It's been many months since my last branding post back in June, so I figured I ought to renew my efforts to get this 10 part series published. I left off with best practice number 6, which I will now reveal is "Use SharePoint Solution Packages ...[Read more]

Code Access Security (CAS) is a hot topic these days, and for good reasons. CAS is an important thing to have an understanding of if you work in a security conscious company, or if you're striving to understand best practices. If you're new to CAS ...[Read more]

One common situation I see with many clients I interact with is that their SharePoint sites are loaded down with wordiness. It's my opinion that sites that are overly wordy can kill usability fast, and it seems to me that SharePoint lends itself e ...[Read more]

I'm a big fan of delegation and accountability when it comes to governance strategies, and the SharePoint development lifecycle stands for no exception. If any of you remember, I lead a large SharePoint team at a fortune 500 company for a few years, ...[Read more]

Have you ever gotten an out of memory exception on your SharePoint web front ends and wondered why? Or how to prevent it? I started getting this error periodically, and through such experiences have drawn several best practices for managing the me ...[Read more]

My next two best practices that are a part of my 10 part series, are going to be combined in one post because they are closely related. What's more is that I've already blogged about them, so it doesn't make sense to labor over something twice. ...[Read more]

This next best practice in my top 10 list is definitely a matter of opinion on my part. The best practice revolves around SharePoint themes, and my inability to understand how they can be a benefit to someone. The reason why I struggle to see the ...[Read more]

Here's a consolidated list of my top 10. This post will be updated as I go through the series…    Best Practice 1: Only use SharePoint designer to brand SharePoint sites when the scope of the customizations will never need to grow beyond a singl ...[Read more]

In the last post of mine, I discussed certain implications that come with using SharePoint Designer to brand your SharePoint sites. This post will discuss the prefered alternative to SharePoint Designer, building custom site definitions. However, I ...[Read more]

This series of posts is border line ridiculously long, but I hope it is a fruitful endeavor nevertheless. In my vast journey's around the great world of SharePoint, I have drawn many conclusions on what is good to do and what is not so good regard ...[Read more]

If you followed my last post, I promised you a great way to do production deployments across all your web front ends with one double click of the mouse. The fundamental component to making this work is SharePoint solution packages. This isn't a ne ...[Read more]

The Scenario:   The standard rule, "all code must be backed up", or more specifically for a Microsoft shop, "all code must be in Visual Source Safe (VSS)", definitely applies to an organization's SharePoint "12 Hive&quo ...[Read more]