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New Podcast: ECM Talk – Information Architecture, Site Collections, Managed Metadata, and Business Connectivity
Richard Harbridge
James Lappin and I were speaking this morning and James was kind enough to record our conversation in the form of a Podcast that others might find interesting. Within the 45 minute or so audio podcast we discuss the challenges with Site Collections, Quotas, Content Types, Search Scopes, Managed Metadata, and Business Connectivity Services.
James has a summary write up about what discussed on the ECM Talk landing page.
If you are interested in doing a podcast, asking a couple questions, or anythi [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 26th '12 |
Building a SharePoint Team
Richard Harbridge
One of the big challenges in the industry right now (both for internal environments and consultancies) is hiring and developing a SharePoint team. In a recent podcast with Brett and Rob we discussed this very challenge and things you should consider when building up the people resources for a SharePoint implementation.
Here is a direct link to the mp3 as well. Right click this link and ‘save as’ if you want to listen to it offline.
If you haven’t listened to the SharePoint Pod [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 19th '12 |
When are people going beyond SharePoint for social functionality?
Richard Harbridge
For many people the built in SharePoint 2010 social capabilities, while limited, meet the needs of the business. For many organizations still piloting or evaluating the use of social technology and SharePoint’s limited feature set meets their business needs. However there are many others who aren’t satisfied by the capabilities provided by SharePoint and are looking for a more robust feature set. This article will dig a little more into the options available for organizations and my personal [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 10th '11 |
Evaluating Cloud Providers: Tools and Questions
Richard Harbridge
Struggling with evaluating cloud providers? Interested in moving to the cloud but not certain what the risks are and what you need to consider? This article is focused around sharing some tools and techniques I have found to help when performing the often difficult task of comparing or evaluating cloud providers.
On a fairly frequently basis I am asked about my opinion about one hosting provider, or one cloud provider versus another. Of course my response as a consultant is “It Depends”. It [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 1st '11 |
Intranet Tools: The User Adoption Activity Listing
Richard Harbridge
I have released a new tool that I use when working with clients supporting effective user adoption. This tool is a listing of over 50 commonly used User Adoption Activities. The purpose of this listing is to help highlight other activities or methods organizations are using to improve user adoption. You may find some activities in the listing that resonate with your organizational culture and business need, and hopefully the short description will help make sense of how to go about executing or [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 27th '11 |
Intranet Tools: The Intranet Component Listing
Richard Harbridge
I have released a new tool that I use when working with clients defining key pages within their Intranets. This tool is a listing of over 50 commonly found Intranet components. The purpose is for the business to pick out the components they want on their page, then to prioritize these components, and take this information to develop the first wireframes and mockups of these key pages.
As always I am trying my hardest to find the time to share some of the tools and techniques I have found that wo [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 26th '11 |
Update to SharePoint Development Standards
Richard Harbridge
The SharePoint Development Standards have been updated with a few minor SharePoint 2010 specific tweaks, the addition of database access recommendations, and a PDF/Word version of them for easier download.
One of the secret hopes I have for updating this set of standards is that many community thought leaders and SharePoint experts will tell me what I am still missing, what is not current/accurate for SharePoint 2010, and perhaps even ask for updates to other standards.
There are quite a few mor [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 12th '11 |
The 5 Teams You Need For Effective Governance
Richard Harbridge
A short time ago CMSWire posted my article which outlines the importance of having structured Governance teams and what each team should be composed of/be responsible for. Be sure to check it out.
Keep an eye out for my next two follow up articles where I will introduce an optional sixth team that I have seen great success with, along with practical tips/tricks for structuring the Governance documents and materials (in a SharePoint site).
Hope this helps,
Richard [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 18th '11 |
Focus ‘on SharePoint’ (and the Cloud)
Richard Harbridge
Lately I have been really enjoying the format and content on Focus.com. In particular the SharePoint discussions have been great. The format works well for surfacing great comments and answers to interesting questions.
Later this month I will be facilitating my first free Focus.com web panel on SharePoint in the Cloud: Evaluating Impact, Pros, & Cons with an all star lineup:
Hosting: Matt Lathrop from Rackspace.
I wanted a hosting provider to help give some real examples of clients and cha [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 5th '11 |
What is SharePoint?
