A fellow Solution Architect I work with specialises in Records Management and is on the Professional Records Management Associations boards etc. here in Australia.   I have also been reading through Joel Olsen's Whitepaper on Compliance Features in the 2007 Microsoft Office System that was written back in November 2006.   What I am attempting to do is investigate how the likes of TRIM, Open more...

Coming from a .Net development background I am used to and promote the Continuous Integration paradigm. The benefits are just worth the intial effort, especially so in team development projects. There are lots of benefits but the main one is the encourage users to develop solutions that work more than just "on their machine", so that when the build server builds the solution and deplo more...

I am currently preparing for a presentation I will be running in October titled "Using Sharepoint 2007 to Facilitate Enterprise Level Social Networking”.   There is obviously quite a lot of content at the moment being posted in various sources on Web 2.0 for the Enterprise and the whole Enterprise Social Networking space.   From the various client meetings I've had recently around our Sh more...

I was just reading Kit Kai's blog post on "Can social networking technologies help?". A few interesting points were: - the emphasis on blogs and all roles getting involved e.g. Project Managers with particular issues which introduced scope creep and how they managed it. The idea being that people can search for these things and if they are blogged about generically enough they'll com more...

Once you've installed MOSS 2007 you'll notice there are heaps of web parts and making it easier for Portal Admins to find the web part to add can be made easier by "idiot-proof" naming and also grouping the web parts into sections. C-Dog has a great article on this which also covers how to automate what group a web part gets added to by using features and editing the .webpart manifest f more...