Category: Sharepoint

ICS Solutions are offering seminars on the new SharePoint 2013 edition next month.  The events are being held on 4th December 2012 at Microsoft’s offices in Reading (United Kingdom)

“We’ll explore the features and benefits of the platform through in-depth discussions, demonstrations and usage scenarios. We’ll help you plan …

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the public beta of SharePoint 2013 (along with announcements about Office).  This developer’s overview has some more useful info about what to expect and covers a few different areas:

• Cloud App Model
• Familiar programming model using web standards
• Development tools
• Core platform enhancements
• Mobility
• Social

ICS are hosting three seminars with an introduction to SharePoint 2010.  The seminars are on January 24th (Basingstoke), 14th February (Reading) and 13th March (London) – all in the UK in 2012:

“The SharePoint 2010 Overview Seminar provides a quick start guide to everything you need to know to …

Jeff Carr, writing on the Earley & Associates Blog discusses 5 commonly held misconceptions about taxonomies and SharePoint:

• The store management tool is not really a substitute for true taxonomy management
• Taxonomy is an “IT Problem”
• Library personnel are best placed to design SharePoint taxonomies
• SharePoint taxonomies need to be

Microsoft SharePoint consultancy, ICS Solutions, are running a series of seminars addressing popular issues with SharePoint 2010 throughout late summer/autumn 2011.  Topics include: ‘SharePoint Online or On-premise: Which is right for you?’, ‘What you need to know about Collaboration and Social Computing with SharePoint 2010’ and ‘How to get control …

ICS Solutions are hosting a series of seminars on SharePoint 2010 in Reading and Basingstoke (UK) in June with specific reference to deciding whether to host in the Cloud or go for an ‘on premise’ installed edition:

“Microsoft SharePoint Server can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. This …

The Department of State 2011 SharePoint Conference: “Share the Power!” starts on Monday (16th May) in Washington DC (USA).  The conference has 30 speakers and the keynote from Dux Raymond will cover:

• Gaining buy-in for SharePoint projects from senior managers
• Identifying and prioritizing SharePoint business benefits (ROI)
• SharePoint planning and

Earley Associates are hosting a free webinar on SharePoint Content Clean Up & Migration on 8th December 2010 at 1pm (ET).  Speakers include John Bellegarde from Active Navigation and Seth Maslin of Earley Associates: The webinar will cover SharePoint migration topics such as:

• How to eliminate the ROT (redundant, obsolete

ICS Solutions are holding a range of seminars on SharePoint 2010 on December 8 2010 (Microsoft’s Victoria office in London), 27th January 2011, 15th February 2011 and 22nd March 2011 (all at Microsoft’s Soho office London) :

“Our SharePoint 2010 events offer a unique blend of technology, strategy and …

Chris McNulty from Knowledge Management Associates describes 9 rules for making effective use of Managed Metadata Services (MMS).  This is SharePoint 2010’s method for improving the consistency of tagging and metadata schemas across an enterprise implementation of SharePoint 2010.  These are taken from Chris’s book:  Sharepoint 2010 Consultant’s Handbook.…

Adriaan Bloem, writing on CMSWatch.com discusses how the cost of SharePont FAST 2010 might not be as cheap as the relatively modest licence fee suggests, especially when considering the costs of systems integrators – many of whom may have to use client projects to get up to speed:

“However, …

German SharePoint extensions vendor, Layer 2, have introduced “Tag Suggester” for SharePoint 2010.  The tool assists users with the process of tagging and categorising object in SharePoint.

Tag Suggester provides a range of content-based suggestions while tagging, analysing terminology taxonomies and metadata to present prospective relevant options for the …