August 30, 2011
IRW Systems is pleased to announce a free seminar on the features and benefits of implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Project Server in your organisation.
Topics to be covered are:
SharePoint 2010 overview
SharePoint 2010 across the public and private sectors
Latest SharePoint user notes and technical insights
Project Server and Enterprise Project Management solutions
SharePoint and Project Server integration
This free seminar will run on Wednesday 28th September 2011 in the Microsoft Office in Edinburgh.
Please visit our events page to find out more or to register your attendance.
August 10, 2011
IRW have developed an effective 'Quick-Start' programme for SharePoint understanding and adoption within an organisation.
IRW’s KickStart for SharePoint is an approach designed for businesses or departments that want to utilise the core SharePoint product features and explore the possible maximisation of the product. The KickStart for SharePoint includes the following deliverables:
•Project Definition, Initiation and Requirements Definition
•Analysis and consultancy work regarding these requirements
•Initial SharePoint customisation and deployment
•Training/Knowledge Transfer sessions
•Workshop and presentation on options, benefits and roadmap going forward
•Project Report, Benefits review and forward planning
IRW’s KickStart for SharePoint provides a number of benefits; it allows your organisation to see the potential of Microsoft Office SharePoint, gain acceptance and buy-in from users, and the business, but from a very low initial cost base. The length of engagement is 10 days. Additional days can be added as needed after the initial engagement.
For more information visit IRW Systems and SharePoint
IRW introduce a new toolkit designed for blue light services such as the police and the NHS.
iCERP Key Features:
•Your site locations
•Resources/teams per location
•Gaps and shortfalls of resources
•Spare or free resources
•Skills/qualifications per post and resource
•Planning, advising/requesting and implementing resource moves/transfers to resolve shortfalls or gaps
•A detailed log of all events, allocations and transactions
•Dashboard view of key resources, issues and locations
•Integrates to existing systems to seamlessly transact and communicate the allocations/reallocations
•Both a graphical summary of the whole area and a set of lists to categorise sites with a certain state together, e.g. staff deficiencies
iCERP Key Business Benefits:
•Improved operating efficiency and speed of response by giving real-time visualisation of resources
•More effective visibility, use and deployment of resources
•Assistance in optimising and achieving resource and team completion aims
•Full traceability and trail of activities
i-CERP is built on a foundation of Microsoft SharePoint, SQL Server and BizTalk.
June 09, 2011
IRVINE, Calif., June 2, 2011 - PSIGEN Software, Inc., the technical leader in SharePoint scanning and capture, announced the release of an Enhanced Feature Set for SharePoint. The new release provides unmatched “out of the box” features, with a focus on automated document routing and Managed Metadata. PSI:Capture now provides a capture solution that allows dynamic routing to SharePoint sites, libraries and folders, as well as setting content type and file naming based on document characteristics. Along with routing enhancements, the product allows the ability to automatically populate the SharePoint Term Store based on information extracted from documents.
“We found that our SharePoint partners and customers were looking for the next level in automation and integration, and wanted to fully leverage the SharePoint feature set.” said Steve Boals, V.P. of Sales for PSIGEN. “Our product now provides enhanced document routing and integration with SharePoint Managed Metadata that is unmatched in the market.”
SharePoint Scanning and Capture
May 23, 2011
Be the First to get Office 365
?Discover how your organisation can benefit from the power of cloud productivity today.
Award-winning Microsoft Partner Content and Code invite you to an exclusive seminar on May 30th at Broadgate Tower. Come and join us to see Office 365 in action and learn how your business can save time, money and free up valued resources.
Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of the most trusted communications and collaboration products that your users already count on every day, giving them anywhere-access to email, documents, contacts, and calendars on nearly any device. Office 365 includes Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Lync Online and Microsoft Office Professional Plus. The pay-as-you-go pricing options give you predictability and flexibility for all or part of your organisation and allow you to experience the seamless integration across services and devices.
