My Site Implementation in SharePoint 2010 – A Best Practices Strategy by , for

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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... read more

What Are You Building by , for

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We all know the “Field of Dreams” quote: “if you build it, he will come” but we need to stop and remind ourselves that “he” is a baseball player. Here in CT,... read more

Lousy Ratings, Part 2 by , for

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Last week we considered how binary logic is about as helpful for writing code as it is useless for assessing information quality. Our non-working model? The I-like button version of content anal... read more

The Migration Email No One Will Get by , for

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Is 2011 just another synonym for moving in your shop to SharePoint 2010? Have you been in stealth mode all along? Or have you put yourself on the line? That's right. Announced the move with... read more

Connecting to the User Profile Service Proxy by , for

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Step 1. Set up the Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service Application   Before any farm can provide services to another farm, the consuming farm must be able to use the App... read more

Does your My Site matter? by , for

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The simple answer is yes, but to how much it matters depends on your organization. If you are a small group of people that all work in the same office it might not matter as much but if you orga... read more

Profile Pictures in SharePoint 2010 by , for

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Profile pictures are handled differently in SharePoint 2007. In SharePoint 2007 the photo was simply a URL or file location in one of the fields of the User Profile store. So every time it was a... read more

Hiding the Activities I am following section of edit User Profiles by , for

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There are situations where you may want to keep users from changing their Activities I am following settings on their edit profile page as shown below.  It is not exactly straightf... read more

What happened to My Links? by , for

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If you were using My Sites in SharePoint 2007, there was a high likelihood you were using My Links. It was a convenient place to store and organize links that went with you from browser to brows... read more