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What are your “Pain Points”? We’d like to help.
itgroove is a business technology solutions provider. We have lots of tools and technology available that can be used to solve any number of business issues. And we have the knowledge and experience to map the solutions out for you, as well as the skills to implement the needed hardware, software and procedures. You have …
Read onIs Outsourced SharePoint Assistance an Expense… or a Good Business Investment?
We’ll admit it: This is a little bit of a loaded question. Certainly, retaining a good SharePoint/technology partner is an expense, in the sense that you will receive an invoice from time to time. But at the same time, as with many business expenses, a quality outsourced and experienced SharePoint/IT partner doesn’t just cost you …
Read onCopyMove for SharePoint – Moving files with metadata, audit details and version history with ease (And style)
SharePoint Products has produced a product called CopyMove for SharePoint since the MOSS 2007 release. The product is licensed by the WFE (Web Front-End) and is a farm solution (you will need to have your own installation of SharePoint as this is an on-premise solution). A 30 day eval is available to try it for …
Read onIf you live in Victoria, BC and are into SharePoint, you should join us
It’s been a while since I’ve reminded the local community so thought I’d take a second and provide a refresher… Every month in Victoria you have an opportunity to learn (for free, with pizza included!) something new about SharePoint. We are the Victoria SharePoint Users Group – www.meetup.com/vsharepoint – please consider signing up. Our next …
Read onUh Oh, My SharePoint SQL Database Log Files are huge!
It happens often enough in the SMB space that this quick video how to was warranted. SharePoint uses SQL Server. SQL Server has databases. Those databases have log files. Those log files can get quite big if not properly maintained or if backup software doesn’t do its job to inform SQL that the log files …
Read onSharePoint 2007 and Office 2007 SP3 Released
I’m not saying go out and download it today, but SP3 is out for Office 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS). But, I think it is safe to say this will be the last major releases for Office 2007 and MOSS/WSS and if they address issues in …
Read onFantastic and Fair Priced SharePoint Documentation Tool
Stumbled across this gem today. The Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint from Acceleratio Ltd. As any SharePoint professional knows, SharePoint combines ease of use and the ability to change software to suit your business needs and requirements rapidly. That is the positive of SharePoint. The negative is the expectations that come on IT to be equally …
Read onHow to create a SharePoint visual site map using Smart Art and SharePoint Designer
Those of know me know that I live by ‘a picture is worth a 1000 words’. That said, my experience has been that if we provide a visual site map (diagram of sites/webs in your collection), folks appreciate it and understand where data should go. An example: Here’s how it’s done First off, watch …
Read onAdobe Acrobat finally has some SharePoint integration
Only took about a decade but Acrobat 10 has some SharePoint integration now. To be fair, Acrobat 10 has been out for a while, since the beginning of the year, so I’m pretty late commenting on it. But my friend Tom pointed out this video that highlights the document library integration and I have had …
Read onHow to enable NTLM authentication for your SharePoint site in Firefox
We all (should) know about adding our SharePoint site to the Local Intranet zone on computers we trust, to ensure ease of login while inside the corporate network. But did you know Firefox can do the same thing? Here’s how… The Add On Way There is a Firefox add-on called NTLMAuth for Firefox”. If …
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