Partners' Blog

Planning SharePoint Deployments with RACI

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:15:38 GMT

One of the first things I did when I sat down with the project manager and service managers on a SharePoint deployment is RACI charts. I’m a big fan of them. It gets a lot of the arguments flushed out for who is responsible. More than that it shows accountability...(read more)

Reaching out to the SharePoint Portuguese Community

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:56:44 GMT

Body: In my continued pursuits to connect with the SharePoint community around the globe, and recent attempts to connect with SharePoint LATAM , I’m excited to announce two new venues… I’ll be speaking at TECHED Brasil ! Last year this was the largest...(read more)

Kudos to Owen Allen @owenallen

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:39:23 GMT

Good luck to Owen Allen, Former Sr. Product Manager at Microsoft. My good SharePoint friend Owen Allen is on to bigger and better things. He was in the latest round of layoffs at Microsoft. He had been most recently working with the SharePoint Partner...(read more)

Twitter gives more than free speech to the world

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:58:18 GMT

I’ve been impressed a couple of times by what I’d consider significant events that a decade ago would have spread by someone creating a web page and then word of mouth gaining in strength through links and SEO (Search engine optimization) and months later...(read more)

Practical Powershell for SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:21:03 GMT

Body: I’ve seen a lot of confusion with various people’s approaches to powershell. Customers are First there’s the aversion to powershell as a "language” and something that will take time, a class, and tons of ramp up. Many decide to put it off until...(read more)

Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Coexistence

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:12:12 GMT

First you should see the official word by viewing the webcast from MS: Jean-Francois LeSaux, EPM Lead Architect, Microsoft Corporation, Project Server 2010 - Coexisting with SharePoint Server 2010 . Webcast Agenda: The Challenge Deployment Scenarios Pros...(read more)

What’s Next in SharePoint Land

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:31:07 GMT

I’ve been working with and watching the End User SharePoint model. While I don’t get a ton out of all of the articles, I do find his model is working. I have been able to monetize the blog to help cover some of my SharePoint user group and SharePoint...(read more)

Get FULL Access to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Book Online

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:37:25 GMT

Rough Cuts on Safari Books Online allow you to read books as they are being written. My book SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating is ready to go to the printer so now is a perfect time to check it out and read up on Upgrade. This...(read more)

Visual Upgrade Drill Down

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:15:14 GMT

I was recently working through the information that is published and reading up on the latest content on upgrade. More has been written. As I’ve worked through the information I came across tidbits here and there that I believe are essentially to planning...(read more)

Upgrading Custom Field Types

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:54:36 GMT

Found this bit of information buried in a larger document. I’ve found it’s valuable in upgrades. Feel free to ignore it if it doesn’t relate to you. I recently had a conversation with the tech doc folks for the protocol docs and they told me, Yeah. If...(read more)

I’m running the SharePoint Track at SharePoint TEC Europe Oct 4-6 2010

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:16:42 GMT

Body: The Experts Conference Europe SharePoint 2010 It’s time to start planning your fall conference line up, so it’s there when you get back from your summer break. One of the key ones to add to your calendar is in Düsseldorf, Germany 4-6 October 2010...(read more)

I’m Speaking at Sweden SharePoint Exchange Forum #SEF2010

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:08:40 GMT

18-19 October 2010 Where: Clarion Hotel, Skanstull Södermalm, Stockholm Who Organizes it? Goran Husman SharePoint MVP in Sweden of HumanData Get more information from the site: http://www.seforum.se/Pages/default.aspx (Yep it’s on SharePoint!) Tel: 08...(read more)

I’m speaking at SPTechCon 2010 Boston in October

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:58:11 GMT

Keynotes: Bill English and Steve Fox Speaker Bios Course Catalog Info on the conference: The SharePoint Technology Conference, October 20-22 in Cambridge, MA, is the world's premier independent event for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server technology...(read more)

Updated SharePoint Patching Recommendations for KB38444

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:06:48 GMT

Over the weekend there were a number of stories about some challenges with a critical patch. I posted a blog “ SharePoint Vulnerability and Hotfix Recommendations ” suggesting that you may want to wait until more detail was available. Now we have the...(read more)

SharePoint Vulnerability and Hotfix Recommendations

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:58:48 GMT

Body: SharePoint has been pretty luck over the years to avoid the focus of hackers and those looking to create exploits. About a month ago a vulnerability was reported for SharePoint relating to a possible exploit of a 0day elevation of priviledges via...(read more)