This document provides a summary of a presentation on social IQ and succeeding with SharePoint social. The presentation covered key topics like enterprise social and why it's important, demonstrations of SharePoint 2013 social and community features, how to establish a social culture and technology, social management and administration, social governance and adoption. It also discussed social ISVs like Yammer and NewsGator that integrate with SharePoint and provided information on upcoming SharePoint events being held by the presenter in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Successful SharePoint migrations have more to do with pre-planning than the technical migration itself. This presentation outlines the success factors for planning and executing a successful migration.
Microsoft is often depicted as being against open source, but they actually sponsor some very exciting open source solutions for schools, like the Microsoft Learning Gateway and SharePoint Learning Kit.
View C/D/H's slide deck, presentated at the 2010 MAEDs conference, to learn more about SharePoint's open source solutions and why your district should take advantage.
For more information about this and other SharePoint topics visit www.cdh.com or our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
SharePoint 2013 is coming, and you are starting to hear about all of the cool new features. But what if you have just upgraded to SharePoint 2010 or about to upgrade? Find out about what you can do to prepare for the next version even if you won't be going to SharePoint 2013 soon.
Successful SharePoint migrations have more to do with pre-planning than the technical migration itself. This presentation outlines the success factors for planning and executing a successful migration.
Microsoft is often depicted as being against open source, but they actually sponsor some very exciting open source solutions for schools, like the Microsoft Learning Gateway and SharePoint Learning Kit.
View C/D/H's slide deck, presentated at the 2010 MAEDs conference, to learn more about SharePoint's open source solutions and why your district should take advantage.
For more information about this and other SharePoint topics visit www.cdh.com or our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
SharePoint 2013 is coming, and you are starting to hear about all of the cool new features. But what if you have just upgraded to SharePoint 2010 or about to upgrade? Find out about what you can do to prepare for the next version even if you won't be going to SharePoint 2013 soon.
In May, Microsoft launched its highly anticipated SharePoint 2010. As you would expect, the new version is equipped with an assortment of new features and enhancements.
But what can you really expect? Is it really worth deploying now or should you hold off for a while longer?
View the slide deck, presented in December as part of C/D/H's Technology Briefing Series, and find out more about a real-world SharePoint 2010 success story. Learn why the client chose to move forward with SharePoint 2010, what they experienced during deployment, and the pros of cons of the new version.
Contact C/D/H for more information about this and other SharePoint topics – or check our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com for tips on SharePoint and other technologies.
10 Best SharePoint Features You’ve Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
A walk through of the advances made in the SharePoint 2010 platform from earlier versions, as well as a list of 10 out of the box features that most end users are not using, but should. From a webinar given on 6-5-2012
SharePoint Tips and Tricks to avoid migration headachesMike Maadarani
Migrating data into any platform is a difficult task, especially if you are moving into Office 365. If you are migrating to either SharePoint 2013 On-Premise or O365, you will need preparation, good planning, and detailed execution activities are keys to avoid migration nightmare.
This session will help you learn a methodology, adopted based on many previous migration, to help you deliver a successful migration project with happy users. We will learn the steps you need in your pre-migration analysis, migration checklists, post migration support, and any issues you might face during and after completing the migration efforts.
Are you new to SharePoint and don’t know where to start? Perhaps you’re using SharePoint, but only for storing documents and making announcements?
Have you connected to your back-end systems? Is it time to deploy workflow and electronic forms? When’s the right time?
A well-planned SharePoint roadmap defines the business goals, timeline, strategy and vision for your collaboration initiative. It makes sure your project gets funded. It will ensure you’re investing in the right areas with a framework for success.
View the presentation, delivered at the SharePoint TechKNOWLEDGEy 2010 event in Detroit. And for more information on this or other SharePoint topics, visit www.cdh.com or our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
ARMA Vancouver (in partnership with ARMA VI) invited Bruce Miller from RIMtech to give his 2 day “Managing Electronic Records with SharePoint” workshop.
