Says E-Mail Rocks; Social Networking Used by Some, Rejected by Few, Investigated by Most</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-10442164723072045692010-10-30T23:09:00.001+02:002010-10-30T23:09:18.958+02:00Isolement door sociale media is een mythe<p><img alt="" src="http://www.express.be/pictures/300@280/media/social-media.jpg" /></p> <p>Ondanks alle mythes, maken sociale media de gebruiker niet minder sociaal. Dat is de conclusie van een onderzoek van de bureaus ExactTarget en CoTweet. De onderzoekers merken op dat actieve gebruikers van websites zoals Facebook en Twitter ook in het offline sociale leven actiever worden. Volgens het rapport zijn intensievere gebruikers van Facebook 27 procent meer geneigd om vrienden persoonlijk te ontmoeten. Er wordt aan toegevoegd dat deze groep ook 19 procent meer geneigd is om telefonisch contact te onderhouden met vrienden. Slechts bij 13 procent wordt een daling in de persoonlijke ontmoetingen opgetekend. Ook blijkt 19 procent minder met vrienden te telefoneren. Bij Twitter zijn de cijfers volgens het rapport nog duidelijker. Daar zou 46 procent meer geneigd zijn om vrienden te ontmoeten, terwijl 33 procent meer telefonisch contact onderhoudt. Slechts 7 procent maakt gewag van minder ontmoetingen, terwijl 13 procent minder telefoneert. (MH)</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.express.be">www.express.be</a> <a href="http://www.express.be/sectors/nl/interactive/isolement-door-sociale-media-is-een-mythe/134893.htm" target="_blank">Go to source >></a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-80984233738671433012010-10-26T19:45:00.001+02:002010-10-26T19:45:57.178+02:00Microsoft Office 365<p><a href="http://www.zoekmachine-marketing-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/msoffice365.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; display: inline; float: right" title="msoffice365" alt="MS_Office_365" align="right" src="http://www.zoekmachine-marketing-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/msoffice365.jpg" width="226" height="78" /></a>Vorige week maakte <strong>Microsoft</strong> bekend dat de <strong>Office</strong>-suite op de cloud geplaatst wordt. Office 365 combineert de gekende Office-suite met  clouddiensten zoals <strong>Exchange Online</strong>, <strong>Sharepoint Online</strong> en <strong>Lync Online</strong>. Office 365 is ‘een verzameling van alle opgedane kennis van productiviteit samengevoegd in één dienst’.</p> <p>Met de komst van Office 365 lijkt Microsoft de diensten, applicaties en programma’s die al op de <strong>cloud</strong> geplaatst waren, te verbinden met elkaar. Productiviteit op de cloud dus. De suite is bedoeld voor bedrijven van alle groottes. Er wordt dus geen onderscheid meer gemaakt tussen verschillende suites voor verschillende bedrijven (<strong>BPOS</strong>, <strong>Live@edu</strong>, <strong>Microsoft Office Live Smal Business</strong>).</p> <p>Met Office 365 wil Microsoft een alternatief bieden voor de concurrerende suite <strong>Google Apps</strong>. Met de komst van Google Apps heeft Microsoft namelijk aan marktaandeel moeten inboeten op vlak van online producten. Volgens Microsoft zelfs is de betrouwbaarheid van hun servers hun sterkste <strong>USP</strong>. Volgens Google zijn hun producten dan weer veel betrouwbaarder qua veiligheid. Een titanenstrijd in wording waarbij geen van beide partijen toe zal geven. Deze strijd is iets waar wij als consumenten en/of bedrijven alleen maar van kunnen profiteren. Beide bedrijven  zullen hun producten continu verbeteren en mogelijk zullen er ook nog andere concurrenten op de markt komen.</p> <p>Microsoft richt zich dus op alle bedrijven maar gaat zich nu op een andere manier dan voorheen richten op kleinere bedrijven. Voor een bedrijf met minder dan 25 werknemers, zal Microsoft maandelijks $6 aanrekenen per gebruiker.   Voor grotere bedrijven bedraagt de minimumbijdrage $2 maar kan de prijs oplopen tot $27 voor de uitgebreide versie met (onder andere) 24/7 telefoonondersteuning. <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/online/business-productivity.aspx">BPOS</a> werd voorheen verkocht voor $120/gebruiker op jaarbasis. <a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/nl/business/index.html">Google Apps</a> daarentegen wordt momenteel verkocht voor $50/gebruiker op jaarbasis. De nieuwe prijsstellingen van Office 365 zijn dus iets competitiever dan die van Google Apps.</p> <p>Door het combineren van alle clouddiensten helpt Microsoft bedrijven bij het beheren van hun infrastructuur. Voorheen verkochten ze enkel software. Met Office 365 breiden ze dus de potentiële markt uit en kunnen ze zich op een groter deel van de budgetten van bedrijven richten. Voordien was dat maar 15% van het budget . Microsoft heeft nu al <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/new-york-city-joins-the-microsoft-cloud/?news=123">een grote vis</a> binnengehaald; het zal clouddiensten leveren aan de 100.000+ werknemers van de stad New York.</p> <p>Momenteel wordt <strong>Microsoft Office 365</strong> nog volop getest en zijn er enkel bèta roll-outs. Volgend jaar zou de suite beschikbaar moeten zijn voor het grote publiek. De suite zou dan toegankelijk moeten zijn op desktop applicaties, populaire browsers en smartphones. Op Office365.com kan je meer te weten komen over de suite. Het filmpje hieronder toont de werking van de suite.</p> <p>We geven ook nog enkele voordelen mee van de Office 365 suite:</p> <ul> <li>Overal toegang tot e-mail, documenten, contacten en kalenders op bijna alle toestellen (voor mobiele toestellen is uiteraard Wi-Fi vereist) </li> <li>De Businessklasse voorziet IT-level telefoonondersteuning, een gegarandeerde uptime van 99,9%, geo-redundancy en disaster recovery </li> <li>De laatste versie van BPOS </li> </ul> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:90ebc2c2-68ca-4a84-833f-f8a0049eac63" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="5feb835a-16ac-4dfb-af14-d602c24fd412" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFNHJUKBGY" target="_new"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_X_UKsCBrwnw/TMcT1DfQjkI/AAAAAAAAHKg/3nuLG60J0zc/videoc46234fb7935%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('5feb835a-16ac-4dfb-af14-d602c24fd412'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"407\" height=\"236\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/EqFNHJUKBGY?hl=en&hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/EqFNHJUKBGY?hl=en&hd=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"407\" height=\"236\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-59069356689329478552010-10-26T19:39:00.001+02:002010-10-26T19:40:48.884+02:00Bent u klaar voor de cloud? - Business Tips - Bizz.be - Bizzmagazine<b>Bent u klaar voor de cloud?<br />
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Veel bedrijven overwegen om de stap te zetten naar cloudcomputing. Hun software en gegevens staan dan niet op de eigen server, maar zijn overal en altijd beschikbaar via het internet. Hoe maakt u de overgang?<br />
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Zorg voor een duidelijk gedefinieerde strategie. Uw strategie moet gericht zijn op het verbeteren van zakelijke processen en relaties. Vervolgens kan de informatica-afdeling de diensten en applicaties selecteren die deze strategie ondersteunen en ze naar de cloud verhuizen. <br />
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Onderzoek de kosten. Vergelijk de kosten van interne systemen met die van clouddiensten. Daaruit kunt u afleiden welke zaken het best intern beheerd worden en wat klaar is om naar de cloud verplaatst te worden. <br />
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Werk met een roadmap. Bepaal de richting die nodig is om de bedrijfsdoelstellingen te behalen. Beoordeel de producten en platforms die hiervoor de basis moeten zijn. <br />
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Bereid een migratiepad voor. Voor de migratie en integratie van uw oude systemen zijn soms meer resources nodig. Is externe ondersteuning noodzakelijk, overweeg dan samen te werken met betrouwbare partijen die veel ervaring hebben met technische migraties. <br />
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Zorg voor een pilot. Begin met een aangepaste applicatie die goed gebruik maakt van de schaalmogelijkheden, hoge rekenkracht en bandbreedte die cloudcomputing biedt. Zo kunt gefundeerd beslissen welke elementen u naar de cloud verhuist. <br />