Richard Harbridge
Last week at SPTechCon Ruven Gotz and I delivered a full day Practical SharePoint Information Architecture workshop. One of the questions we asked (and then answered) was “What is SharePoint?”. This is an exploration into the responses we received and we thought would be worth sharing.
What sounds deceivingly simple can lead to exhaustive minutes or even hour long explanations. When I ask “What is SharePoint?” the answer I receive from every client, colleague, or audience [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 7th '11 |
SharePoint ROI: Why it’s important and you should care.
Richard Harbridge
During Best Practices I did a podcast recording with Hilton Giesenow where we discussed ROI and SharePoint. It was extremely fun doing it, and Hilton had some great questions. (I would love to hear someone interview him!).
The podcast covers the following:
How to build up a SharePoint team (and why it’s important).
Why someone would want to measure return on investment (ROI).
The importance of measurement.
Dangers of measurement.
How to improve measurement.
How to measure SharePoint’ [read].
Posted: Fri, May 20th '11 |
The Human Pipeline: Why Should Your Organization Use Social Media, Collaboration, and Networking?
Richard Harbridge
“Why should your organization use social media, social collaboration and social networking (and how can they do it better)?” This is a challenging question that I have heard many times. It is my intention to answer (and explore) this question through an ongoing series of posts, interviews, and stories.
“Why should your organization use social media, social collaboration and social networking (and how can they do it better)?”
The short answer is that you actually are using all of these [read].
Posted: Thu, May 19th '11 |
SharePoint is NOT a Silver Bullet
Richard Harbridge
SharePoint is awesome isn’t it? Every day we see projects and business challenges that SharePoint helps us overcome. It’s kind of hard not to begin re-actively saying “SharePoint” as the answer to so many corporate challenges especially as our understanding of what the platform can do matures. This poses a very real danger as SharePoint is not the best tool or solution for every challenge.
How do you mitigate the risk this danger poses? Please let me know by commenting on my recent arti [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 27th '11 |
Two Simple Tricks for Making Better Estimates
Richard Harbridge
Douglas Hubbard is someone I respect immensely. He has an amazing book called “How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of ‘Intangibles’ in Business” that I very highly recommend reading. In fact here is a link to that very book on amazon (buy it). What follows is some advice and simple tricks that can help anyone make better estimates regardless of their role or job.
Regardless of your role in your organization you are often requested to make estimates on how long some [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 21st '11 |
New Article: SharePoint Columns You Probably Didn’t Know About
Richard Harbridge
A short time ago I released a new article on NothingButSharePoint.com that was all about a few columns most people aren’t aware of that are extremely useful in SharePoint for developers, architects or end users.
“Often I am surprised by how few businesses know about some of the powerful columns based on SharePoint’s publishing features. In this article not only will we highlight what these are, but we will also explore why they are powerful and useful columns that you (may want [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 18th '11 |
Some Awesome SharePoint Conferences in 2011
Richard Harbridge
It never hurts to reference the multitude of amazing SharePoint conferences and community events that are out there. Take a look at this calendar of all the known SharePoint conferences and community events. They are all good. All of them.
Looking for an event and it’s not on the Calendar? Let me know or send them to: SPCalendar@EndUserSharePoint.com
Still don’t see an event near you? Let me know – we will make one happen. Seriously. If I can’t even be directly involved I [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 24th '11 |
Why Leveraging SharePoint Blog Features For Intranet News Is A Great Idea
Richard Harbridge
Almost every intranet site has news articles of some sort. One very useful technique when building out how news articles work in SharePoint is to use a blog site for hosting the news. This works for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.
Why a blog site instead of say pages in a publishing site, list items, individual documents, or some other method?
A blog allows for users to comment on news items.
This way it can be more than just a one way discussion and people can contribute more inform [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 13th '11 |
SharePoint Governance and WebPart Permissions and Information
Richard Harbridge
I am sure there are posts out there (I found Geoff’s one here) but just in case I wanted to write a quick post highlighting some important aspects about SharePoint WebParts, and the WebPart Gallery (for SharePoint 2007 AND 2010).
You can hide certain webparts from certain users/stop them from being able to add these webparts.