Bruce Smith recaps some of the key messages about managing an EDRMS project, the roles of IT and RM, metrics for measuring progress, and 3rd party tools to add recordkeeping capabilities to SharePoint.
Bruce Norman Smith has been a SharePoint champion at Environment Canada and the Medical Council of Canada. A Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS, McGill ‘08) provides Bruce with graduate level training in business process analysis, database design, xml metadata development, and IM theory & methods. Bruce’s talent for bridging the gaps between business needs, RM and Archival requirements & technical best practices ensures your entire organization can benefit from a SharePoint implementation. His current focus is on mastering the infrastructure and services that support a rock solid ECM solution.
Bruce's blog site is: http://seek.itgroove.net/
Share point 2010 why should you care to investOptimus BT
An overview of SharePoint 2010, with its new features, and how it stack up with respect to an end user, developer or administrator. We also differentiate SharePoint 2010 from MOSS 2007 in real business terms,along with some Business solutions that can be built using out of the box features.
The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal ProductivityChristian Buckley
Showing the links between metadata and taxonomy, social, and productivity in SharePoint. Presented at the Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences, and again at SPTechCon San Francisco 2013.
In May, Microsoft launched its highly anticipated SharePoint 2010. As you would expect, the new version is equipped with an assortment of new features and enhancements.
But what can you really expect? Is it really worth deploying now or should you hold off for a while longer?
View the slide deck, presented in December as part of C/D/H's Technology Briefing Series, and find out more about a real-world SharePoint 2010 success story. Learn why the client chose to move forward with SharePoint 2010, what they experienced during deployment, and the pros of cons of the new version.
Contact C/D/H for more information about this and other SharePoint topics – or check our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com for tips on SharePoint and other technologies.
10 Best SharePoint Features You’ve Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
A walk through of the advances made in the SharePoint 2010 platform from earlier versions, as well as a list of 10 out of the box features that most end users are not using, but should. From a webinar given on 6-5-2012
SharePoint Tips and Tricks to avoid migration headachesMike Maadarani
Migrating data into any platform is a difficult task, especially if you are moving into Office 365. If you are migrating to either SharePoint 2013 On-Premise or O365, you will need preparation, good planning, and detailed execution activities are keys to avoid migration nightmare.
This session will help you learn a methodology, adopted based on many previous migration, to help you deliver a successful migration project with happy users. We will learn the steps you need in your pre-migration analysis, migration checklists, post migration support, and any issues you might face during and after completing the migration efforts.
Are you new to SharePoint and don’t know where to start? Perhaps you’re using SharePoint, but only for storing documents and making announcements?
Have you connected to your back-end systems? Is it time to deploy workflow and electronic forms? When’s the right time?
A well-planned SharePoint roadmap defines the business goals, timeline, strategy and vision for your collaboration initiative. It makes sure your project gets funded. It will ensure you’re investing in the right areas with a framework for success.
View the presentation, delivered at the SharePoint TechKNOWLEDGEy 2010 event in Detroit. And for more information on this or other SharePoint topics, visit www.cdh.com or our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
ARMA Vancouver (in partnership with ARMA VI) invited Bruce Miller from RIMtech to give his 2 day “Managing Electronic Records with SharePoint” workshop.
Bruce Smith recaps some of the key messages about managing an EDRMS project, the roles of IT and RM, metrics for measuring progress, and 3rd party tools to add recordkeeping capabilities to SharePoint.
Bruce Norman Smith has been a SharePoint champion at Environment Canada and the Medical Council of Canada. A Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS, McGill ‘08) provides Bruce with graduate level training in business process analysis, database design, xml metadata development, and IM theory & methods. Bruce’s talent for bridging the gaps between business needs, RM and Archival requirements & technical best practices ensures your entire organization can benefit from a SharePoint implementation. His current focus is on mastering the infrastructure and services that support a rock solid ECM solution.
Bruce's blog site is: http://seek.itgroove.net/
Share point 2010 why should you care to investOptimus BT
An overview of SharePoint 2010, with its new features, and how it stack up with respect to an end user, developer or administrator. We also differentiate SharePoint 2010 from MOSS 2007 in real business terms,along with some Business solutions that can be built using out of the box features.
