Not at all. The problem here is the way you think about your projects. If you are consistently talking about “implementing SharePoint” you are going in the wrong direction. If you are talking about implementing any platform, you are setting up for failure. Many of the problems we run into with SharePoint and other platforms arise from focusing on the technologies.

Many times I find people looking in the wrong direction when trying to find a SharePoint solution to one of their business problems. In this case, the question isn’t “How can I use SharePoint to combine multiple documents into a single, master document?” The real question is “How can I combine multiple documents into a single, master document?” It has nothing to do with SharePoint… the documents just happen to reside there.

Question of the day from Sue:
So far, I have been told that there is no way of using hyperlinks to documents stored in other applications (such as other doc management systems) and to make them appear seamlessly to users as part of a library of documents. We are not looking to create the link as [...]

I love teaching! I learn something everyday through questions asked in the workshops. One of the participants today in the Beginning SharePoint 2007 – The Basics workshop said that he had to update ten documents everyday, each in a different library. He dove down into the first library, connected to the document, did the update [...]

I am in the process of creating a series of screencasts, documenting the process of creating a simple Document Management Center. This post will serve as a comments area so that users can give feedback on the screencasts as well as to suggest alternatives to what is being shown.
Thanks in advance for your participation.