SharePoint and the Self Service Extranet

Joseph, one of your engineers, would like to share a set of draft design documents with a team of four external contractors with whom he has worked with in the past, when email was used to send revisions back and forth.  With email there was some confusion and delay as different versions of the document were referred [...]

Groove in emergencies

An article in Microsoft’s TechNet Magazine post Katrina on Louisiana State University’s Emergency Operations Center, highlighted some deficiencies in ordinary IT during crises.  First, you can’t depend on vast bandwidth or even any bandwidth at all in an emergency.  Second, your constituency can increase dramatically.  One day you’re managing the IT needs of staff, the next, [...]