For more information:
http://www.contentandcode.com/whoweare/events/Pages/be-the-first-to-get-office-365.aspx
May 22, 2011
March 21, 2011
1OrgChart 2010 is an Organisational chart solution for SharePoint 2010 that provides you with the fastest and most efficient way to create organisational and departmental charts within your SharePoint environment.
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March 10, 2011
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook is the latest addition to Packt's Cookbook series that provides solutions to the most common problems encountered while administering SharePoint in book and eBook formats. Written by Peter Serzo, the book is packed with many simple yet effective recipes for improving collaboration and content management with SharePoint.To read more about it, please visit: www.packtpub.com/microsoft-sharepoint-2010-administration-cookbook/book
February 08, 2011
HarePoint Password Change for SharePoint allows end-users to change their own passwords in a SharePoint site and notify users when their passwords are about to expire. Simply add the web part to your intranet or extranet SharePoint portal and let authorized users easily manage their passwords.
Product features:
- Allows users to change passwords on their own without the administrator's help.
- Customizable e-mail notifications when password is about to expire.
- Warning messages if the password does not meet company security policy.
- Password policy description publishing.
- Logs all password management activity.
January 19, 2011
Aspose.Network for SharePoint allows users to Convert email message files from EML to MSG or vice versa within the SharePoint’s Document Library, Synchronize files from SharePoint document library with FTP server and Synchronize emails from SharePoint's custom list of emails with POP3, IMAP or Microsoft Exchange Server. It also supports Extraction of attachments from email & FTP servers with SSL. Attachments, embedded images & formatting of text are preserved in the conversion process.
More about Aspose.Network for SharePoint
- Homepage of Aspose.Network for SharePoint: http://www.aspose.com/categories/sharepoint-components/aspose.network-for-sharepoint/default.aspx
- Download Aspose.Network for SharePoint: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/73/sharepoint-components/aspose.network-for-sharepoint/default.aspx
- Online documentation of Aspose.Network for SharePoint at: http://www.aspose.com/documentation/sharepoint-components/aspose.network-for-sharepoint/index.html
November 09, 2010
The starter master pages are a must have if you are doing serious custom design work. Updated last month.
July 22, 2010
Randy Drisgill has announced his version of the "minimal" master page and has released it as a codeplex project. Very useful if you are branding SharePoint.
Joel breaks down PowerShell into three levels and shows how to approach each. Worth a read if your organization doesn't have someone that is a PowerShell expert yet.
Richard has created a one page comparison of 2007 vs. 2010.
July 21, 2010
Shane has a great write-up on configuring your profile import. It helped me get past a permission issue and if you read it first will save you some time!
Technet has a great overview of what is new in SharePoint Foundation 2010 with links to more details for each subject. Must read for anyone upgrading from 2007.
Some helpful tips on 7 lessons that Microsoft learned.
July 20, 2010
An interesting read on how to pass SharePoint exams.
A useful list of upcoming SharePoint conferences to go to.
May 26, 2010
After trying to find the April Cumulative Update for way too much time, I finally found their new sharepoint updates site. It really shouldn't be that hard to find that site, but the actual site is very well laid out and exactly what I needed.
May 19, 2010
A great look at the big improvements to the social networking aspect of SharePoint 2010. Might be a great way to sell the upgrade.
The Channel 9 team has release a promising SharePoint 2010 Developers course.
April 22, 2010
Today is a great day! Microsoft finally released the complete Office 2010 experience on Technet and MSDN.
Read more at: http://www.bart-timmermans.nl
When someone mentions SharePoint to you, what do you do? Do you think of a Document Management System? Do you think Content Management? Do you think Collaboration? Do you find somebody else to talk to? For many people SharePoint is still somewhat of a mystery, they've heard of it, but don't really know what it is. For others it is a painful memory from a few years ago, when the promise of easy web development was not fulfilled. Yet for some, it is the hottest thing in the Microsoft armoury at present. Dave McMahon explains why.
