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Changing SharePoint page layout type and schedule
Here is the scenario: you have deployed several SharePoint layouts and pages inheriting them. For example: one column layout, two column and three column layout. What if your portal users want to change the layout later? Here`s we`ll take a look at how to do that and also enable page scheduling after your page libraries have been deployed.
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Measure Twice, Develop Once
One site-collection or two? Subsite or List? The answer to these questions guides the decisions of many deployments. When mistakenly answered organizations quickly learn how hard it is to gain their return on investment. We will explore the importance of requirements gathering, the limitations of SharePoint, and some backend considerations in making these decisions. Presented by: Adam Levithan
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Virtual Architecture for Microsoft SharePoint Server
People use information to drive business outcomes. These outcomes include developing customer relationships, driving innovati… (read more)
Third-Party Application Support and Administration
Edward writes "The answer has got to be ‘it depends’. A major dependency will be the need for specialization.
In a small shop with just a handful of SQL boxes it may make sense including the SharePoint Admin role in the DBA team. This can help justify having 2 or 3 full time staff looking after SQL Server and the main applications running on it. If each role has its own staff, the workload for each skill is not enough to justify the head-count to cover for sickness and vacation. Others may argue that combining the Storage Admin role with the DBA role makes more sense, and I would not argue against this. As installations get larger, the breadth of knowledge needed to maintain SQL Server and SharePoint grows to the extent that one person cannot know it all. It then makes business sense to separate the support into specialist teams, so that each team can concentrate on meeting their specific SLAs.
All of us in IT must remember the business expects us to provide a service at the most economic cost, and we need to avoid turf wars getting in the way of providing that service. Sometimes that may mean one team having multiple skills, and sometimes that may mean splitting teams to provide pools of specialist knowledge."
and Jeff wrote in to say "As a DBA and many other things I was forced into learning SharePoint myself. At first I kept asking myself "What was Microsoft thinking?"
The more I use it the more I can understand why it is designed the way it is.
I can also tell you from a large global company that deals with many clients, I can see how SharePoint is becoming a standard within organizations to relieve themselves from custom software development . It is not the perfect solutions however it fills the gap when other software apps can handle it. Plus, from a DBA standpoint, you know developers don’t have access to do semi-dangerous stuff to your servers. Security auditors do not bark and scream once they understand the security model."
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Extract and compare date "YYMM"
Posted May 4, 2004 Here’s a script I use in a DTS package. I need to extract data from a table based on current year and pr… (read more)