The SharePoint Collaborus

SharePoint 2010 - Behavior You'll Want to Prepare For

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT

As many of you upgrade your organization's SharePoint implementation to SharePoint 2010, you're finding that the site bugs are coming out of the woodwork. Here are the breakages you'll want to know about in advance to

SharePoint 2010 - Visual Upgrade Guide

Fri, 28 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Upgrading to SharePoint 2010? Learn about the new Visual Upgrade feature, how to turn it on and caveats to know about before doing so.

Reverse SharePoint 2007 WYSIWYG!?

Tue, 04 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

As a SharePoint developer and trainer, I'm always asked by my enterprise customers why all the free CMS technologies (DNN, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) have a spectacular WYSIWYG editor, but those paying the piper for the privilege to use SharePoint technologies are punished to use the pitiful SharePoint WYSIWYG...

SharePoint Conference 2009 Video Blog

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the SharePoint 2009 conference in Las Vegas Nevada. With over 7,000 attendees at this event making it one of the largest around the SharePoint arena. In this video Blog, Portalogiks Inc. will showcase some of our favorite vendors, solutions and products in the conference. With over 100 solution providers running booths and thousands of products out there it can be difficult to filter through what can help an organization and what can’t. Having walked this event it is impressive how many amazing solutions are out there, and on the flip side how some solutions are in search of a problem that doesn’t exist.

Interactive Reports & Dashboards Using SharePoint

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Devereaux Milburn, Portalogiks President and CEO, introduces definitions and principles for SharePoint reporting and dashboarding through a discussion around the platform history and tools commonly used to integrate reporting in SharePoint. This part of the webinar will help you understand core competencies of a successful dashboard and understand why most SharePoint reporting and dashboard fail. Next, Ivan Giugni, VP of Products at Software FX, introduces the different components and web parts available in DataParts with a graphical presentation around details on their architecture, main features and key benefits.

SharePoint Designer Infection

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Yes it is official and not an April fool’s joke as many suspected. Microsoft announced on April 1^st 2009 that it will no longer charge $300+/- per instance and is now giving away SharePoint Designer (SPD) for free. This is a substantial change in the winds of Microsoft licensing and further supports Microsoft’s dark horse (MOSS) as a revenue stream for the company.

Layered Security Modeling for SharePoint Portals

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

As SharePoint has proliferated across the landscape there has been a phase shift in how organizational information is kept secure. In one aspect, business assets are more secure employing a formally built and community tested Microsoft technology. This is in stark contrast to the past model where each organization tried to home grow web applications from scratch with internal resources; some web teams more experienced than others on security. However the flip side is that with SharePoint so easy to install via the wizard, thousands of SharePoint portals were created in a cavalier fashion without formal security model and thus vulnerable to exploit or compromise.

7 Common Mistakes in Implementing SharePoint 2007

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:02:00 GMT

Learn about the top seven common mistakes organizations make in deploying SharePoint and how to avoid them. From succession planning, to knowledge management, to systems engineering, these best practices outline the pitfalls to avoid having a dead SharePoint site.

Executive Dashboards - A Guide to SharePoint Reporting

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:00:00 GMT

As more organizations are storing their business information via web services, Executive Dashboards are becoming a popular way for C-Level executives to manage information and programs across an enterprise. With its ability to instantly report data from a variety of sources, allow formatting based on business rules, and provide interactive functions Executive Dashboards are quickly becoming the an important tool for executives to obtain information and metrics on their organization.