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Creating a folder in a SharePoint list with Content Types
This potentially simple task is not as easy as I expected, and I ran into a rather special case which I could not find documented anywhere else, hence this post.
Posted in: SharePoint 2010
I-AM: Integrated Asset Management
April 26, 2011
by Chris Lees
I-AM is a suite of integrated industry standard products and technologies brought together by Calvis to give you the best of both worlds: a best-of-breed, powerful and flexible asset management solution built with mainstream, easily implemented, supported and integrated technologies. With I-AM you get more functionality, faster, and at a lower cost than competitive solutions.
Can Real Estate ERP Vendors Keep Pace with Industry Demands?
April 25, 2011
by Chris Lees
You may well recognize this title – it appeared as a Realcomm Advisory on 21st April written by Tama Huang of NOI Strategies and you can read the original here: http://www.realcomm.com/advisoryweb.asp?aid=471. I have enormous respect for both Tama and NOI. However, there were some misunderstandings in this piece that are interesting, including the following assertions:
Achieving efficiency, not just best practice
March 22, 2011
by markgray64
Efficiency is the name of the game perhaps even more so given the current economic climate. Real Estate business is built on process and governance and companies clearly recognize the imperative of compliance. But compliance does not address a company’s ability to work efficiently. Over the years companies have taken what, at the time, were […]
Posted in: Business Process Re-engineering, SharePoint 2010
Case Study: SharePoint dashboard drives 280% increase in use of InterAction
January 21, 2011
by Chris Lees
Professional services firm Calvis achieves 100% growth in the use of InterAction CRM after deploying InterAction for Smartphone to all staff: this reaches 282% growth after InterAction Dashboards are deployed. The use of InterAction, initially a domain of the marketing and business development staff only, was quickly adopted by all members of staff, including partners […]
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Sandy Jacolow steps down as Calvis, Inc. president
January 4, 2011
by Chris Lees
Sandy Jacolow, who established and led Calvis’ US operations from its inception in 2009, will be stepping down as President on December 31st. Sandy’s time has been increasingly committed to two key clients who require a significant level of his time and focus for the foreseeable future. To ensure these clients get the very best […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
Resizing Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual hard disk in VMWare ESXi
November 22, 2010
by Chris Lees
Top tip for those long in the tooth with virtual machines and needing to resize virtual hard disks. This used to be difficult, and involve messing around shutting down servers and mounting the vmdk virtual hard disks as secondary drives on another server to perform the resize. Now it is as easy as it could […]
Posted in: VMware, Windows Server 2008 R2
European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011
November 14, 2010
by Shaun O'Callaghan
I am honoured to be contributing to next year’s European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011 as a speaker. The conference takes places on April 11th – 13th 2011 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London. The conferences features 96 sessions , 69 speakers (includes the 15 community track speakers and sessions) and this excludes […]
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2010 – WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Foundation 2010
October 10, 2010
by Shaun O'Callaghan
Microsoft are to release a number of patches this week to correct “Important” security vulnerabilities in software including both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Foundation 2010. The security bulletins have been classified as “Important” which means that, if these go unaddressed, they could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of users data, or the […]
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