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Connecting People, Process and Information
Does it sound familiar? The message, the vision, the strategy, the goal of becoming a company fully deployed on SharePoint. SharePoint, The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web can simply become and adapt to you, as a person, as an organization. SharePoint, The organizational Operating System. It connects, it informs, it processes,…
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Event ID: 8085 – Business Data Connectivity Service Application is not accessible
Hey all, it has been a while since I last blogged about something. I’ve been pretty busy lately. Most of us, SharePoint guys and gals, are I think. Fun stuff though. I visited my family in Lebanon this summer. It has been since 2004 last time I saw them. It was good. I really enjoyed…
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Are you still doing SharePoint?
A good friend of mine once said, don’t ever follow a product, always follow the platform. This observation still reminds me today of what I need to think about and prepare for every single year. It makes me think and strategize. So let’s expand on the concept of this platform thing. The platform on which…
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To the SharePoint® Conference we go
The SharePoint® Conference 2011 in Anaheim, California marks my third major SharePoint® conference I’ve attended over the years. It is very exciting to see how the product has progressed over these years and how Microsoft® stood behind it to get it to where it is today. With over a 100 million licenses sold, it is…
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To The Cloud, a brief look at Cloud-related matters
What do you want to know about the Cloud? Lots to read and learn, and lots more to experience. If you are not lost in the clouds about the Cloud, you haven’t been around lately. It is crazy out there. It is the new hype and you need to get on the bus. It’s actually…
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Remember The Name
This is not a blog post on Fort Minor’s Remember The Name song even though I like the song itself and I think it says a lot about our alter-ego along with a bunch of other stuff. This post is about remembering individuals, who during our lifetime, have inspired us. It’s about people, a person,…
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Imagine a World without Attachments
Imagine for a second a world without any email attachments. Got to thinking yesterday about this whole thing we call email and how SharePoint plays a major role today inside of organizations trying to get rid of email attachments. I was thinking of the “why” behind email attachments. What was the main reason behind having…
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Prevent your Contributors from adding Scriptable Web Parts in SharePoint 2010
We all heard of the Content Editor Web Part and how SharePoint users can take advantage of it. You’ll find blog entries here and there talking about the God-given powers of the editor web part and how in few lines of JavaScript code, or may I say JQuery code, you may do this and do…
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The Method of SharePoint, a study in SharePointology
In this blog post I will dig deep into the many faces of SharePoint, not just from a technology perspective, but more so from its softer side, the conceptual side, the approach, the method of its reach, and much more. I’ll call it SharePointology; A term I thought I can first introduce here on this…
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SharePoint can TXT while it drives – Configure SMS Text Messaging for SharePoint 2010
While for us, in some States, to TXT when driving is to break the law, SharePoint 2010 can do it while it drives and behind the scenes legally. See, in addition to sending Alerts via Outbound Email Servers using the SMTP protocol, SharePoint 2010 can send you TXT messages using Short Message Service or SMS.…
Johnny Harbieh 