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Bron: Avanade <br />
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<a href="http://bizz.rnews.be/nl/economie/business/business-tips/bent-u-klaar-voor-de-cloud/article-1194848474037.htm">Bent u klaar voor de cloud? - Business Tips - Bizz.be - Bizzmagazine</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-2463924646499439312010-08-11T08:11:00.001+02:002010-08-11T08:11:30.923+02:00Bedrijven vergeten vaak sociale aspect van sociale media<p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" alt="" src="http://www.express.be/pictures/300@280/media/social-media.jpg" />Bedrijven vergeten vaak sociale aspect van sociale mediadinsdag 10 aug 2010 Technologie-bedrijven vergeten vaak het sociale aspect van sociale media. Dat is de conclusie van een onderzoek van het Britse marketingbureau Wildfire. Opgemerkt wordt dat de overgrote meerderheid van de technologie-bedrijven aanwezig is op minstens twee sociale netwerken, maar de mogelijkheden van het kanaal slechts in beperkte mate benutten. Wildfire stelt dat juist de sociale mogelijkheden van deze platformen worden genegeerd. Engagement en dialoog behoren volgens de onderzoekers tot de kernbegrippen van marketing in sociale media, maar die komen in de benadering van de bedrijven niet aan bod. Sociale media worden bijna uitsluitend gebruikt als verlengstuk van traditionele campagnes.</p> <p>De onderzoekers merken op dat 90 procent van de technologie-bedrijven aanwezig is op minstens twee sociale netwerken. De microbloggingsite Twitter is daarbij het meest populair (74 procent), gevolgd door Linkedin (72 procent) en Facebook (20 procent). Verder blijkt 48 procent van de technologie-bedrijven een blog te onderhouden. Maar er wordt aan toegevoegd dat bij bedrijven met een aanwezigheid op Facebook 60 procent daarvan alleen gebruik maakt voor de verspreiding van zijn marketing-informatie. Bovendien blijkt slechts 25 procent te reageren op commentaren die op hun Facebook-pagina's verschijnen. Ook geeft 43 procent van de bedrijven met een Twitter-account toe nog nooit op een bericht te hebben gereageerd.</p> <p>"Sociale mediamarketing is nochtans geen zwarte magie die een grote ervaring of kennis vereist," voert Debby Penton, managing director bij Wildfire, op. "Bijna iedereen maakt immers al geregeld gebruik van sociale platformen bij het chatten met vrienden of het netwerken met collega's. Toch blijken heel wat bedrijven compleet onvoorbereid in sociale media-marketing te zijn gestapt. Met een goede strategische overweging en een correcte planning, kunnen sociale media nochtans een bijzonder efficiënte en goedkope manier worden om een relatie te ontwikkelen met de eindgebruiker en de winstmarges te verhogen. Een verkeerd gebruik van sociale media zou daarentegen mogelijk meer kwaad dan goed kunnen doen." (MH)</p> <p><a href="http://www.express.be/sectors/nl/interactive/bedrijven-vergeten-vaak-sociale-aspect-van-sociale-media/130614.htm" target="_blank">Source: express.be</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-68931492035868122212010-07-13T20:28:00.000+02:002010-07-13T20:28:24.706+02:00The Microsoft Office Blog - Connect your Inbox to Facebook and Windows Live with the Outlook Social Connector<a href="http://blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/archive/2010/07/13/connect-to-facebook-and-windows-live-with-the-outlook-social-connector.aspx">The Microsoft Office Blog - Connect your Inbox to Facebook and Windows Live with the Outlook Social Connector</a><br />
Starting today, you can plug Facebook and Windows Live right into Microsoft Outlook through the Outlook Social Connector. You can view your social network as you look through your email to stay connected with your friends, family, and colleagues.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-63187718727284654572010-07-06T12:19:00.001+02:002010-07-06T12:20:06.257+02:00Up to Speed with PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer - PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer - Microsoft Office<a href="http://office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/dashboard-designer-help/up-to-speed-with-performancepoint-dashboard-designer-HA101818158.aspx#_Toc258307094">Up to Speed with PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer - PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer - Microsoft Office</a><br />
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PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer is a tool that you can use to create powerful, dynamic dashboards that are hosted in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video series is designed to help you learn how you can use Dashboard Designer to create dashboards in your organization.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-79790466364766087872010-06-30T21:44:00.001+02:002010-06-30T21:44:42.218+02:00Social Media Revolution 2<div align="left"> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 425px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:b7278de7-7530-48e8-a717-5cae1cf58a8e" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="374d6cbc-08ca-477b-9f68-005715468ba2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1" target="_new"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_X_UKsCBrwnw/TCuepxm4jNI/AAAAAAAAGIY/3UW0-3pS0Tw/video148f30cf8017%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('374d6cbc-08ca-477b-9f68-005715468ba2'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lFZ0z5Fm-Ng&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lFZ0z5Fm-Ng&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-16263236155913168032010-06-29T12:15:00.001+02:002010-07-13T20:32:16.028+02:00How to Ride -- Not Fight -- the Social Media Wave<a href="http://www.information-management.com/news/social_media_personal_networking_employer-10017862-1.html">How to Ride -- Not Fight -- the Social Media Wave</a><br />
The boundary between where social networking for an employer stops, and personal networking begins keeps getting fuzzier and fuzzier.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-2231173923436258372010-06-29T12:14:00.000+02:002010-06-29T12:14:51.661+02:00To Block or Not to Block (Social Media Sites): That is the Question<a href="http://www.information-management.com/news/social_media_crm_marketing-10017784-1.html">To Block or Not to Block (Social Media Sites): That is the Question</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-87308770081832871172010-06-29T12:13:00.001+02:002010-07-13T20:33:52.476+02:00Enterprise Social Computing<a href="http://www.information-management.com/issues/20_2/enterprise_social_computing-10017428-1.html?pg=1">Enterprise Social Computing</a><br />
Collaboration trends are changing the way people work together. Social tools are essential to the daily lives of many people. The proliferation of social software demonstrates that users find value in this new generation of tools. Employees are now demanding this same value be delivered from their organizations. They want to engage socially with the people they work with and build stronger relationships within their companies. Traditional content management and collaboration solutions are incorporating new features to satisfy the social and information sharing demands of the enterprise. Microsoft’s latest release of SharePoint delivers a platform with an integrated approach to social computing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-31892980298247797152010-05-09T18:48:00.001+02:002010-05-09T18:48:21.278+02:00If You Build It, They Will Come: Driving End User Adoption<p>Presenter: Scott Jamison – Managing Partner – Jornata <br /></p> <h3><strong>The Challenge of Adoption</strong></h3> <p>Scott started with the analogy of VHS vs. Beta and how VHS was adopted over Beta and achieved the critical mass. </p> <p>SharePoint Adoption can be hard…even Steve Ballmer indicated in his keynote address that he still gets asked<strong> “What is SharePoint?”</strong>…the problem is, it is <strong>EVERYTHING</strong>.  Another reason that the adoption of SharePoint can be difficult is that users do not necessarily “have” to use SharePoint (i.e. they can use file shares and email instead).</p> <p>Some of the new functionality in SharePoint 2010 (for example Social Computing) will most likely take 18-36 months, as it is something new to the organization.  The Adoption Curve of Awareness, Trial and Adoption was discussed.