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Corro'll Driskell Info360 replace AIIM's name on events

As I have become accustomed to the AIIM event, there are changes on the horizon solidified long ago.  As I sit here and think about my interest in the AIIM offerings.  Of course, it is not my intention to write out a blog full of reasons.  I really wanted to show my support for AIIM as a community.  A community of best practices, standards and industry leaders.  As a technologist and policy expert, I felt right at home. 

 

Take a look at this article titled, "The End of an Era…

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Added by Corro'll Driskell on March 18, 2011 at 5:58pm — No Comments

Abdul Hakim SharePoint Server 2010 Advanced IT Professional Training

Who are looking for upgrade their skills to SharePoint Server 2010.



Microsoft published the following SharePoint Server 2010 Advanced IT Professional Training



1 | Core Architecture of SharePoint 2010 - (http://technet.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ff677987.aspx)

2 | Security in SharePoint 2010 - (… Continue

Added by Abdul Hakim on May 25, 2010 at 2:23am — No Comments

Jeff Borghoff When will you upgrade to SharePoint 2010?

Head over to this LinkedIn Poll to select your upgrade timeframe.

It will be interesting to see the results of this poll.

Send this link to your customers and colleagues.…

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Added by Jeff Borghoff on April 17, 2010 at 11:31pm — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell SharePoint Designer 2010 (BETA) Blog Series: Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 (Beta) User Interface (UI): Part 1

SharePoint Designer 2010 UI Download



Happy holidays to all, I am Corro’ll (Corel) Driskell, a SharePoint Architect on the SharePoint platforms. As many of you know I do many things around the SharePoint platforms and found it difficult to pick a starting place since my involvement on the TAP program.

So, I wanted… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on December 20, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Corro'll Driskell The SharePoint 2010 Beta bits are out!

The Office SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 Beta (x64) and Office SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (x64) bits are now available on the Microsoft Technet site. If you are not leveraging Microsoft’s Hyper-V, I would recommend leveraging VMware Workstation. Microsoft Virtual PC – even on Windows 7 - does not support the 64 bit platform. In fact, I don’t know how soon.







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Added by Corro'll Driskell on November 16, 2009 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell The SharePoint 2010 Beta bits are out!

The Office SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 Beta (x64) and Office SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (x64) bits are now available on the Microsoft Technet site. If you are not leveraging Microsoft’s Hyper-V, I would recommend leveraging VMware Workstation. Microsoft Virtual PC – even on Windows 7 - does not support the 64 bit platform. In fact, I don’t know how soon.







Get… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on November 16, 2009 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell SharePoint 2010: Let's get started



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Now that the SharePoint Conference 2009 has came and went, it is time to get down to business. I have been on the Office 2010 TAP program since January 2009 and the recent Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview. I mention that fact, only to state that I have watched the offerings mature over the last few months. Again, I will participate in drinking of the… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on November 15, 2009 at 12:13pm — No Comments

Abdul Hakim SharePoint 2007 : October 2009 Cumulative Update

Last week Microsoft released the October 2009 Cumulative Update for for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. This update is more focus on the pre-upgrade checker for SharePoint 2010.



The version of content databases should be 12.0.6520.5000 after successfully applying these updates.



Download Information

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update package…

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Added by Abdul Hakim on November 3, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Abdul Hakim Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Technical diagrams)

1. Services in SharePoint 2010 Products (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167092)

Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design.



2. Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products (… Continue

Added by Abdul Hakim on November 2, 2009 at 1:53am — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell SharePoint Consultant’s Salaries

As a Learning Consultant, I have assisted a number of System Integrators (SI) with tightly aligning training with their overall fiscal goals. Most importantly, we were able to measure the performance over time. Also, I have consulted and trained on the SharePoint platform. Over the several versions of SharePoint, I have found it to be amazing as to the salary ranges through-out the major cities. The fact that I live in the Atlanta surrounding areas, I place an emphasis on it.



