Arkivji ta 'Kull Xahar: Settembru 2008

VPN Strikes darb'oħra, Jonqos Me Down u theddida għall-eżistenza Beer My

Tonight, I’m doing some hobby work with a virtual machine running on my desktop. I’m connecting via IE on my laptop and I’m noticing horrible performance. IE keeps freezing, speċjalment meta I aċċess xejn fir-rokna ta 'fuq tal-lemin li jikkawża drop-down biex, ukoll, drop down. I would click on Site Actions and things freeze up for a while. They would freeze long enough for me to switch over to another browser window and do something else. If I confine myself to navigating around from page to page, huwa raġonevolment malajr, but even that feels slow. Normalment, things are very fast.

I’ve had this happen to me before and I think that I ended up rebooting at the time. I’m about to do that when I somehow notice I’m still VPN’d to a client from 2 jiem ilu(!). I disconnect and that that solves my performance problem.

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SharePoint Konferenza tal-Aħjar Prattiki, “Aħjar Prassi,” u l-Elephant fil-Kamra

I was lucky to attend and present at last week’s SharePoint Best Practices conference. I’m still new to the whole speaking "thing" u, franchement, I was a bit nervous for the first half while I sweated out waiting to speak myself. That sort of nervous feeling made it a little hard for me to pay attention to the presenters (mhux li I injorati minnhom). Minflok, I iffukat daqsxejn aktar fuq il-parteċipanti.

Conferences always set my mind racing and there was a lot take in at this one. This conference was excellent. I think it was unusual in several ways. It wasn’t a heavy developer conference. There were certainly dev parts to it, iżda naħseb li kien inqas 60% iffukat fuq kwistjonijiet non-DEV, maybe as high as 80%. I think that speaks to the evolving nature of the SharePoint market. Companies are implementing SharePoint in a variety of ways and they are looking for guidance on how to do it right. And not just guidance on how to create features/solutions (li minn issa, ġiet stabbilita sew ħafna).

I believe the conference was tremendously valuable to most everyone that attended and I know that the organizers plan to do the conference again early next year.

Wara li qal li, I believe there was a missed opportunity which I hope the next conference addresses. I say it’s a missed opportunity, but that’s not a bad thing. Discovering a community need is in and of itself a good thing. The conference discussed a number of best practices in a variety of areas such as governance, taħriġ, ġbir rekwiżiti, tfittxija, iżvilupp, arkitettura ta 'informazzjoni, eċċ. I think that the missed opportunity has to do with the "green field" assunzjonijiet sottostanti ħafna mill-aħjar prattiki.

Meta nitkellmu dwar qasam green, we mean that SharePoint hasn’t gone into production and we’re starting with a clean slate. This is ideal because you can start straight away using best practices for defining and managing governance, arkitettura ta 'informazzjoni, eċċ. Madankollu … x'jiġri meta int diġà fil-produzzjoni ma 'diversi eluf utenti (or 10’s of thousands) u inti ma segwiex l-aħjar prattiki fil-bidu? I’ve seen companies with … ahem … ħafna fard information architecture baked into their environment. I don’t think that this conference provided much guidance for organizations with that kind of problem (u jien ma jfissirx biss IA, iżda governanza, tfittxija, f'ħafna oqsma oħra). Of course, jaf ikollok problema hija parti kbira tas-soluzzjoni u li l-valur kbir.

I think that the online SharePoint community hasn’t done much to address this either. I know I have not. It’s a very hard problem to solve at many levels. Technically it’s hard. Budget-wise it’s hard. Culturally, it’s hard. Madankollu, it’s probably a bigger real world problem than most. Since the conference ended, I’ve been thinking about these kinds of problems and how one would solve them. There has to be a better answer than, "uninstall and reinstall" u l-komunità jeħtieġ li jiffaċċjaw dan ras fuq.

I think that this a great opportunity for the blogging community and experienced thought leaders to lay out some guidance on how to repair their environments. I think there’s a small but non-zero risk that SharePoint could end up with a bad and enduring reputation as a result of poorly architected implementations that fail due to poor governance, IA, eċċ.

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New Blogger fuq il-Blokk

My EMC colleague, Erik Swenson, has been persuaded to jump in the fray, stand up u jingħaddu 🙂

He blogs about about a wide variety of SharePoint branding topics at http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/. Some of his recent posts include interesting stuff about Photoshop, Microsoft Office Live for small business, SharePoint Governance, creating custom WCM styles and so forth. He does not confine himself to branding. It’s quite an interesting mix which is a little bit different from a lot of the SharePoint blogs with which I’m familiar.

His RSS feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SharepointBrandingDesign

Check it out and give him a little encouragement. We all need that from time to time, especially when we first really dive into this blogging world.

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Best Konferenza Prattiċi: “Get Rekwiżiti Gran” PowerPoint Preżentazzjoni

I’ve uploaded the PowerPoint for one of my sessions, "Get Great Business Requirements," right here (http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Paul Galvin Great Requirements.pptx).

Aside from a series of brilliant points, powerfully made, the deck includes extensive notes which supplement and enhance the afore-mentioned brilliant talking points.

For those of you that missed the Best Practices conference, I was lucky enough to present and discuss a process that works very well when trying to discover accurate end user business requirements for SharePoint projects. The PowerPoint plus notes describe this in pretty good detail. It supplements one of my earliest blog postings here: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!146.entry

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SharePoint Seminar Online Dashboards

Ħabib tiegħi online, Mark Miller fuq u End User SharePoint (www.endusersharepoint.com) qed taħdem ħielsa seminar siegħa mmirati, simili hu dejjem ma, at the SharePoint End User community. It takes place at 1pm EDT. Details are here: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=785

I sib fil dwar wieħed mill seminar online tiegħu aħħar xahar u kien sar pjuttost tajjeb u jekk int interessat fl xi info prattiku ħafna fuq dashboards fl SharePoint, Jien ċert li huwa jiswew il- 1 investiment siegħa.

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