Welcome to GKM2 Solutions
It has been a long time coming, but I have finally partnered up with a long time colleague and friend, to establish our own IT consulting services company. GKM2 Solutions is a boutique Microsoft Partner firm helping small to medium enterprises transform their business with Microsoft Technologies. You can read more about us here and here. What will happen to SharePoint George you may ask? Well, it is being re-ignited and it will be a personal goal of mine to get back into blogging and share with you more SharePoint goodness that you have all come to love. You can connect to us via any...
Read MoreNew SharePoint 2010 features aid in enterprise content management
SharePoint has come a long way since its infancy a decade ago. Over the last 10 years, it has undergone various changes that have helped to broaden the software’s usefulness and business value. In the latest version, SharePoint 2010, one of the major areas of improvement involved the collaboration platform’s enterprise content management (ECM) capabilities. As organizations deploy the platform and consider using it for ECM, there are a number of new SharePoint 2010 features their content management efforts can benefit from. Click on the following link continue reading my article in its...
Read MoreFacilitating social computing in SharePoint 2010
As Web 2.0 technologies spread, users should know that SharePoint 2010 has an array of social-computing features to enhance collaboration within a corporate setting. This tip will explain how to set up My Sites in SharePoint to give your users access to their colleagues’ activities, comments and more. SharePoint 2010’s My Sites are commonly referred to as “Facebook for the Enterprise.” They are a form of social computing made up of personal SharePoint site collections that provide each user in an organization the ability to efficiently store private and public information. Before...
Read MoreMaking SharePoint More Secure
Learn how to ramp up features to keep SharePoint’s critical data safe by implementing both broad and fine-grained permission management techniques. To securely manage and maintain the content residing in your SharePoint sites, you have to invest some time into designing an effective security hierarchy. It’s all about ensuring that users can view only the content they have been granted access to. SharePoint gives systems administrators the necessary security methodology to implement both broad and fine-grained permissions. And, happily, security in SharePoint 2010 is managed similarly...
Read MoreMy Absence from the IT Pro World …
It was approximately 6 months ago that I was embarking in a once in a lifetime 3 month adventure with my younger brother. Unfortunately this was short lived after my brother was struck by a speeding vehicle whilst we were in Phoenix, Arizona after just 2 weeks of travel. We had also just lost our Mother 6 months earlier after a short struggle with Cancer. You can read more about the tragedy in the following 2 articles; http://bit.ly/hsT1Xg http://bit.ly/fry0zB After spending the last 6 months out of the limelight, I am now looking forward to starting the next chapter of my life as a...
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