In this episode, well-known SharePoint Web Content Management expert Andrew Connell talks a bit about the evolution of WCM at Microsoft, from CMS to SharePoint, and how it’s changed from 2007 to 2013. We cover a load of new WCM features in SharePoint 2013, including metadata-driven navigation, Search, catalogues, search engine optimization, device channels, and more. We also hear a bit about Andrew’s new RT Surface.

Show Links:
Andrew’s Blog
Andrew on Twitter
Critical Path Training

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In this episode and old friend of the show, Sahil Malik, returns to tell us about what he’s been up to, to gripe about his Windows 8 experiences, and to share some of his thoughts about SharePoint 2013, workflows, development environments, apps and more. Surgeon General’s warning – this show includes some dangerously bad jokes and poor humour!

Show Links:
Sahil’s Blog
Sahil on Twitter

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SharePoint is a vast product with many moving parts touching on a wide base of an organisation. In addition, it can be used in such different environments, setups and company sizes and types, which serve to make planning for an recovering from a disaster an interesting challenge. But, before we look at DR we need to understand the business and establish realistic targets. John and Sean, two experts in the field, help us to better understand this space in this two-part episode.

Show Links:
Information Worker 2013 Preview Event
Packt Publishers
Idera
Sean’s Blog
Sean on Twitter
SharePoint Backup Augmentation Cmdlets
Sogeti
John’s Blog
John on Twitter

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SharePoint is a vast product with many moving parts touching on a wide base of an organisation. In addition, it can be used in such different environments, setups and company sizes and types, which serve to make planning for an recovering from a disaster an interesting challenge. But, before we look at DR we need to understand the business and establish realistic targets. John and Sean, two experts in the field, help us to better understand this space in this two-part episode.

Show Links:
Seven Deadly Sins for the SharePoint IT Pro
Seven Virtues for the SharePoint IT Pro
Collaboris SharePoint Newsletter
Idera
Sean’s Blog
Sean on Twitter
Sogeti
John’s Blog
John on Twitter

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In this episode we meet Stefan Gossner, a well-known Senior Escalation Engineer on the SharePoint team. Stefan explains what an escalation engineer is, and the many ways Microsoft deals with customer problems from initial discovery, to verification, debugging, fixing and ultimately patching with hotfixes and service packs.

Show Links:
What’s new for developers in SharePoint 2013
Chris O’Brian on SharePoint 2013
Collaboris SharePoint Newsletter
International Bandwidth Report
Stefan’s blog

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In this episode we catch up with Michael Noel at Tech Ed Africa last year to discuss the talks he presented there, specifically on extranets, security for SharePoint. We cover a diverse set of topics like Claims Based Authentication, SSL, Transparent Data Encryption in SQL, service account security, and information rights management in SharePoint and Exchange with Rights Management Server.

Show Links:
Convergent Computing
Michael on Twitter
Michael on SlideShare

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In this episode we chat with Peter Ward and Michael McCabe, two long-standing ECM practitioners, about their book, their histories and perspectices on Lotus Notes and SharePoint, and the Cloud. We even discuss the death-knell of SharePoint!

[Update] Shortly after our interview, Michael moved from Microsoft over to Gig Werks in NYC.

Show Links:
Peter & Michael’s Book – Microsoft SharePoint 2010 End User Guide: Business Performance Enhancement
Peter’s Blog

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In this final episode running up to the Share Conference, Sarah Haase describes an enterprise librarian and also outlines some of what she’ll be discussing at the conference, including how to deal with a large-scale SharePoint installation that’s gone viral and gotten out of hand.

Show Links:
Share Conference (South Africa)
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Interview with an Office 15 Tech Preview Customer
Sarah’s Blog
Sarah on Twitter
Sue Hanley’s Blog

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In this second ‘teaser’ show leading up to the Share Conference in Johannesburg, Ruven Gotz discusses the topics he will be presenting on, including his keynote on better understanding metadata – what it is, why it’s important and how to get more of it! We also discuss the Search enhancements in SharePoint 2010, working disconnected and a few other things.

Show Links:
Share Conference (South Africa)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
Ruven’s blog
Ruven on Twitter

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