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Companies vary widely in their need and understanding of SharePoint services. With all of the various languages, frameworks, object models, and tools to build scalable distributed web applications on the SharePoint 2010 development platform, it could be hard to know where to start. While most people who visit our site may know what SharePoint is, and are familiar with our products and services. I think there may be people out there who may still be new to SharePoint and not know what IncWorx has to offer. If that’s you, here’s a snapshot.

Fun Tid Bits about SharePoint:

SharePoint comprises a multipurpose set of Web technologies backed by a common technical infrastructure. By default, SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite. The web tools are designed to be usable by non-technical users. SharePoint can be used to provide intranet portals, document & file management, collaboration, social networks, extranets, websites, enterprise search, and business intelligence. It also has system integration, process integration, and workflow automation capabilities.

• SharePoint is written in .net, which is a development tool.
• It is a platform in which to configure and build on.
• Sequel (SQL) – is the database for SharePoint/UI that it pulls from.
• History - The first product was developed by Microsoft in 1998, in 2001 it became SharePoint, and in 2007 SharePoint became a product focusing on collaboration. In 2008, the Gartner Group put SharePoint in the "leaders" quadrant in three of its Magic Quadrants (for search, portals, and enterprise content management). SharePoint is used by 78% of Fortune 500 companies.
• Current versions are 2010 and 2013.

Since it's development SharePoint has grown to become a good resource tool for many companies.

IncWorx SharePoint Products:

• Brandit – This is the tool that we developed to make SharePoint more user friendly. It’s a comprehensive user interface and user experience solution for SharePoint 2010 that allows companies to completely transform their intranet in just a few hours.
• Routeit – RouteIt provides customizable rule-based routing capabilities for lists and document libraries. All SharePoint 2010 on-premise versions are supported: Foundation, Standard, and Enterprise.

IncWorx SharePoint Services:

• Consulting/Engagements
• Staff Augmentation
• SDPS Vouchers -  SharePoint Deployment Planning Services
• Support

Why IncWorx?

• Microsoft Gold Partner - The Best of the Best
• Microsoft 2010 SharePoint Partner of the year award – Specifically in Deployment and Planning services
• Over 50% of our clients ask us to become their technology "trusted advisor"
• Named IT vendor of the year or preferred vendor by over 15 clients in 2012
• National customer satisfaction score ranking in the 99th percentile in the country for all partners
• Earned competencies for SharePoint, custom and mobility solutions
• Considered by Microsoft to be one of the foremost leaders in SharePoint

For more information on IncWorx, our products and services go to www.Incworx.com or contact us at 847 839-9679. We’ll be happy to hear from you!

Welcome to 2013! I wanted to start off the New Year with something I hope you might find interesting and valuable. I’m always interested in gaining an understanding of how our clients leverage SharePoint given the amount of different SharePoint environments we work in. So I thought I would share some perspective on where our clients are heading with SharePoint and what they find value in. 

Here are 4 things we did recently that stand out:

1)  Migrate to SharePoint 2013.  This has been a popular topic of conversation for our Clients wanting to leverage the awesome new features of SharePoint 2013.  We have completed migrations from SharePoint 2010 to 2013 and have also had many clients who moved from 2007 to 2013 which was accomplished by building out a new SharePoint 2013 farm and migrating the content over using third party tools.  Additionally, many of our clients tapped into SDPS via their Microsoft agreement which provided funding for over $100,000 in projects, POC’s and Migrations in SharePoint.  Please contact us if you need help figuring out if you have funding, or figuring out a way to increase the amount of funding you have available!

2)  Collaborate.  One of our clients was looking to create real time question and answer sessions without the hassles of custom code and a long development cycle.  The goal of the Q & A solution was to give the C level executives a direct line of communication to the people on the front-line without having to go through multiple layers of management.  This gave users direct access to the executives and also allowed the executive teams to get ideas from people who were often times in front of the customers the most.  This was mostly accomplished leve0raging the OOB SharePoint 2013’s communities’ features.

