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Trello – Fantastic, free web-based project management tool

March 1, 2013 Project Management, Tips and Tricks, Tools No comments

 

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A former colleague, Jason Coffey (click here to view his LinkedIn profile), showed me a great, free project management tool set called Trello.  Trello has a fresh approach to organizing tasks in a visual manner so you can quickly put your arms around a project.

The company has stated the tool set will always be free. So I have assurance that I can use it without the fear that I may get the hammer of going pay for use route with other great products I have used in the past.

They have a great demo/tutorial that I highly encourage you to look at to understand this new concept. But once you start building your project plan; you will understand why this tool set is popular.  It’s easy.  You can visually see and understand the stages of tasks in the entire project.  I love it!

www.trello.com - It’s now listed under my RESOURCES section.

Dropbox.com

February 5, 2012 Tips and Tricks, Tools No comments

Dropbox

The Dropbox.com toolset has been around for sometime for public and commercial use.

This toolset if fantastic in my opinion.  While working with clients and client workstations I may not have all the physical computer options such USB, FTP, etc.

This website and toolset is a great alternative so I can transfer various files from my laptop to my client’s network to continue conducting business to completion.

The website and toolset is free to sign up and use.  The free use is up to 2GB of storage on the dropbox.com website.  However, you can pay a monthly fee to expand it.

I will add this toolset to the TONYMADDIN.COM resources area.

Cincy SPUG Presentation – November 3, 2011

November 5, 2011 DAYSPUG, Presentations, Resources, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2010 Automation, SharePoint 2010 Tips and Tricks, SharePoint User Group, Tools No comments
Cincinnati SPUG Nov 2011 Tony Maddin
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SP 2010 admin tool to add to your toolbox

October 15, 2011 SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2010 Tips and Tricks, Tools No comments

While working on a client project, I was refreshing SharePoint 2010 environments to support our various QA and Development teams.

I implemented the SharePoint 2010 content hub for this project.  While detaching/attaching content databases to the staging environment; the Metadata Term Store data did not transfer.

This term set was a key feature in our project.

I searched the internet and came across this tool on CodePlex.  This tool was easy to use and fixed my issue.

I was able to export the term set from the source SharePoint 2010 farm.  Then transfer the CSV file to the destination.  Installed the tool again and the term set uploaded with no issues.

[box type="info"]This is a must have tool to add to your Admin toolbox.

The tool is called the termsetimorter.exe but it also exports the term set as well.

 http://termsetimporter.codeplex.com/ [/box]

Another must have SharePoint admin tool – ULS Viewer

June 8, 2011 SharePoint 2010 Tips and Tricks, Tips and Tricks, Tools No comments

As many of you are aware, reviewing log files are a necessary practice in our information technology industry.  But your standard NotePad on a Windows Server just cannot keep up when it comes to reviewing log files.

This tool has been around since 2009.   However, I when diagnosing a SharePoint 2010 farm, it was the tool of choice to help find the problem.  Here is the link.