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By: Bart Tubalinal
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February 19, 2012 at 4:42 PM
This post has moved. New location
Future updates to the series will only be posted to the new location.
Intro
This is part two of the first series of posts I’m writing on developing native mobile apps using the Windows Azure platform. In the first part, I covered the basic setup of my azure storage, I walked through the steps of building the iOS Windows Azure Toolkit and using it in a project, and I wrote the code to use the toolkit in my model classes for the SpeakEasy app, a fictitious
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By: Bart Tubalinal
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February 18, 2012 at 8:11 PMThis post has moved. New location
Future updates to the series will only be posted to the new location.
Intro
A few weeks ago, I posted a video and a follow-up blog on why I think using Windows Azure as a middle-tier or backend platform for mobile is compelling. Remaining on the topic of Azure and mobile, I wanted to write a series of blog posts that show you how to use various Azure services to build a native mobile app. Through this series, I’m going to build an iPhone app called SpeakE
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By: Andrew Schwenker
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February 15, 2012 at 4:35 PMSituation So you’ve got this nice InfoPath form, and you want to pre-populate it with user information. This means you’ll need to somehow get the user’s login information into the InfoPath form. Unfortunately, there’s no simple or straightforward way to do this. Several blogs reference just calling the form’s User property and everything magically works in SharePoint. I can tell you from personal experience that this isn’t the case. There are other blogs saying to use a new field in the fo
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By: Andrew Schwenker
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February 3, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Whether you love or hate InfoPath forms, they occasionally do make things easier. However, the form viewer page comes from the FormServerPage type, which inherits directly from System.Web.UI.Page, meaning that it permits anonymous users to view the page and, consequentially, your form. None of the SharePoint access permissions, aside from folder-level permissions have any affect. Unfortunately, the page is located in the root layouts folder, so changing those permissions aren’t possible. Y
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By: Bart Tubalinal
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February 2, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Today, I posted a video blog discussing why using Windows Azure as a mobile backend platform is an attractive option. I wanted to quickly summarize the contents of that video and also supplement it with some helpful links.
Summary
Backend platform selection is important because, unless you’re talking about the most trivial of apps, most mobile applications will have some need to connect to backend services and data. It’s important to select a platform that’s flexible, scalable to your app an
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By: David Greve
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January 29, 2012 at 11:31 PM
I was recently asked this question by a customer, as we were starting to build out a migration process. My immediate thought was no, we need to migrate the mailbox first then assign an Exchange Online license to mailbox. The reason why this was first reaction was primarily due to BPOS. (BPOS was the version of Exchange Online prior to Office 365.) In BPOS, once you assign a license to user, their mailbox becomes active. This can be problematic when you are piloting some mailboxes and you are
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By: Mike Burger
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January 26, 2012 at 12:57 AM
Step-by-Step Instructions
Before getting started I would like to point out the other blogs in this series. If you do not need help with the installation of the SQL Server 2012 bits then perhaps one of the other blogs will be of help.
Installation Order:
SQL Server 2012 (RC0) Business Intelligence Configuration
SQL Server 2012 (RC0) Installation and Configuration
SharePoint 2010 Installation for SQL Server 2012 (RC0)
Additional SSAS Instance Installations in SQL Server 2012 (RC0)
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By: Mike Burger
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January 26, 2012 at 12:57 AM
Overview
With every new version of SQL that is released there are always a few changes and challenges related to the installation and configuration of all the tools within the BI stack. Admittedly, even with the ever changing toolset within the BI stack, this has gotten easier over time. Furthermore, the deep integration with SharePoint now makes it impossible to setup a VM and use the BI stack without it.
If you have never installed SQL server or any tools on the BI stack don't worry! The
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By: Mike Burger
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January 26, 2012 at 12:56 AM
Overview
Please check out the other blogs in the series related to setting up each of the main SQL Server 2012 features. Links to each of the related blogs are shown below.
Installation Order:
SQL Server 2012 (RC0) Business Intelligence Configuration
SQL Server 2012 (RC0) Installation and Configuration
SharePoint 2010 Installation for SQL Server 2012 (RC0)
Additional SSAS Instance Installations in SQL Server 2012 (RC0)
SQL Server 2012 (RC0) PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010 Config
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By: Mike Burger
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January 26, 2012 at 12:55 AM
Overview
If you do not already have SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot and SharePoint 2010 installed please check out one of the earlier blogs in this series. All of the blogs in the series are listed below. If you did not follow the SharePoint 2010 Installation for SQL Server 2012 blog then your PowerPivot configuration might vary slightly from what I shown below.
