I was in desperate need of an extra monitor while working on the road with my laptop, but carrying around an extra LCD monitor didn’t quite fit the requirement of “being mobile.” What I needed was just an extra, smaller screen for email/internet/documents… but how could I achieve what I needed without another giant LCD? Answer: …
Here are some simple steps for creating a Hyper-V Virtual Farm for Development and/or Testing. This is focused on the Networking aspects, and not the installation of the actual Virtual Machines. It assumes you will create the following Virtual Machines (Please note that the RAM allocations are ones I used for my needs [with an …
I had successfully upgraded my OS to Server 2008 R2 SP1 and was so excited to finally dive into Dynamic Memory when I found that after setting my mins for each server at 512 MB and the appropriate maximums per the server role/type that they would not grow beyond 512 MB (512 MB was recommended …
The Enterprise Wiki component of SharePoint 2010 grants users the ability to easily create a structure to share knowledge, manage projects, and collaborate across an Enterprise.
With the options to enter information as rich text or html, users can create content ranging from simple text to leveraging html to create more substantial wiki pages. Links can easily be inserted to tie together other SharePoint pages or reference external content. The process of linking within a wiki is core to creating structure. Documents, tables, images, video and audio may also be added to enhance wiki pages.
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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes six permission levels by default. You can customize the permissions available in these permission levels (except for the Limited Access and Full Control permission levels), or you can create customized permission levels that contain only the specific permissions you need.
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Developing the site hierarchy is only one aspect of a successful implementation. Understanding the boundaries and limits of SharePoint 2010 is critical to ensuring scalability, performance, and manageability. This is especially important in the planning of Content Databases as they naturally align to the site hierarchy and impact performance and usability. A site hierarchy with poorly planned Content Databases creates a situation where costly remediation is necessary in order to scale the platform properly.
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Individual users in a SharePoint 2010 environment can create a My Site and begin the process of social networking across the Enterprise. Within this framework of social networking, a tangible business use can occur as users collaborate with other team members, locate individuals with skills required for projects, centrally organize their own information and share information with other users.
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There is a debate brewing in the world of SharePoint Enterprise Records Management (ERM) between whether a preferred approach is In-Place Records Management or the use of a Records Archive. While I weigh heavily towards an “Archivist” approach with a central Records Center (based on my security/usability viewpoints), there is a time and place for using In-Place Records.
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SharePoint 2010 has several built-in site templates which may meet you requirements. The chart below is a list of the available site templates and their intended purposes. Keep in mind that any of these core templates can be customized and re-templated!
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Content types and site columns are the foundational elements of SharePoint, but they often get misused. Whether it’s creating too many content types, not enough, or recreating site columns that are already available out of the box, it is critical to remember some key aspects when instituting and managing these items:
Content Types
Content types are a core organizational feature of SharePoint 2010. They are designed to give users the ability to organize SharePoint content in a centralized and meaningful manner. Site columns (metadata) can be encapsulated within a content type to allow for reusable structure or independently added to sites and lists.
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