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Added by Corro'll Driskell on November 1, 2009 at 11:25am — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell SharePoint: The Enterprise Content Management Platform, Part 1

Over the last year, In evaluating many organization’s business needs and requirements, it was quite clear to me that SharePoint was not deployed as a content management platform. There were a number of reasons for this fact, but I will only focus on two. First, there was the lack of an organizational roadmap. The fact that many organizations failed to develop a formal roadmap, before deploying SharePoint, hindered user adoption and failed to align, the various features of, SharePoint with… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on September 19, 2009 at 4:58pm — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell Realistic Expectations for upgrading SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

For the last few months, I have been hesitating with blogging about SharePoint 2010 for fear of violating the NDA. Although Microsoft has released some information about SharePoint 2010, I have wanted to ensure that I display control and restrictions. Yea I know 007 mentalities. But, it works. Rick Taylor has posted an excellent demonstration referencing upgrading SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. That is, my posting is only acting as a pointer until I am released from the NDA. I recommend… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on September 17, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Abdul Hakim More careful while installing WSS August Cumulative Update.

More careful while installing WSS August Cumulative Update.



stefan provided this useful information..



Due to schema and stored procedure changes coming with the August CU databases with a patch level older than the August CU cannot be upgraded to August CU through database attach method.



That means that you need to be careful when upgrading your WSS or MOSS farm to August CU as the usual recommended steps to detach the content database before installing the… Continue

Added by Abdul Hakim on September 14, 2009 at 11:58am — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell The Cult of the SharePoint (2007/2010) Platform. The SharePoint Customer Experience.

Also posted at http://blogs.driskells.com/2009/09/cult-of-sharepoint-20072010-platform.html.



I know that many are questioning the title of this blog. I want to focus on the title and answer the question, “Why use the term Cult in conjunction with SharePoint?”



First, my blog is inspired by a great speaker named, Shep Hyken. Shep has written a great book titled, The Cult of the Customer. I had the pleasure of attending one of Shep’s seminar about building a cult for your… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on September 14, 2009 at 7:12am — No Comments

Abdul Hakim Developing SharePoint Applications-Aug2009

Last month MS gave the guidelines about the Developing SharePoint Applications...



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The Developing SharePoint Applications guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that are both flexible and scaleable. It shows developers how to provide IT professionals with the information they need to maintain those applications and diagnose problems when they arise. The two reference implementations illustrate how to solve many of the common… Continue

Added by Abdul Hakim on September 2, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell Away too Long... DiscoverSharePoint moving forward...

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I have been pulled away from DiscoverSharePoint over the last few months. I have been town between working on a major project and learning about additional products that extend the out-of-the-box features of SharePoint (WSS 3.0, Office SharePoint Server Standard and Enterprise) and learning more about SharePoint 2010. The bottom line, the economic shift has encouraged us to do more for less. Most importantly, we are in the mist of a paradigm shift of technologies.



I wanted… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on August 29, 2009 at 2:35pm — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell Introduction of SharePoint 2010

After many years of working SharePoint, I have grown to appreciate its many offerings. Over the last year, Microsoft has made significant process in building the next major release of SharePoint. Of course, I can't speak to any of the features of the next release. But, I can point you all in the right direction.



As Microsoft gets closer to the final release of the product, you will see more blogs and other information from me. In the meantime, please take a look at the… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on July 18, 2009 at 8:03pm — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell Windows 7 Libraries and SharePoint

As you all know, there are a number of new technologies scheduled for release over the next six to twelve months. As an Architect, I am interested in recommending solutions that offer a huge amount of value to our customers. I have worked with Windows 7 for the last few months. The most recent version is Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC).

There are a number of features that I can speak to, but I am primarily interested in the value-add of Libraries. In a nutshell, Libraries is a feature… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on May 23, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell Call for UDS Advisory Counsel

... UDiscover SharePoint represents our common interest in the SharePoint technologies. It doesn’t matter if you are an Architect, Developer, Designer, Content Owner, or consumer, UDS provides the framework for each and every member to explore and solve real business problems using the SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) platform ....



Our purpose of establishing UDS was communicated to the UDS community in my first posting -… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on May 11, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Corro'll Driskell Requirements for Building a Master Pages From the Bottom Up using SharePoint Designer 2007

There has been a number of conversations over the last year referencing building master pages from the bottom up using SharePoint Designer ( 2007).



Although It is a best practice – using SPD 2007 - to build customized master pages using an existing master page, it does not replace the fact that in order to recognize the various components that make up the master page a designer must build a master page from the ground up.



There are a number of blogs that speak to this… Continue

Added by Corro'll Driskell on April 3, 2009 at 8:09pm — No Comments

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