SharePoint Online – The Small Business Revolution: 3 Tips

  By Thuan Soldier | May 25, 2013 - 12:57 am | SharePoint
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SharePoint has revolutionized the business world for one simple reason: it’s flexible, secure and completely customizable. In line with this principle, SharePoint as a server product can be accessed through a variety of different ways to suit the needs of any business; it offers all the intranet and extranet features needed to drive business operations.  For many entities, it’s not cost efficient to host a server onsite in relation to the amount of information they have being processed on an… Continue reading →

SharePoint Integration with your existing Legacy System

  By Thuan Soldier | May 23, 2013 - 4:05 am | SharePoint
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Although modernizing technology helps boost business operations, these days there are so many organizations who’ve simply not prioritized updating their IT infrastructure, even though their own legacy system is riddled with issues and challenges in need of revision. As a result, CIOs typically suffer headaches when deciding whether to keep or migrate from their current legacy system due to various secondary concerns (data loss, user ineptness, training, and at times the whole ‘if it aint broke don’t fix it’ mindset)…. Continue reading →

Speaking at SharePoint Community Day 2013 at Microsoft Malaysia

  By Thuan Soldier | May 20, 2013 - 9:26 am | SharePoint
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To rouse SharePoint Southeast Asia communities, Patrick Yong – a Malaysia SharePoint MVP – expects to bring up the biggest SharePoint event to Malaysian technology enthusiasts particularly and Southeast Asian SharePoint *junkies* in general.  I’m extremely excited to be a speaker at the SharePoint Community Day 2013 organized at Microsoft Malaysia. A big thank to Patrick Yong to make my community engagement happen broader. What I will be talking? We are living in a new revolution of social networks that… Continue reading →

The Benefits of SharePoint Extranet collaboration

  By Thuan Soldier | May 15, 2013 - 5:24 am | SharePoint
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Building an intranet portal where internal employees can share information, document, and content or collaborate in projects is one of the most common solutions almost companies have deployed these days. However, one of the most advantageous features of SharePoint’s extranet functions is the ability for businesses to collaborate with clients and customers in addition to internal communication. SharePoint’s seamless extranet set-up for user interactions allow outside parties to participate through an intuitive external set-up. What exactly is an extranet? Basically… Continue reading →

Roles involved in your SharePoint intranet deployment

  By Thuan Soldier | May 13, 2013 - 5:10 pm | SharePoint
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As you know, SharePoint has proven to be a flexible platform in terms of building an intranet. Such a platform provides a solid combination of many out-of-the-box features to help organizations control large amounts of data in addition to connecting people and increasing efficiency by reducing time of operational work. As a project manager, having an effective team is essential towards building a successful intranet. An intranet deployment is not like constructing a building before handing the owner (or in this case the end-user) the relevant keys; it’s a broad concept. It requires that you have a team who clearly understands the organization as well as comprehending it’s operational needs. In this article, we… Continue reading →

6th SharePoint Saturday Vietnam Summary

  By Thuan Soldier | May 11, 2013 - 6:24 pm | SharePoint
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The success of the 5th SharePoint Saturday Vietnam marked a new step forward of the Vietnam SharePoint community, but that was not the last stop in our journey. The 6th event is gone successfully accompanying over 100 SharePoint enthusiasts. I consider myself very lucky to be able to have Duane – an international speaker – speak at the event. Topic: Corporate social network get meet core value If the 5th event I talked about the new social features on the… Continue reading →

The 6th SharePoint Saturday Vietnam – we have a USA speaker

  By Thuan Soldier | April 25, 2013 - 9:27 am | SharePoint
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It’s a been long time since the 5th event was organized. With the commendable effort, the SharePoint Saturday Vietnam (SPSVN) team makes the 6th event happen on May 11th 2013. We are very pleased to have a SharePoint guru from the USA speak at this event. You may be asking yourself who he is when reading the information of the 6th even in the official website. He wants to keep his name secret to the last. I just let you… Continue reading →

Online interview SharePoint professional – 4 pragmatic questions I asked

  By Thuan Soldier | March 28, 2013 - 6:55 pm | SharePoint
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Finding and getting right people to work for your company isn’t as easy as you think even you find many awesome things in resumes. To SharePoint field, the difficulty of recruitment becomes more true because of complexity of SharePoint platform and different uses of it. Have you ever been responsible for interviewing SharePoint professional working for your company? Which questions would you like to ask your candidates? Recently, I’ve been assigned to be part of recruiting team in my company,… Continue reading →

SharePointPower.com – free SharePoint 2013 for you

  By Thuan Soldier | March 10, 2013 - 12:04 pm | SharePoint
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Recently I got asked by some people about how much memory of RAM they should have for testing purpose and a little more who had never worked with SharePoint expecting to get income by SharePoint wondering if their computer was good enough to install SharePoint 2013. Looking at SharePoint 2013 hardware requirement Microsoft strongly recommends, you might want to leave it alone even that’s just for simple development or evaluation. Besides, SharePoint folks have debated on minimum requirement you can… Continue reading →

Migrating SharePoint database instance to another server

  By Thuan Soldier | February 21, 2013 - 9:43 am | SharePoint
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The first line in this article must be written to thank to Todd Klindt, Nauplius Trevor and Sean McDonough – world renowned SharePoint MVPs – for quickly helping me on Twitter in migrating a SharePoint database instance to another server. Migration is surely a nightmare to those who are responsible for it, and I’m not an exception. Having not slept aproximately 32 consecutive hours (it’s meant I had to work while people were sleeping, not what I spent all), now… Continue reading →