Obama Orders Agencies to Improve Records Management Policies

By on December 1, 2011 in Records Management

Looks like things are heating up in the government sector around ECM/RM.  Should make for an interesting first quarter.
Reposted from Federal Times…
Agencies must deliver plans for modernizing their records management policies by late March, President Obama said in a Monday memorandum.
The memo urges officials to digitize records whenever possible but notes that greater use of [...]

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Announcing the Great SharePoint Adventure Road Show

By on November 29, 2011 in SharePoint Development, SharePoint Training

Critical Path Training will be offering The Great SharePoint Adventure Roadshow, a condensed, 2-day version of their popular Great SharePoint Adventure developer deep dive class. Nearly 50% of the content for a fraction of the price.
This is a great alternative for folks who can’t be out of the office for a full week or want to see [...]

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Searching for In-Place Records using CAML

By on October 31, 2011 in CAML, Records Management, SharePoint Search

Just a quick note to all you records management junkies out there.  Here’s a question I’m seeing a lot of.  “Can I write a CAML query to locate all of the documents that have been declared as in-place records?”
The answer is yes.  It’s actually quite simple.  There is a new field called “Declared Record” that [...]

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GimmalSoft Achieves (DoD) 5015.2 Certification

By on September 29, 2011 in Content Management, Document Management, Records Management, SharePoint 2010

After a long and arduous process, the GimmalSoft Compliance Suite has finally received the coveted Department of Defense 5015.02 certification, making it the only certified RMS built on the SharePoint 2010 platform.  What does this mean for the rest of us?
Well, for one thing, it means that companies will no longer have to purchase multiple [...]

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Unregistering Custom Record Declaration Handlers

By on September 14, 2011 in Records Management, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Development

As you know, using the SharePoint 2010 server object model, you can install your own custom record declaration handlers.  Didn’t know that?  Oh?  You mean you haven’t already setup your site to keep track of every time a record is declared or undeclared?  Well, you’re in for a treat!  But you’ll have a wait a [...]

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European Best Practices Conference = Great!

By on April 17, 2011 in Best Practices, Records Management, SharePoint 2010

Well, I’m back from a truly wonderful week in London attending and speaking at the European Best Practices Conference, and I have to say, there is something special about this show. I had the privilege of speaking 2 years ago, and I was impressed then by the quality of the event. But it has [...]

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Upcoming SharePoint Conference Dates

By on March 16, 2011 in Conferences, Records Management, SharePoint 2010

Conference season is starting to heat up again.  First up is the SharePoint Connections conference in Orlando, March 27-29.  I’ll be giving three talks:

I’ll also be speaking at the upcoming SharePoint Best Practices conference in London, April 11-13.  I had the distinct privilege of speaking at the London conference a couple of years back and [...]

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CAML.NET Intellisense – Schema Update

By on November 18, 2010 in CAML, CAML.NET, SharePoint Development

One of the neat things about the latest version of CAML.NET Intellisense is that it automatically updates itself whenever a change is made to the published schema.   The updated schema file is downloaded and installed the next time Visual Studio is started, so there is nothing you have to do, and you don’t have to [...]

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CAML.NET Intellisense for SharePoint 2010

By on November 3, 2010 in CAML, CAML.NET, SharePoint Development

Well, I finally gone and done it!   The CAML.NET IntelliSense Extension for Visual Studio 2010 is finally out in the wild, so have at it you crazy SharePoint devheads!
For those of you already using the SharePoint 2007 version, you know the basic idea.  Extend the default CAML schema files with detailed annotations imported from the [...]

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Best Practices and a Bit of Poetry

By on August 25, 2010 in Uncategorized

So, I’m preparing for my first talk at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference here in Reston.  It’s early, and my talk is about content discovery using a mathematical modeling technique based on matrix manipulation.  Ok, I admit it’s kind of an abstract topic, but really pretty interesting (more in another post).
Anyway, I’m sitting there at [...]

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