(Extremely useful.)
You can modify webparts in your webpart gallery so that they have better descriptions or adjusted names.
Did you know you can hide webparts fro [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 4th '11 |
SharePoint Business Community Pre-Announcement and Events
Richard Harbridge
So over the past while I have been up to quite a lot! From working with many new exciting clients, to engaging with different SharePoint Community initiatives.
The SharePoint Business Community
Shortly there should be an announcement outlining the SharePoint Business Community. This is a very big investment of energy and time from me, but after considering book authoring, event organizing, speaking and other things I was working on I think this has the best benefit for the most people. As such t [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 3rd '10 |
Standards Update: SharePoint Content Standards
Richard Harbridge
This is part of an ongoing chain of updates relating to a SharePoint Standards Project where I hope to work with anyone willing to build out some good starting points and standards around SharePoint areas of interest. Here is the current list of standards.
This is only the first draft of the SharePoint Content Standards which I actually feel like is probably the hardest bunch to write but I think it’s a pretty good start. I would love to hear what you think and what might be missing from i [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 18th '10 |
Standards Update: SharePoint 2007 Development Standards
Richard Harbridge
The first collected Standard has been released in the SharePoint Standards section.
SharePoint Development Standards comes from a variety of sources and everyone asked so far seems to agree that these represent the most important ones for SharePoint 2007. I am working on the SharePoint 2010 adjustments. There will be a considerable amount more and some will obviously be adjusted such as the one relating to SharePoint Designer and workflows.
This is part of a larger SharePoint Standards initiat [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 16th '10 |
What does SharePoint do for you?
Richard Harbridge
One thing anyone who works in the SharePoint space gets asked regularly (or asks) is how are other people using SharePoint? Not always from a strategic level, but more from a common user perspective. After discussing this common question with Bonnie Surma we decided the creation of a Survey would help not only us, but many of you share your answers to this question.
What does SharePoint do for you? (How do you use it?)
Take a moment and let us know by filling out this survey. Hopefully if e [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 15th '10 |
SharePoint Standards and the SharePoint Standards Project
Richard Harbridge
Part of any SharePoint implementation (done right) is releasing various sets of standards through your Governance processes/teams. These standards come in many shapes and sizes depending on what you are using SharePoint for, the maturity of your use, and of course your approach. This is the first post working towards building usable standards and guidelines for dealing with this specific area of SharePoint Governance.
What are possible SharePoint Standards?
I am of course over simplifying possib [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 8th '10 |
Going “All In” and My New Job
Richard Harbridge
Within the next few months I will be moving to Boston, Massachusetts and working with Allin (pronounced ‘All In’ like the poker term) as a Senior SharePoint Evangelist. I will be actively consulting (primarily on SharePoint) and engaging far more than before with the SharePoint community.
To say I am excited about joining Allin and my new role is a bit of an understatement.
Why Allin?
The right approach.
Allin and I are in complete alignment with how to approach a successful tech [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 1st '10 |
SharePoint’s ‘Revolutionizing’ Impact on IT?
Richard Harbridge
I was just reading Dux’s latest article on CMSWire and left a short comment. I wanted to post it here as well to hopefully hear other peoples opinions on the subject of how SharePoint impacts IT and perhaps ‘revolutionizes IT‘.
In both their perception and execution of IT services the functional area of the business can drastically change as a result of implementing SharePoint.
The impact SharePoint has on IT as a functional area of the business is an interesting one. There is [read].
Posted: Thu, May 27th '10 |
The Seven Most Important (Non Technical) SharePoint Success Factors
Richard Harbridge
This Saturday I will be speaking at SharePoint Saturday DC . Here is a snapshot of what we (because I always involve the audience) will be discussing:
My goals when I present are:
To give everyone who comes to my presentations something new (insight, tip, trick, etc) regardless of their experience/level.
To be entertaining and engaging.
To passionately promote the importance of non technical SharePoint support.
The SharePoint community has grown considerably in the last few years. From [read].
Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
Nailing a Technology Sale (My Old Mistake and What I Learned)
Richard Harbridge
The other day I took part in a wonderful event at Microsoft where fellow presenters and I performed short presentations. These presentations were constructively criticized by fellow speakers and Microsoft staff on how effective our presentation was, and how we could improve the way we presented it.
