SharePoint

Organizations face a unique challenge when implementing SharePoint or any collaboration technology—how to encourage the viral, grass-roots participation and growth, yet keep it productive and not spiraling out of control.  Learn more ›

Meetings. We all have them. We all hate spending time in them. But think of what it’s like for the meeting organizer! They have to book a conference room, find a projector, create an agenda, organize the participants… to call it a hassle is an understatement. Learn more ›

Custom Web Part Developer Post: We have found what appears to be a “bug” in the permissions model for the SPWeb object, or something which functions in a way contrary to what would logically be expected. Learn more ›

I made a mistake last week. I accidently left my thumb drive at my office and so couldn’t access a couple of important files while I was at the client site. Forgetting my thumb drive wasn’t my mistake at all. My mistake was in having important files on my thumb drive in the first place! I should have been using the online document repositories I have at my disposal. Learn more ›

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It has been proven time and again that simply introducing new technology to a business or a business/functional unit does not automatically solve their needs. This is particularly relevant with SharePoint technologies, which has been marketed as a "self-service" business solution. This gives the users direct involvement in setting up their sites; however, this can often back-fire if enough thought has not been put in to the content, layout, and usage of the sites. Learn more ›

Sharepoint can be a pretty scary thing at first. It’s full of a bewildering array of tools: sites, collections, web parts, lists, document libraries, calendars, wikis, meeting spaces…Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a simpler way to look at Sharepoint? A secret truth behind all the pieces, that puts them all together? Learn more ›

The purpose of this post is to show how to build a simple web part in Visual Studio 2005 and deploy it to a MOSS 2007 SharePoint site. The Hello World web part is a web part that displays simple text using ASP.Net 2.0 and the C# programming language.  View Tutorial (in PDF file format).

Wikis can be a powerful tool for collecting and organizing the wealth of tacit knowledge that resides in the minds of your employees. Learn more ›

AKG hosted a live seminar last week, Improve Collaboration and Extend the Value of Microsoft SharePoint. What stood out to me was the incredible “buzz” generated by MOSS 2007. Learn more ›

I’d like to welcome you to AKG's Collaboration & SharePoint blog. Learn more ›