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Companies are struggling with SharePoint. It’s been installed, and abandoned. Business stuff is not drove to make SharePoint succeed. From this point you need to dress up a governance for SharePoint. Governance focuses on the technology, business and human side of SharePoint. What is GOVERNANCE? Governance is the set of: policies roles responsibilities processes that help and drive Companie’s IT…
World today is changing in companies using different path to get better communication with their staff, to boost productivity, improve the effectiveness of the strategy and business direction. SharePoint has become a reference’s tool regarding this point, however, many organizations still struggling to get the most out of the features it offers and find it difficult to increase adoption. In…
WHAT IS? Boundaries: are Static limits that cannot be exceeded by design. An example of a boundary is the 2 GB document size limit. Thresholds: are configurable limits that can be exceeded to accommodate specific requirements. A good example is the document size limit. Supported limits: are configurable limits that have been set by default to a tested value. An…
Business analysis is becoming a widely accepted and valued position in organizations today, particularly those that are looking for new ways to enhance information systems. Good business analysis allows us to deal effectively with complexity, which in turn enables creativity and innovation. Quick Reminder of what is SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint is a robust collaboration platform that empowers people to…
Alfresco support, by default, the preview in your browser of some video formats like mp4 but doesn’t support some others like mkv, avi or wmv. Even if Google Chrome can read mkv files for example, if you try to use the action “View in Browser” (this is not the same thing as the preview), Chrome will not try to play…
What is a WORKFLOW? A workflow is the representation of an operation sequence, declared as work of a person or group, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. These mechanisms could be automated using specific tools. In other words, we could compare a “workflow” to a “recipe”. Imagine you have to cook something sweet,…
In my last post, I explained how to configure Kerberos for a CS 6.7 SP1. Unfortunately if you only configure the Content Server, it will almost be useless… If you want this configuration to be useful, then you will also have to configure the Kerberos SSO for the Documentum Foundation Services (DFS). That’s why in this blog post I will…
Project Management? Project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems. Why using Project Management? Using Project Management methods and strategies decrease risks, reduce costs and improve success rates of your projects! What are the Business Needs? Rationalize investment Align work with strategic…
The Ignite Event took place in Chicago last week. According to what has been presented, here are the first news about the new SharePoint 2016! SharePoint 2016 looks like an enhancement of the existing SharePoint 2013 version. Most of the SP2013 features will continue to work but in a more powerful way. SharePoint 2016 will be focused on the following…
In a previous post, I shared some tips to configure the Kerberos SSO with Documentum D2 3.1 SP1. Since that day, I worked on different projects to also setup the Kerberos SSO on some other components of Documentum. In this post I will try to explain in detail what need to be done to configure the Kerberos SSO for the…
I ran into a strange issue by a customer. When trying to open a huge VD on the D2’s right panel the browser freezes. It seems to be due to an Internet Explorer security patch. It is introducing huge performance issues. So if you run into strange issues concerning your web browser check the patch version of IE. The security…
In my previous post, I talked about the Lifecycle of Alfresco Nodes. You may have noticed that I tried to insert in my explanations some elements that are specific to databases (tables, fields, aso…). These elements are quite essential to prepare a post like this one: more database oriented. I already explained what exactly are the consequences on the database side when…