I had about 15 to 20 minutes to prepare my presentation which was entitled:
Nailing a Technology Sale: The Mistake I Used to Make Selling a Technology Solution and What I Learned…
The key t [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 16th '10 |
SharePoint 2007 vs SharePoint 2010 (Comparison)
Richard Harbridge
When trying to provide a quick comparison of 2007 to 2010 today I was unable to find a consolidated quick view of what features are in 2010, and what are in 2007. I have taken the liberty of copying the information contained within multiple pages of Microsoft’s SharePoint site and within their documents into a single reference page here:
SharePoint 2007 vs SharePoint 2010
I intend to keep it up to date and add things that I think Microsoft may have missed in the future or that the commun [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 30th '10 |
Should I Plan on Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 and How Soon?
Richard Harbridge
This is the question that so many businesses, and SharePoint stakeholders (those involved in a current, or future SharePoint implementation) are asking. The answer is always ‘it depends’.
My answer/warning to all businesses: “Much faster than you might expect or think.”
What I am going to explain will not change the fact that the answer to the question “when should we upgrade or plan on upgrading” is still going to be ‘it depends’.
Here are some si [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 30th '10 |
Measuring Mood by Messages and Content within an Enterprise
Richard Harbridge
Otherwise known as Sentiment Analysis.
It’s an interesting topic and openly debated as to whether or not it is reliable or effective information can be gleaned/discovered and then analyzed. In fact there is a Symposium coming up in April (and many other events) on Sentiment Analysis.
Here are some thoughts you may/or may not find interesting on it.
Sentiment Analysis in the Enterprise:
Similar to the process of measuring mood/sentiment on twitter. Where positive and negative language [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 25th '10 |
New Blog Site! This will be my last entry on this one.
Richard Harbridge
Great news! I will now be blogging at http://www.rharbridge.com which is my new blog site. This is a major move for myself as I intend to try and focus on blogging on other topics besides just SharePoint in the future, so I didn’t want to clutter this one.
I will be leaving this site intact with all of it’s entries (so it doesn’t break anyone linking to it), but I would love for anyone and everyone to come to my new site and let me know what they think. How can it be improved? [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 23rd '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Glossary, Terminology and Acronyms
Richard Harbridge
Some time ago I posted a blog post about SharePoint terms (from 2007 days) to help people get their minds around the language we tend to use when speaking about, or explaining SharePoint. It was entitled SharePoint Terminology and you can read it here.
So what has changed in SharePoint 2010? What new terms should we be aware of? In this post I will do my best to re-hash that older list specifically as it pertains to SharePoint 2010.
Why am I writing these terms and sharing them?
I could write [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 23rd '10 |
Welcome to my new blog!
Richard Harbridge
Maybe you are familiar with my old wordpress.com hosted blog called SharePointKB? If not then you might want to check it out for some older content by me. In the meantime for those of you who already know about it…
I was finally able to manage getting around to setting up my blog site. This will build over time, but I am excited about how much more I can share with the world, and how much more permanent/real this feels over my previous blog.
Stay tuned for more updates!
Richard Harbridge [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 23rd '10 |
SharePoint Camp in Toronto on March 20th
Richard Harbridge
If you live in the Toronto area and like learning, technology, SharePoint, or wonderful people you NEED to come to SharePoint camp on March 20th.
http://www.torontosharepointcamp.com/Pages/Default.aspx
Go ahead, register at the link above. I’ll wait here patiently.
I attended it last year and gave the event a 5 star review: http://sharepointkb.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/toronto-sharepoint-camp-review-5-stars/
For me personally this was really my first ‘community conference’ and [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 11th '10 |
SPC09 and The Mississauga SharePoint User Group
Richard Harbridge
Well the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas is over. I will be watching the many recorded sessions I didn’t get to see (which was quite a few of them) and really enjoyed the opportunity of talking with so many familiar faces in the SharePoint community as well as a bunch of ones I had not met before. I even got to be on camera a couple times thanks to Dux’s great “what would you do if SharePoint never existed” videos (http://duxquax.com/what-rharbridge-would-do-if-sh [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 27th '09 |
SharePoint Conference 2009
Richard Harbridge
For anyone interested I am posting my schedule (and will try and update it) with where I will be/what I will be doing at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas next week in terms of Sessions. It was a very difficult selection process since so many sessions looked good, but I have decided upon these ones for a number of reasons and will watch the many hours of recorded sessions for other ones. If you are also going to any of these sessions let me know so we can exchange notes and thoughts in foll [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 14th '09 |
Get the Productivity Hub for SharePoint
Richard Harbridge
So over the past while I have been raving about how happy Microsoft has made me with their announcement for continued support/updates to the productivity hub. Well I realized I hadn’t even mentioned it on my blog here.
So now I am.
This is a bit of old news, but in case you haven’t heard about it…
The Productivity Hub is a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that offers training materials for end-users. It has blogs, discussion groups, a coach ‘program’ [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 16th '09 |
SharePoint Keyboard Shortcuts
Richard Harbridge
One of those things I often see people surprised by, or forgetting about is the usefulness of keyboard shortcuts when working with applications. It can save you time by removing the need to navigate menu’s, and scroll the mouse all around the page. Often the only way you can cause certain behavior is by using key combination’s on your keyboard. So it’s always good to know what keyboard shortcuts exist and how they can be used with the application you are using.
SharePoint has l [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 11th '09 |
jQuery Hover for Multiple Buttons/Images
Richard Harbridge
It’s been awhile since I have posted something with code up here. I figured a small post on a simple jQuery exercise that might help someone out.
The goal of this exercise is simple:
We want to have a hover effect to make ‘grey’ images become ‘colored’ when the mouse hovers over them.
The tools we will need:
jQuery library (http://jquery.com/), a webpage and some -grey and -clr (color) images.
Here are a few we will use in this exercise.
Here are some fu [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 13th '09 |
Site Managers (Expectations, Roles and Responsibilities)
Richard Harbridge
Just linking to a guest post I did for End User SharePoint: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1881
Here is the opening from the article:
A challenge with SharePoint for site managers, site administrators, or site owners is understanding their own role, it’s responsibilities, and what expectations come with being a ‘site owner, manager, or administrator’.
Before I go into what you can do from a Governance perspective, and related challenges I would like to use a quote from Mark Miller (fr [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 12th '09 |
Closing (or X’ing) is not Deleting Webparts
Richard Harbridge
SharePoint WebPart pages often have ‘Closed’ WebParts being loaded everytime the page loads because the page editor may have incorrectly ‘closed’ a WebPart rather than ‘deleting’ the WebPart. (Or never removes it after closing it.)
Everyone who works with SharePoint sees and most likely runs into this (often ).
This is by no means ‘new’. In fact it’s been around since back in the 2003 days and here are a couple good posts that already exi [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 4th '09 |
SharePoint 2010
Richard Harbridge
I cannot express enough how happy I am that I am now able to talk about SharePoint 2010. Trying to bite my tongue, and keep it all in for the past months has been really difficult because there are so many things that have been greatly improved and are just so darned exciting. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek
SharePoint Ribbon:
My all time favorite is something that seems relatively simple/non technical but has a huge impact which is the inclusion of the Ribbon interface into Shar [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
SharePoint Saturday Success
Richard Harbridge
My presentation/session was called SharePoint Success and that is exactly what SharePoint Saturday in Toronto was. From all the incredible people I spoke with at the event it seemed like everyone learned new things and made some great new friends.
I want to make a special thank you to my fellow speakers for making me feel extremely welcomed and for providing some really great discussions throughout the event, feedback after, and for joining me for a delightful SharePint (twice! ). Here are some [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
SharePoint Saturday Toronto Schedule!
Richard Harbridge
Check it out! The schedule for SharePoint Saturday has been released!
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/toronto/Public Documents/SharePoint Saturday Toronto Schedule.pdf
Excited yet?
The hardest part will be choosing between such incredible sessions. I know I am going to have some trouble picking anyways.
Speaking of sessions I intend for anyone coming to mine to take away at least 3 new things. This is my challenge to myself. So if I don’t succeed I want you to hold me to it (with a knife [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09 |
SharePoint Saturday in Toronto (Speakers and Sessions)
Richard Harbridge
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/toronto/default.aspx
SharePoint Saturday is July 11th in Mississauaga
(This is right beside Toronto in the province of Ontario, in the country of Canada, it also happens to be where I live ).
