Hi everyone. This is my last post for 2010, and I am going out on a troubleshooting note. See you all next year with lots of new content and cool stuff! I had some interesting experiences recently with SharePoint 2010, …

It’s email integration captain, but not as we know it (problems with incoming email handling on SharePoint 2010) Read more »

Michal Pisarek wrote a nice write-up of what makes a good SharePoint Analyst. I feel I have something to offer here, given that I… am a cynical old bastard am an opinionated old bastard have had some opportunities that not …

SharePoint Analysts–Stop analysing! Read more »

I don’t know about you, but as a SharePoint practitioner, I love the fact that I do not do SharePoint full-time anymore. I’d like to take some time to explain why this is the case, and how my non IT …

Dialogue Mapping: The Ying to SharePoint Yang Read more »

As the SharePoint 2010 dust settles, gushing praise and inflated expectations are slowly replaced by the cold hard reality, as people come to grips with the limitations of the product. One such area is with the managed metadata service. Don’t …

Un-Managed Metadata: A couple of gotchas Read more »

Hi All Here is my simple, patent pending method to use to help users design good SharePoint sites. It combines two very effective IA methods into one and its amazing how it turns people from wanting 1990’s era sites complete …

Improve your stakeholders “Crapness Calibration ™” for SharePoint Information Architecture success Read more »

The background Over the last three years, my career trajectory had altered somewhat where I spent half my time as a SharePoint practitioner, doing all of the things that us SharePoint practitioners do, and the other half was spent in …

A different kind of SharePoint Governance Master Class in London and Dublin Read more »

Hi This is part 2 of a quick (but huge) post on my experiences working with SharePoint Designer 2010 workflows and Forms Services. In part 1, we used the scenario of an employee termination form, and sacked Justin Bieber. Now …

Sack Justin Bieber with SPD2010 and Forms Services – Part 2 Read more »

Hi all A very long time ago now, I had the ambition to write an end-to-end blog post series called “A Humble Tribute to the Leave Form”. The intent was to show InfoPath Forms Services 2007 in all its glory …

Sack Justin Bieber with SPD2010 and Forms Services – Part 1 Read more »

This is really great, and something that’s been a long time coming. On behalf of my partners at Seven Sigma, I’m announcing the formation of the SamePage Alliance. A strategic partnership with Seven Sigma and 21Apps, founded by Andrew Woodward, …

Announcing the SamePage Alliance Read more »

Having spoken at the odd SharePoint event over the last three years or so, I’ve always lamented on the lack of a purely business focused SharePoint conference. Whilst the conferences I attend do cater for non technology oriented topics – …

Share2010 – A new kind of SharePoint conference Read more »