The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal ProductivityChristian Buckley
Showing the links between metadata and taxonomy, social, and productivity in SharePoint. Presented at the Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences, and again at SPTechCon San Francisco 2013.
The Rise of SharePoint as a Business Critical HubDan Barker
SharePoint has matured since its inception in the early 2000’s from a product that provides a lot of important features to a full blown platform that small and large business are building critical solutions on. The average $1 billion company maintains, on average, 48 disparate financial systems and uses 2.7 ERP systems. SharePoint enables incredible interoperability to these various systems in a way that’s consistent across various groups within the enterprise. In this session we will talk about how SharePoint can be used to create convergence across the various line of business systems in a way that not only saves time and money but also breaks down silos that impeded productivity and innovation.
SharePoint migrations rarely turn out as you plan them. They are sometimes risky and too often take longer than planned. Over the last 10 years of migrating from SharePoint 2003, 2007, 2010 to the latest versions of SharePoint/Office 365 we’ve seen a consistent theme -- organizations underestimate the complexity and level of effort required for a successful, smooth migration.
Whether you are planning to complete your own migration, or engaging a vendor to assist, this webinar will discuss precautions you can take to avoid the slippery slope experienced in SharePoint migrations.
Join Jill Hannemann, Adam Levithan and our special guest Ryan Tully from Metalogix as they:
- Go through the assessment steps to understand the full landscape of your existing SharePoint environment
- Review methodologies for moving content from one environment to the next
- Outline precautions you should take in migrating to either SharePoint 2013 on-premise or online
This presentation provides you an overview of the new features in the product. In this deck, I review, what’s new, what changed and improved and how you can align your organization to be ready for the next wave.
SharePoint is a powerful product and can be many things to its many customers allowing each to customize it for their own unique business needs. Over the past 9 years I've worked with SharePoint, I've learned some valuable lessons and insights into key areas of the product that should come with warning labels to handle with care.
Some choices made in SharePoint can have detrimental side effects and end up to costing organizations time, rework and money to resolve. In this talk I'll share a few common ones I've learned and you will benefit by being able to recognize some of these before they become a problem in your own environment.
Building a SharePoint Platform That ScalesScott Hoag
SharePoint adoption tends to be viral in most organizations, growing faster than IT groups are able to able handle. Most organizations work toward quick user adoption. Only a handful properly assess what their true vision for SharePoint is within their organization, building their physical architecture without having a logical architecture or core taxonomy in place.
In this session we will cover the basics of core design requirements, how they affect logical architecture design and taxonomies, and in turn how best to utilize the equipment available to the IT organization.
What Makes Migrating to the Cloud Different Than On-PremisesChristian Buckley
My second presentation from #SPTechCon Boston 2014, focusing on the limitations and performance concerns of migration to SharePoint Online (part of Office 365).
The Slippery Slope of Migrating to SharePoint Online or On-PremiseAdam Levithan
SharePoint migrations rarely turn out as you plan them, are sometimes risky, and too often take longer than planned. Over the last 10 years of migrating from SharePoint 2003, 2007, 2010 to the latest versions of SharePoint/Office 365, we’ve seen a consistent theme: organizations underestimate the complexity and level of effort required for a successful migration.
Whether you are planning to complete your own migration, or engaging a vendor to assist, this tutorial will discuss precautions you can take to avoid the slippery slope experienced in SharePoint migrations.
During this tutorial, we will:
•Evaluate options of moving content from various systems of origin (including previous versions of SharePoint and non-Microsoft CMS)
•Go through the assessment steps to understand the full landscape of your existing environment
•Review methodologies for moving content from one environment to the next
•Review a check list of precautions you should take in migrating to either SharePoint 2013 on-premise or online
•Create a migration strategy you can take back to your organization
SharePoint migrations rarely turn out as you plan them, are sometimes risky, and too often take longer than planned. Over the last 10 years of migrating from SharePoint 2003, 2007, 2010 to the latest versions of SharePoint/Office 365, we’ve seen a consistent theme: organizations underestimate the complexity and level of effort required for a successful migration.
