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How to Deliver a Successful Project – Part 4 – The Project Plan and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

INTRODUCTION This is a series: Part 1. What Does “Successful” Mean? Part 2. Start It By Defining THE Business Requirements Part 3. Accurate Estimates, Quoting and Proposals Part 4. The Project Plan and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Part 5. Delivery: Communication is Key Part 6. Managing Changes Part 7. Project Closure THE PROJECT PLAN What is a project plan? Project plan is […]

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site_inaccessible The Jetpack server was unable to communicate with your site [HTTP 500]

INTRODUCTION I am configuring WordPress in an Windows environment and when I tried to activate the Jetpack plugins, I get the following error: site_inaccessible The Jetpack server was unable to communicate with your site [HTTP 500] After troubleshooting I realise that xmlrpc.php file is not working properly. When I tried to access it via the […]

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How to Deliver a Successful Project – Part 2 – Start It By Defining THE Business Requirements

INTRODUCTION This is a series: Part 1. What Does “Successful” Mean? Part 2. Start It By Defining THE Business Requirements Part 3. Accurate Estimates, Quoting and Proposals Part 4. The Project Plan and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Part 5. Delivery: Communication is Key Part 6. Managing Changes Part 7. Project Closure START IT BY DEFINING THE BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS First of all, as […]

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August 2012 Cumulative Updates Bugs – Site Timeout & Navigation Items Multiplied to Hundreds and Thousands

Hi everyone, just thought of letting you know that since the install of August 2012 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint Server 2010, a new bug is introduced. This has been verified by Microsoft themselves. I am currently working with a particular client to resolve the issues. Basically the issues are: site is suddenly inaccessible. It’s pretty […]

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How to Deliver a Successful Project – Part 1 – What Does “Successful” Mean?

I am starting a new series on how to deliver a successful project. Please note that my background is in IT therefore the examples used in this series maybe related to IT. I believe however, that the same methodology can be applied with any kind of projects. INTRODUCTION This is a series: Part 1. What Does […]

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SharePoint Performance Tuning 3 – Customizations

INTRODUCTION   This is a series. The previous article can be found at Series 2.   Now we’ve arrived at the customizations topic. Customisations obviously cover a broad range of topics. Therefore, in this particular article I want to discuss only the basic elements and some tips that we can do to increase performance.     […]

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SharePoint Performance Tuning 2 – SharePoint Configuration

INTRODUCTION   This is a series. The previous article can be found at Series 1.   The next step that we have to be aware of after the hardware and topology configurations is the SharePoint Configuration itself. Please share your thoughts, too.     SHAREPOINT CONFIGURATION   Using different user accounts for different services ALWAYS use […]

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SharePoint Performance Tuning 1 – Hardware Requirements and Server Topology

INTRODUCTION   Hi everyone, in this opportunity I would like to share with you some of the tips that can help us tuning our SharePoint Farm performance. This is a series. Please also note that all of the articles mentioned in this series are purely based on my experience and some readings that I’ve done […]

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Manage User Profiles Not Displaying Any Results in RTM

In 2007 when you click on Manage User Profiles it displays ALL user accounts by default.   In 2010 this isn’t the case. When you click on Manage User Profiles it says “There are no results to display” and I was a bit surprised when I first saw this because I thought the import wasn’t […]

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SharePoint 2010 RTM Still Requires SP_Farm to Run Profile Sync

I normally install Sharepoint with the following configuration: – Login using SP_Admin and install Sharepoint – SP_Farm is used to run Farm service   In 2007 you can normally run Profile Sync with SP_Admin (account used to install Sharepoint) but in SP 2010 BETA this wasn’t the case. You have to logout and re-log back in using SP_Farm in order to run the […]

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