14 April, 2013

SharePoint Pro | Updates



By Jason Himmelstein

When I initially sat down to start this article, I quickly realized that you can't begin to troubleshoot performance issues until you have a sound baseline to start with. Otherwise, the likelihood of you figuring out what is going wrong in the environment is extremely low. With this in mind, I decided to tackle this topic from a bit of a different perspective, examining what forms the base of a solid and well-performing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 farm and working backward from there.

Performance is a tremendously broad topic when you're talking about SharePoint 2010. End users frequently have concerns such as "Saving that form took too long," or "It felt like it took forever for me to upload a file," or -- my favorite -- "SharePoint feels slow." As IT pros, we rarely get specifics when people complain about performance; they expect us to fix problems instantly without any details of what's really going on.

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SharePoint Pro | Updates


By Dan Holme

Yesterday, Microsoft released Office 2013, Office 365 Home Premium, and Office 365 University—a significant chunk of the “Wave 15” Microsoft Office portfolio. But business and enterprise plans of Office 365 are on hold for another month.

The general availability milestone for consumers means that Office 2013 is more officially in the wild, now. This is just one of many milestones, and there are many thousands of individuals—myself included—who have been using Office 2013 for months, whether through MSDN, TechNet, or Microsoft volume licenses, or through the suite’s inclusion on the Surface. Many thousands—myself included again—have also been working with the new version of Office 365 through preview accounts obtained during the Consumer Preview period, or through Enterprise plans.

This week, I’ll share some of the details and resources related to this release, which in my opinion is a “no brainer” for certain scenarios—especially for those of us who are the tech support for our FFANs (Friends & Family Area Networks). I’ll also address some of the rumors about the impact today’s release has on your business and your users (read: licensing!). Next week, I’ll cover and clarify the dizzying array of Office 365 offerings for business.

For those playing the “Where in the world is Dan?” game, I’m in London this week, speaking at the SharePoint User Group UK on Thursday. I fly to lovely Copenhagen on Friday for the European SharePoint Conference where I will deliver my new SharePoint 2013 Collaboration MasterClass, a keynote with Christian Buckley, and three governance sessions.

Due to this week’s Office release news, I’m going to put off sharing the next chapter in my Facebook Catfish saga which, by the way, Facebook has yet to address adequately! (MAJOR #FAIL in protecting their users!)

So, on a brighter note, the release of the stunning Office 365 and Office 2013 applications!

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By Caroline Marwitz

Because my brain has been totally corrupted by using Twitter, what else but a tweet came to mind while I was reading the just-released Metalogix SharePoint survey:
"SharePoint content explodes, admins unhurt.

Actually, by rights it would more accurately have said "Users going ape-crazy with putting content into SharePoint, admins hopeful #SharePoint 2013 can help, if their organizations will cough up the money for it and allow for decent planning time, and by the way, ANY downtime while migrating = fail."
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Additional Resources
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SharePoint Pro | Updates.


By Michael T. Smith

Microsoft SharePoint quickly spreads through the enterprise because it’s very easy to use. Unfortunately, that often means that it’s easy to abuse, too.

To manage the ever-growing spread of SharePoint, we often write governance plans that mandate the auditing and policing of users, content, and policies. Which tools can you use to perform these audits or even just to find out what's happening in your SharePoint installation? Third-party tools can handle some of the necessary inventories and auditing, but you already have a great instrument in your toolkit: Windows PowerShell.

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Additional Resources

The Essential Guide to Achieving High Availability for SharePoint Data
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SharePoint Pro: Update



As with any new release, there was a lot to learn when SharePoint 2010 hit the streets. There were new features to master, and there were even some old features with which to get reacquainted. Typically, I’m up for such a challenge. Heck, I revel in it. However, one of the biggest challenges that I almost didn’t overcome was learning Windows PowerShell.

I’ve been working with SharePoint for a long time now. Although I started with SharePoint Team Services 2001, I really cut my teeth with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS 2.0). I used it to manage a farm that had more than 1,200 site collections and more than 10,000 subsites, which are often referred to as webs. I learned very early on to love and embrace scripting.

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