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August 2006 - Posts

Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:44 PM

Doing a Presentation on BI and MOSS 2007

Perfect timing... I am currently finishing my chapter on Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2007 (I'm writing like a madman these days as our book is scheduled to be completed by the end of September! -- print date is hopefully the start of the year)
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:29 AM

New White Paper on MOSS Backup Strategies

If you follow my blog, you've seen a number of entries on SharePoint 2003 backup strategies and techniques. What about SharePoint 2007? Well, things get a lot better (not perfect, but better). Here's a link to a new white paper by the folks at AvePoint
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:47 AM

VBS Script for Creating Users in a WSS 2003 Extranet Domain

SharePoint 2007 offers a more flexible authetication model; one that does not require all users to exist in Active Directory. This will be especially useful in building WSS-based extranets. Today, with WSS 2003, extranet users must exist in an AD domain.
Posted by Mauro | 5 Comments
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:29 AM

Knowledge Management and MOSS

One of the areas that MOSS really shines (from a business perspective) is Knowledge Management. In some sense, KM is all about getting to known, useful information. The ROI in KM systems is easy to justify... getting to relevant data in a fast and efficient
Posted by Mauro | 3 Comments
Monday, August 07, 2006 12:36 PM

Great WSS V3 Disaster Recovery Story

I did a presentation on SharePoint Disaster Recovery at SharePoint Connections several months ago. One of the things I talked about was running a VBS script to automatically back up all your WSS sites (see previous post). Often, you make examples like
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Saturday, August 05, 2006 8:01 AM

My Business Intelligence Secret Weapon -- Visio

I spoke with Gavin Shearer, Product Planner for Visio, this week. I told him about some of the creative ways I use Visio; for both professional use (flow diagrams, architecture overviews, etc.) and project work. It got me thinking about how Visio is like
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments