In a study conducted by InfoSecurity-magazine and Emedia and sponsored by Boldon James results show that “shocking two-thirds of SharePoint-using companies in a recent survey have admitted to having ‘no active security policy’ in place for the application”. In the study they contacted a wide range of business from -25 users to +5000 users. Half of those …
The friendly people over at Collaboris shared an infographic on SharePoint settings by level. They released (as a newyears gift I suppose) this really nice chart that shows you all the settings you can make at each level: – farm – web application zone – web application – site collection – site This is crucial if …
The Technet page with downloadable content for SharePoint 2013 has been updated.
What is it? In the 2007 version of SharePoint, Microsoft introduced Content Types: a way to define pieces of information like offers, tasks, procedures, … You could define those Content Types on site collection level (and in sites) and add a template, metadata, workflow and policies. All documents or items created as an instance of …
On Technet, Margriet Bruggeman started a great page with SharePoint Best Practices. The wiki page links to a lot of blogs containing best practices on performance, planning, deployment, virtualisation, backup, search, upgrade, extranet, …
A question customers ask when we do a new SharePoint implementation is when you choose to create a new site collection or a subsite. Here is a good diagram!
MIKE stands for Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment and is an Open Source delivery standard for Enterprise Information Management.
A popular way to visualize the roles and responsibilities for your governance plan is using a RACI matrix, also known as a “Linear Responsibility chart” or “Responsibility assignment matrix”.
When you have SharePoint or any other technology employed as a platform or enabler for your organization, it is important to have governance. This means having a governance board and a governance document. Having this figured out is great, but much more important is communicating about the information you have agreed on. For this purpose , a governance site or site collection could be a great way to both dogfood your platform and inform your employees
A few months ago, Microsoft IT released a document ( and webcast) that describes the extra effort they took to balance their SharePoint implementation.