Back with a Vengeance!
Where has Dan been?
That is a great question and one that has a pretty simple answer. I have been SWAMPED at work. I have been working on my largest SharePoint implementation to date. Essentially I have been architecting and building a corporate communications intranet portal for a very large enterprise customer over the last few months, roughly 75K users. We are in the tail end of the project now and time, although still very precious, is a little less scarce. I hope to ramp up my blogging prowess over the next few weeks and pump the cloud full of more information about SharePoint and my personal experiences with it over the last few months. I have had many challenges and discovered a ton of interesting and useful nuggets along the way.
Not only is this an awesomely cool SharePoint implementation using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, but it is also built using the Web Content Management (WCM) features along with a whole lot of customizations (my favorite). A lot of "social", interactive customizations were made to the site that allowed users to do things like rate and comment on articles and the like, features not available out of the box. Did I mention that the portal is also fully branded?
This project is also one of the first projects hosted on the Microsoft SharePoint Online platform. Working directly with the team at Microsoft has been challenging, educational and fun to say the least. I truly believe it will be the platform of choice for enterprise customers wanting to offload the hosting and support burden that often comes with large scale SharePoint implementations. Check out this article for more information!
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