Visual Demonstration of Folders vs. Metadata for Classification

 

I come across this cool video which explains clearly why you better not use folders inside document libraries and what are the big benefits of metadata and tagging.

Have fun watching.

Check out this tool from layer2 as well, auto tagging can really help your end-users.

 

SharePoint 2013 training for IT pros

When the beta of SharePoint 2013 I was really excited and now after a short while of playing around with it I really really get excited. These new features are awesome and the product team did a brilliant job creating them.

I discover so many new features and new thing that I highly advice anyone who’s interested to get up to speed as quick as possible. SharePoint is a long way far from the clicker the click. It’s easy to set things up and to use for end-users but to make everything work right and design correctly it’s complex.

Nothing the less that makes it exciting and cool especially if you poses the skills 🙂

I come across this link with a lot of good PowerPoint presentations from Microsoft.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp123606?prod=zSPz&type=zTRz&l

Error 1053 when starting the SharePoint Administration Service if you have trouble deploying a solution

Sometimes your deploying a solution package and when you check in the Central Admin the solution keeps saying it’s in deploying status or with PowerShell Get-SPSolution it says False. 

In this case most of the time the SharePoint Administration Service (Windows Service) Is not running on one of your servers. Check if it’s started (refresh) or to make sure just stop and start the service. Do the same for the Timer Service. If you get an old school Error 1053 message when starting the SharePoint Administration Service it’s talking about dependencies which are not there. 

The resolution for this problem is to run the SharePoint Product and Configuration Wizard on every box it’s don’t want to start.

 

How to color code email messages in your Outlook inbox

There are many ways to organize and categorize your email. One thing is clear and that is if you don’t make some kind of a system for yourself you will be snowballed by your own inbox.

In this post I will show you how to give some incoming emails a nice color. I also categories a lot but those I use mainly for the calendar. I have  special colors for projects, clients or super important stuff. It’s nice and colorful you shoot try it some time.

A good way of sorting is to use rules based on any condition using the rules wizard on the home tab in the move section. But what if you want something like urgent messages send from a monitoring system to stand out or the once from your boss? In that case it’s a good way to color code them.

Here’s how

Go to the view tab and in the beginning you find the current view section. Here you find a nice orb with a gear button called view settings. In the menu that pops-up we want the conditional formatting button. Here’s where the magic happens.

Just add a new rule with a nice catchy name and now we need to tell it what to do so we set the conditions. This part is similar to the rules wizard. Under the Advanced tab >> Fields button you find the all mail fields section. Here’s for instance the subject line you can use for server messages which often have the same subject.

Hope it helps you out and have fun color coding.