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Errin O'Connor

With over 25 years of experience in Information Technology and Management Consulting, Errin O’Connor has led hundreds of large-scale enterprise implementations from Business Intelligence, Power BI, Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, IT Security, Azure and Hybrid Cloud efforts for over 165 Fortune 500 companies.

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Scalability Planning in Your SharePoint 2013 & Office 365 Roadmap

Posted by Errin O'Connor on Oct, 10, 2016 09:10

Scalability Planning in Your SharePoint 2013 Architectural Roadmap It is important to utilize an Office 365 roadmap to ensure your SharePoint 2013 and/or Office 365 (hybrid) platform and avoid some of the known pitfalls that degrade its performance such as: Having all SharePoint services are in the “default” service group Having redundant and JavaScript that […]

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Topics: Active Directory, Application Development, Data Breaches, Hybrid SharePoint Implementation, Information Architecture, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, Office 365 Hybrid, Office 365 Roadmap, Office 365 Roles and Responsibilities, Office 365 Search, Office 365 Security, Office 365 Support, Scalability, Search, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, SharePoint 2013 From the Consulting Trenches, SharePoint 2013 Search, SharePoint 2013 Security, SharePoint Consulting, SharePoint Consulting Strategies, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Roadmap, Sharepoint Roles and Responsibilties, SharePoint Security, Sharepoint Support, System Architecture, Workflow Development

SharePoint 2013 – Enterprise Content Management & Records Management

Posted by Errin O'Connor on May, 08, 2015 11:05

SharePoint Server 2013, and its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and/or Records Management (RM) capabilities, continues to be recognized as an enterprise platform leader and in the magic quadrant that many organizations look for when measuring the capabilities of a technology platform. ECM and RM efforts have also one of the biggest pushes for SharePoint 2013 initiatives as […]

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Topics: Active Directory, Application Development, Data Breaches, Hybrid SharePoint Implementation, Information Architecture, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, Office 365 Hybrid, Office 365 Roadmap, Office 365 Roles and Responsibilities, Office 365 Search, Office 365 Security, Office 365 Support, Scalability, Search, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, SharePoint 2013 From the Consulting Trenches, SharePoint 2013 Search, SharePoint 2013 Security, SharePoint Consulting, SharePoint Consulting Strategies, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Roadmap, Sharepoint Roles and Responsibilties, SharePoint Security, Sharepoint Support, System Architecture, Workflow DevelopmentECM-Enterprise Content Management, eDiscovery, ERM-Enterprise Records Management, EU Safe Harbor, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, RM-Records Management, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Security, Web Content Management (WCM)

Term Store & Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2013 & SharePoint Online

Posted by Errin O'Connor on May, 08, 2015 10:05

The Managed Metadata Service enables you to define a term store, as shown in the first image below, with related term sets and terms. The Term Store Management Tool, as shown in the second image below, enables you to perform the actions to build the appropriate configuration for your organization. SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Online allows for […]

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Topics: Active Directory, Application Development, Data Breaches, Hybrid SharePoint Implementation, Information Architecture, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, Office 365 Hybrid, Office 365 Roadmap, Office 365 Roles and Responsibilities, Office 365 Search, Office 365 Security, Office 365 Support, Scalability, Search, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, SharePoint 2013 From the Consulting Trenches, SharePoint 2013 Search, SharePoint 2013 Security, SharePoint Consulting, SharePoint Consulting Strategies, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Roadmap, Sharepoint Roles and Responsibilties, SharePoint Security, Sharepoint Support, System Architecture, Workflow DevelopmentECM-Enterprise Content Management, eDiscovery, ERM-Enterprise Records Management, EU Safe Harbor, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, RM-Records Management, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Security, Web Content Management (WCM)Information Architecture, Managed Metadata, Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, RM-Records Management, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, Term Store, Web Content Management (WCM)

Web Content Management (WCM) Deep-Dive in SharePoint 2013 & Office 365

Posted by Errin O'Connor on May, 08, 2015 01:05

EPC Group’s SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 information architecture consultants have worked on a large number of enterprise SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 initiatives with a strong client focus on Web Content Management and this blog post will provide a deep-dive around our recent “from the trenches” experiences. SharePoint 2013 does come with a number of new Web Content Management […]

