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Sid Hermstad

Contributing Author

Recent Articles by Sid Hermstad

    SharePoint MythBusters: Top 5 Misconceptions of the Platform
    Published: 6th April 2016

    Here are the most common SharePoint myths you should break to avoid wrong expectations about the platform when starting your own project.


    Published: 25th August 2015

    SharePoint server has become a very popular enterprise application to enhanced collaboration. As the quantity and value of data stored on SharePoint platform rises, backup and recovery becomes critical and it proves to be a challenge for administrators.


    Published: 12th February 2015

    Contrary to popular beliefs that Microsoft might stop offering new on-premise versions of SharePoint, last week’s announcement and the new SharePoint sessions offered at the Ignite conference in Chicago refute the unfounded rumors.


    Published: 9th December 2013

    Your company’s online persona and image, mission and purpose are embodied in your website, a digital portrait painted with intricate details to bring site visitors over to where you see the grass is greener.


    SharePoint Sites of the Month #5
    Published: 18th October 2012

    For this month’s SharePoint branding inspiration post we selected seven beautiful and colorful SharePoint website examples; six built on SharePoint...


    SharePoint Sites of the Month #4
    Published: 11th September 2012

    For this month’s selection of beautiful SharePoint websites I decided to delight you with few new innovative, elegant and colorful discoveries.


    SharePoint Sites of the Month #3
    Published: 19th August 2012

    For this SharePoint branding jolt I selected seven beautiful websites built on MOSS. Yes, SharePoint 2007 still powers more than 80% of the public-facing websites in the world built on SharePoint platform, at least according to our statistics.


    SharePoint Sites of the Month #2
    Published: 8th July 2012

    For this second issue of our new series on sites of the month we have selected some great SharePoint-based websites that are fresh, highly creative and attractive.


    SharePoint Sites of the Month #1
    Published: 16th June 2012

    Sites of the Month is a monthly collection of the most exceptional SharePoint-based website designs submitted to our showcase and picked by our staff based on their usability, design, creativity, improved user experience, custom functionality and ability to incorporate modern techniques.


    Clone a SharePoint 2010 Site using PowerShell
    Published: 24th February 2012

    Creating SharePoint 2010 site collections in a test environment becomes tedious and definitely no fun especially when you need a 5 or 6 levels deep “Lorem Ipsum” dummy site with tons of pages under them. Here are few simple steps to clone a SharePoint site.


    Enable Port Access for SharePoint Sites
    Published: 12th September 2011

    After a new Server 2008 and SharePoint 2010 installation on the awesome freely available Oracle VirtualBox I was presented with a port access issue. What I was trying to accomplish is a multi-site farm, on different ports.


    CardioLog Giveaway
    Published: 22nd June 2011

    Today, partnering with Intlock, a leader in enterprise portal and website analytics, we would like to give away a free...


    Protect Your SharePoint Content
    Published: 26th April 2011

    An Overview of SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery by Sean P. McDonough of Idera and John Ferringer of Apparatus, Inc. co-authors...


    SharePoint Designer Error
    Published: 12th January 2011

    After installing Opera browser, for testing purposes of course, SharePoint Designer defaulted to Opera. So, every time I had to publish a master page or page layout, the approval workflow will open Opera browser instead of IE.


    Windows Azure One Month Pass
    Published: 31st August 2010

    Developers have been requesting a way to gain knowledge of Windows Azure Platform and Microsoft has been listening by offering...


    SharePoint 2010 Migration Fever
    Published: 24th August 2010

    A new study by leading provider of SharePoint solutions regarding the current and future usage of SharePoint shows an amazing enthusiasm amongst users to migrate to SharePoint 2010.


    Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools
    Published: 24th June 2010

    Visual Studio Team released SharePoint 2010 Power Tools for VS 2010 which would enable an easier development of SharePoint 2010...


    Published: 17th December 2009

    What is Form Based Authentication? Form Based Authentication (FBA) provides your own authentication method using a web form. More and more companies are using FBA as a way of extending a site for non-Active Directory (AD) users.





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