Installation Order:
SQL Server 2012 (RC0) Business Intelligence Configuration
SQL Server 2012 (RC0) Installation and Configurati
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By: Mike Burger
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January 26, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Step-by-Step Instructions
I would like to point out that this installation is actually pretty simple for a brand new BI environment. If you are new to the series, please click on one of the other blogs in the series to get up to speed. If not, continue on!
Installation Order:
SQL Server 2012 (RC0) Business Intelligence Configuration
SQL Server 2012 (RC0) Installation and Configuration
SharePoint 2010 Installation for SQL Server 2012 (RC0)
Additional SSAS Instance Installations in
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By: Ali Rizwan
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January 23, 2012 at 10:34 AM
If you are new to SQL Server 2012 like me, you might run into some issues when you are trying to create some Tabular Model projects. A Tabular Model is simply a new type of server mode in SQL Server 2012. It utilizes a new storage mode known as the Vertipaq storage engine that enables higher compression rates by storing and compressing data across columns. The columnar compression enables faster response times when the data is less variable in a given column as oppose to the variability
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By: Andrew Schwenker
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January 23, 2012 at 10:26 AMSituation If you’ve worked with SharePoint 2010 at all, I’m sure you’ve seen a ModalDialog popup at some point. This popup most often occurs when you’re creating or editing a list item. The item’s edit or create form is displayed by ModalDialog in an HTML iFrame. This frame allows for the nifty, AJAX-like popup, but it also means that the form code is segregated from the rest of the page. This isn’t really a problem with out-of-the-box forms, which use the Dialog master page. The dialog ma
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By: Bert Johnson
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January 22, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Have you ever come across a SharePoint installation that's been customized in an unsupported way? You look at the 12 (or 14) hive and see that files have been modified by hand? Not good.
As you may know, changing core SharePoint files is unsupported and can lead to problems when patching.
The best way to clean up modified SharePoint installations is to pull out the customizations and move them into new files as part of a solution package (WSP file). That makes it easy to re-deploy c
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By: Rem Purushothaman
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January 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM Everyone is aware of the key role search plays in a product or retail scenario. Websites like Amazon and Best Buy would be practically unusable without a way to easily search for products you are looking to research or purchase. Did you know that search can also play the same critical role in a corporate environment? Corporate networks today hold petabytes of information scattered across file shares, databases, SharePoint lists, individual employee computers and mobile devices. This information
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By: Darya Orlova
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January 11, 2012 at 10:37 AM
In the few weeks that I've been working on NewsGator customizations, this question has come up several times: Can you make everyone in an Active Directory group automatically follow a NewsGator community?
What it comes down to is that the administrator wants to manage groups in Active Directory and not have to duplicate that effort in SharePoint. This makes sense: group membership should be consistent within the organization.
In version 2.5, this is a built-in feature: you will be a
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By: David Greve
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January 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM
During part two of this 2-part blog series, Microsoft MVP and PointBridge Professional Services Manager Dave Greve talks about the importance of communications and training within an organization migrating to Office 365. He suggests tips to minimize help desk tickets, maximize adoption early on, provide better ground support during go-live and getting users ready and excited to ensure a successful implementation.
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By: Jagun Rimes
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January 6, 2012 at 12:54 AM
There may be a number of reasons why you or your organization may want to understand the impact a particular web part may have on the SharePoint farm. The information will allow you to understand the scope of sites that may be affected from a web part perspective. This information may be helpful in the following scenarios.
· Upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to 2010.
· Need to remove all instances of web parts
· Communicating change of web parts.
· Modificatio
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By: Jason Sloan
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January 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM
It's becoming more and more common to see Lync deployments with a single SIP domain in organizations that have multiple geographically dispersed pools. However, deploying Lync within this scenario can cause quite the confusion due to the different URLs Lync uses in each pool. Typically, you can only have one set of URLs for an entire SIP domain, regardless of the number of pools. The biggest problem: How do you keep conference URLs active for everyone else when one pool fails? In this article,
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By: Jason Sloan
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January 3, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Deploying Lync Server 2010 is a process I simply enjoy doing. When the presales and design sessions are complete, I'm ready to start the deployment process as quickly as possible. It never fails, however, that something always makes the deployment wheels spin as we get started. This blog post is a simple post, but nonetheless something I feel can help streamline a painful discussion point with a client; Extending the Schema.