</p> <h4><strong>User Enlightenment Stages  - Based on Perceived Value and Conquered Skills and Confidence</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Clueless </li> <li>Skeptic </li> <li>Aware </li> <li>Productive </li> <li>Advocate – These users are required to tell everyone else in the organization how great SharePoint is.  Advocates must be identified and “championed” to speak to the organization. </li> <li>Inventor </li> </ul> <h4><strong>What Users Want</strong></h4> <ul> <li>The ability to Connect and Understand SharePoint’s ability to Solve Business Goals – Outcomes not requirements </li> <li>Elegant Solution Design – Don’t make users go through five screens to do one task </li> <li>WIIFM – What’s in it for me? – Users need to understand how they benefit from what they are entering into the system (e.g. metadata entry, records, document management, etc.) </li> </ul> <h4><strong>Must-Have Elements in Your Adoption Strategy</strong></h4> <p>The following items MUST be on your Project Plan for implementing SharePoint</p> <ul> <li>Communication Plan <ul> <li>Identify and Leverage Experts and Champions – Perform a Pilot, spread the word via peers </li> <li>CEO Memos – Someone in the organization understands and agrees with the vision </li> <li>Town Hall Meetings </li> <li>Break Room Posters – One example of a company was mentioned that put the posters on the back of doors in the bathroom…your results may vary </li> <li>Online Scavenger Hunts </li> <li>“Birth” Announcements </li> <li>Launch Parties </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>NOTE: Make sure you have an ongoing plan for continuous communication (it’s not a one-time event).  Especially since most organizations roll-out separate pieces of functionality over time.</p> <ul> <li>Training Plan <ul> <li>Not just for Developers and IT </li> <li>Power Users / Site Owners – Maybe even establish an internal “certification” program where the developers walk the end users on what to DO and what NOT to do.  This could also be a video to save time.  Also, there is a Microsoft “Buzz” kit that can be accessed and downloaded online. </li> <li>Visitors </li> <li>Members </li> <li>Web Content Contributors </li> <li>Workflow Approvers </li> <li>Remember: “Just-in-time and just enough” </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Content Conversion Plan <ul> <li>It’s critical that important information gets moved to the new system, there are basically three options: </li> <li>1. Clean and Migrate everything </li> <li>2. Migrate nothing; Index the old content – New content only in the new system </li> <li>3. Clean and migrate recent content only </li> <li>Remember: Don’t Migrate without Cleaning! </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li>User Support Plan <ul> <li>Have a “Contact Person” for every page </li> <li>Establish Internal Site Owner User Groups – empower users to help each other </li> <li>Get the IT Help Desk on board </li> <li>End-User Feedback Loop – Metrics Based (number of users, rating scale, etc.) or Anecdotes Evidence (gather good/bad experiences and get quotes and self promote the site) </li> <li>Provide End-User Resources (guides, training tools, help, etc.) <br /></li> </ul> </li> <li>Incentives and Reward Plan <ul> <li>Answer the WIIFM question – show (with their real data) why something will work </li> <li>Make it fun! </li> <li>Provide Recognition for Content Contribution – Money Talks; so do Titles & Certificates </li> <li>Have a Fantastic User Experience – Invest in an Information Architecture </li> </ul> </li> </ul> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-58721409177050438932010-05-09T18:47:00.001+02:002010-05-09T18:47:56.804+02:00SharePoint 2010 Governance Planning and Implementation<p>Presenter(s): Scott Jamison and Susan Hanley</p> <p>In addition to just implementing SharePoint correctly (technically), you must make sure that you are solving the right problems, and that you incorporate / respect the company culture.</p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Why do you need a Governance Plan?</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Scott indicated that 20% of a successful solution implementation is about Technology, but about 95% of the Governance documentation is about Technology.  We need to be prepared for the other 80%. </li> <li>Users need to be <strong>trained appropriately</strong> <strong>before being empowered</strong> with the control of the system. <ul> <li>People do not treat SharePoint like an Enterprise Application </li> <li>Letting users add unlimited items to a list – can kill the server </li> <li>Not Planning for scale and growth </li> <li>Users can do a lot – we give them “great power” and need to ensure they accept their “great responsibility” </li> <li>Many of SharePoint’s capabilities are not required or mandated, so if you mess it up, there is a work around for them (e.g. they will collaborate through email if you don’t get SharePoint collaboration correct). </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>What Does Governance mean in the context of SharePoint?</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Your Governance Plan defines people roles, technology and policy guidelines and process to resolve ambiguity. <ul> <li>People – Define clear roles and responsibilities </li> <li>Technology – Define policies for service levels and appropriate use </li> <li>Policy – Articulate design and usage principles <ul> <li>In 2010, how will people feel if they give someone a rating of 1 (out of 5) for someone else’s document </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>Process – For example provisioning a site </li> </ul> <p><strong>Define a Vision</strong> – Don’t think about requirements from the start, but instead, talk about the “outcomes” (what are you trying to achieve).  Requirements can be derived from the desired outcome.  The Governance Plan will help support the Vision</p> <p> </p> <h3>People Roles </h3> <ul> <li>Get the right people in place (MOSS introduced many new roles that were required, but most organizations didn’t assign people to these roles.  Take the rollout of SharePoint 2010 as an opportunity to get people assigned to these roles. Most of these roles are NOT full time, and one person can fill more than one role.) <ul> <li>Executive Sponsor </li> <li>Governance Board / Steering Committee </li> <li>Business Owner </li> <li>Solution Administrator </li> <li>Technology Support Team </li> <li>Site Sponsor / Owner </li> <li>Site Steward </li> <li>User </li> <li>The management of Enterprise Corporate Taxonomy in SharePoint 2010 will need to have an owner (even though other may be allowed to update the data). </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3>Guiding Principles </h3> <ul> <li>Publish Once, Link Many </li> <li>No Email attachments – Send links </li> <li>In 2007 Use Metadata not folders – In 2010 Use Folders to inherit metadata. <ul> <li>NOTE The concept of using folders in SharePoint 2010 is a paradigm shift that IT and end users will need to understand and utilize. </li> <li>Content management is everyone’s responsibility but site owners are accountable </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3>Tactics for Successful Roll-out and Strategy</h3> <ul> <li>Fun and engaging launch event <ul> <li>Example, Birth announcement of SharePoint, Scavenger Hunt for content within the site </li> <li>Lunch-n-learns </li> <li>Power Users Community of Practice – Power users teach others </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Content Management Plan</strong> – Is changing a column on a list code or content?  Who is allowed to make these changes?  Is SharePoint Designer workflow code or content?  There will be even more decisions like this to be made with the rollout of SharePoint 2010.</p> <p> </p> <h3>Governance Plan Document</h3> <ul> <li>Break documents into chunks <ul> <li>Vision </li> <li>Roles and Responsibilities </li> <li>Guiding Principles </li> <li>Policies </li> <li>Guidelines/Best Practices </li> <li>Procedures </li> <li>Do not include <ul> <li>Implementation Details </li> <li>Network Requirements </li> <li>Feature Requirements </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Tip: The actual “process” of creating the document is more important than the actual document itself.  Make sure to include Human Resources (e.g. what can people post on blogs, put on their MySite, etc.).  