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Apple Becoming A Viable Enterprise Solution

Fresh on the heels of yesterday’s keynote at the Worldwide Developer Conference Apple showcased their new support of Microsoft Exchange 2007 in the productivity apps (Mail, iCal, Address Book) for their forthcoming OS release Snow Leopard. Apple, not Microsoft, is the only operating system to offer free Exchange support (in Windows you have to buy Outlook). They also didn’t slouch on the features available. Syncing Notes, Tasks, and mail. Folders included in Mail interface. Free/busy support in iCal. Room booking support in iCal. Searching the GAL from Address Book. Includes contact groups. There has always been Microsoft Entourage, but only this year did they beta Entourage connecting (read more...)

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Barriers to SharePoint Adoption

In my short time as a SharePoint consultant I’ve come across three major barriers to implementing the solution. Mind you, this isn’t only relegated SharePoint but any tool, system, or process implemented in the enterprise. While each of them could vary in degree they all exist in some form of a SharePoint implementation. Political Barriers Politics are often the first road block encountered when bringing a tool like SharePoint into the enterprise. Someone becomes sold on the platform usually in IT but sold to executives shortly afterward, and then the backlash begins. The first to bring argument against the technology are those (read more...)

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SharePoint 2010 System Requirements and Browser Support

The Microsoft SharePoint team has announced on their official blog the following amazing statement (emphasis added): “To ensure the best possible experience across multiple browsers we’re focusing our SharePoint 2010 engineering efforts on targeting standards based browsers (XHTML 1.0 compliant) including Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.x. running on Windows Operating Systems.  In addition we’re planning on an increased level of compatibility with Firefox 3.x and Safari 3.x on non-Windows Operating Systems.  Due to this focus Internet Explorer 6 will not be a supported browser for SharePoint Server 2010.” Amazing! Even IE6 is seen as a dead technology by (read more...)

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