First, let's quickly review a few important points of extending the
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By: Keenan Crockett
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December 30, 2011 at 10:29 AM
With the recent release of the Lync Mobile client for Windows Phone 7, Android, and iPhone, I've seen numerous companies thrilled about the opportunity to extend Lync further within the enterprise! For companies interested in deploying Lync Mobility, the Lync Server Cumulative Update 4 is required. For deployment steps, I highly recommend reading the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Mobility Guide and Jeff Schertz's blog.
After working with various customers to deploy the new Mobility service, occ
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By: Darya Orlova
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December 29, 2011 at 7:18 PM
If you have NewsGator on your SharePoint site and want to refine the look or functionality of some items in the newsfeed, there is a good chance that you will be building a custom activity type.
Here are a few examples of where custom activity types can help:
· items from a non-community list trigger posts to the newsfeed
· disable "share" functionality for particular newsfeed items
· send out updates from a group account without forcing your users to remember an extra set of a
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By: Travis Nielsen
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December 29, 2011 at 6:37 PMSince the beginning of 2011, I’ve had the good fortune of being involved with several projects involving the claims authentication capabilities introduced in SharePoint 2010. The scope of these efforts have ranged from small proof-of-concept demonstrations to large Internet and Intranet production deployments. Some involved custom built Security Token Services (STS) and others relied on vendor-provided products like ADFS 2.0 and Ping Federate. As a sort of unofficial evangelist for this sort of
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By: David Greve
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December 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM
During part one this 2-part blog series, I talk about the importance of user experience during migration to Office 365. Microsoft offers many capabilities that ensure an optimal user experience such as Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Directory Sync and Exchange hybrid services. Additionally, I point out options for organizations with external messaging systems to provide a rich co-existence experience using third party tools.
Keep an eye out for part 2 in the coming weeks.
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By: Matthew McGillen
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December 13, 2011 at 11:58 AM
Sunday night at about 7pm Chicago time, I downloaded and installed the Lync Mobile client for Windows Phone 7. In a sad reflection on what passes for excitement in my life, I had been checking about a few times an hour Saturday and Sunday; I probably hit the App Marketplace 50 times on Sunday before striking gold.
I quickly sent a message to the rest of the PointBridge UC team and a bunch of us began fiddling around with the new client.
First I should mention: you need to read and follow t
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By: William Tseng
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December 6, 2011 at 10:56 PMFor an example of the processing pipeline itself, check out Jeff Monnette’s blog here. The FAST Processing Pipeline is a great method of feeding in your own Crawled Properties into FAST, and then being able to expose those properties by mapping to managed properties and searching on them. We ran into a situation with some custom code which stored ratings and comments for a document together in a column, which caused a mess when FAST showed the data. While I’m not going to go into what the entire
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By: Callie Jones
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December 6, 2011 at 10:40 AM
The beginning of December marks Microsoft Lync 2010's first anniversary. Two thousand and eleven has been a successful year for Lync, so let's take a look at some of the milestones Lync has accomplished in just 12 months.
About 3 million enterprise users use Lync 2010 for their telephony needs versus a traditional PBX.
Forrester research found the ROI on Lync is more than 300 percent, while companies could see a breakeven point as early as 7-8 months after deployment.
Lync has grown 25 pe
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By: Andy Olson
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November 30, 2011 at 3:24 PM
I have written several posts providing insight into some technical challenges that I have encountered while helping my customers upgrade to Exchange 2010. Upgrading any technology within a computing environment requires time and effort, and with some of the technical challenges I've already documented, some of you may be wondering if upgrading your Exchange environment is worth the effort. For this post, I thought I'd provide some insight into why my customers have been upgrading to Exchange 2
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By: Andrew Schwenker
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November 29, 2011 at 3:01 PMSituation Wouldn’t it be nice to start a specific SharePoint list workflow on each item in a list? Unfortunately, there’s no simple way to do this out of the box in SharePoint or Nintex, even though it’s just a few lines of code. You could always grab all of the list items and then loop through each one and start a workflow, but this is complicated and cumbersome. Solution Using Nintex Workflow 2010, it’s incredibly easy to create a simple to use and configure workflow action that can start
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By: Seth Broweleit
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November 29, 2011 at 2:28 PMGetting YouTube videos to PAUSE nice with each other I don't know if YouTube had in mind for us to put more than one video on a page. It didn't seem like it when I set out to make one player pause other videos when it was played. By the end I found that YouTube had enough hooks in the player API to make it possible. Barely. Contributing factor: I was looking to accomplish this with the bare-bones elements without any plug-ins such as "swfobject." I googled and binged and asked Jeeves b
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By: Mo Omar
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November 28, 2011 at 8:55 AMBuilding on my first post around Office 365, I’ve decided to post a short video blog series on addressing common myths around SharePoint Online. The first video in the series talks a little about the flexibility of SharePoint Online, options for developing solutions in SharePoint Online, and finally, the ability of using ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) to create a single sign-on experience between SharePoint Online and an on-premise AD implementation. I’m planning on covering some m
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By: Bert Johnson
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November 21, 2011 at 5:30 AM
SharePoint deployments succeed or fail based on adoption and adherence to business goals, not technical functionality. It doesn't matter how pretty your SharePoint site is or how many features you pack in. Perception is reality, and if people don't perceive value, it's failed.
