2011-07-05-ready-set-stop.html

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layout: post
title: Ready, Set, ...STOP!!
date: '2011-07-05T15:27:00.000-04:00'
author: Carlo
tags:
- Microsoft
- MySite
- '2010'
- SharePoint
modified_time: '2011-07-05T15:27:46.551-04:00'
blogger_id: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1115978604548657664.post-8711215181810708821
blogger_orig_url: https://thewahlstedts.blogspot.com/2011/07/ready-set-stop.html
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Ok, so I think I've tried like 30 times to start writing a blog and it never seems to pan out. Here's # 31.<br /><br />I've recently started interacting with SharePoint 2010. My first interaction with SharePoint was in 2003 and to say the least I was not impressed. Things didn't seem to always work. I even found at once point that it worked differently in Windows 2000 than in XP. Fast forward to 2011. I saw a demo in the last 6 months of SharePoint 2010 and had the&nbsp;opportunity&nbsp;at work to be part of a team that would work on implementing it for out Intranet. We traveled to a Microsoft Training Center to do a Proof of Concept (POC). Needless to say, compared to 2003 it's a much better and more polished product now, but it still seems overly complicated in may areas.<br /><br />One such area is the MySite feature. While it is a nice feature and one that many places may want or desire, our Corporation does not. It seems that we aren't the only ones. In looking at how to handle them I found that pieces of them are nice, but there's no easy way to disable certain features. Lucky, I <a href="http://sharepoint.licomputersource.com/2010/11/how-to-remove-the-whats-happening-status-message-from-the-user-profile-page-in-sharepoint-2010/">found a good solution</a>, not as simple as I would expect but it works.<br /><br />I will continue to try to blog about the "SharePoint Monster", as one&nbsp;colleague&nbsp;has come to call it.