Dialogue Mapping: The Ying to SharePoint Yang
I don’t know about you, but as a SharePoint practitioner, I love the fact that I do not do SharePoint full-time anymore. I’d like to take some time to explain why this is the case, and how my non IT …
Category: Governance
Un-Managed Metadata: A couple of gotchas
As the SharePoint 2010 dust settles, gushing praise and inflated expectations are slowly replaced by the cold hard reality, as people come to grips with the limitations of the product. One such area is with the managed metadata service. Don’t …
Improve your stakeholders “Crapness Calibration ™” for SharePoint Information Architecture success
Hi All Here is my simple, patent pending method to use to help users design good SharePoint sites. It combines two very effective IA methods into one and its amazing how it turns people from wanting 1990’s era sites complete …
A different kind of SharePoint Governance Master Class in London and Dublin
The background Over the last three years, my career trajectory had altered somewhat where I spent half my time as a SharePoint practitioner, doing all of the things that us SharePoint practitioners do, and the other half was spent in …
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Announcing the SamePage Alliance
This is really great, and something that’s been a long time coming. On behalf of my partners at Seven Sigma, I’m announcing the formation of the SamePage Alliance. A strategic partnership with Seven Sigma and 21Apps, founded by Andrew Woodward, …
Share2010 – A new kind of SharePoint conference
Having spoken at the odd SharePoint event over the last three years or so, I’ve always lamented on the lack of a purely business focused SharePoint conference. Whilst the conferences I attend do cater for non technology oriented topics – …
Why me? Web part errors on new web applications
Oh man, it’s just not my week. After nailing a certificate issue yesterday that killed user profile provisioning, I get an even better one today! I’ve posted it here as a lesson on how not to troubleshoot this issue! The …
More User Profile Sync issues in SP2010: Certificate Provisioning Fun
Wow, isn’t the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service just a barrel of laughs. Without a bit of context, when you compare it to SP2007, you can do little but shake your head in bewilderment at how complex it now appears. …
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Index index everywhere but not a result in sight.
I have been doing a bit more tech work than normal lately – SP2010 popularity I guess, and was asked to remediate a few issues on a problematic server that I hadn’t set up. The server in question had a …
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Also why I’ve been quiet…
I’m in an airport (again), typing this on my way back from my latest trip to New Zealand – a country I am loving more and more each time I go there. (Anywhere that I can go that uses the …