Everyone wants SharePoint, but no one wants to take responsibility for it.  So the actual process, of arriving at decisions is the most important part.</p> <p> </p> <h3>Governance Details for SharePoint 2010</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Social Computing Implications </strong> <ul> <li>Rating of documents (especially a low rating) may cause people to shy away from loading documents.  Note that changing the wording of the rankings may be able to help in this regard. </li> <li>MySites – Posting information that people will judge you on within the organization, or you may shy away </li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Managed Metadata</strong> </li> <li> <ul> <li>Managed Keyword vs. Managed Term <ul> <li>Managed Keywords – Allow users to key in phrases or key words (that have edit rights) on an item – they can type in whatever they want.  </li> <li>Managed Terms – Based off of the master hierarchy/taxonomy values </li> <li>Social Tags – Even though you do not have edit rights to this content, anyone can “socially tag” this content </li> <li><strong>NOTE:</strong> The distinction of these terms is confusing and will need to be better understood by the SharePoint owners, so that it can be explained to end users, and what access an end user will be able to utilize. </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Records Management</strong> <ul> <li>In-Place Records vs. Records Archive <ul> <li>Organizations will probably use both </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Resource Governor</strong> <ul> <li>More than 5,000 items in list, SharePoint won’t return </li> <li>Need to communicate / educate users about this </li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Content Organizer</strong> <ul> <li>Used to partition/route documents based on metadata </li> <li>Need to communicate / educate users where their documents are going </li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>SharePoint Customizations</strong> <ul> <li>SharePoint Designer – On or Off </li> <li>SODA – SharePoint On-Demand Applications </li> <li>Excel and Access Solutions – Turn this on or off? </li> <li>Sandbox Solutions </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Source: <a href="http://trademarkatl.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/sharepoint-2010-governance-planning-and-implementation/" target="_blank">SharePoint 2010 Governance Planning and Implementation</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-2203483328318101352010-05-09T18:46:00.001+02:002010-05-09T18:46:48.592+02:00Office 2010: The Movie<div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 425px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:5e2c9105-1d4e-42b7-930e-0ac0c42f5620" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="7e0444ae-af26-4f27-82ca-572ef821717c" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_X_UKsCBrwnw/S-bm9wooH8I/AAAAAAAAGAU/tlAhL3nmDB0/videoaccd0b11f09e%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('7e0444ae-af26-4f27-82ca-572ef821717c'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/VUawhjxLS2I&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/VUawhjxLS2I&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-73389204941228061552010-05-08T12:45:00.001+02:002010-05-08T12:45:44.030+02:0010 SharePoint deployment challenges<p>SharePoint is one of the most flexible server applications available today. But because of its highly dynamic nature, a SharePoint deployment can quickly get out of hand. Here are some of the most common challenges in managing a SharePoint deployment.</p> <h4>1: Enabling Office integration</h4> <p>SharePoint 2007 is designed to interoperate with Office 2007 to a high degree. If you have users in your organization who are still using older versions of Office, you may find that those legacy versions become a barrier to productivity. So you may want to consider deploying the latest version of Office to all SharePoint users.</p> <h4>2: Preventing site sprawl</h4> <p>One of your primary goals must be to prevent site sprawl. You can use several techniques for this. One of the most effective is to limit the number of people who allowed to create SharePoint sites. Experience has shown that if you allow users to create new SharePoint sites on a whim, some users will create sites they don’t even need, just because they can or because they’re curious. It’s better if site creation is handled by a dedicated group of people within the IT department. I also recommend establishing clear guidelines as to who is allowed to request a new SharePoint site, and under what circumstances.</p> <h4>3: Site lifecycle management</h4> <p>Unlike typical Web sites, many SharePoint sites have a limited useful shelf life. For example, it’s common for users to create SharePoint sites that are dedicated to a specific project. When the project is complete, the site is no longer needed. So it’s important to have a procedure in place for determining which sites are still in use. When a user requests that a new site be created, you should document the name and contact information of the person making the request, as well as the URL of the resulting site. This allows you to contact site owners on a periodic basis to find out whether the site is still needed.</p> <h4>4: Locating documents</h4> <p>After deploying SharePoint, some organizations eventually begin replacing file servers with SharePoint document libraries. The idea behind this move is that SharePoint contains powerful indexing features that can make documents easier to locate than they would be if they were located on a file server. Although SharePoint has a decent search engine, document libraries can and do become overloaded. It can therefore be tough for users to find the information they need within a large document library.</p> <p>One way to make it easier for users to locate SharePoint documents is to enforce the use of metadata. SharePoint contains options that allow you to define individual content types and to create custom metadata fields for each one. You can require users to enter relevant metadata for each document they create. This metadata goes a long way toward helping SharePoint return relevant search results.</p> <h4>5: Information overload</h4> <p>Providing good metadata for the documents stored in a document library improves the relevancy of search results, but it will get you only so far. Another thing you can do to improve search results is to implement a policy for document lifecycle management.</p> <p>While some business documents may need to be retained indefinitely, other types probably have limited usefulness. For example, the odds are good that nobody in your organization cares about a marketing proposal from 10 years ago. By working with the managers in your company, you can find out which documents are really important and come up with a plan for automatically purging other documents after a specific length of time. Doing so reduces resource consumption and helps to de-clutter search results.</p> <h4>6: Governance</h4> <p>The subject of governance seems to come up more often in regard to SharePoint than just about any other application. There is a reason for this. Without proper governance policies, a SharePoint deployment can quickly spiral out of control and evolve into something that doesn’t even remotely resemble the organization’s original SharePoint vision.</p> <p>The only way to prevent your SharePoint deployment from getting out of hand is to make some tough decisions up front about how the deployment should be used and who has permission to do what. In other words, you need to decide things such as who has the authority to create a site, what types of data are allowed to be stored within SharePoint libraries, and what types of customizations you want to allow.</p> <h4>7: Disk space management</h4> <p>Disk space management is something of an art form. Most network administrators are used to dealing with file servers that store data on dedicated volumes. SharePoint, on the other hand, stores its data within a SQL database. While you can use quota management to ensure that users don’t consume an excessive amount of disk space, it is important to realize that multiple lists or libraries can be linked to a common database. Therefore, you must design your quota structure to take into account possible growth of other lists or libraries that may exist.