Solutions in-a-box! Alcero's Blog

Alcero's IRON SharePoint Team

Gabriel Mongeon — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:14:00 GMT

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!

Metadata in SharePoint: how and why you can use it to meet your needs

Danny Boulanger — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:24:00 GMT

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.

Managing extranet users

Louis-Philippe Meunier — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:19:00 GMT

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.

In-A-Box Solutions: Reality and Concept

Danny Boulanger — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:38:00 GMT

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.

Intranet in-a-box 2010 new version

Danny Boulanger — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:17:00 GMT

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 (SP1) for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Danny Boulanger — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:16:00 GMT

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=26573Download: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=984 Feel free to share your experience on the update!

Trouble in Impersonation Step Paradise

Louis-Philippe Meunier — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:12:00 GMT

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?

Why Buy a Product from Alcero Instead of Building One Yourself?

Danny Boulanger — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:38:00 GMT

Would you buy a database and build an accounting system? An inventory management application? A billing system? Why not?

Alexya, Intranet in-a-box for SharePoint! Where did this idea come from and where will it go?

Danny Boulanger — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:33:00 GMT

At the Microsoft Partner conference in New Orleans, Bill Buxton Principal Researcher at Microsoft mentioned that from product conceptualization to market maturity typically takes around 20 years.

Findability in Sharepoint

Danny Boulanger — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:27:00 GMT

If any of you have ever configured or at least try to configure SharePoint’s search, you know that this can be a difficult task. Trying to make sense of all configuration options (scopes, crawled properties, mapped properties, schedules etc.) can be a very tedious task, even for the more experienced SharePoint user. This can be even more difficult when you have multiple web applications, with multiple site collections under your SSP that contains hundreds of columns to map. Trying to find the right crawl properties to create your mapping is anything but a fun experience.Once you finally manage to configure the search service properly, you are ready to search… Wrong! You now have to manually create an xml string with all the configuration options you would like to see in the advanced search web part!Once you have gone through the effort of going through and selected your desired criteria for a search result in sharepoint you will not get the true results you are looking for due to the limitations in SharePoint ...