Jennifer Mason and I continue our conversation we were having at TechEd around “The Community of SharePoint”.
In this video we give example of how the community is different, how it has evolved, and how to get involved. After watching – please continue the conversation by adding some comments to the post.
Tags: Community, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, TechEd 2011
Chris Schwab of FPWeb and I sit down to visit about some of the decision points that companies have to go through when considering SharePoint. As you will hear, it’s not just about having one option anymore (on premise or off premise). The governance decisions work their way down to individual document classifications.
Rick Taylor (@slkrck) and I had the chance at TechEd 2011 to sit down and talk about SharePoint security. As we uncovered in our conversation – it’s not all controlled inside of SharePoint.
Tags: Security
Christian Buckley and I sat down at TechEd 2011 to talk some SharePoint. More specifically, we talked SharePoint governance on a larger scale than a single farm. Let us know your views on the subject. Where will your SharePoint data live?
Christian Buckley at TechEd 2011
Tags: Governance, SharePoint, SharePoint Platform, TechEd, TechEd 2011
I’ve had the pleasure of spending a few days here in Atlanta at TechEd2011. Rackspace had a sponsorship/booth presence which I’ve used as a “home base” throughout the days – but have spent a lot of the time re-connecting with some great people who I haven’t seen in a while.
That leads me to the topic of the “Community” that exists around SharePoint. Every day I’ve encountered and connected with people with whom I have engaged in what can be termed a “correspondence” relationship with and am only now meeting face to face. What I keep learning is that the relationship was no less engaging or important before we connected in this way. These are individuals who have been extremely helpful in navigating some aspect of SharePoint.
I was talking about the SharePoint Community last night with Jennifer Mason and Christian Buckley and we all agreed that it was extremely unique from other technical products. A few of the reasons we identified for this included the fact that SharePoint is such a “multi-disciplined” application that there isn’t a way for any one person to completely master all that it is. Maybe it would be better to state that its not practical to think that the vast majority of people can master the application. Given that until recently the documentation was “lacking” – community was a requirement.
Also, I would state that SharePoint is all about “collaboration” – so why wouldn’t the SharePoint community be among strongest communities out there. It just makes sense. SharePoint is Social.
I know that sounds a little odd especially if you’re not a sys-admin/DNS junky.
So here’s the deal – when you publish a file or directory using the Rackspace Cloud Files product, you get a really nasty URL that references that asset in their Content Delivery Network (CND).
So when I share “files.deverter.com” I’m given the following URL from Rackspace: c3270232.r32.cf0.rackcdn.com
That’s nasty. But I now have the ability to create a CName (or “Canonical Name Record”) for that nasty URL.
Now when I share files with friends or colleagues, all I have to do is upload the file to my Cloud Files account and give them the URL: files.deverter.com/filename
Much better…. thank you, Rackspace!
Now, if you are curious how this relates to SharePoint (Six Degrees of SharePoint)…. Easy! If I was creating a blog post with a video file of an interview I did with a SharePoint person at TechEd 2011 (which I’ll do later this week)….
- Upload the video called “SharePoint_Interview.avi” to the Cloud Files account I listed above.
- Since, I have made that location a “public” location – it’s shared throughout the entire Akami network.
- Now inside of SharePoint where I want to use the video – I simply reference the following URL as the source (that’s right, I do not place that file inside of SharePoint) http://files.deverter.com/SharePoint_Interview.avi
So when a user comes along to view the post, SharePoint serves the master page, css, and text content. The video file is served from the Rackspace cloud via Akamai.
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Rackspace – but that fact doesn’t make this feature any less cool!
So as you may know, I work for Rackspace hosting here in the US but we have a few other offices around the states and, more specific to this discussion, in other countries. Up until now, the support team which I lead for SharePoint here at Rackspace has been located in Texas.
Well this summer we are going to launch a support team in our London offices and my family and I are going to move over there for 6 weeks for the launch!
The timing couldn’t have worked out better with the kids getting out of school for summer vacation. So instead of me having to be away from them while I spread the “SharePoint Goodness” – we will all get to experience another country for the better part of the summer.
What could be better – More SharePoint for you and I get to live in London (specifically, Windsor) for the summer.
Spreading the goodness of SharePoint globally!
Well, it doesn’t look like Google has much nicer to say about SharePoint 1 year later. I did this search a year ago and this is about the same response.
Out of curiosity, I did the same test over on Bing:
That sounds a little worse.
The moral of the story: garbage in = garbage out. Looks like there is still some “evangelism” work to do in the greater IT community. Who’s with me?
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SharePoint 2010 brought with it a new BI tool called PowerPivot (ok, I know this is really a SQL tool – don’t get all technical on me). Good friend and MVP, Rob Collie put together a quick survey to gauge it’s adoption by the greater SharePoint/BI community. If you have a moment – please take a moment to respond:
http://powerpivotsurvey.polldaddy.com/s/survey
I have the honor to be presenting at The Experts Conference being held April 17-20, 2011 in Las Vegas at the Red Rock.
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I have two sessions which I will be presenting:
SharePoint Multi-Tenancy in the Enterprise
SharePoint 2010 brought with it a host of additional capabilities for the traditional hosting company to scale while providing the data security required by their customers. These same features and capabilities can be used inside the enterprise to help enable tiers of service and security to different departments within the enterprise on their own deployment of SharePoint. In this presentation we dive into a business’s taxonomy and apply multi-tenant capabilities to increase features and security while limiting hardware spend. In addition we will discuss what needs to be done technically to enable these features in your farm.
Scaling SharePoint Farms
SharePoint was truly designed with large-scale deployments in mind. During this session we will take a real-world approach to building out a SharePoint farm that serves tens of thousands of users. It’s not always about adding hardware – it is about adding the right hardware at the right time. We will discuss the decision and present some tools that help with these decisions.
There are many other fantastic presenters that will be delivering some great sessions.
If you would like to attend AND save $300, please use the following links and info:
http://www.social-point.com/tec2011
- Use the code: ATGNMSPTGVT
- Put the name “Rackspace” in the referral line
See you there!
