Like many world-changing technologies before it, SharePoint has caught IS
organizations off-guard. Early adopters within the business established
SharePoint environments on their own. These users assumed they could manage
these environments independently without IS's knowledge or perhaps with tacit
consent. SharePoint environments began proliferating throughout many
organizations. Quickly, these environments needed maintenance at a level
these business users couldn't handle, and that's when things got interesting.
SharePoint has grown to become a core information platform for many
organizations. At this point, IS organizations find that they have no option
but to secure, maintain, and support the platform, due to the
business-critical data, applications, and intellectual... (more)
How many times have you been working on a document, making a system change or
trying to code a late-breaking change only to have it all go wrong. We've all
had that sinking feeling where we have kicked off a series of events only to
wish we could roll back time and make it undo itself. Unfortunately for all
of us these things happen and it seems that the first thought that crosses
our mi... (more)
I keep finding myself standing in front of the mirror and no matter how hard
I concentrate I cannot seem to split my atoms and create a clone of myself.
While this is an extreme thought, it seems to be a fairly common thread when
I am out in the field meeting with SharePoint administrators. The unprepared
SharePoint team can easily become overwhelmed by the system. I wanted to take
some ... (more)
Corporate IT organizations have deployed numerous platforms over the years to
enable users to collaborate on and share unstructured documents, files, and
other data. File shares, document management systems, e-mail servers, Web
servers - chances are that most of these are still in use in your company.
New user requirements and technical capabilities have driven this evolution,
and the re... (more)
Adam Woodruff, MCSE, MCSA, is a solutions architect for SharePoint products at Quest Software and has over 10 years of experience creating solutions to work with Microsoft systems and infrastructure.
Keith Bergelt
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John Karamitsos
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