</p> <h4>8: Web part management</h4> <p>SharePoint sites are built around the use of Web parts. This approach make site creation easier, but it also means that any changes to Web parts result in changes to every site that uses them. You’ll want to take measures to prevent Web part customizations from being made in a haphazard manner. A modification that enhances a Web part’s functionality on one site may wreck havoc on other sites that are using that Web part.</p> <h4>9: Service level agreements</h4> <p>Many organizations discover that it doesn’t take long for a SharePoint deployment to grow from being something of a novelty to becoming a mission-critical application. As with other mission-critical applications, administrators are often pressured into accepting service level agreements for SharePoint deployments.</p> <p>My recommendation has always been to use the quest for service level agreements as a bargaining chip. For example, you could explain to the managers in your company that for you to be able to deliver the level of service they are requiring, you need additional server hardware or other IT resources.</p> <h4>10: Disaster recovery planning</h4> <p>I have seen a few real-world situations in which administrators verified that their backup software supported SharePoint but never really looked at what was required to perform a restoration. Unless you’re going to be performing a total restoration, most backup applications require SharePoint data to be restored to a recovery farm.</p> <p>A recovery farm is a separate, dedicated SharePoint farm. Although a recovery farm does not require the same hardware resources as your production SharePoint servers, it does have to be configured with the same features, templates, patches, and software versions as your production farm. That being the case, a recovery farm isn’t really something you can just throw together at the last minute when you have to perform a restoration. You will need to have it in place in advance.</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1500 " target="_blank">Source: TechRepublic.com 10 SharePoint deployment challenges</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-53641404310111424682009-06-23T19:56:00.001+02:002009-06-23T19:56:26.327+02:00SharePoint Social Computing<p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><img src="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Photos/SpFunnyPages_SharePointComics_Alerts.jpg" /></p> <h3>Social computing with SharePoint</h3> <h4>Bring your people together </h4> <p>Social computing gives information workers new ways to create value together. Blogs, podcasts, and other social media help them capture and share knowledge, enhancing innovation and teamwork. Social networks make it easy to find expertise and stay connected to key contacts. People can self-organize to solve problems and meet customer needs. Microsoft<sup>®</sup> SharePoint<sup>®</sup> delivers the power of social computing in the context of a complete collaboration solution—right alongside the tools that people already use every day to get work done and move your organization forward. </p> <p><a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/social/Pages/default.aspx"><img alt="SharePoint social computing" src="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/social/PublishingImages/Social/master/sharepoint-social-computing-home-logo.gif" width="400" height="85" /></a></p> <p>This demo delivers the details on how social computing features in Microsoft<sup>®</sup> SharePoint<sup>®</sup> can help your organization become more agile, innovative, and connected. Beginning with a general introduction to the rise of <strong>Enterprise 2.0</strong>, it walks you through key social technologies, including social networking with My Sites, finding experts with People Search, and capturing and sharing knowledge with social media including blogs and podcasts. You will learn how SharePoint delivers social computing in context, working closely with the Microsoft Office system and other technology as part of a complete collaboration solution. And, you will see how SharePoint provides social technology without the need to buy, integrate, or manage additional software, delivering maximum value for your investment.</p> <p><a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/social/Demo/Pages/sharepoint-demo.aspx" target="_blank">View the demo Social Computing in Action >></a></p> <p><a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/social/Community/the-blog/default.aspx" target="_blank">The Blog >></a></p> <p> </p> <h3><b>Explore the enterprise social computing features of SharePoint</b></h3> <h4><b>Enterprise 2.0 made easy</b></h4> <p>Microsoft<sup>®</sup> SharePoint<sup>®</sup> provides rich features for enterprise social computing, from social networking tools like My Sites to social content technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS and more. Because SharePoint and Microsoft Office are applications that people use every day, you can begin connecting, conversing, and innovating right away. Social computing is a natural extension of the total SharePoint collaboration solution—once you have SharePoint, you have the foundation of Enterprise 2.0, with nothing additional to buy, manage, or integrate into your IT infrastructure. Explore the social features of SharePoint and discover how easy it is to get the benefits of social computing in your organization.</p> <p><img alt=" SharePoint Capabilities overview example" src="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/social/PublishingImages/Social/Benefits/sharepoint-social-computing-features-overview-example.jpg" /></p> <p><a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/social/features-and-benefits/Pages/SharePoint-Capabilities.aspx?CategoryId=1" target="_blank">Look for more >></a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-38451546094228940132009-05-27T17:38:00.001+02:002009-05-27T17:39:17.128+02:00Microsoft to Rename Groove as SharePoint Workspace<p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_X_UKsCBrwnw/Sh1eWps0RBI/AAAAAAAAEVo/jpSEv4-ELng/s1600-h/clip_image001%5B4%5D.jpg"><img title="clip_image001" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="116" alt="clip_image001" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_X_UKsCBrwnw/Sh1eXHucw2I/AAAAAAAAEVs/gLFOoHXgk0s/clip_image001_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="160" align="right" border="0" /></a>Is Microsoft loosing its <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/groove/HA101656331033.aspx">Groove</a>? No, but they are changing the name of it. Microsoft Groove 2007 - the collaboration and document sharing software for small teams working online and offline — is getting a new name. The new name? Why it will <strong>become</strong> <strong>Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010</strong>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/microsoft-to-rename-groove-as-sharepoint-workspace-004628.php" target="_blank">Lees meer >></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/microsoft-to-rename-groove-as-sharepoint-workspace-004628.php" target="_blank">Source: CMS Wire</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-85690572667526744242009-04-15T21:57:00.001+02:002009-04-15T21:57:07.055+02:00The Next SharePoint .. It’s Official !!!<h3>It's Official - A New Name and Delivery Date for the Next Version of SharePoint</h3> <p align="center"><font face="Tw Cen MT Condensed" size="7">SharePoint 2010</font></p> <p><a title="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/its-official-a-new-name-and-delivery-date-for-the-next-version-of-sharepoint-004361.php" href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/its-official-a-new-name-and-delivery-date-for-the-next-version-of-sharepoint-004361.php" target="_blank">http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/its-official-a-new-name-and-delivery-date-for-the-next-version-of-sharepoint-004361.php</a></p> <h4>A New Unified Communications Family</h4> <p>The news comes as a sidebar to the public beta release of Exchange Server 2010, part of the new <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uc" target="_blank">unified communications family</a>. <strong>Exchange Server 2010</strong> is the first of the new Office-related products to be available for public beta. The others that will follow include <strong>MS Office 2010</strong>, <strong>SharePoint 2010</strong>, <strong>Visio 2010</strong> and <strong>MS Project 2010</strong>.