Blogs within a SharePoint environment can serve multiple purposes and be targeted to various audiences. They can be informal, used in team sites for collaboration, or at the Enterprise level to disseminate information from leadership. The features within SharePoint blogs contain far more than simple text posting capability. Blog posts can be quickly created in …
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 …
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. READ FULL POST at blog.concurrency.com
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 …
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 …
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 …
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! READ FULL POST at blog.concurrency.com
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 …
The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Connector for SharePoint has been released. The CMIS connector allows “SharePoint to interoperate with other ECM repositories through the CMIS Consumer Web Part”. More information about this tool and how to leverage it can be found at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2010/07/16/announcing-the-release-of-the-cmis-connector-for-sharepoint.aspx READ FULL POST at blog.concurrency.com
Have you ever needed to share content, such as a list or document library, across SharePoint sites but found that the Content Query Web Part does not quite meet you requirements (such as offering filterable columns)? The answer to your quandary may be a global Web Part. This can be created using SharePoint Designer 2010 …