Whether you are planning to complete your own migration, or engaging a vendor to assist, this tutorial discussed precautions you can take to avoid the slippery slope experienced in SharePoint migrations.
During this tutorial, we:
Evaluate options of moving content from various systems of origin (including previous versions of SharePoint and non-Microsoft CMS)
Go through the assessment steps to understand the full landscape of your existing environment
Review methodologies for moving content from one environment to the next
Review a check list of precautions you should take in migrating to either SharePoint 2013 on-premise or online
Create a migration strategy you can take back to your organization
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What’s your Social IQ? Succeeding with SharePoint Social by Chris McNulty - SPTechCon
1. What’s Your Social IQ?
Succeeding with SharePoint Social
SPTechCon San Francisco 2013
Chris McNulty
2. 25 years
Since 1987, Quest has offered a
broad and deep selection of
products that target common IT
challenges
100k
Quest products provide over 100,000
30
Over thirty acquisitions have strengthened
customers with IT solutions every day our product portfolio
18% 3,900
Quest has driven innovation by Quest employees develop solutions in over sixty
regularly investing 18% or more in offices throughout the world
R&D
11. Presentation Governance
• Out Of Scope
– Quest / Dell
– Deep Dives (e.g. PowerShell, BI, Upgrade, SQL DBA)
– BI Installation and Configuration
• Rules
– Questions – time permitting during session
– Any time after session – email etc. - @cmcnulty2000
– Slides posted to www.sharepointforall.com http://bit.ly/WSFXPO
• Prerequisites
– Comfortable with SQL
– Can write T-SQL
– SharePoint Customization Expertise
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12. What is
enterprise
social, and
why
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13. 3. Social
Collaborate directly in the social interface
• Personal social site not just
for quick status updates
• Easily post links, docs, video,
pictures and pictures
• Share “in place” instead of
moving
• Follow people, conversations,
tags – and documents
• Yammer not yet integrated.
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14. 4. Community
Between team site and my site…”our site”
• Combines social features of a My Site with those of a Team Site
• Rich way to add discussion areas, post questions, rate results
• Use a badging system to spotlight top contributors and performers
automatically.
• Simple to dynamically assemble a custom pool of users for any community
at all.
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15. 5. Newsfeeds – everywhere!
•
• Its more than RSS…
• Every site can have an (optional)
custom community social stream.
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16. 6. Learning from Twitter
• Every microblog update can now
include:
– #tags (dynamically pulled from or
added to MMS)
– @targets (default pulls from your
social colleagues list but you can post
the updates to any SharePoint user)
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17. Why social?
• Pros • Cons
– “The way we live now” – Change management
– Matches consumer communication – Immature governance
style – Vastly complex IA
– Accelerates information discovery – – Security model grows exponentially
the searches you don’t need to run with diverse sharing
– It is collaboration
– Staff retention
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18. Demo –
SharePoint
2013 Social
and
Communities
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19. Engineering Training
How to
establish –
culture and
technology Management Adoption
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20. Social engineering
SharePoint Social
User
Office Web Distributed
Profile Search
Apps Cache
Service
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21. User Profile Service
• My Sites – Don't trust the white wizard!
– IT STILL CREATES BAD GUIDs
– Puts My Sites in the same Web Application
• Dedicate a web application and content
database
• Configure search center!
• Configure profile import
– Provision against AD, ideally
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22. Search
• Defaults are OK
• Create an Enterprise Search Center http://site/search
• Will use in My Sites Setup
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23. Office Web Apps Server
• Off-server installation • On SharePoint
– New-SPWOPIBinding -ServerName
• Prerequisites <WacServerName> -AllowHTTP
– .NET Framework 4.5/ASP.NET 4.5
– Ink and Handwriting • Set zone to regular http
– Windows Authentication, NET Extensibility 4.5 – Set-SPWopiZone –zone “internal-
– ISAPI Extension, ISAPI Filters http”
– Server Side Includes • Troubleshooting:
• Default installation (DNS, https) – No system account usage!
