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Well, we did it!  We are in the final edits of our SharePoint 2010 book, Essential 2010 - Overview, Governance, and Planning, and are looking for an early June availability. As a sneak preview, we are releasing one of the chapters, ''Planning for Governance'', as a free download.  Click here to visit our book site and download the ...

Yesterday, I (and just about everyone in the SharePoint community) posted a link to the SharePoint 2010 sneak peek videos.  So, unless you live under a rock, are sitting on some beach with no internet access [but then how would you be reading this?] or (like my wife) don’t give a hoot about SharePoint, you have seen the videos.  ...

Have you seen the 10 new themes for SharePoint?  If not, check out the image below.  I must say they are very nice and offer some decent options for branding your team sites.  But... before we post an announcement on the portal and advertise them let's talk through what this really is...   First, let's assume various roles in ...

Recently, I presented a webinar entitled ''The Importance of Governance in Your SharePoint Deployment Plans''.  Governance is becoming a hot topic in SharePoint deployment discussions (thankfully!) as more and more organizations are seeing the value of setting the proper structure and consistency that governance enforces.  I tried to ...

Came across this link yesterday... http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=758413.  It is Chapter 1 from the book I wrote with Scott Jamison and Sue Hanley, ''Essential SharePoint 2007: Delivering High Impact Collaboration''.  Personally, this is my favorite chapter.  It offers details on planning your SharePoint deployment, ...

A few days ago I wrote a post on the need for a good governance plan in order to ensure the scalability of a SharePoint 2007 depoyment.  Since then, a few folks have asked me about what a governance plan actually contains.  I liken a governance plan to a disaster recovery document... the concept is simple but when you start to peal away ...

When I meet with representatives from organizations interested in SharePoint (SPS 2003 and now MOSS 2007), I am often asked, usually by the IT department, ''Is SharePoint scalable?''  This usually translates to assessing SharePoint's technical ability to handle large numbers of documents or concurrent users.  That question is easy to ...