3)  High Availability/Disaster Recovery.  Another of our Clients was looking to provide their business users with a highly available solution for their newly migrated SharePoint 2010 farm.  Using Microsoft SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups, IncWorx was able to design an architecture that will provide automatic failover in the event that one SQL server would fail or be taken offline in a multi-server cluster.  This was a perfect fit for the client, allowing them to provide high availability and disaster recover (HADR) to their SharePoint farms.  While it sounds like a complex and costly project, it really isn’t. 

4) Customer Service. We developed a monitoring program for a client’s IP cameras. These cameras were used in their stores to count the number of people that come in. A WinForms application using C#, .net 4.0, and SQL 2008 was developed. Now, they can keep track of the number of people that come into the store and know the current health of the cameras.

A client brand new to SharePoint had us install SharePoint Foundation for them and set up their sites.  They had a lot of trucks they need to track, so we also set up a calendar so they could keep track of when trucks were leaving/coming back etc. and helped to get it color coded and synced to Outlook.  They really liked all the help we gave them and the work we did.

Another great example was the program we provided the client to help control their sales commission. They were looking to IncWorx to develop a new desktop application for maintaining commission structure information for a given project/quote. It was a Microsoft Win Forms application and was built using Visual Studio 2005 and VB.NET. They now can keep track of commission structure in an automated way instead of using excel sheets. Hooray!

As a company we strive to provide extraordinary service to our clients, and colleagues. We actively look for opportunities to go the extra mile in our interactions with customers. As a result, our clients say that our consultants are a pleasure to work with from beginning to end. From workflow issues to system issues, we’re there to make sure the client is taken care of. Here’s to a new year of working with our clients and continued excellence in customer service!

I have a Sr. SharePoint Consultant that is available June 11th 2012. If interested please contact me at 847-839-9679 profile below:

SUMMARY
Randy has 18 years of professional experience in the IT industry as a senior technical consultant and lead developer. He provided IT services to the areas that include business management consulting, financial analysis, marketing analysis and development, government administration, sales and customer support, and public relations management. He is a Microsoft Certified Specialist on SharePoint 2007 & 2010 and also Six-Sigma Certified.  

CURRENT ENGAGEMENTS AND EXPERIENCE
SharePoint 2010 Consulting
Randy has about 8 years of SharePoint experience that spans from SharePoint 2003, 2007, to 2010. He leads team of SharePoint development in a size of 2-5 developers. In Booz Allen, he led a project team consists of SQL developer, SharePoint developers, C# developers, tech writer and system administrator. His current clients include Microsoft Gold Partners who provide SharePoint technical services to federal government agencies. His current engagement involves SharePoint FAST Search, SharePoint system trouble shootings, system re-configurations, Enterprises Content Management System development, SP 2010 Branding and Customization, Case Management with InfoPath and Workflow, SP internet/intranet web site design and development, and SP SQL Reporting Service customization. The tools used are ASP.NET, Visual Studio 2010, C#, XML, XSLT, CSS, jQuery, SQL, SharePoint Designer 2010, and etc. 

IncWorx Consulting, the industry leader in SharePoint 2010

Microsoft Access 2010 and SharePoint 2010

With Access 2010 you can move your table to SharePoint 2010 and have user forms show up in SharePoint as well.  One thing to note is that forms need to be created as Access web forms.  This makes it so, for one, SharePoint can use these forms and two, it relies on the new Access Data Macros to drive the behaviors.  Below is a nice diagram I found depicted the connection between Access and SharePoint 2010.

Let's take a closer look at how this all works!
Open Access and go to your database you want to send to SharePoint.  You will need to run the Web Compatibility checker to make sure everything can transfer over smoothly.  If any table fails, you will be given a list of the errors or problems so that you may try to fix them.  Assuming all pass, you can then publish your database to SharePoint 2010.  While publishing, Access moves the forms, reports, macros, tables etc to SharePoint.  This will allow any users that have Access 2010 on their machines to download a local copy of the database to edit them if needed. 

