Note: This post is relevant to both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. One of the features that SharePoint has had for a while now is the Meeting Workspace site template. It’s a template to help co-ordinate content and activities relating to meetings. Used well, it can be a great time-saver and/or help improve the management [...]
Read more »In February 2011 I did a presentation at a Records Management (RM) seminar on SharePoint 2010. Specifically, exploring what SharePoint 2010 has to offer in the field of EDRMS – Electronic Document and Records Management. The presentation is embedded below and a brief summary of the talk follows: SharePoint 2010 for Records Management First things [...]
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[Update] Following comments to this post, please note that this refers to using the Enterprise Wiki template when creating a site collection. The Enterprise Wiki template is the only one that will create a root site with all features available. All other templates limit the features for the site collection and the Publishing Portal template [...]
Read more »SharePoint has always had some form of metadata capabilities. However the latest version includes the first attempt at managing metadata. This post is a brief overview of the different types of metadata and why/when to use them…
Read more »In SharePoint 2010, PerformancePoint runs as a service application. Having been configuring it recently for a demo, I stumbled across a couple of steps that needed to be completed to get the demo up and running. The environment is a single server virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, SharePoint [...]
Read more »Since showing how to embed PDF documents into SharePoint web pages, a few people have been asking how to do the same with Office documents. The answer depends on what version of SharePoint and Office you are using (and licensed for). Here are some of the different methods possible…
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