– Configure system to allow OAuth
• PowerShell over http
– Import-Module OfficeWebApps – $config = (Get-
SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig)
– New-OfficeWebAppsFarm –InternalURL
– $config.AllowOAuthOverHttp = $true
http://SP2013Demo-WAC –ExternalURL http://
– $config.Update()
SP2013Demo-WAC.spdemo.corp –AllowHttp –
EditingEnabled –ClipArtEnabled
• Test - http://servername/hosting/discovery
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24. Distributed Cache
• Automatically installed and uses 10% default RAM in the pool
• Size of cache affects speed and size of recent newsfeeds
• Bad - Services MMC or Windows Server AppFabric
• Good - Central Administration or PowerShell commands.
• Decommission gracefully
• User fixed memory on VM’s, not dynamic!
• In a cache cluster, all same, minimum 8GB, max 16GB, maximum 16 hosts
• Keep usage to 70% available cache memory
• Keep an eye on Central Administration and Health Analyzer Reports.
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25. Social
management
and
administration
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26. Social Administration – Tags, Notes, Following
• Social tagging administered from UPS SSA
• Following is throttled but not directly administered
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27. Social Administration - Quotas
• Check quotas based on errors, usage patterns
• Default is 100MB
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28. Social Administration – Promoted Sites (UPS SSA)
• This:
• Comes from:
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30. Social
Governance
and Adoption
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31. Social governance and training
• Governance
– “…the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that guide, direct, and
control how an organization's business divisions and IT teams cooperate to
achieve business goals.” -TechNet
– Highlights:
– People and process
– Guide and control
– Business/IT cooperation
– Business goals
• Visibility and self-governance
• Share behavior with training, examples, policy
– My files go where?
– 2010: Share by moving
– 2013: Share by sharing
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32. User training : SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro
• SkyDrive Pro (labeled as ‘SkyDrive’)
– User personal file storage on
SharePoint 2013 OR Office 365
• SkyDrive
– Free Microsoft file storage in cloud
• SkyDrive Pro
– Offline clients sync from Office
2013, Windows 8, iOS coming early
2013 (SPC12, ZDNet)
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33. Social adoption – technical architecture
• Implement User Profiles!
• Let loose community sites – lean governance
• Enable pervasive newsfeeds
• Big quotas for social (100MB default is awfully low)
• Managed metadata – we follow sites, people, documents, conversations and
terms – pay attention
• Use followed sites and suggestions
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34. Social adoption – know the culture
• Choose initial usage pools with greater than 50% likelihood of penetration
– High interactivity
– “Geo-chrono” dispersed
– Tech friendly
• Information architecture – social becomes a secondary structure
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35. Social adoption – work management
• Tasks and WMS only help when you have task sources – like Project Server
or the Tasks app (off by default) – but if so they’re a great app
• Integrates local, project, site tasks with conversation followup […]
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37. What is it
• The SharePoint Maturity Model was developed in the Fall of 2010 for the
purpose of bringing a holistic view to a SharePoint implementation,
and bringing standardization to the conversation around functionality, best
practices, and improvement.
• The benefits of the Model are:
– It gives you a holistic understanding of your SharePoint implementation’s current
state, and lets you define a benchmark for future improvement
– It helps you define your strategic roadmap.
– Participaltino expands group data
• Does NOT cover:
– Public-facing websites
– Compliance and regulatory issues
– Visual design and branding
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– Cloud / online versions of SharePoint
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38. What it covers
• Publication • Integration
• Collaboration • Insight
• Business Process • Infrastructure
• Search • Staffing & Training
• People & Communities • Customizations
• Composites & Applications
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39. Levels defined
500 Optimizing
•The particular area is functioning optimally and continuous improvement occurs based on defined and monitored metrics.
ROI is demonstrable.