All your tables should now be SharePoint 2010 Lists and create all the necessary links between Access and the Lists.  This way if someone were to download the database to their machine, Access will get all the SharePoint list data to maintain a local cache.  While a user has this database open, Access will periodically sync with SharePoint with any changes made on either end.

All your forms get converted to ASP.NET (.aspx) pages, including javascript for any supported page events.  The layout for these pages is mainly driven by HTML tables. One thing to keep in mind is that your controls on the form need to be placed within the cells.  This helps Access transform the form into an appropriate .aspx page.

If your organization is looking to move your Access database(s) to SharePoint, you can do so with the peace of mind knowing everything should go over smoothly.  Luckily, for those that are not using Access 2010, you can link SharePoint with Access 2007 as well.  The link between Access 2007 and SharePoint is slightly different, but most functionality should still work as intended.

 

IncWorx Consulting is a leading Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint Consulting, SharePoint Support, and SharePoint Application Development.

During a San Francisco developers event held on Tuesday, Microsoft confirmed that it will release a public beta for Windows 8 in late February 2012 instead of the early January date indicated by a recently road map. The news arrived as Antoine Leblond VP of Windows Web services, introduced the upcoming Windows Store to the press.

So far the new tablet-console-friendly OS seems to be on track for a full retail release in Fall 2012 based on the beta's February launch. Given that Microsoft released a public beta of Windows 7 back in January 2009, there was speculation that the Redmond company was sticking to the same schedule. Yet the Developer Preview launched a month earlier (on September 13) than Windows 7's October distribution. That said, comparing the two release schedules seems to be somewhat pointless.

According to Microsoft, more than 13 million copies of the Windows 8 Developer Preview had been downloaded since its release back in the fall. California-based Net Applications said that, based on the Developer Preview downloads Windows 8 already accounts for three-hundredths of 1-percent of all PCs accessing the Internet. That's reportedly one-fourth the number of Windows 2000-powered PCs and half the number of Windows 98 PCs.

Despite the beta announcement, Tuesday's event was focused on Microsoft's app market simply called Windows Store. It will open its doors at the launch of the Windows 8 Public Beta and only offer free apps. Previous reports indicated that the storefront will only provide Metro-style applications, and that legacy applications for Windows 7 and later will only have a landing page that links back to the software publisher.

Being that IncWorx Consulting is a Microsoft Gold Partner and provides SharePoint Support, It makes me wonder what enhancements Microsoft will make in the way Windows and Internet Explorer interact with SharePoint 2010. Windows 7 and Office 2010 have odd quirks that create issues, like the inability to open Excel files from a SharePoint site using Internet Explorer 9 64-bit and many others.

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    <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Extensions" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"/>
    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-1.1.0.0" newVersion="3.5.0.0"/>

</dependentAssembly>

AvePoint released the DocAve 6 public beta that simplifies deployment, monitoring, and enforcement of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 governance policies.  It manages development and lets you test production farms with ease.  It also features a redesigned, ribbon based interface to simplify and automate SharePoint governance and management. 

Key benefits of DocAve 6 include Increase Business Productivity, Reduce Total Cost of Ownership, Provides IT Assurance and Enable Security & Compliance for Business Content.  These benefits help deliver high-performance, global collaboration, increase operational efficiency and improve quality of service & minimize business disruption. 
DocAve 6 is built upon Microsoft technologies including .NET, WCF(Windows Communication Foundation), and Silverlight which works well with SharePoint Design.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861

Since most college students today are constantly attached to their cell phones, it was only logical to assume that SharePoint developers would eventually create mobile device compatibilities. These functionalities include most features of SharePoint and allow the user to access them on-the-go.

