tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008773043349176792008-05-07T17:06:45.252-05:00Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-63761583450916816572008-03-28T16:39:00.001-05:002008-03-28T18:29:44.409-05:00

After months of work, the new SharePoint Report 2008 has been released.  I collaborated with  CMS Watch to develop a full 190 page research report that exposes what SharePoint does well, its limitations and what businesses of all sizes need to do to be successful when implementing the tool. I encourage you to review the sample content and review the TOC. If you have feedback on the report, I'd

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-59627146025835405352008-03-19T15:46:00.001-05:002008-03-19T15:46:57.229-05:00

We recently undertook a project to develop a global intranet for a relatively large organization.  As part of the requirements of that implementation, the client wanted to create a highly customized My Site experience.  As anyone who has delved deep into My Site customization knows, it's not straightforward, easy and may create maintenance issues long term.  Ultimately, after working through

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Many of our customers ask how they can spur adoption of new portal technology.  In cases where the IT department is leading the charge, we see a lot of "build it and they will come" approaches.  In much the same way Kevin Costner's character in Field of Dreams built a baseball field on his farm to encourage ghosts of baseball players to visit and play the game, IT groups hope that by simply

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-87196275453916767632008-03-06T15:41:00.000-06:002008-03-06T16:15:27.426-06:00

I just finished my time at the 2008 SharePoint conference in Seattle (admittedly a little early).  By all accounts, this conference was well attended with over 3800 participants.  Keynotes at the conference were given by Bill Gates, Kurt DelBene and three-time Tour de France winner (and first non-European winner) Greg LeMond.  In addition there were a whole slew of sessions on everything from

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-72128317540294704172008-02-01T15:19:00.001-06:002008-02-01T15:19:10.145-06:00

Like many of our clients, Consejo uses SharePoint to collaborate -- both with our clients and amongst our employees.  As a result, it has become a critical service to maintain -- thereby making it critical from a business continuity planning perspective as well.  Recently a number of clients have all asked the same question:  how can we easily create backups of our SharePoint sites so that we

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-50699020633902835472008-01-25T13:24:00.001-06:002008-01-25T13:24:03.737-06:00

While I typically don't like to post consumer product reviews on our corporate blog, this one is different... really. As a developer, I have fallen prey to what appears to be a stereotypical developer behavior -- listening to music while coding.   Whether it's a behavior picked up through "peer pressure" or my own personal inability to focus without some sort of constant noise to block out my

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-42134973841778975732007-12-11T14:15:00.001-06:002007-12-11T14:15:23.284-06:00

Microsoft has finally released the new service pack for SharePoint 2007.  The individual downloads for WSS and MOSS can be found here: WSS v3.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en MOSS 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad59175c-ad6a-4027-8c2f-db25322f791b&DisplayLang=en

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If you haven't seen it, Microsoft recently released some information on the upcoming service pack 1 for SharePoint (both WSS and MOSS).  This new service pack not only includes a number of hot fixes for both platforms, but introduces some new functionality.   In addition to Server 2008 support, Microsoft is now officially supporting AJAX-enabled web parts.  They've also included some new STSADM

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-60921058118418259872007-11-12T12:13:00.001-06:002007-11-19T13:22:23.578-06:00

Back in Office 2003, Microsoft introduced the concept of the "task pane."  The task pane was a panel that appeared on the right side of the Office interface (at least for the "first class" Office products).  The task pane represented a few different functions -- from showing the status of a document in SharePoint, to allowing you to manage permissions on a document.   Included with these

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-13455925492707515902007-11-08T15:27:00.001-06:002007-11-25T14:55:07.775-06:00

[UPDATED: 25 November 2007 - Slight flow changes to the content] I've just returned from the IIR/SharedInsights Portals, Collaboration and Content Management conference.  While I've been speaking at this conference for a few years, this year's conference was a bit unique.  Unlike past conferences, where the vast majority of the attendees were more business oriented and "non-denominational" when

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-8350904102354502302007-10-11T21:12:00.001-05:002007-10-11T21:12:16.854-05:00

As a follow-on to my post on the remote access tool GoToMyPC, I recently discovered another service called LogMeIn.  This service provides similar functionality, but has a free subscription option (a price most people can live with).  The free subscription does not allow file transfers, remote sound or other bells and whistles found in the premium subscriptions, but does provide basic remote

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-49133198941475396562007-09-27T09:19:00.001-05:002007-10-16T13:28:58.029-05:00

I came across a blog entry from from Lori Pearce's "All Things SDK" blog regarding an Excel calculation bug. Turns out there is what appears to be a serious flaw in certain calculations in Excel. The actual calculation is irrelevant, it's the result that matters. Calculations with results that should be 65,535 and 65,536, in addition to about 10 other results produce very strange and highly

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-958018688663136252007-09-18T21:14:00.000-05:002007-09-18T21:20:52.534-05:00

A new service pack has been released for both SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services (2003/v2). The KB article on the update can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923643. Thank you to Ian Morrish at WSSDemo for posting a link to the KB article.

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-78708165020406916622007-08-27T14:36:00.000-05:002007-08-27T15:34:32.925-05:00

Many small businesses are increasingly pressured to upgrade their systems -- spending money on both hardware and software -- to keep their technological systems running smoothly. Unfortunately, there is also pressure to conserve funding and manage cash. Consejo, like many of our customers, faces this challenge as well. However, we've found one small way to do both -- upgrade our hardware

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-76958574138611539132007-08-13T22:59:00.001-05:002007-08-14T00:00:04.750-05:00

Often being involved in or running a small business requires you to be in many places at once. You need to take a meeting with a customer, but you're meeting at their location, not yours. However, you still have to access data that may not be portable, simply not loaded on the laptop you have with you or you don't have your own machine immediately accessible. Alternatively, what if you're home

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-49881541607522907152007-07-25T12:03:00.000-05:002007-07-25T12:15:08.654-05:00

While I'm not a huge fan of simply re-posting content originating on other individual's blog, this particular re-post is warranted, if for no other reason that it was a bear to find the solution. My hope is that more references to the posting will increase the likelyhood that someone else will spend less time finding the answer in the future. Now, effectively the problem I encountered was an "

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-31975411947768252532007-07-08T14:29:00.000-05:002007-07-08T02:27:39.819-05:00

I've had the good fortune to work in a number of different organization sizes, in addition to working with a wide array of individuals, project types and technologies. In large part due to this broad experience, I've seen my share of successful, mostly successful (in spite of team member actions to the contrary) and failed projects. In all cases, I've learned a good deal about what makes project

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-16886497825108149052007-06-13T00:00:00.000-05:002007-06-13T16:09:22.957-05:00

In a previous post, I described a panel that I participated in where each of three consultants presented what they liked an didn't like about SharePoint. In that post, I gave you my "likes;" in this post, I'll continue the discussion with what I think are SharePoint's disadvantages or shortcomings. While the product is quite good, there are definitely areas where it could improve -- some of those

Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287387457304643907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100877304334917679.post-77585478286896195452007-06-07T00:00:00.000-05:002007-06-13T16:08:30.473-05:00

Since this is the first post on Consejo's blog, I thought I'd start by digging into a topic we often discuss with our customers -- does SharePoint fit their organization or should they look at other technologies. The "easiest" and most consultant-like answer is: it depends. Now, after you've stopped rolling your eyes, you'll (hopefully) realize that this answer is the only one possible with a

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