(Marc D Anderson) In a recent client project, we wanted to offer some sort of online help capability. While SharePoint has a help capability built into it, we wanted something a bit different.

(Kim Frehe) SharePoint Designer 2010 has some awesome new features! Two of my favorites are (1) the ability to copy and modify an out of the box workflow and (2) the custom task processes.

(Damon Armstrong) Many applications need to be able to specify some kind of recurring processes that are run in the background to handle batch processing, execute long running operations, or handle cleanup routines. In SharePoint 2010, these operations are written as SharePoint Timer Jobs and in the

(Octavie van Haaften) There are many articles about SharePoint 2010 and application pool management. One of those topics is the number of application pools to be used by your SharePoint web applications. I like this post by Todd Klindt: Top 10 SharePoint 2010 Configuration Mistakes.

(Karimka) I was working with a customer who hired a user experience designer. One of the goals of the design was to use as many out of the box web parts as possible when creating our SharePoint 2010. We try to leverage the Content Query Web part quite a bit on our landing pages and throughout the

(Eric Riz) Websites have come a long way from the mind-numbing simplicity of the late 1990s. Gone are the websites with basic left-margin navigation and static text, bland images, and broken links.

(Robert Bogue) Information architecture shouldn’t be a big scary thing: it’s simply about creating the same elegance you see in the Golden Gate Bridge or the Eiffel Tower, only instead of being built with steel, it is built with information.

(Michal Pisarek) There are many definitions when talking about business value. But far too often consultants talk about SharePoint business value in complex, abstract forms such as:

(Jason Himmelstein) When I initially sat down to start this article, I quickly realized that you can’t begin to troubleshoot performance issues until you have a sound baseline to start with. Otherwise, the likelihood of you figuring out what is going wrong in the environment is extremely low.

(Reeza Ali) Each user profile in SharePoint Server 2010 contains 46 default user profile properties. These user profile properties store information about a user. An administrator can apply a policy to a user profile property to configure how personal information is used. Depending on the selected u