Implementing SharePoint 2010 Workspace Mobile allows the user to browse document libraries and lists right from your phone! You can also open, edit, and sync documents directly for viewing or editing in the various mobile office apps like Word 2010, Excel 2010, and PowerPoint 2010, and sync to SharePoint 2010. In addition to this, you can also perform a multitude of tasks such as people and document searches or receiving SMS alerts on SharePoint content. Since SharePoint 2010 supports accessing information from a web browser enabled mobile phone, it offers:

•Lightweight interface and navigation for accessing document libraries, lists, wikis, blogs, web part pages and LOB data
•Web companions for viewing Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents
•Mobile MySite for staying in touch with colleagues
•Mobile search experience for finding people, contact information, SharePoint content and finding data in custom databases
•SMS Alerts for changes to SharePoint content
•Features are customizable and, all the information is in SDK.

SharePoint also supports a wide variety of mobile browsers, which includes:

•IE Mobile on Windows Mobile 5/6/6.1/6.5
•Safari4 on iPhone 3G/S
•BlackBerry 4.x and newer versions
•Nokia S60
•NetFront 3.4, 3.5 and newer versions
•Opera Mobile 8.65 and newer versions
•Openwave 6.2, 7.0 and newer versions
 
SharePoint mobile device compatibilities out-of-the-box include web part pages, document and picture libraries, lists, blogs, wikis, office documents, search, and MySite. In order for SharePoint to be accessible  outside the corporate firewall, however, IT administrators must publish SharePoint via an SSL VPN gateway, use a mobile proxy, or expose SharePoint server to internet directly.

SharePoint's ability to be mobile within a cell phone could drastically increase the importance of using SharePoint in the collegiate environment. It is projected that SharePoint mobile capabilities will cause an increase in frequency of utilization in the classroom setting as well as relevancy in real world applications. Accessing SharePoint has never been so easy and versatile, and this is just one of the many SharePoint 2010 benefits. College students already carry their cell phones with them wherever they go, and now SharePoint can be with you on-the-go as well.

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/office2010/archive/2010/03/09/configure-sharepoint-server-2010-for-mobile-device-access.aspx

• IncWorx has been working with SharePoint for over 10 years before it was even a Microsoft product.  We have a refined approach to organically developing SharePoint Developers by allowing them to shadow some of the most talented experts in the industry on some very challenging projects for Fortune 500 clients.  Also, if one of our developers runs across a problem that they can't figure out, they can reach out to someone else on our team rather than spinning their tires and doing Google searches.
• Due to the success of our SharePoint practice, we have won a Microsoft Partner of the year award, for SharePoint and have won contracts with companies like Dell, General Motors, Rubbermaid, P&G, Unilever, etc. -- These are the types of projects that serious developers want to work on.  They come to IncWorx because they know they can get this type of challenging work.
• While other companies are just starting to "create" SharePoint practices, they have to learn, and to learn they must fail.  Since we have been working with the platform for so long, we have gotten our lumps out of the way. IncWorx has a proven methodology and approach that has been quite successful.
• Since quality SharePoint developers can live anywhere in the United States, we have the ability to work onsite, or save your company costs associated with travel and work remotely (on-site when neccessary).

• SharePoint 2010 Partner of the year – SDPS program
• Envisioning – developed this program in 2007 to help organizations see the vision of SharePoint 2007 & 2010. Rolled into the formal Microsoft SDPS program in late 2007
• Planning – Using best practices co-developed by Microsoft and IncWorx
• Architecture – Using best practices co-developed by Microsoft and IncWorx
• Development –  a large team of skilled .NET developers fully trained and experienced in SharePoint 2007 & 2010
• Migrations – with over 50 migrations from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, IncWorx is the leader in this space
• Infrastructure – SharePoint touches many systems throughout the organization, understanding the architecture and environment is paramount to properly leveraging the systems within an organization to get the maximum value from SharePoint 2010
• Deployment – a large team of skilled professionals with over 50 “white space” deployments of SharePoint 2010
• Change Management – the key to a successful SharePoint implementation is proper Change Management, it’s built right into our methodology for maximum user acceptance.  This component can’t be overlook, poor adoption could lead to failure reflecting poorly upon all involved
• PMO – 100% SharePoint focused Project Managers that know the challenges and obstacles in managing SharePoint Projects to successful completion
• Support and Maintenance – Developed the S3 program to address the resource scarcity with SharePoint 2007 SharePoint Support Services (S3).  IncWorx is the first company to offer a full service, outsourced offering of SharePoint Support, a comprehensive level 1-3 support and pro-active maintenance program that addresses the shortage in the market for talent. Born out of necessity and now a major offering to over 80% of IncWorx’s client base, S3 is the answer to the “scarcity of experts”