Along those lines, communications planning is paramount for winning hearts and minds. Whether deploying a small upgrade or embarking on a transformational change from another system, engaging end-users early and t
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By: Shalini Pasupneti
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November 21, 2011 at 12:59 AM
One of my clients running Exchange 2003 was using over 400 email domains and was trying to setup coexistence with Office 365. One of the requirements for this is to create remote domains both on-premises and in office 365 for each primary SMTP domain and currently there is not a way to automate this (Exchange 2010 SP2 due to be released shortly will do this automatically). Until then here is a small script to automate this process on premises.
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By: Shalini Pasupneti
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November 21, 2011 at 12:29 AM
Recently I had completed setup of Office 365 coexistence for a client using Exchange 2007 and verified mail flow to/from Office 365 and free busy lookups. Abruptly one day mail flow stopped to Office 365 and Exchange console was showing the message "The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed."
After a quick search on the web, I found this article on Exchange team blog here but none of the scenarios applied in my case. Mail flow stopped to
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By: David Soderna
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November 14, 2011 at 10:23 AMLast week, I left you with the first 5 points to how social creates value in the workplace. Continuing that blog, here are the top 5.
#5
Increased Collaboration Potential: Collaboration is more than creating and sharing. It is difficult for organizations that reward individual behaviors and accomplishments to truly collaborate. In order to effectively leverage the collaboration potential that social technologies provide, we must find ways to encourage teams to work together and contribu
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By: David Soderna
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November 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM
The term 'Social Business' has many different meanings; for some, it describes how businesses leverage social networking services like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to market or sell their services. While this externally facing definition is certainly valid, 'Social Business' also describes how companies are using social networking concepts and technology to enable their employees to interact in new and exciting ways.
Not unexpectedly, many organizations fear a mysterious productivity drain
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By: Callie Jones
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November 9, 2011 at 1:59 PM
My previous company was like many organizations; we battled time zone barriers and needed to communicate with a mobile workforce. I used 5 different tools on a daily basis to communicate with my colleagues. In hindsight, especially as a Lync user now, it’s easy to see how much productivity was lost in those 5 disparate technologies. Setup hassle aside, the time my team lost trying to connect with each other was frustrating and took away from the time we needed to be collaborating and working.
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By: Mark Drespling
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November 9, 2011 at 10:56 AM
No organization builds a SharePoint environment with the goal of creating a poor user experience. Yet, many organizations do not plan for, adopt and design for an intuitive, user-friendly SharePoint environment.
So, why does this happen? It often stems from not understanding the business case behind user experience design and the value it will bring to the enterprise. In the case of SharePoint, the tools it provides usually solves many critical business problems – collaboration is not efficie
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By: Keenan Crockett
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November 4, 2011 at 9:19 AMI recently had the pleasure of working with one of our customers to implement Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Voice with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 7.1.3. The integration between the two systems went pretty smoothly. During our testing phase though, we uncovered an issue with ringback. When a PSTN user or a Cisco IP Phone user would dial a Lync endpoint, the PSTN user and/or Cisco user would hear silence (no ringback) until the call was answered by the Lync user or diverted to Exc
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By: David Greve
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October 23, 2011 at 5:59 PM
Many global organizations are seeking ways to deliver authentication to their global sites, in the most optimal way. With Office 365, you have the ability to provide your end-users a single sign-on experience with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), integrating with Office 365. In order to leverage ADFS, you have to plan out your authentication strategy. The major item you need to know about ADFS is how it routes the user to the ADFS servers. Today, DNS is primarily used to refe
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By: Callie Jones
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October 20, 2011 at 2:27 PM
Intranets have long been the standard for sharing secure information within an organization, but they can be challenging to manage, especially when left to one person or group, and consequently, the information could become stale or employee involvement low.
