SPD Workflow: Emri Display plotë në vend të përkatësi emrin e përdoruesit

Në atë që duket të jetë ditarin e tij inaugurues postimin, chiqnlips ka delved në çmenduri që është një kolonë e llogaritur dhe e përshkroi një zgjidhje për një problem të përbashkët workflow email SharePoint Designer aktivitetit: How to display a person’s real name in an email instead of "domain\username."

Unë nuk e kanë testuar atë vetë, but it looks promising. Check it out.

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Parashikimet për SharePoint 2009

Unë e kam lexuar pak në retrospektivën 2008 and this has got me to thinking about 2009. Here are my guesses at the future of SharePoint in 2009.

Disclaimer vogël

Unë jam një MVP SharePoint dhe si rezultat, I sometimes get a little advance information before it’s public. I am NOT making any such information public. I really haven’t been around long enough to be entrusted with that kind of stuff anyway.

With that out of the way, on to the predictions …

FAST

I believe that FAST will become a very hot topic in 2009. It’s already well known in the enterprise search community. Megjithatë, everyone that plays around with SharePoint in 2009 will soon be interested in this product and what it can do for them. New consulting companies will spring up around it and existing partners will work and scramble to add it to its portfolio. This time next year, almost everyone in the SharePoint community will have heard of and have an opinion about FAST.

FAST is targeted at large companies and that will continue. I think there’s at least an outside chance that Microsoft will release a more focused version of the product that is accessible to smaller companies. Failing that, they will open up the SharePoint search engine so that it can be customized along the lines that FAST can be customized. Për shembull, FAST uses pipeline architecture for consuming content and indexing it. FAST admins and developers can assemble pipeline components per data source and even create new pipeline components. We don’t have this flexibility with SharePoint today. If FAST remains firmly targeted at very large companies, SharePoint search will adopt some of FAST’s features.

SharePoint V.Next

I believe it will come out in 2009.

I believe that it will provide us the ability to secure views on a list or document library. This may be more of a hope than a belief 🙂

I hope it will provide some better support for end users in SharePoint Designer and particularly workflow.

I don’t know much else, I have been actively tracking what I do find here: http://delicious.com/pagalvin/SharePoint_O14.

Vendors Will Create Business Applications

Sot, most SharePoint vendors seem to be gadget oriented. Take Bambu ose Corasworks për shembull. They have a huge following and great portfolio of products. Megjithatë, they seem sort of gadgety to me or developer / tool focused. Admin tools, workflow tools, etj. That’s not a criticism at all because SharePoint can definitely use some gadgets.

Në 2009, some vendors (and very possibly Bamboo themselves, if I read this correctly) will put together verticalized business applications in the form of templates, features, solutions, etj. I’m thinking about the fabulous forty templates today but tailored to specific industries. I’m sort of surprised it’s not already exploited this way. SharePoint is a platform for delivering these kinds of things. What’s everyone waiting for? They won’t wait any longer in 2009.

Në të njëjtën kohë, Silverlight and other cool .NET stuff will fuel new, better and more interesting gadgets.

Sharepointreviews.com will become the essential community catalog of these products.

End User Focus

2009 will see the emergence of the End User as a major focus for bloggers, organizations and Microsoft themselves. Mark Miller’s End User SharePoint.Com played a big role in 2008 and will continue to do so in 2009. End Users will begin to blog, help to transform user groups into less technical venues and even convince someone or organization to launch a pure End User focused conference.

Conferences, User Groups, Code Camps, etj

Speaking of conferences – they will continue to expand and grow in number and focus. Aside from end user content, they will continue to cater to developers and administrators.

Virtual conferences will start to pick up and existing conferences will provide live feeds to remote attendees who cannot or choose not to attend in person.

Free venues will expand, si Mike Lotter’s (et al) SharePoint e shtune.

This is going to be very important because there will continue to be a large influx of new developers, admins and end users who will be craving the kind of information these groups provide.

Computing Sociale

Demand for social computing features will rise. All things being equal, companies that implement effective social computing strategies will do better and be stronger than their competitors.

Smaller companies will adopt these features more quickly and effectively than large companies.

Large companies: beware 🙂

Best Practices versus Remediation

Në 2008, a lot of SharePoint bloggers and organizations and Microsoft themselves spent a lot of time figuring out the best way to solve certain problems (usually technical problems).

There are still opportunities to define and foster adoption of best practices. Megjithatë, while we’ve been figuring out the best way to install, configure and manage SharePoint, hundreds and thousands of companies have been installing, configuring and managing SharePoint without those best practices at hand.

