I’ll admit I haven’t had much time to develop or write code these past few years. Architecting SharePoint has been a more than full time job – but I do miss the midnight hours pounding away at the keyboard, run, compile, doh! For those of you who share my passion here are a few important [...]

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I just finished putting together curriculum for a new class I will be teaching, and I am so excited. SharePoint has many, many capabilities – many of which are totally under utilized. This course focuses on the capabilities applied to a project management perspective such as Issue Tracking lists, Risk Management lists,  Change Requests, and [...]

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Today I had a client ask about the specific steps involved in updating their SharePoint server. Obviously it is important to update the operating system as well as the SQL Server. But SharePoint has several of its own updates you need to be aware of. There is a download package from April 2009 and the [...]

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If I had a dime for every time a client asked me “do you have any information on ROI for SharePoint?”. You know how the story goes. Part of the challenge of determining an ROI for such a huge technology, is I don’t know exactly why you are going to use SharePoint. It has so many [...]

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I’ve written a few blogs on Web parts, but today I found this amazing site that seems to have it all. It covers Web parts of 2003, 2007 and even 2010. Not much more to say but check it out.

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One of the biggest challenges in SharePoint is permissions. Without proper architecture you can have broken permissions from a top-level site to a subsite, from the site to the list or library, and from the list or library to the item or document. Whew, did you catch all that? Point being that permissions can get [...]

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My last blog focused on ShaerPoint 2010 and all the cool new sites where you can find information on the new technology. We do, however,  have to consider ALL of the companies that will not have the luxury of rolling out 2010 – but will have to upgrade from their existing SharePoint 2007 and in [...]

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Unless you have been in a cave the last few months, you’ve heard a buzz about SharePoint 2010 around the water cooler. Obviously a main topic at the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas, but also all over facebook, linkedin, and twitter. I’m excited to see and hear about all the new features, as well as [...]

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