Feb
03
One of the things I have learnt is give people reasons to go to SharePoint and this will help with your user adoption strategy. I have written before about ways to achieve this but I thought I would share one solution that we use. The unread email is a simple web part that you configure …
Feb
02
As my new years resolution was to blog more and also send out more SharePoint Newsletters, here’s the first part fulfilled! For this installment, I thought I would take the opportunity to impart a bit of information about our new compliance solution called DocRead for SharePoint. DocRead is primarily a compliance solution for SharePoint 2007 …
Feb
01
This post originally appeared on the question mark blog http://www.questionmark.com/us/index.aspx Dave is a Microsoft MVP and has been working with SharePoint in education for nearly a decade. I talked to him about why people choose SharePoint as a learning platform in schools, colleges and universities. Dave, what is your background in SharePoint? I’ve been using SharePoint …
Dec
12
By default your Office 365 password will expire every 90 days or so. This can be annoying. Simple solution is just to set the password policy to never expire passwords. This will also let you reset your password back to your well-remembered old one, so this fix can be run before or …
Dec
06
Just a quick post but useful to some hopefully, we had an email from a customer saying that they could map a network drive directly from a windows 7 computer to a SharePoint document library but could not from an XP machine? So a bit of background first some people would like to use the …
Dec
04
On Wednesday 2nd December I was honoured to be part of a discussion panel organised by Derek E Weeks discussing the latest results from the “How are Businesses using SharePoint” the panel was made up of myself, Sadie Van Buren, Susan Hanley and Derek E Weeks moderating . Some of the findings in the survey …
Nov
14
Complete SharePoint Social & Collaboration Tasks 4-6x Faster We’re investing time, energy and resources in Microsoft SharePoint to help build stronger, more collaborative organizations. But, despite our best intentions and significant investments, many of us are encountering a significant user adoption gap. Forrester Research reports across-the-board underutilization of collaboration and social tools, with 64% …
Nov
08
Over the last week I have been following a conversation on twitter started by Kerri Abraham about the value of branding your SharePoint site internally. We have completed many SharePoint branding exercises and generally speaking all of our clients like the consistent feel of their brand carried through from the website onto the internal SharePoint …
Nov
07
As more information makes its way into SharePoint I’m increasingly asked how to establish an audit trail of access to document libraries containing confidential information. This is a requirement for many types of information subject to compliance regulations like patient data in HIPAA. In this post I’ll show you how to use the audit capability …
