February 2009 - Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror

Body: You might not realize this, but your users hate you. That’s right. Hate you. They hate you because you are responsible for SharePoint and their experience sucks of late. What started out as promising way to collaborate has turned into a burden. Your users know they should use SharePoint to better manage the vast amount of information and data they create. They love the power and ease of use of SharePoint, but after a litany of issues with their environment they have given up and gone back to using file shares and email. Here’s why they hate you and what you can do to make them love you again. Reason #5. No one is in charge Your users need help. They have lots of questions, concerns, and issues. They want to know how to design their site, how to recover data, and if they should trust their...

This last summer when I was in Australia I was chatting with Adam Cogan and he was saying I should be a regional director. He started talking about giving feedback to the product team and at levels of detail that was very impressive. I had assumed he was an FTE after his intro that he was a Microsoft Regional Director. Twenty minutes later after hearing about his customers, and feedback sessions, and then hearing about SSW and the work he was doing I had to stop and ask. So you work for Microsoft? No, I work for SSW as a chief architect. Woah. So what is this regional director title? How is it different from MVP? Jonathan Goodyear on Regional Director Demistified explains… “So, how do you become an RD? There’s really no simple equation. The title isn’t strictly merit-based like that of MVP...

Body: I realize you expect more in-depth content on my blog and I promise to get to that eventually. It seems my recent job change to product management is making me focus more on the big picture. Damn business people! Anyways, people who attended SharePoint Best Practices conference in San Diego may have heard me now infamously proclaim “I hate Twitter. If ur gonna blog, blog, if ur gonna IM, IM.” However, funny that may be, it reflects my naïve understanding of Twitter at the time. Not long after making that bold statement, I found myself becoming a voracious consumer of Twitter. You can pretty much find me on it all day long. Why the sudden change? I realized something after giving it a second try – It’s helpful. Twitter is not just an ego outlet. It’s a place where I can find answers. I...

I’m starting to have some impact on Quest. :) Today we are launching a beta of what will become a much more casual and friendlier softer side of Quest. You may have seen their professional side and the very polished Quest brand of tools on their Quest...

Thanks for attending the Webcast. We had a great crowd with lots of great questions. Here’s the Deck: SharePoint Backup and Restore Strategies . The slides are there and we’ll have the recording posted there as soon as it’s available (later today.) Those...

Body: My name is Peter Serzo and I work as a consultant for Trillium Teamologies in Michigan. Two weeks ago I did a session on the Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) and JQuery at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in San Diego. I have become a big...

The free trial version of Notes Migrator for SharePoint now contains the complete functionality of the Discovery Edition with no restrictions, as well free support for 30 days. Organizations may now use this tool to perform complete analysis and discovery...