400 Predictable
•The particular area is centrally supported, standardized, and implemented across the entire organization. Governance is
defined and understood / followed.
300 Defined
•The way the particular area is implemented is defined and/or standardized, but not in use across the entire organization.
Governance is defined but may not be widely understood / followed. ROI is considered.
200 Managed
•The particular area is managed by a central group (often IT), but the focus and definition varies by functional area, or is
limited to a single area.
100 Initial
•The starting point of SharePoint use.
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40. Social/Communities (SPMaturity.com)
500 Optimizing
• Users can edit certain profile data that writes back to AD or HRIS. MySites template is customized. Communities extend to external participants.
• Forms connect with LOB data. New capabilities & requirements are surfaced & integrated into downstream capabilities.
• External data (partner/supplier or industry) is integrated with SP.
• Analytics and trending are employed.
400 Predictable
• Profile fields may integrate with LOB data. MySites are centralized (only one instance per user). Communities flourish under governance.
• InfoPath forms improve the user experience. Mobile functionality is supported.
• Most of the systems that are desired to be integrated, are integrated. A data warehouse may be integrated with SP.
• Items are actionable.
300 Defined
• Custom profile fields reflect company culture; photos are updated from central source.
• MySites rolled out to all users, supported, trained. Community spaces connect a particular set of users.
• Most critical business forms are online; some involve automated workflows.
• Multiple systems are integrated with SP.
• Reports allow drill-down and charting.
200 Managed
• MySites rolled out to pilot groups or users. Out-of-box profiles implemented. Community spaces may be piloted.
• Increasing use of SP lists to replace Excel spreadsheets and paper forms. Applications are opened up to a larger group of users.
• A single system is integrated with SP (Line-of-business, document management, etc.).
• Reports are aggregated through customization.
100 Initial
• Basic profile data imported from AD or other source. MySites host not created.
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43. Social ISVs
• Colligo
• NewsGator
• Neudesic Pulse
• Dell Social Hub
• Yammer
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44. Yammer
• Microsoft owned
• Integrates directly into Office 365
• SharePoint to come
• Multiple clients (iOS, mobile, web,
SP) and apps
• Cloud based – integrates to
SkyDrive Pro
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45. NewsGator
• Social Sites (general) and Tomoye
(public sector)
• Enhanced community
collaboration on SharePoint 2007,
2010, 2013
• High capacity, multiple clients
• Complex
• Moving away from SharePoint as
required technology
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46. Neudesic Pulse
• Grew from real world
enhancements and integration
• Integrates to SharePoint full screen
or web part), Dynamics
• Hosted or on-premises model
• Groups, newsfeeds, microblogs
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47. Dell Social Hub
• Free SharePoint 2013/Office
365 app in the Microsoft App
Store
• Adds Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn and RSS social feeds to
SharePoint
• Improves “single pane of glass”
story for adoption
• Free
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48. Colligo
• Extend SharePoint content into
Outlook (Harmon.ie)
• Extend content to
desktop/offline/iOS/Outlook
• Interact from a different social
context
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51. While you're in the Bay Area…
• Monday 4:00pm - SharePoint SpeedMetal Admin 101
• Monday 5:30pm – Lightning Talks
• Tuesday 2:00pm – Social 101 and SharePoint
• Tuesday 6:00pm – Book Signing, Dell, SharePoint 2013 Consultant’s
Handbook (Advance Edition)
• Wednesday 1:15pm – SharePoint Experts Meetup (Managed Metadata)
• Wednesday 3:45pm – I Have Excel, I Need PerformancePoint, but I Don’t
Know Analysis Services!