Please give Michael a call at 847-839-9679 X 201 or shoot me an e-mail if you're interested in having an interview with the consultant to see if he is a good fit for any initiatives you may currently have.

• SharePoint 2010
• MOSS 2007
• Foundation 2010
• Custom .NET Development
• CERTIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL SKILLS

• 10 Years C#;
• 4 Years SharePoint 2007
• 2 Years WPF with MVVM
• 1 Year Silverlight
• 20 Years C
• 14 years C++, Visual C++ (MFC, ODBC, COM/ActiveX)
• 10 Years DirectX 6-9
• ASP.NET (1.0 -4.0), ADO.NET
• 2 Years MTS, ASP, VB/VB

IncWorx Consulting specializes in SharePoint consulting for financial investment firms, accounting and estate accounting firms and judicial consulting.  
 
IncWorx Consulting leverages SharePoint built in functionality to provide full SOX compliance in terms of security, archiving, meta data search or full text driven search and document versioning. We can enable audit trails in the event the most stringent compliancy needs are identified. We harness the permissions and security features within SharePoint 2007 & 2010 to keep proprietary information safe and secure. We specialize in extranet portal development for firms and carefully architect solutions to provide secure collaboration for business to business needs. We  quickly identify  document sharing and repository needs and develop dynamic and business optimized solutions.  IncWorx Consulting has the industry's best  SharePoint architects and developers in the nation. IncWorx Consulting understands the technology needs and trends of the future and is providing assistance to the investment management elite.
 
If SharePoint technology needs have been identified within your investment firm, IncWorx Consulting is ready to provide enterprise level consulting to optimize business processes with an emphasis on security.  We  architect solutions that link line of business applications and Microsoft technologies. We have the ability to manage data and present information into graphically elegant user interfaces.  These dashboards, graphs and key performance indicators allow executives to make critical decisions accurately without having to obtain information from a variety of different sources.
 
IncWorx consulting Investment Management Experience:

• Calculating Fixed Income Reporting  
• Bloomberg Data Reporting 
• Investment Data Reporting
• Equity reporting
• ETM Data experience
• Metadata-driven Search
• Docket Management

IncWorx Consulting has the ability to integrate the following applications:

• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• SharePoint Foundation, Window SharePoint Server 2.0. 3.0
• Business Objects  Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010
• FileNet P8
• Microsoft Project Server 2010, Project Server 2007 
• Microsoft Commerce Server 2010, Commerce Server 2009
• Microsoft BizTalk 2010, BizTalk 2006 R2
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, Dynamics CRM 4.0
• Microsoft SQL Server 2011, SQL Server 2008 R2
• Oracle 11g r2, Oracle 11g

About IncWorx
IncWorx Consulting is the premier consulting firm when implementing SharePoint 2010, we service clients in: Chicago, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Cleveland, New York, Houston, Topeka, Milwaukee, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Tampa, Orlando, Boston, NYC, San Diego and Los Angeles.  We specialize in SharePoint and have invested significant time and resources into our SharePoint practice.  We take a holistic approach from inception to delivery which provides the best possible outcome for our clients.   IncWorx was also the winner of Microsoft’s 2010 worldwide partner of the year award for SharePoint Deployment and Planning Services (SDPS) and is a managed Gold Certified Partner. They have been focused on delivering solutions utilizing Microsoft tools and platforms since 1998. IncWorx is considered the premier Microsoft Partner for SharePoint architecture, design, development, integration, deployment and support.