Në 2009, a lot of companies are going to realize they have some deeply rooted problems to solve and will be looking to the elite members of the SharePoint community and Microsoft for help to fix them. I think this will extend well into 2010 and possibly spawn a cottage industry providing remediation services for companies that really need and use SharePoint, but are hurting badly because of poor decisions made early in their implementation.

The Mother Ship Will Return

Në 2009, the Mother Ship will return and bring Bob Fox home.

Final Thoughts

I didn’t start working with SharePoint myself in any real way until January 2007. It seems to me that SharePoint has really taken off and proven itself capable of delivering a lot of value in these two years. I think that in many ways, it didn’t really straighten itself out until the infrastructure update. It still has its bugs and problems, but we’ve all come along way since 01/2007. 2009 is going to be a banner year for SharePoint.

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SharePoint praktikave më të mira Konferenca shkurt 2-4, 2009

Unë do të jetë bërë dy prezantime në SharePoint praktikave më të mira Konferenca këtë shkurt në San Diego.

Unë nuk kam qenë bërë këtë gjë kohë të mjaftueshme për të marrë të lodhur nga ajo, kështu që unë të marrë pjesë në çdo konferencë është një, sinqerisht, i tmerrshëm. Megjithatë, I do think this conference is special. There is zero marketing focus and the whole thing is about offering real-world practical advice on how to untangle some of the thorniest issues we face dealing with SharePoint. It’s not gigantic, kështu që të gjithë folësit janë shumë të qasshme (të paktën kur ata nuk janë vënë nga zjarret kthehet në shtëpi). This means that in addition to the great formal presentations, ju mund të keni disa biseda të mëdha dhe debate me praktikisht çdo folës në pothuajse çdo kohë, starting with communal breakfast up to late night imbibing at the hotel bar.

Përtej folësit, you’ll have great opportunities to build and cement networks of other SharePoint users in the community. By the end of the last session and conference wrap-up, ju do të jetë energized dhe të plotë të ideve të mira për të sjellë përsëri të punojë për të ndihmuar në përmirësimin e mjedisit SharePoint tuaj.

Kjo është edhe vlerë të investimeve.

The web site is top notch. Check it out për datat, regjistrim, tema dhe folës.

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Leximi Nëpërmjet 1,000 Hyrjet në Blog 3 Javët është shikuar si Sezoni humbur katër në një fundjavë

Verën e kaluar, ndërsa unë isha duke punuar në dy kapituj për mirë libri informatikë SharePoint social ndonjëherë, I began to get very far behind in my blog reading. I use Google Reader for my RSS stuff and when you have more than 1000 artikuj palexuar, ai vetëm i thotë:, "1000 ".

Gjatë disa javëve të fundit, Unë kam qenë i ulur poshtë dhe sistematikisht leximin e tyre dhe tagging ato si të shkoj për referencë në të ardhmen (I use Delicious.com).

Kjo fundjavë kaluarën unë pashë të gjithë Humbur, Sezoni i katër në një çift të seancave dhe kapjen e deri në 1000+ blog entries ndjen të njëjtën mënyrë.

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Porting SharePoint Designer Workflow nga një listë në tjetrën

Mark Miller gjatë në www.endusersharepoint.com posted my latest article on SharePoint Designer workflow këtu (http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1037).

I describe the basic approach for moving a workflow you create in one list to another list. The other list can be in the same site, same site collection or an entirely different farm (e.g. from development to production).

This is a complicated subject so I only covered a very basic scenario. Next week, I’ll write up a more useful real world example.

Check it out and share any comments there.

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Pse nuk mundem Easily Port SharePoint Designer Workflow Solutions nga një listë për tjetër?

Mark Miller has posted my latest End User oriented SharePoint Designer Workflow article up on his site here: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1008

I attempt to provide a straight-forward answer to the question, "Why can’t I easily port a SharePoint designer workflow from development to test?" In the process, I also give some insight into what SPD is actually doing behind the scenes when we use it to create a workflow solution.

Next week, I describe an End User friendly way to port SPD workflow from one server to another, or at least as End User friendly a solution as is possible given the state of the tool set.

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Definimi i problemit Findability

I had the good fortune of attending some partner training from FAST last spring. I was really impressed with the product and was looking forward to working with it. Unfortunately, one project fell through and then EMC acquired my company. Predictably, a certain amount of chaos ensued while we learned about EMC and EMC learned about us. FAST technology dropped a few points on the priority scale during that period. Megjithatë, Unë kurrë nuk e humbi interesin tim në produktin dhe, më shumë interesant, Problemi më i madh i findability.