If you read this blog, then you are probably someone who will enjoy and learn a TON from the wonderful speakers at SharePoint Saturday. I know I learn new things from many of the speakers on a regular basis. It’s a FREE event. Think about it, these speakers are expe [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 |
Simple (AMAZING!) Resume Tips and Tricks
Richard Harbridge
I received a fair amount of verbal feedback/discussion on my post about mind mapping your resume and using IBIS maps etc on cover letters (http://sharepointkb.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/mind-map-of-resume-ibis-map-of-cover-letter-do-it/ ) and was surprised by how few people used alternative ideas like this to provide more impact to their existing resume. (Google searches has some pretty poor (but funny) results.)
We live in a competitive world. We are currently in an economic recession. Now is the [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 23rd '09 |
Selling SharePoint Services Internally
Richard Harbridge
SharePoint is BIG. It’s a large complex platform that enables users to create a limitless number of possible solutions. It is also scary, largely unknown to many people, and difficult to understand how to use/apply successfully for a specific business need.
If your organization has SharePoint odds are you have some SharePoint “Experts” who know SharePoint very well. In a way that group is a consulting company internally. Often they identify opportunities, gather requirements, build solutio [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 10th '09 |
I Use Twitter
Richard Harbridge
So the other day I got an email from someone asking me why I don’t blog as much as I used to (historically). The reason isn’t because I have been too busy (although I have been plenty busy), rather it is because I use twitter now religiously through the week.
Twitter fulfills most of the reasons why I began blogging. It allows me to share ideas, thoughts, and opinions easily and allows me to also keep a record of them for me to review and use at a later date. Since one of the main re [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
The Importance of ‘Tuning’ for a More Successful SharePoint
Richard Harbridge
One of those things that I have seen from time to time is organizations who have implemented SharePoint not examining the usage statistics, feedback, surveys, or measuring user adoption correctly or on a continual basis. This is extremely important because it allows us to adjust, shift, and improve our SharePoint deployment over time.
From the very beginning of a SharePoint project (or any project) you should determine how you can measure it’s success. The typical two things that we measur [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 2nd '09 |
Service Pack 2 Issue and Admitting a Mistake
Richard Harbridge
First of all, for anyone out there that doesn’t know Service Pack 2 for SharePoint causes the expiration date to be incorrectly activated so that it will expire in 180 days. Here is the announcement on the SharePoint team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx.You can check if you are effected by looking at the services enabled in your farm. To fix it you just basically reset your key.
While it is sort of funny, and [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
Updating Content Editor Content with Word
Richard Harbridge
There are a number of reasons why users might be using content editors for page content in a SharePoint site. However this creates a fair amount of overhead when users can’t get the content to ‘look just right’. Often without HTML edit abilities users become frustrated and will give up or push content out that has been akwardly formatted.
One of the ways you might try out to help with these kinds of issues is getting users to modify and update content editor content in word. I [read].
Posted: Tue, May 19th '09 |
Imagine Interactive Visual SharePoint Wikis, and Discussion Boards
Richard Harbridge
So earlier this morning I twittered at how terrific I thought http://debategraph.org/ was. This is one of those things where I expect it to become a normal thing in the future.
As information continues to grow in organizations and across the world it becomes harder and harder to search and more importantly consumer that information. A ways back I talked about Corporate Memory (http://sharepointkb.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/corporate-memory-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/) and how it’s best as [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09 |
SharePoint Knights and Award/Recognition Programs
Richard Harbridge
I decided to blog about this because I figured I might as well give my two cents on this and clearly illustrate why I completely and wholeheartedly would support almost any program such as the one called SharePoint Knights proposed by community members and Joel (http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=218#Comments).
To me the concept represented by the SharePoint Knights order, and any other award/recognition program designed for and based on community contribution is a wonderful [read].
Posted: Wed, May 6th '09 |
User Unable to Create Page (User has Full Control)
Richard Harbridge
Ran into an odd little issue this morning where my users in a publishing site could not create new pages. The reason they couldn’t create a new page turned out to be because they did not have read rights on the masterpage gallery.
