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A Checklist to Help with SharePoint

Enterprises deploying SharePoint 2010 have normally given detailed attention to technical considerations and will have worked hard to align the technology with corporate workflow.

SharePoint Compliance: Securing the Content & Infrastructure

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT, I’ll be joining Axceler in a webinar that focusing on the issues surrounding SharePoint security, compliance and governance.

Obama’s Record Management Memo – 4 months later

Last November, Obama stated in a memo ‘Managing Government Records’ to government agencies the requirement to improve records management. The memo suggested that well-maintained records management could improve performance and promote openness and accountability by documenting agency actions and decisions.

Michael Rasmussen on the “Big Data” Compliance Challenge

This is a topic many businesses are wrestling with without the full understanding of how “big data” is affecting compliance.

Is your SharePoint Platform Content-Aware?

We know Microsoft SharePoint makes it easy to create and collaborate on content. And we also know that this results in an explosion of unstructured content, ranging from email to documents to blogs; all with the intention of having a collaborative conversation. SharePoint has also become core to operations with businesses increasingly making it their enterprise content management (ECM) system of choice.

CSUN Debrief Part

My presentation at CSUN (“Proactively Designing for Web Accessibility”) was a completely sold-out session. During the session, I talked about my experiences with two enterprise customers (a financial services company and a major household brands company).

FTC Privacy Judgments: Are you doing enough to protect consumers?

Over the last few years, we’ve seen FTC privacy judgements against the ‘Big Three’ web companies Google, Facebook and Twitter. In all these cases, the ‘Big Three’ were not protecting the interest of the American consumer.

Notes from the Road: SharePoint Customer Journey

 

This week I’m on the road across the UK to discuss the SharePoint Customer Journey. After my first day with fellow presenters from Metalogix and KnowledgeLake, it is clear that migrating content into SharePoint is an issue. Both presenters have highlighted that it’s generally better that content is in SharePoint and the audience agreed as well. These companies come at SharePoint from two different perspectives – Metalogix to get the content into SharePoint and KnowledgeLake to find, capture, automate business processes and save content.

On the Road with SharePoint

I always wanted to be a rock and roll star.

More specifically, the lead man in a band with legions of followers who hung on every guitar lick and spent way too much time thinking about the lyrics I sang. I dreamed of “riding that train” with Jerry, Janis and The Band, jamming and well… Alas, personal responsibility, a lack of musical talent, and the need to eat something more than veggie burritos on Shakedown Street, killed my rock and roll dream.

Or so I thought.

How to Prevent SharePoint Mistakes

Reading Mathew J. Schwartz’s article in Information Week, ‘10 SharePoint Security Mistakes You Probably Make,’ there were a few items of particular interest.

  1. The first was on the discovery that in the case of Bradley Manning leaking 250,000 U.S. State Department cables, the forensic expert “discovered Wget scripts on Manning’s computer that pointed to a Microsoft SharePoint server holding the Gitmo documents. He ran the scripts to download the documents, then downloaded the ones that WikiLeaks had published and found they were the same, Shaver testified.” (Source: Wired, Forensic Expert: Manning’s Computer Had 10K Cables, Downloading Scripts)

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