Many finance organizations have recognized the need to take Corporate Performance Management to the next level. It is commonly believed that the plan itself has no significance, but rather is a means to an end. As a result leading organizations atte ...[Read More]

One of my coworkers wanted to work on the new PerformancePoint platform with SharePoint 2010 RTM. He asked me to get the site up and running with PerformancePoint services. Not a big request, I did it before using beta software in the past. Should ...[Read More]

In working with the Managed Metadata service application and configuring Content Type Hubs in SharePoint 2010 some interesting information has surfaced. First, if you are going to implement a Content Type Hub you should seriously consider using ...[Read More]

Since the release of SharePoint 2010 Beta, sandboxed solutions has been a topic that has garnered a mixed bag of reactions. Whether you agree that it is the ‘save all’ fix to isolate risk or that it is limiting, this post will attempt to aggregate ...[Read More]

From time to time, I preach about how glorious the SharePoint twitter social community is and how it impacts my daily routines in a positive manner.  I’d like to share an experience I had on twitter in regards to the new Validation Settings in Sha ...[Read More]

By now you have probably heard that Powershell is a ‘must have’ for all SharePoint 2010 Administrators. Todd Klindt has a presentation on getting started with Windows Powershell on technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee518673. ...[Read More]

I’m sure that most of you have been playing around with SharePoint 2010 since it’s beta release. (If not, add this to your links http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/)   When navigating around in Central Administration, I noticed that some very popul ...[Read More]

In MOSS if you published an Excel workbook to be displayed in Excel Services that contained "Unsupported Features" you would most likely be greeted with an error when the web part would try to render any part of the workbook (e.g., works ...[Read More]

Excellent SharePoint 2010 post by Liam Cleary on ribbon customization. Link ...[Read More]

Back in MOSS 2007, it was not possible to nest SharePoint groups. What was unnerving is that the GUI would even allow you to select groups. Only to throw an error when attempting to save your action.     SharePoint 2010 is going to handle t ...[Read More]