The symptoms are basically access denied pages when any user with full control or design rights chooses to create a page in a publishing site. When they create the page they get the typical “Error: Access Denied” page and can either sign in as another [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 30th '09 |
Institutions vs Collaboration
Richard Harbridge
A friend of mine brought this TED presentation to my attention today and it is amazing. I highly recommend watching this if you have ever been involved in SharePoint or any sort of new technology.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
This may actually be the best description/articulation of what is going on in the world right now.
Hope you enjoy as much as I did,
Richard Harbridge
Oh and P.S - Service Pack 2 is now available for download. I ha [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
My First Podcast: SharePoint Start and Learn
Richard Harbridge
Download SharePoint Start and Learn: http://zb0xhg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pqw03yuxsNsbJZ7uSflfDXsMoxCKdi2Nuj03h0zqkC2WUNAUmJ4sAtPChBgSIDATCnGQxpB8ohBOcbRjjwGj9DRBvc-N2_o8O/01-%20SharePoint%20Start%20and%20Learn.mp3?download
I just finished my first podcast which is 13 minutes or so on how to go about learning SharePoint if you are starting out. This has no specific target audience and can benefit consultants learning SharePoint, end users, developers, it directors etc.
Please let me know if you [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 17th '09 |
Mind Map of Resume? IBIS Map of Cover Letter? Do it.
Richard Harbridge
Want to drastically improve your chances at nailing that new or better job? Try some of these self proclaimed totally awesome ideas. Don’t think you have to stop using the old fashioned resume and cover letter. Just attach these to the existing ones you use for extra effect.
Mind Map Your Resume - Diagram Who You Are
Create a Mind Map of yourself, and your ‘resume’. This makes you stand out, and it allows people to digest information about you as a person in a creative and so [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 16th '09 |
SharePoint Not Always “The Answer”
Richard Harbridge
Dun dun dunnnn.
As the post title suggests I want to talk briefly about a mentality that I am starting to see pop up everywhere and I want to hopefully illustrate that while SharePoint is totally “sexy awesome” it is not always the best choice for solving an issue.
Anyone who has worked with SharePoint or any technology for that matter for a long enough time understands that it is easy to get into the mentality of ‘thinking SharePoint’. That is the mentality that we immed [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09 |
SharePoint 2007/WSS SP2 for April 28th
Richard Harbridge
Don’t worry I won’t go into all the details. The original announcement is located here: http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/2009/04/14/service-pack-2-for-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-april-28th.aspx all the interesting details can be found in the above post as well.
Suffice to say lots of important updates (which we all love). Don’t forget that many of the fixes for known issues can be found in the latest cumulative update for SharePoint Server. http://support.microsoft.com [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09 |
Customize Look And Feel With Calculated Columns
Richard Harbridge
Ever wanted to ‘Color Code’ a SharePoint calendar? Or have certain list items display differently then other list items based on their column values?
One of those things that every user needs is the ability to customize the look and feel of many SharePoint elements, and sometimes it just doesn’t make sense to wait for a SharePoint team, developers, or architects to work out a long term solution.
Sometimes you just need a quick and dirty way of doing something as a one off to illustrate a p [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 14th '09 |
SharePoint Designer Free!
Richard Harbridge
While this is all over the net I figured I should also post it here. SharePoint Designer which was previously a product that replaced front page is now a completely free downloadable product.
This tool can help ANY user who uses SharePoint to expand their capabilities. From page editing, page layout and master page creation to the implementation of custom workflows this is an excellent tool for business and technical users to use in their SharePoint environment. Keep in mind that extra usage rep [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 2nd '09 |
Development Specializations, Enhancements, and Experience
Richard Harbridge
I found this interesting and can see many different benefits and advantages to using visual organization techniques and spatial representation for development activities.
Code Canvas: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Code-Canvas-Spatial-Representations-of-Code-107958.shtml
This is a very important concept and I really hope it goes much further than this in the coming years.
