Category: SharePoint
Discussion; Tips and Tricks; Video; Best Practices
We are proud to announce that Alcero will be participating in the IRON SharePoint Competition during the SharePoint Summit 2012 Toronto venue taking place from May 14th to the 16th.
The concept behind IRON SharePoint is each registered team has three days to build the best custom solution on the SharePoint platform based on a proposed concept that will be unveiled to each team on May 13th.
Our Hot Box team members are Alex St-Laurent, Louis-Philippe Meunier, Patrick Lemieux, Sylvain Castonguay and myself, Gabriel Mongeon (read our warriors bio's). We will be getting our inspiration from our SharePoint passion and live the great experience to deliver a top notch solution. We were even inspired to create a new logo for such an esteemed event!

Come cheers us as we may become the next IRONMEN of SharePoint!
Alcero's will also be there as an exhibitor, so come see us at our booth!
Using metadata in SharePoint will allow you to instruct your workflow to send an email, create a task list, change security settings, etc. based on the metadata.
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The most common scenario in extranet management is the publishing of a single SharePoint site collection to external partners. It is often used to share published documents or even to collaborate with partners on different projects.
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Several hundreds of thousands of dollars and months of work later, the client would begin to see a solution take form. The idea of developing in-a-box solutions was born in February of 2006. The goal was and remains very simple: provide a solutions base that is easy to deploy, configure, and adapt to specific organizational needs.
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We are delight to announce our new version of our Intranet in-a-box for Sharepoint 2010. Our Intranet in-a-box will enable you to same time and money.
Have a look: http://www.alcero.com/en/solutions/solution-demos.aspx
Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 Products is Now Available!
This update will focus to bring enhancements stability, performance, and security. If you are a user or super user eager for enhance features on SharePoint you will be disapointed.
SP1 is a great example on the Microsoft commitment to make SharePoint the best "Development Platform". Make sure to quickly share that update with your technical team, they will be happy to see the improvement.
Documentation: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26573
Download: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=984
Feel free to share your experience on the update!
Let’s take a very simple workflow scenario where the workflow process performs some actions on a document as the workflow initiator and then changes the security of the document before sending a task to a user, simple enough?
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Would you buy a database and build an accounting system? An inventory management application? A billing system? Why not?
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Document management –capable systems such as SharePoint are able to abstract this folder hierarchy with the use of metadata. But what is metadata exactly?
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But the reality is that the SharePoint technology represents only 25% of your project. The implementation of a SharePoint solution consists of the following:
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