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“I’m an Expert”
Many people claim to be SharePoint experts. I myself have used the phrase, “Yeah, I’m a SharePoint expert”, and not only in videos where I’m making fun of myself. But, I also realize how dangerous…
Activity Feeds: Killer Feature for Knowledge Workers
Things I love: Activity feeds Soccer CloudShare happy hour Things I hate: Being CCed on emails Apps without activity feeds Clowns What is an activity feed? The answer to that depends on the applications and…
Migrating SharePoint Environments To and From CloudShare
One of the elements of development and testing is moving structure and content to your development and test environment. Once you build a solution, you need to move what you built back to your production…
File Transfers – Overcoming the Challenge
Here at Cloudshare, we get lots of questions about moving files, content and applications into your ProPlus VMs. And in response, we explain that the Cloudshare application has two facilities for accomplishing this: File Sharing…
Is it secure?
Last week, I presented at the AIIM 2012 conference on the topic of “the cloud.” When it comes to the cloud, there is one issue that raises the most concern; the issue of security. My…
CloudShare: Develop and Deploy SharePoint Solutions From the Cloud to the Cloud – Part II!
In part 1 of this series I wrote about how straightforward it is to develop and deploy SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint Online artifacts through Visual Studio 11 Beta. You can easily build your solutions in…
Cloud or Black Hole? AIIM Conference 2012
Last week both Dan and I spoke at the AIIM 2012 Conference. Dan told the audience that paper is silly, and I spoke about how the Cloud is dead. You heard me. I said the…
Social, Local, and Mobile is Already Here
What a difference a year makes! Having just come from the AIIM 2012 conference, I realize how things have changed. A year ago, the iPad was a fad, social meant Facebook, and the cloud was…
Where to host your SharePoint Test Environment? (as posted on Collaboris’ Blog)
Thank you to our friends at Collaboris, (@MarkQJones), for the mention on their blog. Their post below: To test the UI of a new or existing SharePoint application you are going to need somewhere with…
The AIIM Conference 2012
CloudShare’s Chris Riley, @hoardinginfo, and Daniel O’Leary, @danieloleary, are back to their evangelism and juggling ways. Today, they’re both presenting at The AIIM Conference in San Francisco. The conference focus this year is Managing Information…
CloudShare Security Notification: Action Required – Critical Windows Remote Desktop Protocol Security Patch – MS12-020
Your CloudShare Operations team is always doing its best to stay ahead of the curve, monitor and improve performance, and maintain the security of your CloudShare environments/VMs, so you can stay focused and productive. Last…
A Conversation with Trey Mayer of TekDog, Inc.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Trey Mayer, SharePoint consultant, Nintex evangelist and Co-Founder of TekDog Inc. Trey has a deep and comprehensive background in automating business processes, which allows him to understand…