If you have spent any amount of time with SharePoint 2010, you have seen the “lightbox” feature which allows the SharePoint user to remain on the same page, providing a pop-up dialog box, while dimming the background – very Web 2.0!     This ...[Read More]

If you’ve been dabbling in SharePoint 2010 hosting (multi-tenant) environment and been creating host-named site collections, you have may noticed that the default security groups typically created by default are not there.  These include:   < ...[Read More]

This morning I had the task of getting PDF indexing to work in search on our new SharePoint 2010 installations.  There are various existing blogs out there, so I thought I would combine what I used into one place.   The majority of the steps to ...[Read More]

Cloud computing has been the subject of much conversation (and hype) for about a year now. Our 4 City Tour (www.successaccelerators.com/4city) focused on this, as did some recent research with one of our partners (white paper forthcoming) and our ...[Read More]

One of SharePoint’s popular features is Document Management, which leads many organizations to migrate their data from files shares or their Document Management System over to SharePoint.  Is this best practice?  Let’s not be hasty, and look at the ...[Read More]

Although the idea of user adoption is not a new idea, we consistently find our clients asking for more ways or better ways to get users to “use the system.”  Depending on the scope of the project, we always recommend some level of governance and t ...[Read More]

I was reminded today about the difference of removing vs. deleting a web part from a site page today.  There’s already a great blog on the subject and it can be found here.    The quick and dirty is that when you either choose to “close” on a w ...[Read More]

When I was configuring a new installation of SharePoint Server 2010 the other day, I hit a snag when creating a Managed Service Account while creating a new Web Application.  My existing Application Pool account wasn’t listed and I couldn’t choose ...[Read More]

Today is the day!  Microsoft officially has released SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 and related 2010 products like SharePoint Designer, Project 2010 and Visio 2010.  You can watch the event and get other information at the launch site:   ...[Read More]

The time has finally arrived!  Microsoft’s Corporate VP for Microsoft Office Takeshi Numoto recently announced the final release milestone for the 2010 wave of Office products including SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010.  ...[Read More]