SharePoint 2013: What Should You Do? Where Are You Currently? What is the Truth? Help! No B.S. Please

Have you ever seen the video where a guy in a cubicle (Office Space-esk) decides his computer software has put him over the edge? He takes his keyboard and gives the monitor a nice “wack” to nudge ... read more

SharePoint 2010 or 2013 Roles, Responsibilities & Support Policies from a SharePoint Consulting Perspective

Purpose The purpose of this article is to share with the AIIM Community EPC Group’s consulting experience to standardize the nomenclature and define the responsibility of individuals who partic... read more

EPC Group’s SharePoint Server 2010 End User Training Guide

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I wanted to post a blog that would allow organizations to get a head start on developing a SharePoint 2010 Training Guide. I believe this is something missing from the community and I am hopeful th... read more

SharePoint Problem & Change Management Procedures Governance - Consulting Best Practices Example

I.T. – SharePoint Problem and Change Management Procedures I.      Introduction The purpose of this document is to define the procedures used to manage SharePoint 2010 / 2013 support re... read more

Dissecting a Decade of SharePoint Consulting Success - Article 2 of 4: Whiteboarding

Whiteboarding Your SharePoint Road Map In most any enterprise SharePoint implementation, SP 2010 or 2013, one of the single most valuable tools I find that most frequently provides that “Aha!” ... read more

SharePoint 2013 Preview Summary - Managing Your Current SharePoint 2010 Initiative with 2013 in Mind

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Overview With the SharePoint Server 2013 Preview being released yesterday there are a lot of organizations who are currently involved in large SharePoint 2010 deployments who are wondering how ... read more

If I were Steve Ballmer and \ or Jared Spataro, Where Would I Take SharePoint Next?

If I had the keys to the castle, just released Microsoft Surface and wanted to bloody the nose of Apple… and by the way, in a hand full of months was about to release the next wave of SharePoint (o... read more

SharePoint and Big Data - Buzzwords, the Cloud, and Reality

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As midsize to Fortune 500 type organizations are finding out, a hosted SharePoint cloud outside of their immediate control can cause unbelievable frustrations. Configurations or small customization... read more

High Level Best Practices: SharePoint Source Code Management and the Related Deployment Process

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50,000 Foot Overview This article describes the source code management and deployment process for SharePoint 2010 initaitives and provides the current-state of SharePoint 2007 deployment anal... read more

Implementing SharePoint within Federal Government Agencies – Best Practices “From the Consulting Trenches” \ Tips for Government IT Executives & Appointees

Walking into Continental Airlines to implement an Enterprise SharePoint Deployment is entire different animal than walking into an organization like the Department of Justice (DOJ) for nearly the e... read more

650 Successful SharePoint Implementations – Dissecting a Decade of EPC Group Enterprise SharePoint Success - Article 1 of 4

Background I am writing this article (Article 1 of 4) as myself and my organization, EPC Group.net, has embarked on and completed our 653 successful SharePoint implementation. In the sections b... read more

Implementing Global Intranet Governance with a Proper Long-term Roadmap

You have probably been flooded with external sources telling you what SharePoint Governance really is and I am here to state mine and my SharePoint Consulting organization, EPC Group’s, definitive ... read more

SharePoint Consulting - Developing a SharePoint 2010 Steering Committee

Overview Within an enterprise SharePoint 2010 deployment, a key best practice to ensure your organization’s long-term SharePoint’s success, is the creation of a SharePoint Steering committee an... read more

SharePoint Consulting - Developing a SharePoint 2010 Steering Committee

Overview Within an enterprise SharePoint 2010 deployment, a key best practice to ensure your organization’s long-term SharePoint’s success, is the creation of a SharePoint Steering committee ... read more

Best Practices for SharePoint Cultural Change Management - From the SharePoint Consulting Trenches

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Introduction I wanted to share with the AIIM Community the overview of a White Paper that myself and my team at EPC Group.net have been working on by studying approximately 35 enterprise ShareP... read more

Why Large Enterprise and Global SharePoint Deployments Will Not Work in the Cloud

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“Everyone is going to want one of these,” Gary Dahl half-joking said.  Gary Dahl is an author and advertising executive, but more importantly, the inventor of the Pet Rock. A Cloud-based ShareP... read more

Is Records Management and Usability, Together, Even Possible?

Why are 75% of the organizations in the United States (with an enterprise presence) looking at implementing a records management solution and why are they drawn so much to a particular Microsoft pl... read more

SharePoint 2010 Web Standards, Accessibility, and Usability Quick Reference Guide

The following is a SharePoint 2010 Web Standards and Usability Quick Reference Guide following EPC Group’s best practices for SharePoint GUI development (master page) and configuration best practic... read more

My Site Implementation in SharePoint 2010 – A Best Practices Strategy

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A SharePoint 2010 Enterprise initiative must be approached in a manner to ensure it is implemented with a “Platform Strategy” and “SharePoint as a Service” in mind. This not only includes the imple... read more

Selecting the Right SharePoint Consulting Firm: Comparing Apples to Apples, or Apples to Oranges

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Background on One of Many Similar Situations I Have Come Across in the Past 24 Months As a disclaimer to this article, I do own a SharePoint consulting firm, EPC Group.net, and am writing this ... read more

The SharePoint 2010 “Magical Mystery Tour”

The Perceptions vs. Reality of I.T. and New Technologies When discussing with a client who is considering or beginning the process of rolling out SharePoint 2010, I sometimes feel like a broken... read more

A “Phase 0” Approach for SharePoint 2010

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An approach that I have seen work well for a large number of organizations either implementing a new SharePoint 2010 enterprise implementation or possibly upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoi... read more

Navigating the “World of SharePoint 2010” and All It Encompasses - Part 1

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is one of the most popular software programs \ platforms in history and with it has come a community with a near cult following as well as a large number of extremely powe... read more

SharePoint 2010 - A Learning Management System (LMS) for Government\DoD, Private Sector\Fortune 1000, and Educational Institutions | (SP vs. Blackboard)

Your organization more than likely already owns SharePoint licenses and may be using it for collaboration, the Intranet, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) \ Enterprise Records Management (ERM)... read more

SharePoint 2010, Mobility, Browser Compatibility, Compliance, and its Continued Dominance in the Marketplace

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Like a stock trader who has purchased a “put” on a stock in hopes the stock value will decrease, I continue to see articles and blogs every now and then asking questions and making statements on do... read more

Developing a Hybrid SharePoint 2010 ERM \ ECM Platform (SPaaS)

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In developing any Enterprise Records Management (ERM) or (ECM) Platform, the key to long-term success is your organizations ability to develop a roadmap that takes into consideration the hybrid typ... read more