Quest SharePoint Team

Quick Remote Users Guide to SharePoint 2010 by Doug Davis, Quest Software Part 1- Using Mobile Pages and Views Let's face it, the days where your co-worker sat beside you are mostly gone the way of the rotary phone. In its place we have virtual teams, virtual meetings, even virtual timezones! One of the advantages of SharePoint is that it allows us to collaborate with peers around the world. However SharePoint is very visual and works best on LANs or fast WANs. Due in part to the requirement...

It is important that SharePoint 2010 is not allowed – even for a few months - to redefine and therefore limit the scope of Enterprise Social Computing. SharePoint 2010 is a significant improvement on Microsoft Office SharePoint Sever 2007 (MOSS) in terms of the out-of-the-box social networking functionality it provides. For example, its default My Site is much more appealing - and it comes with new or improved ‘Web 2.0’ features in areas such as its Noteboard and its pervasive Tagging...

I’ve hardly been alone over the last couple of years trying to promote the potential benefits of a social computing/Enterprise 2.0 strategy. I’m normally labouring the notion of using it to mine otherwise untapped ‘Organizational Intelligence’; after all, that’s what the OI in OI Software stands for. Other times I’m emphasising one of the other main notions behind our product nGage – which is giving every organization the opportunity to have a fully populated...

My good friend Dux Raymond Sy, the SharePoint Project Management Guru has done a bunch of short quick clips from behind the scenes at the SharePoint Conference #SPC09.  His little clips put you right at the conference with the experts.  There’s some really fun ones. #spc09 @brettlonsdale dives into the mandalay bay … by Dux Raymond Sy What @joeloleson would do if SharePoint never existed #SPC09… What @jayincalgary would do if SharePoint never existed #SPC09 What @jthake would do if SharePoint...

Well, today was all about getting settled in, registration and then the 1st exhibitor hall session. Food and drinks (3 per attendee) were provided. The place was packed and we had a number of renewed and new relationships. So a nice gentle way to get into what will be a very intense show. Look for some podcasting tomorrow as we talk about the keynote and the full reveal of what SharePoint 2010 offers up. Quest is in Booth 221, you can't miss us as you come into the hall, but just in case here...

What is a best practice?  Ben Curry definitely one who has popularized and even trademarked the concepts around SharePoint Best Practices through the book and conference has decent explanations of best practices… “ Best Practices is about doing things the right way : the most efficient, effective ways to achieve goals, distilled into adaptable, repeatable procedures you can use.” Blogs are great for sharing your version of the truth and what you’ve learned about the product, but my concern lately...

Teched Online Twitter and the SharePoint Community   Twitter is changing our community SharePoint dynamics! In this discussion we'll talk about the path of social software and twitter's influence on the SharePoint community. Discussion with Joel Oleson and Eric Harlan This week in SharePoint with Joel Weekly podcast series “This Week in SharePoint with Joel”  I’ve been doing these with Mark Miller on End User SharePoint:   The MOSS SHOW Podcast SharePoint Architecture Panel...

The SharePoint team has pushed a new Security Configuration Wizard template and released it in the SharePoint Admin Toolkit 4.0 for 32 bit or 64 bit.  Either of the downloads contain the 2 XML manifest files which describe and provide information around SharePoint as a service with service status rules.  You may want to walk through the manifest or change the rules using the security configuration wizard.  From a simplicity standpoint the manifest adds the SCW roles for Windows SharePoint...