Welcome to my blog on all things SharePoint. I have a range of articles that will interest you if you've made it as far as visiting my blog. I was awarded as an SharePoint MVP by Microsoft in July 2010. I currently live in New York and am an Enterprise Architect at AvePoint Inc.. I co founded www.NothingButSharePoint.com with Mark Miller in 2010.

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Solution Development in SharePoint 2007

This series was inspired by the chatter amongst SharePoint blogs on the best ways to approach customisations in SharePoint using Solutions.

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Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

This series was inspired by a discussion had with Andrew Coates at a Perth SharePoint User Group meeting. This then turned into a 6 part series on Arno Nell's SharePointMagazine.net web site.

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How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast
SPSource Webcast: Reverse engineer Lists to ListTemplates and much more
SharePoint Development with Unit Testing webcast
Perth SharePoint UG Web Cast on approaches to deploying artefacts (SPSource)
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Oh good they got rid of the SharePoint 2007 Pie…oh crap they replaced it with a SharePoint 2010 Pizza   

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This is not just a “SharePoint Designer free” blog spam post…so please read on ;-)

First impressions of the new SharePoint 2010 sneak peak…and the new Overview Video by Tom Rizzo.

“Value Pillars”

  • Connect and Empower People
    Heavily pushing on multiple devices: multiple Browers (IE, Safari, Firefox); mobile
  • Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure
    One platform with multiple solutions
  • Rapidly Respond to Business Needs
    Quickly skin SharePoint and “mash it up”…see my latest post on ASP.NET devs leveraging SharePoint

I agree with these messages as the last two are what I push daily for compelling reasons for SharePoint. The first one around multiple devices will obviously come in 2010 with more support.

Pie

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  I think these are even less intuitive than the last 6, see my run down of existing Pie here:

  • Sites
    Share information seamlessly and securely with employees, partners & customers
  • Communities
    Empower people to work together in new ways
  • Content
    Manage content from creation to disposal
  • Search
    Find people and information anywhere
  • Insights
    Make informed business decisions
  • Composites
    Rapidly create dynamic business solutions

At least the SharePoint Pizza is directed at functionality rather than trying to make it applicable to technical features like the Pie.

Editions

At least you could talk to the editions WSS, Standard and Enterprise with the Pie, but you can’t with the Pizza. Although I think I read somewhere they’ll just be WSS and MOSS. So we’ll see.

Bite off what you can chew

I also think it is harder now to encourage people to bite off a little bit at a time…this just highlights how huge the platform is. Before I used to say, well have a project to deploy the base platform, then: “attack Search first”, or “create a portal” or “create a document management system (ECM)”. You could do these a lot easier without much overlap from other pieces of the pie. It certainly had it’s flaws though as WCM wasn’t mentioned and that was seen as a separate component. WIth the pizza, they’ve come at it with a completely different approach and it’ll be interesting to see how this changes pitching SharePoint.

Nicest new features in my opinion

  • Live Editing of text on page like Office 2007
  • Upload images as content is seamless
  • Browser Support for Firefox and Safari
  • Visio web integration
  • SharePoint Designer 2010 look and feel
  • Nicer BDC integration
 
Posted by  Jeremy Thake  on  7/13/2009
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@akrasheninnikov  commented on  Monday, July 13, 2009  10:23 PM 
Hi Jeremy,

You're right. Seems like the sales now target more tech than business in their pizza :) You need to read on to figure what exactly the product can do for the business and where the focus could be in a project.

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