So how do we make sure our intranet is valuable and the investment maximized? By adding a social layer to your intranet, you’re adding familiar communication tools – ones that your employees already use on a daily basis in their personal
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By: Mo Omar
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October 19, 2011 at 6:13 AMA hot topic throughout the SharePoint Conference 2011 earlier this month was the evolution of Microsoft’s cloud-based offering, Office 365, and more importantly, it’s successful adoption within large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses. Within only 12 weeks since it’s release, millions of customers have taken advantage of the enterprise-class capabilities offered by Office 365. Strategic Benefits of Moving to the Cloud In a struggling economy, organizations big and small are aggres
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By: Matthew McGillen
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October 18, 2011 at 11:15 AMAs most people will have heard, Microsoft officially acquired Skype last week. There are precious few details about what the end-state is going to look like with Lync and Skype integrated; or even what Microsoft really plans to do with Skype. With so little information available directly from either party, I decided to read between the lines and try to draw some conclusions on my own.
Microsoft's Strategic Direction
With an $8.5 billion dollar price tag, Skype was the largest acquisitions ever m
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By: Andrew Schwenker
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October 17, 2011 at 9:55 PMSituation You’re looking for a way to semi-automate the back-loading of of scrubbed data from your production environment to your development/test/staging/whatever environments. There are several reasons you’d want to do this that I don’t need to get into here. The problem is that your production environment is well-used and full of a bunch of data, both personal and proprietary. This data must therefore be scrubbed to shrink its size and remove anything that shouldn’t be in a non-production
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By: Andy Olson
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October 17, 2011 at 9:23 PM
I have a lot of customers who have deployed Enterprise Vault within their email environments. In many cases, these customers have deployed Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 and have been using ISA Server to publish OWA and Outlook Anywhere to the Internet. These customers have then upgraded to Exchange 2010 and replaced ISA with TMG. This type of upgrade presents some challenges simply based on how Enterprise Vault works. Specifically, when an end user accesses an item stored in Enterprise Vault,
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By: Ali Rizwan
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October 17, 2011 at 4:37 PM
I wanted to share my experience with the new features of Mobile Entrée and how to leverage your existing Microsoft Business Intelligence investments as a starting point to building out the mobile platform. Mike Burger posted earlier regarding Mobile Entrée (found here). He stated the fact that it can integrate with SharePoint and render reports in Excel in the mobile browser. These are very compelling features in trying the solution out. I am impressed with the ability to finally share my E
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By: Bart Tubalinal
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October 14, 2011 at 12:43 AMThere is no denying that mobility is currently a hot topic. Staggering forecasts by various analysts have made capitalizing on the mobile applications market a top priority for many organizations’ CIOs and CTOs. However, before diving headfirst into mobility projects, it is important to consider various factors in order to define a clear strategy that addresses the many opportunities and challenges that mobility presents for your organization.
During Q4 of 2010, smartphone sales surpassed globa
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By: Apryl Crossland
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October 12, 2011 at 4:31 PM
System Specs
SharePoint 2010 farm hosting multiple web apps using claims authentication. Each web app has multiple zones.
Symptoms
After a code deployment we were unable to access the Intranet zone (NTLM Authentication) for all claims-based we apps in the environment.
The following is the error that was encountered when trying to access the sites in IE.
The following is the error that was being captured in the Application event log.
Log Name: ApplicationSource: Mi
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By: Bert Johnson
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October 4, 2011 at 6:30 PM
The SharePoint Conference is in full swing! Despite a groggy start for some attendees (thanks to AvePoint's late-night "Red Party"), Tuesday continued the great stream of content.
While a peek at the next version will have to wait until at least SharePoint Conference 2012, excitement and innovation around SharePoint 2010 are still in vast supply.
Six Key Themes from SharePoint Conference 2011
I've attended a mix of sessions focusing on IT, business, and development and s
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By: Matt Morse
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October 4, 2011 at 3:28 PMYesterday concluded day one of the 2011 Microsoft SharePoint Conference. While the 2009 SharePoint Conference unveiled SharePoint 2010 - and we learned today that the 2012 conference will reveal the next version - this year’s conference focuses on how businesses are using SharePoint, best practices and ultimately, how to take SharePoint to the next level and drive user adoption. Watch this quick video recap, shot from the friendly confines of the PointBridge booth:
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