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There were tons of sessions at Microsoft's Ignite conference besides mine that were good. I know it’s tough to believe. And I went to a couple myself. One of the biggest and most well attended was a little session called What's New for IT Professionals in SharePoint Server 2016.
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Microsoft Office 365 has proven to be a major disruption of how companies use SharePoint to meet business requirements. Rumors, fear, uncertainty and doubt proliferate around Microsoft's plans for SharePoint’s future releases, as well as the support of critical features and functionality companies rely on.
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The true measure of whether a vendor technology conference is successful in its goals is to gauge attendees’ attitudes past the halfway point. Today at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Chicago, the overflow seating areas for folks who could not get seats in the session rooms are still stacked full of developers.
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Metalogix announced today that it's putting its new personal information watchdog into technical preview. It's called Sensitive Content Manager (SCM) — and Metalogix promises it will help users raise hell with anyone who abuses your personal information.
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I can’t always be trusted to take things as seriously as I probably should. It just depends on what’s going through my head at the time, and how much coffee I have had or have not had before I'm asked a question.
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Microsoft is significantly delaying the release of SharePoint Server 2016 — creating what one industry expert described as a "ripple of sadness" across the Internet. In a blog post yesterday, Microsoft revealed a new delivery plan for the next on-premises version of Sharepoint. It confirmed that SharePoint Server 2016 will
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Microsoft has been tight-lipped about its plans for Exchange Server 2016, the on-premises release that it plans to ship in the second half of 2015. Until last night, that is. While it won't make the big reveal until Microsoft Ignite kicks off in Chicago early next month, the new release
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Anyone who is anyone in the SharePoint community has probably heard of Todd Klindt. Klindt is a self-described professional computer nerd. He's held that title for about the past 15 years, and has focused on SharePoint about the past eight.
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Cloud management and migration specialist Metalogix announced this morning that it is buying MetaVis for its cloud collaboration service management platform. The price was not disclosed.
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Since Microsoft unveiled SharePoint back in 2001, it has been one of the fastest growing products in the software giant's history. Along with billions of dollars in revenue, the platform now boasts 125 million users and counting.
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Microsoft said today that it plans to give customers a glimpse of SharePoint Server 2016 at its mega-conference in Chicago in May. The news confirms what Bill Baer, senior product manager for SharePoint, told Todd Klindt, a SharePoint Consultant at Rackspace Hosting, last month.
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About two out of three organizations complain their SharePoint projects have stalled (26 percent) or failed to live up to their expectations (37 percent). And it gets worse, according to new AIIM research. A majority of respondents blame those SharePoint failures on lack of support from senior management.
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The importance of a strong metadata and taxonomy strategy is unclear for many users. And this lack of clarity is fairly widespread across most organizations using SharePoint. But it's not just a SharePoint problem: the same issues are common to every other knowledge management or collaboration platform.
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Some Service Packs have long and useful futures. Some just crawl away under the IT bed and expire. AvePoint’s new DocAve 6 Service Pack (SP) 5 falls into the former category.
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