Simple Dev, UAT/testing and Production Environment Breakdown for the SMB Space

On February 14, 2012, in SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, by swallbridge

I get asked about this enough that it was worth whipping together a quick diagram to highlight what a small to medium business might want to consider in regards to putting up a SharePoint environment complete with DEV, UAT (Testing) and Production. Obviously every client is different and particularly in the case of Production, every [...]

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10 SharePoint MVP’s reflect on 2011

Dan Holme asked for a bunch of us to reflect on last year and make some predictions for next year.  The results of his questionnaire can be found here. Responses to the Year in Review include comments from: Radi Atanassov Rob Bogue Geoff Evelyn Jason Himmelstein Debbie Ireland Asif Rehmani Chris Riley Jeremy Thake Sean [...]

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The Rob Base SharePoint Workflow

And the song, if you don’t remember: Incoming search terms:are you rob baserob baserob base workflowyou are rob basei am rob base

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Fantastic and Fair Priced SharePoint Documentation Tool

Stumbled across this gem today.  The Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint from Acceleratio Ltd. As any SharePoint professional knows, SharePoint combines ease of use and the ability to change software to suit your business needs and requirements rapidly. That is the positive of SharePoint. The negative is the expectations that come on IT to be equally [...]

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How to create a SharePoint visual site map using Smart Art and SharePoint Designer

Those of know me know that I live by ‘a picture is worth a 1000 words’.  That said, my experience has been that if we provide a visual site map (diagram of sites/webs in your collection), folks appreciate it and understand where data should go.  An example: Here’s how it’s done   First off, watch [...]

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How to move a site collection to a different managed path

I pulled this from the old OneNote archives the other day and figured I’d share it with anyone that might need to do the same. The Challenge A customer had us upgrade them to SharePoint 2010.  However, they didn’t like that their site collection was at http://go.somewhere.com/sites/department and instead wanted a dedicated managed path (explicit [...]

Adobe Acrobat finally has some SharePoint integration

Only took about a decade but Acrobat 10 has some SharePoint integration now. To be fair, Acrobat 10 has been out for a while, since the beginning of the year, so I’m pretty late commenting on it.  But my friend Tom pointed out this video that highlights the document library integration and I have had [...]

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Exchange 2007 Difficulties delivering email to some domains – Error 451 4.4.0 DNS query failed

On June 19, 2009, in SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, by swallbridge

Here is an interesting one but quite repeatable… I’ve run into this situation now in two totally different Exchange 2007 environments (the source). While we are able to successfully deliver messages to most customer domains, in these two instances, one was a domain in BC and the other was in Argentina. The Problem For whatever [...]

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