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52. More information
• SharePoint architecture design patterns in Chris’ e-
book entitled SharePoint 2010 Consultant’s
Handbook – A Practical Field Guide
– Get your free copy here http://www.quest.com/get-
chris-book
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Who is Quest? Founded in 1987 we have over 25 years of experience simplifying common IT challenges Some of the largest customers in the world depend on Quest products We have a history of innovation and acquisition that strengthen our product portfolio to deliver increased customer value We’ve historically invested more than our competition, allowing us to out-innovate our peers Nearly 4,000 employees worldwide
1. Do not manage the Distributed Cache service through either the Services MMC snap-in or the generic Windows Server AppFabric tools! Use SharePoint Central Administration and the SharePoint PowerShell cmdlets designed for the purpose.2. Anytime you need to shut down the Distributed Cache service on a cache host (via Stop-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance cmdlet), such as to remove a cache host from its cache cluster, use the –Gracefulswitch to avoid data loss. Although it takes longer to shut the service down this way, cached items are preserved (i.e., transferred to another cache host) and end-users get a better experience.3. If your SharePoint Servers (specifically, your cache hosts) are virtual machines (VMs), do not use dynamic memory for those VMs. Dynamic memory allows you to squeeze “more” out of a hardware host, but it can cause problems for the Distributed Cache service since actual physical memory assigned to a VM is variable. For Distributed Cache hosts, used fixed memory allocations in your VM configurations.4. When adding and removing cache hosts to a cache cluster, be aware that the Distributed Cache service depends on Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for operation – likely to ping other cache hosts to determine their availability and readiness. This may require you to make firewall changes in your environment and on your cache hosts.5. All cache hosts in a cache cluster should be configured with the same Distributed Cache service memory allocation, and that value shouldn’t be less than 8GB per server.6. Don’t allocate more than 16GB of memory to the Distributed Cache service on any single cache host – even if the system has more RAM available. Allocating more than 16GB of memory may cause the server to stop responding for periods in excess of 10 seconds.7. The maximum number of cache hosts per cache cluster is 16.8. The Distributed Cache service on a cache host throttles requests when memory consumption approaches 95%. Until memory utilization levels drop back to (approximately) 70%, cache read and write requests are not accepted. Keep an eye on memory usage and the Event Log for signs that a server is memory starved and consider adding additional cache hosts in such circumstances.9. The SharePoint 2013 Health Analyzer has a few rules that will surface issues with the Distributed Cache service. Keep an eye on Central Administration and Health Analyzer Reports.
1. Do not manage the Distributed Cache service through either the Services MMC snap-in or the generic Windows Server AppFabric tools! Use SharePoint Central Administration and the SharePoint PowerShell cmdlets designed for the purpose.2. Anytime you need to shut down the Distributed Cache service on a cache host (via Stop-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance cmdlet), such as to remove a cache host from its cache cluster, use the –Gracefulswitch to avoid data loss. Although it takes longer to shut the service down this way, cached items are preserved (i.e., transferred to another cache host) and end-users get a better experience.3. If your SharePoint Servers (specifically, your cache hosts) are virtual machines (VMs), do not use dynamic memory for those VMs. Dynamic memory allows you to squeeze “more” out of a hardware host, but it can cause problems for the Distributed Cache service since actual physical memory assigned to a VM is variable. For Distributed Cache hosts, used fixed memory allocations in your VM configurations.4. When adding and removing cache hosts to a cache cluster, be aware that the Distributed Cache service depends on Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for operation – likely to ping other cache hosts to determine their availability and readiness. This may require you to make firewall changes in your environment and on your cache hosts.5. All cache hosts in a cache cluster should be configured with the same Distributed Cache service memory allocation, and that value shouldn’t be less than 8GB per server.6. Don’t allocate more than 16GB of memory to the Distributed Cache service on any single cache host – even if the system has more RAM available. Allocating more than 16GB of memory may cause the server to stop responding for periods in excess of 10 seconds.7. The maximum number of cache hosts per cache cluster is 16.8. The Distributed Cache service on a cache host throttles requests when memory consumption approaches 95%. Until memory utilization levels drop back to (approximately) 70%, cache read and write requests are not accepted. Keep an eye on memory usage and the Event Log for signs that a server is memory starved and consider adding additional cache hosts in such circumstances.9. The SharePoint 2013 Health Analyzer has a few rules that will surface issues with the Distributed Cache service. Keep an eye on Central Administration and Health Analyzer Reports.
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