As a SharePoint person over the past dozen plus years I have seen MICROSOFT change its strategy on SharePoint multiple times. From its origin as a file repository to a CMS platform to enterprise content management to the cloud as a part of O365 and now as they attempt to revive SharePoint as its own…
Today we saw Microsoft reinvigorate it’s flagship for collaboration in the workplace, SharePoint 2016. I, for one, am glad that Jeff Teper is back in charge and making SharePoint something that is the focus of Microsoft as opposed to just a cog in the machine. I am also happy with the strategy that they have…
5 Things Your Employees Wish IT Understood about the Company Portal1) “The majority of employees don’t use the portal.” The last portal got off to a great start, but the content has become stale and obsolete over time. I know we spent a lot of time and money on it, but to be honest, most…
We’ve got a nice little AWS CloudFormation template that builds out a SharePoint 2013 Enterprise farm, configures everything nicely, then deploys a custom code solution right over the top of that. We’re using public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in the template and all has been going well. Then, starting this week, SharePoint 2013 no longer…
The decision to host your SharePoint implementation On-Premise or Online largely depends on your goals. What content will you have? What integration points are needed? To help with your decision, here are some pros and cons of each. Pros: SharePoint On-Premise Cons: SharePoint On-Premise You may have already invested in a nice farm and…
UPDATE: Check out my video on how to Drive Adoption using techniques from Sun Tzu Recently I was asked how to find the usage of all of the users in our OneDrive for Business in our Office 365 tenant. Its relatively easy to do this using PowerShell for all of your normal site collections. For that…
Last week we talked about the end user as the customer for our Intranet and I proposed that we look at them more as product than as customer. To recap, our definition of a customer is: someone that buys or pays, for a product or service. So, let’s look at another potential customer…the Executives or the…
Last week, I wrote a blog post about how to sell an intranet to your organization and I quickly talked about who the customer of the Intranet should be. The quick definition of customer is someone that buys or pays, for a product or service. So, with that in mind, lets explore who the customer is…
First, Why Should We Care About Employee Engagement? According to Rachele Williams, SPHR and Advisory Services lead for APQC, one of the world’s leading business benchmarking, best practices, and knowledge management research consultancies, “Employee engagement is to HR what customer loyalty is to marketing and sales. It is that often elusive frame of mind that…
Let’s face it, we want a new Intranet and we are getting tired of waiting for our company to approve the project to build one. How do we get that project going? I’m glad you asked, and I hope to help you in this endeavor. The first thing that you are going to have to…
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