We need more creative ideas like this to take place. The concept of being able to see visually represented relationships in c [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 30th '09 |
SharePoint Ads
Richard Harbridge
Many people have probably already heard this via Joel’s blog or the twitter community but I just wanted to reiterate it here.
http://www.sharepointads.com/
A wonderful new site/initiative to help SharePoint specific organizations and bloggers/communities to gain mutual benefit from one another through advertising.
There are two things I want to talk about on this - Why is this so awesome? What does this mean?
The first is the obvious growth of the SharePoint community over the past few yea [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 25th '09 |
Social Enterprise, Social Computing, Social Technology and All That Jazz
Richard Harbridge
Over the past several weeks I have had the pleasure of speaking with and hearing from many people passionate and experienced in the social computing world. The message everyone is giving from the general public, to the successful corporations and competitors to the companies who specialize in this emerging/growing field of Social Computing seems to be pretty consistent.
If you don’t learn it, understand it, and begin taking part in more social computing. You will fall behind and lose competiti [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 23rd '09 |
Free SuperPreview - Start Testing All IE Versions on One Box
Richard Harbridge
For those who might not have watched the notes etc from yesterday’s MIX keynote (http://live.visitmix.com). One of the nice features of vNext expression blend is it’s ability to test cross browser in the program. This is a very slick feature that saves time, and lives. Lives because any css designer, or developer who does a lot of branding can be driven to murder from browser specific css issues.
The best part? You don’t have to wait until the next version of Expression Web to [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 19th '09 |
Understanding Field Controls and Web Parts
Richard Harbridge
Andrew just had his new MSDN article on Field Controls vs Web Parts, and their application in publishing sites released on msdn.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd571480.aspx
If you have, or are planning on building a publishing site this is an extremely important article for you to read as it clearly outlines many of the reasons why field controls may be a better choice than webparts when designing and setting up your publishing sites.
Great work from Andrew on making this information m [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 19th '09 |
Canvas for OneNote <3
Richard Harbridge
I am in love with Canvas for OneNote.
http://www.officelabs.com/projects/canvasforonenote/Pages/default.aspx?id34kndf
Canvas for OneNote allows you to basically navigate around and work in your OneNote workbooks in a much more visual manner than the classic tab system of OneNote. I have never been good with tabs. In fact if you came to my office you would notice that every single bit of wall space is covered with diagrams and notes. This is how I work. I even have a pattern, the important things [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09 |
Microsoft Directions Tour Reminder
Richard Harbridge
So I found out that the Directions Tour still hasn’t filled up in it’s many locations. If you haven’t registered for this I recommend taking a solid look at it. This is a free series of sessions targeted to helping you utilize and discover the power/benefits of Microsoft technology for your organization. You also get the latest edition of Directions on Microsoft Enterprise Software Roadmap for free for attending!
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/smb/RoadmapTour/default.aspx Regi [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 11th '09 |
Projector + Sensors + Human Interaction = A Great Interface Idea
Richard Harbridge
This talk has been creating a big splash at TED and I absolutely think it’s an exciting possibility. I highly recommend giving it a quick view (less than 9 minutes total).
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
The key is the low cost, it being available anywhere, and it being the next step (probably) in mobile surface technology.
Hope you enjoy as much as I did,
Richard Harbridge [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 11th '09 |
Style Group of Webparts, or Single Webpart (CSS Branding Tip/Trick)
Richard Harbridge
Heather Solomon has always given a ton of support and advice to the community around SharePoint branding. Recently she did a post on how to style for an individual webpart or group of webparts that uses css attribute selectors.
http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/Controlling-Single-Web-Parts-with-CSS.aspx
Absolutely clever thinking and a must read for anyone doing SharePoint branding. I just wish I had thought of this a few months ago.
Best of luck in your branding,
Richard Harbridge [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 9th '09 |
Commerce Server 2009 and SharePoint (SharePoint E-Commerce)
Richard Harbridge
I am sure anyone out there who has dealt with E-Commerce is aware of Microsoft Commerce Server (if you aren’t check it out).
Way back in 2007 Microsoft released a nice white paper describing the integration between MOSS 2007 and Commerce Server 2007 (can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2AEB1A5E-43B8-483B-8CB2-86C0E82BF0AB&displaylang=en). There was a lot of feedback and requests for more integration options (especially with the explosive growth [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 5th '09 |
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