I ran across a situation today where a client wanted to store and manage dates that were earlier then 1900. The out of box SharePoint Date/Time metadata column doesn’t allow this. Without custom coding, your only option is to store this data as a single line of text. As you could imagine, there is problems …
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I would like to thank all those who worked so hard to make the SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley event successful. There were many great speakers, lots of vendor support and a good turn-out of “information hungry” SharePoint folks. As promised, I have added the presentation I delivered to my library for you to download and …
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I am speaking at the SharePoint Summit 2012 (Toronto) Conference this year! I am delivering 2, 3 hour tutorials on Monday, May 14th. Tutorial 1.3 – Architecting Information for SharePoint 2010 Regardless of the industry your organization is aligned with, if your goal is to use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as an Intranet and/or Document Management …
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Seth Early, from Early & Associates, wrote an interesting article about the purpose and use of a Reference Information Architecture. He then describes, in part, additional information architecture steps required to ultimately derive a physical SharePoint implementation model; content model, site structures and navigation elements. One area Seth touches on this article is the need …
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I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the San Francisco SharePoint User Group last night. It was held at the Mindjet office, downtown San Francisco, and we had a great group of attendees. I started the meeting by asking where they would like to start; An Intro to IA or IA Applied to SharePoint. …
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SharePoint Summit 2012 will give you a 360 degree view of the bestpractices and methodologies you will need to plan, implement and managesuccessful SharePoint-based solutions that will help meet yourorganizations business needs and be adopted by your end users. Conference sessions are structured to meet the needs of BusinessManagers, Information Architects, Project Managers, IT Managers, …
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I was asked today how to recover a SharePoint 2010 Passphrase. Unfortunately, there is no way to recover a Passphrase in SharePoint 2010. However, there is a very simple way to change it using PowerShell. Use the following PowerShell script to change your farm Passphrase. Before running this on your server, you will need machine-level …
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I was asked by Colligo to be a guest blogger and write a series on the topic of Enterprise Adoption of SharePoint. The first article in this series, Enterprise Adoption of SharePoint – Part 1, is now available on their site. I would like to thank Colligo for giving me the opportunity to do this …
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Recently I wrote an article about why I don’t like the use of folders in SharePoint Document Libraries. Some comments left on that article prompted me to describe one approach to using sub-sites instead of folders for managing documents. The specific comment I am referring to indicated they were managing thousands of clients documents, categorized …
06-13-2011 – Updated based on post comments. I am asked on a regular basis how I feel about the use of Document Library folders. To be honest, I always tell people “avoid them”. This response always stirs up controversy so I though I would write this article to help you better understand my thinking. Before …
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