Managing large lists in SharePoint Online is not dissimilar to doing the same for an on-premise SharePoint environment; the difference being that Microsoft has set in stone some settings that can be modified when you have access to the SharePoint Administration Site and the SharePoint servers in your farm. While SharePoint 2010 introduced the ability [...]
It is sometimes difficult to justify coming up for air and taking the time to evaluate products that are still very much in motion. In the case of SharePoint 2013, however, it wasn’t hard at all. Acrowire has recognized the value SharePoint brings to the table for a very long time, but we decided to [...]
Last month I was privileged to present a webinar hosted by the ITMPI on the topic of managing technical debt. The presentation discussed the technical debt metaphor from its inception in 1992 when Ward Cunningham coined it to where it is today. In addition to disecting the metaphor’s evolution, we discussed opportunities and challenges the [...]
Several years ago I ran across an article on leadership by the same title as this blog post. I thought the content of the article was relevant enough to copy into a Word document and save for future reference. While the rules are very basic, their simplicity is a large part of their value. We [...]
Until recently, VDI was a technology reserved for enterprise level customers with deep pockets and an equally deep roster of expert IT staff to support it. The expense and complexity of VDI implementations has historically kept SMBs from even considering the technology. When the Citrix VDI-in-a-Box (ViaB) product debuted it changed the landscape dramatically by [...]
There is no shortage of documentation on the process of upgrading BPOS to Office 365. The problem is most of it is verbose and hard to follow. Some clients prefer to take care of the on premise work themselves during their migration, so we decided to create a concise document together to guide them. There [...]
Today Bruce Marshall from Microsoft and I teamed up to present to the North Carolina Chapter of the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) on technology readiness and Microsoft Office 365. SCORE provides mentoring and other resources to aspiring entrepreneurs. Most entrepreneurs understand the need for professional, reliable and cost effective technology infrastructure but many [...]
Once you have migrated to Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), you will need to access certain BPOS resources, configure your workstations and set up mobile devices. There are resources out there to guide you through this process but they are scattered about. We will try to consolidate as much of this information as possible [...]
There has been quite a bit of press coverage regarding the outage at Amazon this week. Much of this coverage has focused on how the outage has brought down many popular web sites such as Reddit, Quora and Foursquare. The point that seems to be getting missed here is that by failing to plan, these [...]
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