Unë me të vërtetë nuk më pëlqen se fjala, por unë jam duke u përpjekur për të marrë të përdoret për të 🙂 Pavarësisht se është ngathtësi, findability është një e vërtetë (ose të paktën, zhvillim) term. Do a jetojnë kërkim Nëse jeni të interesuar në gjetjen e më shumë definicione teknike, por mënyra unë të shpjegojë atë rreth zyrës është si kjo:

Kapitalin intelektual që nuk mund të gjenden si edhe mund të mos ekzistojnë.

Është pothuajse aq e vërtetë për të thënë këtë:

Kapitali intelektual që nuk mund të gjendet shpejt dhe me lehtësi mund edhe të mos ekzistojë.

Kapitali intelektual (IC) starts as an idea in a person’s head and is then refined via collaboration with colleagues and interactions with various communities. To be truly useful, these resulting ideas must be recorded. Kjo është ajo ku fillon problemi 🙂

Këto ditë, incizim normalisht nënkupton se ideja dokumentohet ne formen e nje doc Word MS, Manual Excel, etj. and eventually stuck in electronic format on a hard drive somewhere. IC obviously takes other forms like, si imazhet, videos, blogs shumë informative, wikis … it’s impossible to list them all. Në të njëjtën kohë, IC është ruajtur në një sërë vendesh si sistemet e skedarëve, Bazat e të dhënave, Linja e aplikacioneve të biznesit (ERP, CRM, SharePoint, Documentum), etj.

Kjo është Problemi findability: se si mund të shpejt dhe lehtë të gjeni IC që është ruajtur në dhjetra ose qindra të formateve në dhjetra apo qindra e mijëra, dhjetëra mijëra (Unë guxoj të them qindra e mijëra) i lokacioneve në një organizatë?

It’s a difficult problem to solve. Bill angleze ka qenë i shkruar në lidhje me findability from a very grand perspective in what I have come to think of as the Panama Canal approach. The history of the Panama Canal is amazing. In a nut shell, një francez i çmendur (Ferdinand de Lesseps) filluar një kompani private për të ndërtuar kanali, projekti u braktis për disa vite, picked up again and finally finished by the American government under President Roosevelt. This reminds me of Bill’s approach because as he rightly points out, solving the findability is both hard and never stops. It took years and years of effort from the some of the hardest working humans on the planet to start, vazhdoj, dhe më në fund përfundojë). And yet, it’s still not truly finished. Me aq sa unë e di, Bankat e Kanalit e kurrë nuk kam takuar kendin e tyre prehje, meaning that they have to be shored up and otherwise maintained even to this day. Solving findability is the same way. I definitely recommend that you read Bill’s series and subscribe to his blog for his point of view on findability, sidomos pasi ajo lidhet me SharePoint.

I too am interested in this problem. Due to my exposure to FAST and on-going discussions on this subject with my brilliant EMC colleagues, I have some more ideas I plan to write about over the coming weeks and months. In my next article on this little series, Unë jam duke shkuar për të përpiqen dhe të vënë një kuti rreth problemit për të treguar se sa e tmerrshme ajo është me të vërtetë (kjo është më e tmerrshme se sa mendoni 🙂 ). It’s awful, but at least it does fit inside a box.

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Personal On-line Backup Mini-Review: Mozy

Një nga … Efektet anësore … of working for a giant corporation is that I get a lot press releases in my inbox every month. I’m still new to the EMC world, kështu që një shumë prej këtyre njoftimeve për shtyp janë, në parim, inscrutable. This or that company purchased these or those EMC products, blah blah blah. I’m not complaining. I actually take this as an incentive to learn more about EMC as time goes by so that I better understand the big picture of what EMC is all about (aluzion: it’s about Informacion).

Some times, those press releases are quite easy to understand and one of them was about Mozy. Mozy is an on-line backup tool. You install a lightweight client on your workstation (laptop in my case), you tell it what you want to back up and when and then it does it by sending your data to some server(s) on the cloud. It does it in the background.

My initial backup ran in just under 4 hours and according to Mozy is 550MB or so of data. I only backed up "My Documents" (prandaj, the relatively small amount of data).

It ran again (I think 24 hours later), backed up some more stuff in about 8 minuta. I never noticed it happen. There was no obvious impact on any work I was doing at the time.

I did a test restore and it provides a decent enough user interface to select the file(s) you want to restore. It was quick, snappy, informative … I don’t know how it could be any better.

I spoke to one of my colleagues about it who has more experience with online backup. He said that Mozy is good but that it lacks an ability to tell Mozy to do the equivalent of "restore files that I deleted." This is to say that if you don’t know you deleted a fie, or if you do but don’t remember its name, Mozy may not help you much in terms of easily finding it to restore.

They impose a 2GB limit if you just want to use the service for free. It looks like it’s $5/month for unlimited storage.

Bottom line, if someone asks me if they should use Mozy for online backup, my answer right now is, "Hell, yes."

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