Monthly Archive: March 2010

Mar
30

SharePoint Room Booking System

Room Booking

  Earlier this week Mike Herrity released his Ebook on the work we have been doing on SharePoint over the last three years this is available from Mike’s blog here . One of the features that Mike wrote about is the Room Booking Web Part so I thought that I would go into some more …

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Mar
30

Reasons to upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010: Pt3

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Continuing on from my posts listing reasons to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 I will now look at Multimedia (Assets) and announcements. The 6 points I’m looking at regarding upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 are: Page based on Wiki Tagging / Notes / Rating Multimedia (Assets) Easier Announcements Web Apps PowerPoint Publishing Multimedia (Assets) …

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Mar
29

SharePoint 2010 Topologies Part 2

Small Farm Topologies Two Tier

   To continue this series, in this post I will look at small farm deployments this tends to be where most people end up with their SharePoint deployments. Through this post I will cover two tier farms, three tier farms and also three tier farm optimized for search. But before I begin I thought I …

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Mar
29

Reasons to upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010: Pt2

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Continuing on from my post listing reasons to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 where I looked at pages based on a Wiki, I will now look at Tags, Notes and Rating. The 6 points I’m looking at regarding upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 are: Page based on Wiki Tagging / Notes / Rating Multimedia …

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Mar
26

Reasons to upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

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I’ve talked to quite a few people now about the benefits of SharePoint 2010 over 2007. I will share these benefits with you over a couple of blog posts and hopefully persuade you that 2010 is the way forward and to start planning your migration strategies now! I will focus on these 6 points: Page …

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Mar
25

SharePoint 2010 Topologies Part 1

Single server

We have been posting a lot about the features of SharePoint 2010 but little on the install, topology examples for the product, so I thought I would rectify that now with some topology examples and finish off with our topology at Twynham when we deploy 2010 at RTM. As we all know SharePoint is exceedingly …

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Mar
24

SharePoint 2010 Document Library open Office Documents in browser

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If you have web apps set up on SharePoint 2010 (a nifty feature I think!) you will notice that office documents in a  library will not always open in the browser but will open up the full fat office programme. To make sure that your documents open using the browser app then go into the …

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Mar
21

Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 Webinar

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Back on the 23rd February BA Insight hosted a webinar deep dive into the exciting new features and architecture of FAST for SharePoint 2010, with many live demos throughout the presentation. I was lucky enough to attend this virtual event but in case you missed it they have now made the session available on demand …

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Mar
21

SharePoint Server 2010 OOTB web Parts

SPServer WebParts

 In the post yesterday SharePoint Foundation OOTB web Parts I said that I would cover the web parts available with SharePoint Server 2010 for a comparison of the two versions. With the server version there are 11 categories but in SharePoint Foundation there are only 5 which is very understandable when you compare a free …

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