</p> <p>What's so special about this next wave — or version — of Office related products? Microsoft says they are the first to be built "from the ground up" to serve both the on premise and <strong>software as a service (Saas)</strong> crowd.</p> <h4>And the Timeline Is…</h4> <p>Exchange Server 2010 is expected to arrive in the second half of this year. That's the first of the new product versions to go public. All the others, including SharePoint 2010 should be available for technical preview sometime in the third quarter, with an expected public release in the first half of 2010 — hence the name. </p> <p><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" src="http://www.geidi.com/pics/sharepoint-solutions.jpg" border="0" /></p> <h3>Wonder What's Coming in Next Version of SharePoint?</h3> <p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/wonder-whats-coming-in-next-version-of-sharepoint-004121.php" target="_blank">http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/wonder-whats-coming-in-next-version-of-sharepoint-004121.php</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-13812601848044074292009-04-08T21:03:00.001+02:002009-04-08T21:03:02.103+02:00Microsoft Releases SharePoint Designer 2007 for Free<p><img title="Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer (c) Microsoft" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" alt="Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer (c) Microsoft" src="http://office.microsoft.com/global/images/default.aspx?assetid=ZA102144691033" align="right" border="0" />Microsoft has released their <em><strong>SharePoint Designer 2007</strong></em> package for free to the public! </p> <p>Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the powerful tools you need to deliver compelling and attractive SharePoint sites and quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools on the SharePoint platform, all in an IT-managed environment.</p> <p>Here’s the details on the letter they sent out advising of the change:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Dear Valued Customer:</em></p> <p><em>One frequent comment from you to us here at Microsoft is that a significant part of the capabilities of SharePoint Designer are seen as just an extension of what SharePoint already does. In addition, we hear more and more that you want to be able to create increasingly dynamic web sites on SharePoint.</em></p> <p><em>In response to this feedback, we are implementing a number of changes to promote and facilitate even more customization efforts on top of our platform:</em></p> <ul> <li><em>Starting on April 1, 2009, we are making <strong>SharePoint Designer</strong> 2007 available as a free download. </em></li> <li><em>Customers with SharePoint Designer 2007 Software Assurance (SA) current as of April 1, 2009 will receive upgrade rights to Expression Web for the lifetime of their SA agreement. </em></li> </ul> <p><em>We believe that these changes will help you enable more users in your organization to create customizations that increase the value of your investments in SharePoint products and technologies now and in the future. We are making SharePoint Designer even better in its next version, which will ship simultaneously with our next release of SharePoint. While the current version of Expression Web does not directly support SharePoint, we are also making significant investments to ensure that future versions of Expression Web become an excellent choice for page customization of SharePoint sites.</em></p> <p><em>You can expect our future investments in this area to be focused on ensuring that each relevant role within your organization has the right tools to work on SharePoint while allowing different roles to collaborate. To this end, Expression Web and the full Expression Suite will empower professional designers with page customization capabilities on <strong>SharePoint</strong>, while SharePoint users can continue to use SharePoint Designer. Our goal is to continue helping customers just like you use SharePoint to deliver custom portal solutions, extranets, intranets, internet-facing sites, collaboration solutions, social networking sites, and internal applications on top of the extensive capabilities of SharePoint.</em></p> <p><em>This is an exciting time for SharePoint and we at Microsoft are confident that you will be impressed by our continued commitment to providing you with the right tools to support the investments you have made and continue to make with us. Your account team or your Microsoft partner are there to assist you and can provide you with any additional information, which is also available at </em><a href="http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=FX100487631033&CTT=5&Origin=HA103607611033" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/spd</a><em></em><em>.</em></p> <p><em>On behalf of Microsoft, thank you for your continued support.</em></p> <p><em>Sincerely, <br />The SharePoint Team <br />Microsoft Corporation</em></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT103616701033&Origin=HH103607651033&CTT=5" target="_blank"><img title="Download for free" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" alt="Download for free" src="http://office.microsoft.com/global/images/default.aspx?assetid=ZA102634041033" align="right" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42" target="_blank">Download SharePoint Designer</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/info.aspx?na=47&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42&u=details.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dB57C805D-2821-4625-A6F1-80725267F887%26displaylang%3den">Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/info.aspx?na=47&p=2&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42&u=details.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5B10F061-41D4-48CE-85CB-01D46772240D%26displaylang%3den" target="_blank">Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Training Standalone Edition</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-66079685916093039512009-02-21T14:40:00.001+01:002009-02-21T17:02:34.788+01:00Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS)<p>The Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of Microsoft hosted messaging and collaboration solutions including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online. These online services are designed to give your business streamlined communication with high availability, comprehensive security, and simplified IT management. When your company subscribes to one or more of the services, it connects to the rich interactivity of on-premises client and server applications with the flexibility and scalability of Web-based services. Because Microsoft hosts the services, it reduces your company’s need to maintain IT services on site. Many organizations today are moving to this "software-plus-services" model, because it decreases the need to manage hardware and software.</p> <p><img height="157" src="http://ipowerstar.com/images/mos_bpos.jpg" width="405" /></p> <h3><b>Exchange Online</b></h3> <p>Provide employees access to e-mail, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at anytime, on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices—while helping to protect against malware and spam. Exchange Online can be rapidly deployed, flexibly expanded, and is designed to be securely administered using a powerful yet simple remote Web-based console. </p> <ul> <li>Standard 1GB mailbox (additional storage available for purchase)</li> <li>E-mail, shared calendar, shared tasks, and contacts</li> <li>Spam filtering and antivirus capabilities via Exchange Hosted Filtering</li> <li>Outlook client connectivity, Outlook Anywhere, and Outlook Web Access</li> <li>Latest ActiveSync devices support</li> </ul> <h3><b>SharePoint Online</b></h3> <p>Share documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks through a single location. Based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Online delivers rich team collaboration capabilities that enable you to flexibly and efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search your intranet site, and manage content and workflow. </p> <ul> <li>Portal, collaboration, content management, site search, and forms capabilities </li> <li>Single location to share documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks </li> <li>Offline access to documents on the