Tuesday, February 14, 2023

SharePoint - Web Service Description Language (WSDL)

The following is a SharePoint dictionary word of the day:

Web service description language (WSDL)

Methods and parameters that a SOAP service supports. The definition registers in a universal description discovery and integration (UDDI).


Monday, February 13, 2023

SharePoint - Web Proxy

The following is a SharePoint dictionary word of the day:

Web proxy

Method exposed in a client object model which issues requests from SharePoint to a remote service which developers can utilize in apps for SharePoint.

Sunday, February 12, 2023

SharePoint - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

The following is a SharePoint dictionary word of the day:

Web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG)

Web accessibility guidelines published by the world wide web consortium (W3C).

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

SharePoint Due Diligence Controls

The following are high level due diligence SharePoint aspects:

Transaction controls – monitor, maintain and review who has what permissions in the environment.

Network controls – monitor the network infrastructure from a security standpoint.

Guest access and vendor management access controls – monitor and change external guest access and vendor access as applicable as projects and contracts are completed.

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

4 Top Aspects for SharePoint Solutions

The following are four key aspects for SharePoint solutioning:

1) Research solution with a long-term mindset.

2) Assess all the SharePoint options carefully.

3) Succession of the solution should be part of the strategy.

4) Financial aspects of the solution should be accounted for.

Monday, February 6, 2023

The Perfect SharePoint Team

SharePoint is very complex and to succeed with it, in the enterprise the following would make-up the perfect SharePoint team: 

Business analyst team - who would be responsible for capturing and documenting business requirements for the various sites, Power Platform aspects, custom code, etc.

Build/Development team - who would be responsible for building and updating the sites and application based aspects.

Quality Analyst team - who would be responsible for testing items before they are deployed to production.

Operations team - who would be responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure for the environment.

Security and compliance team - who would be responsible for ensuring that the deployed items follow the defined security and compliance standards.

Application support team - who would be responsible for supporting the built sites, Power Platform, coded items in production.

SharePoint - WSDL (Web Services Description Language)

The following are SharePoint dictionary words of the day related to WSDL (Web Services Description Language):

WSDL (Web Services Description Language)

XML format utilized to describe the network services as collections of communication-based endpoints.


WSDL message

Typed definition of the data which is communicated during a WSDL operation.

 

WSDL operation

Description of an action which is supported by a WSDL service.

 

WSDL port type

Named set of operations which are supported by one or more endpoints, as specified in WSDL.