It may be hard to believe, but there are still organizations out there where “SharePoint” is a dirty word. Maybe they haven’t upgraded, maybe–and this is worse–they do have a SharePoint Site but it’s been badly managed, acting as little more than a badly-setup document storage bin. Users see no reason to switch from their […]
Category: SharePoint War Stories
The Importance of User Groups
Just wanted to say a few things about why I harp on getting people to attend the user groups. Microsoft leads in the enterprise primarily because there are many more trained and qualified technicians with lots of reachback into blogs and documentation who work on the Microsoft stack than there are with niche Linux distributions. […]
SharePoint Workflow Best Practices
Note that I will add some screenshots in the near future. Comment if there is something that I should expand on. Automation is key to streamlining business processes to really leverage SharePoint and get a good return on investment in configuring SharePoint. Most of the workflows you may have already seen were simple and only […]
SharePoint Permission Pain
<rant> I just need to go off for a minute. I just got off the phone with a “SharePoint guy” for the leadership for some potential work that I am not going to do. These individuals do not know or understand SharePoint from the fundamental understanding of how they’d like to use it for the […]
Lessons: Developing a SharePoint app for a high trust environment
I just went through the harrowing experience of developing a SharePoint app for a high trust environment. Some of it was due to office politics, while most was due to plain miscommunication and incompetence. There are some important lessons to be garnered which I think apply to any instance in which you are contemplating developing […]
SharePoint Testing
I just realized I’d left this unpublished from a few weeks ago. This should have been published before my trip to SharePoint Saturday Atlanta. —-BREAK—- So I’m working with a new client again, and I’m seeing what I’ve often seen with other previous clients: test sites and test lists and even testtesttest2 lists. This drives […]
Add a Link to Manual Workflow
I’m building out a little thing for the company’s recruiters for when we add a friend to the list. An email goes to the boss of all of the recruiters saying one dropped. I have a link to the resume and the item, but I also had all of the pertinent information in the email. […]
Metadata vs Folders
I just came across a group post on LinkedIn this morning about the use of folders in SharePoint document libraries. I made a decent response via my phone, but I wanted to make a proper post. Current best practice for SharePoint – few folders or no folders? The last time I looked at SharePoint architecture […]
PSA: InfoPath and Office 2016
Office 2016 was just released today. I was so excited to download and install it. I have my reasons. Just ask those of you who get annoying junk mail notifications in Outlook 2013 how much you hate it. Yeah, Microsoft never fixed it. I then started looking into how I should upgrade. Most easily done […]
Hidden Titles
The primary purpose for me to start this blog was to highlight a few of those war stories I’ve got of saving the day. I will leave the names of the clients I’ve had out of this. So here is a rather recent event. A whole lot of us were on a rather large […]