service from Outlook </li> <li>Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across multiple lists and sites </li> <li>Blog site templates that support article posting, reader comments, and RSS feed generation</li> </ul> <h3><b>Office Live Meeting</b></h3> <p>Connect with colleagues and customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events using only a PC with an Internet connection. Hosted Web conferencing services from Microsoft Office Live Meeting provides your employees the power to collaborate wherever they are, set up project meetings, brainstorm ideas, and collaborate on whiteboards without the cost and hassle of travel! </p> <ul> <li>Web client support for remote attendee flexibility </li> <li>Interactive application/desktop sharing and whiteboard tools </li> <li>Active speaker video switching, multi-party video, and multi-party VoIP audio </li> <li>Rich media presentations, native video conferencing, high-fidelity recording, and Web cam capabilities </li> <li>Training and event management, with event and class registration and virtual breakout rooms</li> </ul> <h3><b>Office Communications Online</b></h3> <p>Enable users to find and rapidly connect with the right person from the applications they use most. Office Communications Online provides streamlined access to rich presence and IM capabilities that are centrally managed by IT and work seamlessly with a range of Microsoft Office system programs.</p> <ul> <li>Instant Messaging with text based chat, file transfer, 1:1, or 1:many communication </li> <li>Seamless presence awareness enabling users to check another users availability on the network </li> <li>Presence information shared across Microsoft Office applications, such as Outlook and SharePoint </li> <li>Support for multiple modes and devices—PC, Web browser, or mobile phones </li> </ul> <p>Meer info: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/online">http://www.microsoft.com/online</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/Technet/en-us/MSOnline/bpos/index.html" target="_blank">Get Started with Business Productivity Online Standard Suite</a></p> <p><b><img style="margin: 0px 0px 5px" height="202" src="http://ipowerstar.com/images/mos_cust_benefits.jpg" width="411" /></b></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-69216519967241577272008-09-16T07:36:00.001+02:002008-09-16T07:38:41.652+02:00SharePoint is so easy anyone can do it… not.<p><a href="http://20080916-eusp.eventbrite.com/"><img height="120" alt="View more information on Case Studies in SharePoint Dashboards" hspace="hspace" src="http://www.endusersharepoint.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/evangelistandcrowd.jpg" width="158" align="right" /></a>Just read a article and "trust me", it is true.</p> <p>A lot of people look at SharePoint as software you can implement fast without thinking.</p> <p>I found some Quotes that I also hear from my customers :</p> <p><em>"<strong>Our executives think we can do it on our own and we DISAGREE</strong>."</em></p> <p><em>"<strong>Microsoft has done too good a good job selling the idea of self maintaining environments</strong>."</em></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=736" target="_blank">Link to the article >></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.endusersharepoint.com" target="_blank"><img height="92" alt="EndUserSharePoint.com" src="http://www.EndUserSharePoint.com/blog/wp-content/themes/nightlife/images/header.jpg" width="395" border="0" /></a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-54509818925869394632008-09-16T07:29:00.001+02:002008-09-16T07:29:31.890+02:00SharePoint's "Big" Problems<p>Just received a mail with a very interessing article I want to share with you :</p> <p><img height="134" src="http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/Training/Infolit/infolit/owl-reading.gif" width="128" align="left" />It's interesting to me to watch the maturation of a technology, and the market's use of technology. SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) is entering its "terrible twos" and, with that, more large enterprises are trying to put SharePoint to use. They're running into some big problems—problems with big lists, big libraries, and big contributing user bases. </p> <p>Awhile back, Microsoft released the document, <a href="http://ct.email.officesharepointpro.com/rd/cts?d=33-14024-982-443-32036-1474534-0-0-0-1-2-196">Plan for software boundaries</a>. This document set forth limitations of scalability in SharePoint. Most of these limitations can be worked around with good architectural design. Some cannot, sadly illustrating the truism that no tool—not even SharePoint—is the silver bullet. One of the limitations that has been discussed in many places is the 2000 item per list or library limit. This is not (I repeat "not") a hard limit. In fact, in my "summer project," we were dealing actively with a list of 11,000 items. It's a limit related to views, which can be addressed through views and indexing. </p> <p>A limit that has not received enough attention is limits that arise due to SharePoint's security implementation—limits related to the number of users and permissions in a site collection. Unfortunately, the document's lack of detail underplays limits that can be quite problematic in some scenarios. This week, a number of my colleagues were discussing real world encounters with these limitations. So in the event that this may save you headaches now or in the future, I'd like to summarize the limits and provide some example scenarios. My goal is to help you identify whether you are, or might become, a ‘victim' of these limits. Later in this article, I'll point you to the resources you need for more detail, and I'll propose some solutions for Microsoft to consider in Office 14. </p> <p>1. <strong>600 to 1000 unique list-item permissions.</strong> If you do a lot of "inheritance breaking" to create unique permissions within a list or library, this limit might hit you. A common scenario involves a list where a user can add an item, then a custom workflow is used to change permissions on that item to provide Edit Item permission to a "reviewer," while preventing other non-reviewers in the list from modifying that item. But if you end up with more than 600 to 1000 items with unique permissions in a list, it will start to be problematic. <br />2. <strong>1500 to 2000 contributing users in a site collection.</strong> Yup, you read that right. You can't have more than 1500-2000 users contributing in a site. The limit is really 1500-2000 identities in the Site Collection User Info Gallery, aka the "SPWeb.SiteUsers." A user ends up in this list if you add them directly to the site collection user list; create a permission for an object assigned to a user who's not already in the list; or if the user is in a group that has permissions to the site and the user contributes to the site—is added to the Created By, Last Modified By, or Assigned To fields. The key here is those three fields. You can expose your site to millions of readers by using groups, or with anonymous access. <br />3. <strong>Approx. 2000 users or groups per SharePoint group.</strong> This is actually related to the 2000 item limit in list views. <br />4. <strong>Unique permissions (Access Control Entries or ACEs) per Access Control List (ACL).</strong> Behind the scenes, an ACL cannot be larger than 64KB. This translates to roughly 1000 users being individually assigned permissions on one object. <br />5. <strong>1024 total (nested) Active Directory (AD) group memberships per user.