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SharePoint Governance should be part of your ECM strategy

Martin Tuip — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:05:43 +0000

I love SharePoint. It came a long way from the first release in 2001 and a lot of organizations are now either planning or deploying SharePoint 2010. For the last year and a half I have spoken at many events (amongst them the Microsoft Worldwide SharePoint Conference) on the need for SharePoint Governance. While some [...]

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SharePoint Governance should be part of your ECM strategy

Speaking at the SharePoint Summit 2010 in Montreal

Martin Tuip — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:15:29 +0000

This week I am speaking at the SharePoint Summit 2010 in Montreal Canada about the need for archiving and eDiscovery for SharePoint. I thoroughly enjoy speaking and always try to give people a few takeaways from my sessions. The session will be held on Tuesday April 13th in the Mansfield Room and I will cover [...]

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Speaking at the SharePoint Summit 2010 in Montreal

Do you know what BLOBs do to SharePoint ?

Martin Tuip — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:57:08 +0000

First let me explain what BLOB stands for. A Binary Large OBject is a collection of binary data that is stored as a single ‘file’ inside a database. Within SharePoint these are your office documents, images, audio and video files. While I have no doubts in the overall scalability of SharePoint, the product has some [...]

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Do you know what BLOBs do to SharePoint ?

Shortcomings of SharePoint RBS (Remote Blob Storage)

Martin Tuip — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:47:24 +0000

First of all, many of you are wondering what RBS is. Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) is an API that is available as an add-on feature pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express. It is designed to actually move the storage of binary large objects (BLOBs) from costly storage on database [...]

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Shortcomings of SharePoint RBS (Remote Blob Storage)

New Backup and Recoveries whitepaper available

Martin Tuip — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:47:45 +0000

Last week I spoke at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference on records management and eDiscovery. I will make my deck that I used available later this week, however while I was at Las Vegas one of the whitepapers that I worked on was made available on the Mimosa Website. You can actually download the whitepaper on [...]

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New Backup and Recoveries whitepaper available

Do you know if sensitive information is stored in SharePoint?

Martin Tuip — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:11:50 +0000

Today I ran across a report from AIIM which says that 18% of the companies that have SharePoint deployed within their organizations do not know if sensitive documents are actually stored within their SharePoint farm. Many people follow widely published SharePoint governance plans however now that SharePoint is getting more traction and more attention these [...]

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Do you know if sensitive information is stored in SharePoint?

SharePoint archiving and end user experience

Martin Tuip — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:29:32 +0000

Most organizations do see the benefit of SharePoint archiving to not only keep the excessive growth of their SharePoint farm in line, but also to ensure that only relevant data remains in the system. What many SharePoint archiving offerings from other 3rd parties do is what many people expect archiving to do. You take the [...]

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SharePoint archiving and end user experience

SharePoint governance plans missing key stakeholders

Martin Tuip — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:34:31 +0000

The last few weeks I’ve been reading SharePoint governance plans and most plans really go into fine details who needs to be on board to get SharePoint successfully deployed in an organization. Microsoft released a paper recently that gives you a real detailed Internet SharePoint Governance Plan. Stakeholders like the SharePoint owner, server administrator, solution [...]

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SharePoint governance plans missing key stakeholders

Truly Seamless End-User Access to SharePoint Content

Martin Tuip — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:58:38 +0000

At the core of any good archiving solution is the ability to provide users access to their content in ways that do not interrupt their typical processes. Mimosa NearPoint did this well in the Exchange archiving world by providing users access to email directly in Microsoft NearPoint. The same is true with SharePoint content—users can [...]

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Truly Seamless End-User Access to SharePoint Content

SharePoint Benefits and Challenges

Martin Tuip — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:40:16 +0000

The SharePoint offering from Microsoft encompasses two products—Windows® SharePoint Services™ (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Organizations deploy SharePoint to make information more accessible to end users and to enhance collaboration among work groups. Recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research on over 1,000 worldwide organizations indicates nearly one out of two respondent companies has [...]

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SharePoint Benefits and Challenges