March 24, 2010
Hi, I have spent good time on SharePoint 2010 client object model and new features in SharePoint 2010. Each Client OM has a nice example and how it works. Please check it and let me know the feedback.
http://praveenbattula.blogspot.com/search/label/SharePoint%202010
March 02, 2010
provides with three key benefits:
* Multisource support. Professional Calendar combines events from different SharePoint Lists, from any SharePoint Site, in one Calendar view.
* Using different colors for evens. Professional Calendar allows specifying different color sets for events type of your need or use default one.
* On-the-Fly AJAX-enabled features, including adding, editing, dragging, resizing and deleting events in Outlook 2007 like style.
ArtfulBits Professional Calendar Web Part is user friendly and has simple interface, allowing users to easily create new calendar events with a single click! Editing features make working with SharePoint easy and pleasant. To change the date of an event, you simply drag and drop it to the appropriate calendar cell. To change the event time frame, simply resize the event to the correct duration of the event.
Look at www.artfulbits.com for more excellent features.
November 16, 2009
Microsoft releases SharePoint 2010 beta on technet and MSDN. More information here: http://www.bart-timmermans.nl/
November 15, 2009
In today’s uncertain economic climates, decision makers are challenged to manage the resources and at the same time provide exemplary service to customers. Many organizations focus on cost cutting to keep up with this uncertainty, but while doing that sometimes trade dangerously on loss of productivity and efficiency of the operations.Organizations that have to stay nimble but also maintain a high degree of control during the slowdown, and come out winner during the recovery would need to consider taking help of IT. For more Visit: http://ezinearticles.com/?Five-Ways-to-Save-Your-IT-Cost-Using-Sharepoint&id=3211776
November 12, 2009
Alan Pelz-Sharpe thinks the SharePoint bubble could bust soon as real world experience builds and shows that SharePoint is like any other product.
November 10, 2009
Not 100% SharePoint, but a very useful tool for many SharePoint/IIS adminstrators - URL rewrite module v2 Release Candidate.
A collection of video courses on MSDN Channel 9.
October 29, 2009
Where does everyone get their fix for SharePoint news? I use the Microsoft SharePoint site (not sure why though, but I have it bookmarked!), Alltop, Twitter Search, and of course SharePoint Share. What else is there?
With 2010 we will see two professional level certifications allowing administrators/developers to be certified as a MCITP and MCPD for SharePoint. There will be no upgrade path from the MCTS 2007 to MCITP/MCPD 2010. (Via Niall Merrigan)
Jan Tielens looks into customizing the ECB (Edit Control Block, i.e. the drop down menu that you see on documents and list items) using Javascript: Part 1: Adding custom links, Part 2: Adding hierarchical items, Part 3: Adding context sensitive items.
Why might you need a UDC file? You can’t make a cross-domain connection from a domain security browser form unless your data connection uses a UDC file. See the long version, the anatomy of a UDC file, and lastly how to author a UDC file within InfoPath. (via InfoPath Team Blog)
October 28, 2009
Are folders good or bad? The answer is it depends. That will always be the answer.
October 27, 2009
All the out of the box Content Types, Columns, and List/Libraries on one easy to read/print Poster.
Chris O'Brien looks at what is coming with some great links to new technology/features we can start using in SharePoint 2010.
Simply Hired seems to be a great place to find SharePoint jobs.
10 reasons to consider FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. (via Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog)
October 26, 2009
Gary shows us the 492 new PowerShell cmdlets that ship with SharePoint 2010 and why this will change how we manage SharePoint.
The GUI based ITaCS SharePoint Post Installation Tool (PIT) automates the most common post installation tasks on a WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 server.
A useful reference if you are working with out of the box content types - list of all the content types and their ID/descriptions.
October 20, 2009
Pre-register today and get notified when SharePoint 2010 Beta becomes available in November. ?Read more at www.bart-timmermans.nl
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