Step by Step: A BCS Overview
We’re often asked about what SharePoint’s Business Connectivity Service (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 and 2013 can be used for and how difficult it is to set up. While the short answer is pretty simple … Read More
We’re often asked about what SharePoint’s Business Connectivity Service (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 and 2013 can be used for and how difficult it is to set up. While the short answer is pretty simple … Read More
So depending on whom you read, the statistics on companies that have a proper business continuity plan and/or disaster recovery plans is staggering and NOT in a good way. According to the SBA, more than half of small companies have … Read More
For most developers, working with SharePoint in production environments can be quite a mystery. If you’ve ever been hit in the head from behind and turn to see nothing, that’s kind of the feeling. When something goes wrong within a … Read More
In many installations, I’ve found that for some content databases, the SharePoint Search (not FAST – that’s another animal all together) can seem to take an exceptional amount of time to crawl. The causes can be widespread – from errors … Read More
Microsoft recently launched the Business-Critical SharePoint (BCSP) partner program and announced SBS Group as a member. This program aims to identify and differentiate software solution/offerings that integrate SharePoint to line-of-business (LOB) systems (including Microsoft Dynamics AX, Dynamics GP, … Read More
Recently, Caroline Marwitz discussed ten things businesses should think about before migrating their SharePoint infrastructure to the cloud. Obviously, this type of decision is a big move and it shouldn’t be taken lightly. As popular as “the cloud” is, does … Read More
For most Android phone users, using SharePoint on the go isn’t a reality – it just doesn’t work on their phones. There is a pretty simple reason for this problem (and a very simple solution).
The default browser on Android … Read More
Microsoft recently launched their “That’s Why I Use SharePoint” site with great resources to promote SharePoint user adoption. It got me thinking about the many ways that our clients use SharePoint. Even our clients who leverage SharePoint for … Read More
Retail chains, no matter how big or how small, need insight into their sales numbers. Some have just a few stores and maybe an ecommerce site while others have over 200 stores, which was the case for one of our … Read More
You may notice that after some time running, your SharePoint 2010 site appears to ‘slow down’ even if you’ve already implemented the SPWakeup service.
Unfortunately, the Health Checker won’t tell you about it but the System Application Event Log does. … Read More