The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Planning

  • Planning for SharePoint 2010 Guide Book

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    So you’ve just gotten word from your project manager that you’ve got three weeks to plan for and implement SharePoint 2010 for your customer. They’ve got a perfectly good and working SharePoint 2007 implementation that’s hosting their data and fulfilling some of their needs, but they have plans for something new and brilliant, or at…

  • Baltimore SharePoint User's Group – 21 May 2009

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    This past Thursday, I drove up to the Baltimore SharePoint User’s Group to present on the topic of “Designing Logical Architectures and Site Taxonomies.” It was a decent drive up the BW Parkway from Northern Virginia, chatting with Eric Harlan and a few others on the way up – apparently there were folks heading for…

  • SharePoint on Windows Server 2008 – Building the framework

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    This weekend I undertook the fun of building out a medium sized farm on my personal development hardware with my trusty MSDN license that I bought for my own personal use to begin testing a few pieces of code I’ve been working on as well as to have a play ground to work through occasional…

  • First Impressions on Balsamiq

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    So a few different folks in the SharePoint community have mentioned that they’re huge fans of Balsamiq, and we’re not talking about vinegar.  Balsamiq is an application built upon the Adobe AIR framework that allows for rapid development of mockups – typically of web based applications, but can be used for mockups of such technical…

  • SharePoint Saturday Boston Slides

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    It’s been two weeks and I’ve finally gotten a few minutes to come up for air and take care of some administrative things, which include posting these slides. Additionally available on SlideShare at:  http://www.slideshare.net/spdan/contextual-considerations-logical-architecture-and-taxonomy PDF Slides:  Contextual Considerations: Logical Architecture and Taxonomy

  • SharePoint Collaboration Service Governance Plan

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    Joel Oleson, John Ross Jr. Jennifer Mason and Paul Culmsee have developed a whitepaper on behalf of Microsoft on the topic of “SharePoint Collaboration Service Governance Plan”.  The document provides an outline of the administration, maintenance and support of an MOSS 2007 deployment. Great document that definitely gets at the heart of the matter with…