Please visit the new blog at www.joiningdots.com/blog/ 09 May 2007 SharePoint 2007 and Adobe PDF [Entire Post reviewed and updated: 17/03/09 to include infrastructure update, 64-bit and farm installation notes] If you are deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, even if you are planning a vanilla deployment (i.e. MORE >>

Step Two was at the SHARE conference in Melbourne this week, keeping in touch with what’s happening in the world of SharePoint. One of the key themes at the conference was how to deliver business value from SharePoint. Ruven Gotz surfaces the idea of SharePoint coaches , who provide ongoing support to teams. MORE >>

SharePoint is many things, but it misses the critical element of social media which is networked connection between people and ideas, easy discoverability, makes visible and allows people to act on weak ties, and support for other network-like interactions rather than closed group performance. SharePoint is a silo builder, not buster. MORE >>

Last week seven startups spent the week developing applications on the SharePoint 2010 platform at the first ever SharePoint 2010 SocialFest hosted by the Emerging Business Team at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus. Confer – Bringing ‘twitter-like’ conversations to SharePoint. Leverage Software – Social sharing for SharePoint. MORE >>

The second wave of sessions I attended at last week's SharePoint Conference comprised presentations by experts about best practices in and around SharePoint. One of her areas of expertise, and the topic of this session (SPC 248), is “Measuring the Value of SharePoint 2010 Investments.”. Differentiate between system metrics (e.g., MORE >>