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What is Cloud and Why (wip)

(work in progress)   Consider some global shifts happened in IT during last decades: Service-Oriented Model Virtualization Automation Faster Networks All of that allows Clouds exist Consider also Fuzzy Organization Boundaries – Remote Workers More Complicated Software High salary for IT professional Business must change faster  All of that lead to Clouds concept Imagine ideal Data Center – […]

SharePoint and Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive Search – Azure Search with AI – 15 minutes video by Scott Hanselman and Rob Caron Follow the blogs: Chris McNulty, Microsoft – Enrich your SharePoint Content with Intelligence and Automation Eric Dixon, Microsoft – Intelligent Search: Adding AI to SharePoint Search David Lavenda, Harmon.ie – Is Microsoft Search the Solution to Finding Information in Office 365?  

SharePoint powershell automation, DSC and DevOps

Automation is not the same as DSC and DevOps. Automation is about changing existing process – to enable it start and work automatically, without human attendance, i.e. faster and more stable. The good example is site collection provisioning.  DevOps is an idea to manage infrastructure configuration via code with well-known and proved developers practices – […]

UPA to UIL sync

[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.WSSProfileSynch]::ScheduleSiteForFullSynchronization() [Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.WSSProfileSynch]::ClearSyncDataForContentDatabase()  

SPO vs SharePoint on-prem

Microsoft “cloud first” initiative led us to the situation where SharePoint on-prem (SharePoint 2019) is just a branch (sub-project) of SharePoint Online project. So “Hybrid” SharePoint environment is just a combination of two similar products – one in on-prem and the other one – in the cloud. TBC…