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Governance can be fun!

Ok…my bad. My title is a little misleading…
Anyone who’s ever been involved in developing and implementing a SharePoint solution to support a public-facing website, or Intranet/Collaboration sites, or a custom application, probably has never made the statement that “Governance is Fun”. Developing a Governance Plan and implementing the policies and procedures to actively manage your SharePoint environments and solutions is hard work, but it is absolutely necessary work to ensure success and adoption of your SharePoint solutions.

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Using Infopath? Nintex is the way forward with forms.

At the time Microsoft began their marketing momentum for SharePoint 2013, it also announced the end of InfoPath was on the horizon. Since then, organizations who have invested funding into the use of InfoPath’s form tools have been searching for tools to both replace and enhance InfoPath functionality. In the third-party market, there are robust forms tools available for purchase that address the need for organizations of all sizes to review in order to understand whether they meet the needs of their organizational goals for providing forms tools with business process automation.

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Using SharePoint to improve business processes and workflows

For years, experts in the SharePoint world have long touted the platform’s virtues that are related to how quickly information workers (users) can find their content start working on their content faster by using a number of SharePoint tools including Search and Document Library views. While the Out-of-the-Box tools are great to utilize for streamlining the findability process, they are not in any way connected with the quality of the final content of the documents.

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Office Web Apps 2013 – Install and Configuration Gotchas!

​Office Web Applications Server offers great enhancements to your SharePoint environment. However, there are some common gotchas that tend to pop up during the installation and configuration of the service. In this article, we will take a look at some of the most common items that I have seen in the past year.

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Kiefer Consulting establishes CMAS to sell AvePoint

Kiefer Consulting, a leader in providing SharePoint on premise and SharePoint Online cloud-based solutions and AvePoint, a leading global innovator and an established leader in enabling enterprise collaboration across platforms and devices have successfully established a CMAS contract to resell AvePoint products to the State of California. 

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SharePoint 2013 – Moving a Service Application to Another Application Pool.

Each Service Application in SharePoint runs within an Application Pool. The Application Pool controls the resources (memory, etc.) that a Service Application has available to it as well as controlling which account is used to run that service. By default, SharePoint groups many of its Service Applications together into one or two Application Pools. This may not always be the ideal scenario and you may have requirements to move Service Applications to run in their own dedicated Application Pool, or just to move them to another application pool so that you can control which Service Applications are grouped together and which account they run as.

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SharePoint 2013 – Changing the Search Host Controller Service Breaks Search

I have started running into a problem when I am trying to change the service account that is running the Search Host Controller Service in SharePoint 2013.  When I go into Central Admin and change the account that is running the controller service, the controller service will end up stopped and it will not start.  While in this state the search will start generating the following errors:

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