</strong> This is a limit that affects other Windows technologies as well. </p> <p>Are you likely to be "hit" by one of these limits? Some can be worked around through informed design. Others cannot. If these limits are in your present or future, then you must read Eli Robillard's detailed coverage of the limits at <a href="http://ct.email.officesharepointpro.com/rd/cts?d=33-14024-982-443-32036-1474535-0-0-0-1-2-196">Eli's blog</a>. Eli Robillard, also a SharePoint MVP, is a popular speaker, co-author of Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox), the founder of the Toronto SharePoint Users Group. The work he's done, and the great contributions of Todd Bleeker, Todd Klindt, Joel Oleson and Keith Ritchie deserve a huge "shout out." I know the details about these issues will evolve as more feedback is obtained from customers and as the SharePoint code and architecture is examined in more detail. </p> <p>Indexing, search, the security-trimmed UI, and basic functionality are compromised when these limits are hit, and (as usual), the error messages that arise are not informative enough. There's no doubt that large collaborative sites won't be supported by SharePoint without major customization of security-related functionality. While site collection architecture can overcome some of these limits, some will be show-stoppers. Imagine trying to build a "forum" site with more than 2000 users. If each user is supposed to be able to add posts and modify (only their own) post, this would simply not work due to both #1 and #2 above. I know that Microsoft has to "draw the line" at some point, and release a finished product to market. What troubles me is that SharePoint is being sold as a silver bullet across six different scenarios, and these limits have real impact on several of them. They mean some significant coding of custom security interfaces or the choice of another product besides SharePoint. </p> <p>My colleagues' discussion of these security related limits really came to a head last week, so there's a lot more to be learned. At this point, I'd like to propose the following (perhaps completely naïve) solutions to Microsoft for Office 14: </p> <p>• Support true "contribute" role assignments, in which a user can add items and read items and modify only their own items. Windows Server 2008 now supports the "Owner Rights" identity which could be an approach, but there could be others. This would address a super-common security requirement that SharePoint just misses right now. It would prevent some implementations from running into #1.</p> <p>• To further address #2, the SharePoint team should consider "template-izing" item permissions. Ask the Directory Services team how they managed to cut the size of NTDS.DIT in Windows Server 2003 by doing so. My guess is there is guidance, if not answers, in that team's work. </p> <p>• #2 will just have to be fixed. Period. </p> <p>• In my naïve world, I'd want the option to offload the entire account management to Active Directory, as Microsoft did with Exchange 2000 (for those of you young kids, previous versions of Exchange had an independent directory) . SharePoint's group management is great for two major reasons: it supports mixed environments with AD and other authentication providers; and it provides a group management interface to users so non-technical users can manage group membership. The latter functionality should have been put in AD--oh, about 9 years ago. Maybe SharePoint's functionality and user interface can be a layer over AD. I know that'd be complicated, particularly when it came time to support forms-based authentication (FBA) and such, but it would be great. </p> <p>• Much clearer communication about SharePoint's limits—security and otherwise. Not just one line in one paper on TechNet, but real "call outs", including scenario-based examples, of where SharePoint will fail out-of-the-box. </p> <p>Knowing Microsoft's history, I've got to think the company will be investing heavily in Office 14 in areas that improve scalability, in solutions for enterprises, and in modifying SharePoint to better support Software-Plus-Services. So I'm hopeful that some of these limitations, which clearly affect scalability, will in fact be addressed. </p> <p>And here are some open questions to you, the community: </p> <p>• What security related limits have you run into in your environments? What scenarios have you found difficult or impossible to support?</p> <p>• Has anyone really "beat up" (tested) how the new OWNER RIGHTS identity on NTFS works with SharePoint indexing and security-trimmed results? After some meditation, I can imagine some configurations that could be very difficult to "reflect" correctly in indexing. I haven't dug into this yet. Have you? (BTW, if you don't know about OWNER RIGHTS, it's the best security addition to Windows file servers since NTFS itself. Check it out if you manage file servers.) </p> <p>I'll close this discussion with my "bottom line" with SharePoint: It's an awesome product. It's innovative, it's effective in many many scenarios, and (best of all) it has great potential for user adoption thanks to its UI and tight integration with well-known tools (i.e. the Office clients). I'm a huge believer that with the insane growth of SharePoint utilization in enterprises large and small, and the resources Microsoft is pouring into the product, we have the unique opportunity and responsibility to help Microsoft better understand what we're needing the product to do, and where it's failing to deliver. Microsoft is really trying to listen to customers and community but (believe it or not) even Microsoft's resources are limited. We need to help that listening happen, request clarity about this incredible product's strengths and weaknesses, and be patient as Microsoft addresses the weaknesses we all discover as the product evolves. </p> <p>Until next week, all the best! </p> <p>Dan Holme <br />danh at intelliem dot (top level commercial domain)</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-86122659834772079842008-07-28T08:48:00.001+02:002008-07-28T08:48:52.149+02:00Clever Workarounds - "It's not rocket science"<p>Via een bericht in m'n mail terechtgekomen op een site vol met MOSS-stuff om in te grasduinen. Ik herken in ieder geval al vele zaken terug, dus neem even de tijd en bekijk de site.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/" target="_blank"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="70" alt="CleverWorkAround" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/poecky/SI1rsPjRpPI/AAAAAAAACI0/UMJT7S-yoY4/CleverWorkAround%5B6%5D.png" width="240" border="0" /></a> </p> <p><a title="http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/" href="http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/">http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/</a><a href="http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2008/02/17/selling-moss-a-choose-your-own-adventure-story/"></a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571263440898016395.post-69963746938749478782008-07-16T15:51:00.001+02:002008-07-16T15:51:49.889+02:00Het Collaboration Model<p>Tijdens het rondsurfen naar algemene informatie over "Collaboration" ben ik beland bij een blog die gelinked is aan <a href="http://www.betersamenwerken.be" target="_blank">http://www.betersamenwerken.be</a> van Microsoft. Hier beschrijft Yves Kerwyn het "Collaboration Model". Zeer interessante informatie om te kijken waar een organisatie staat met betrekking tot de hulpmiddelen om efficiënt samen te werken en welke richting de organisatie kan uitgaan in de toekomst.</p> <p>Bedankt Yves.</p> <p><a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/worldwide/BE/betersamenwerken/default.aspx" target="_blank">Link naar Blog >></a></p> <p> </p> <p><img height="406" alt="" src="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/worldwide/BE/betersamenwerken/Lists/Photos/070808_1220_HetCollabor1.png" width="400" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img height="277" alt="" src="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/worldwide/BE/betersamenwerken/Lists/Photos/070808_1220_HetCollabor2.png" width="412" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Trouwens op de site <a href="http://www.betersamenwerken.be" target="_blank">www.betersamenwerken.be</a> staan er 3 cases waar ik aan de basis en oplevering heb gestaan.</p> <ul> <li><a title="Werknemers Donaldson besparen dankzij intranet dagelijks elk 15 tot 30 minuten" href="http://www.betersamenwerken.be/Cases/Pages/Donaldson.aspx" target="_blank">Werknemers Donaldson besparen dankzij intranet dagelijks elk 15 tot 30 minuten</a> (MOSS2007)</li> <li><a title="Medewerkers Metallo-Chimique krijgen sneller de gegarandeerd juiste informatie" href="http://www.betersamenwerken.be/Cases/Pages/Case1.aspx" target="_blank">Medewerkers Metallo-Chimique krijgen sneller de gegarandeerd juiste informatie</a> (MOSS2007)</li> <li><a title="Medewerkers MSC Home Terminal vinden alle informatie snel terug via een intranetportaal" href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/business/cases/?case=msc_home_terminal" target="_blank">Medewerkers MSC Home Terminal vinden alle informatie snel terug via een intranetportaal</a> (SPS2003)</li> </ul> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0