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Topics: Active Directory, Application Development, Data Breaches, Hybrid SharePoint Implementation, Information Architecture, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, Office 365 Hybrid, Office 365 Roadmap, Office 365 Roles and Responsibilities, Office 365 Search, Office 365 Security, Office 365 Support, Scalability, Search, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, SharePoint 2013 From the Consulting Trenches, SharePoint 2013 Search, SharePoint 2013 Security, SharePoint Consulting, SharePoint Consulting Strategies, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Roadmap, Sharepoint Roles and Responsibilties, SharePoint Security, Sharepoint Support, System Architecture, Workflow DevelopmentECM-Enterprise Content Management, eDiscovery, ERM-Enterprise Records Management, EU Safe Harbor, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, RM-Records Management, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Security, Web Content Management (WCM)Information Architecture, Managed Metadata, Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, RM-Records Management, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, Term Store, Web Content Management (WCM)ECM-Enterprise Content Management, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, SharePoint 2013, Web Content Management (WCM)

Core Records Management Features in SharePoint 2013 & Office 365

Posted by Errin O'Connor on Mar, 23, 2015 08:03

In the article, I will provide details of the records management (RM) capabilities available within SharePoint Server 2013 as well as Office 365 | SharePoint Online from over 50 projects implemented by EPC Group over the past year. It is key to ensure you have a deep understanding of the licensing model and capabilities available to you and your organization so that you […]

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Topics: Active Directory, Application Development, Data Breaches, Hybrid SharePoint Implementation, Information Architecture, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, Office 365 Hybrid, Office 365 Roadmap, Office 365 Roles and Responsibilities, Office 365 Search, Office 365 Security, Office 365 Support, Scalability, Search, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, SharePoint 2013 From the Consulting Trenches, SharePoint 2013 Search, SharePoint 2013 Security, SharePoint Consulting, SharePoint Consulting Strategies, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Roadmap, Sharepoint Roles and Responsibilties, SharePoint Security, Sharepoint Support, System Architecture, Workflow DevelopmentECM-Enterprise Content Management, eDiscovery, ERM-Enterprise Records Management, EU Safe Harbor, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, RM-Records Management, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Security, Web Content Management (WCM)Information Architecture, Managed Metadata, Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, RM-Records Management, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, Term Store, Web Content Management (WCM)ECM-Enterprise Content Management, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, SharePoint 2013, Web Content Management (WCM)ECM-Enterprise Content Management, Information Architecture, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, RM-Records Management, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Online Search

Is Records Management and Usability, Together, Even Possible?

Posted by Errin O'Connor on May, 25, 2011 01:05

Why are 75% of the organizations in the United States (with an enterprise presence) looking at implementing arecords management solution and why are they drawn so much to a particular Microsoft platform? Can you have an enterprise content management (ECM) \ enterprise records management (ERM) solution with an easy to use interface that users are […]

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Topics: Active Directory, Application Development, Data Breaches, Hybrid SharePoint Implementation, Information Architecture, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, Office 365 Hybrid, Office 365 Roadmap, Office 365 Roles and Responsibilities, Office 365 Search, Office 365 Security, Office 365 Support, Scalability, Search, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, SharePoint 2013 From the Consulting Trenches, SharePoint 2013 Search, SharePoint 2013 Security, SharePoint Consulting, SharePoint Consulting Strategies, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Roadmap, Sharepoint Roles and Responsibilties, SharePoint Security, Sharepoint Support, System Architecture, Workflow DevelopmentECM-Enterprise Content Management, eDiscovery, ERM-Enterprise Records Management, EU Safe Harbor, IT Roadmap, Managed Metadata, Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, RM-Records Management, Security Policies, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Security, Web Content Management (WCM)Information Architecture, Managed Metadata, Metadata, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, RM-Records Management, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Consulting, Term Store, Web Content Management (WCM)ECM-Enterprise Content Management, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, SharePoint 2013, Web Content Management (WCM)ECM-Enterprise Content Management, Information Architecture, Metadata - Content Types, Office 365 Consulting, RM-Records Management, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Online SearchECM-Enterprise Content Management, ERM-Enterprise Records Management, Metadata - Content Types, Responsive Web Design (RWD), RM-Records Management, SharePoint Consulting, SharePoint Consulting Strategies, SharePoint End User Adoption, Usability