Many organizations supporting an on premises SharePoint implementation are looking for an interim step prior to proceeding on a full scale migration to SharePoint Online, Office 365. A hybrid architecture provides just this type of option. In an online class coming soon, exclusively on SharePoint-Videos.com, Fabian Williams, SharePoint Server MVP will present the components of high value hybrid SharePoint computing architecture and the steps to be taken to build and support it successfully. Fabian’s class, titled Implementing SharePoint 2013 Hybrid for Search, Business Connectivity Services, OneDrive for Business and Yammer, will be held on October 9, 2014. Simply a review…
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Building Workflows for No-Code Solutions Using External Data with the BCS in SharePoint 2013
In the eleventh and twelfth units of a set of fifteen units of video training content on building workflows for external data, in either SharePoint 2013, on premises, or SharePoint Online, Office 365, Fabian Williams, a SharePoint Server MVP, presents a set of procedures, and their underlying components, most likely to be useful for an audience of SharePoint, or Office 365 application developers. These video tutorials will not likely be useful to SharePoint power users. An experience set which includes extensive work with JavaScript, modern Open Protocols (including OAuth and OData), and Visual Studio is required to digest the information…
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Working with the OData Protocol, Web Parameters and URIs to Expose External Data in SharePoint
Expressions of the OData protocol are usually incorporated within Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). These expressions add parameters to Internet locations, at the application layer (hypertext). Once the syntax of a URI has been successfully completed, a web browser can be used as a “universal client” to parse data repositories for targeted segments of data, which users can consume as web pages. In two video tutorials included in a new set of video training content led by Fabian Williams, SharePoint Server MVP, we demonstrate not only the importance of a thorough grounding in web application development to a successful effort to…
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Using the BCS to Pull External Data into SharePoint 2013 with Visual Studio
Microsoft is attempting to rebrand its code editor, Visual Studio, as a preferred method for developers to product Apps conforming to the Office 2013 App model. In a set of three video tutorials, Fabian Williams, a SharePoint MVP and widely acknowledged subject matter expert, demonstrates how the BCS can be used, via Visual Studio, to pull external data into SharePoint 2013. All three of these video tutorials are included in a new set of training content titled SharePoint 2013: Working with external data in SharePoint 2013 using BCS and Workflows. This set is available, exclusively, on SharePoint-Videos.com. In the first…
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Organizations developing custom apps to surface external data in SharePoint 2013, need to follow a specialized set of procedures
In a set of video tutorials on the topic of how to work with BCS to surface external data in SharePoint 2013, or SharePoint Online, Office 365, Fabian Williams, a SharePoint Server MVP provides a set of guidelines likely to be very useful for any organizations planning on developing custom apps for similar needs. The title of this video tutorial set is Working with External Data in SharePoint 2013 using BCS and Workflows – On Premises and Online. The first 3 video tutorials in this set of training content are full of references to the preliminary steps any developer should…
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On the Architecture of BCS for SharePoint 2013
SharePoint-Videos has just published a new set of video training for SharePoint 2013: Working with External Data in SharePoint 2013 using BCS and Workflows – On premises and Online. The target audience for this training set are SharePoint Developers and IT Pros. The course is led by Fabian Williams, a SharePoint Server MVP. The content is approached from the server side. BCS is of importance for organizations needing to surface external data within SharePoint. Almost all of the time the method chosen will include creating external content types, or external lists. The external data surfaced in SharePoint can be consumed…
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SharePoint-Videos Publishes a Set of Video Tutorials on External Data, BCS and Workflows for SharePoint 2013
Organizations in need of proven methods to surface external data in SharePoint 2013, and to work with it via no-code process development approaches, should consider a new set of video tutorials on BCS, External Data, and Workflows, led by Fabian Williams, SharePoint Server MVP. The set has just been published by SharePoint-Videos. A review of the syllabus for this training set demonstrates the importance of Business Connectivity Services, BCS, to the successful application of the methods included in the set. BCS is not a new feature to SharePoint 2013. In fact, BCS has been a component of SharePoint since SharePoint…
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Microsoft Partners Working On a Collaboration and Content Competency May Want to Study Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
In a post to the U.S. Partner Team Blog on Technet, titled ‘Build your SharePoint business with the Collaboration and Content competency’, Diane Golshan of Microsoft writes: ‘implementing business-critical solutions with line-of-business (LOB) data coming from disparate systems surfaced in SharePoint’ is an example of one of the ‘tremendous opportunities’ in front of U.S. partners who successfully achieve Silver,or Gold certification for this new partner specialty. Of course the technology required to “[surface LOB data] in SharePoint” would not be possible without the Business Connectivity Service (BCS). BCS has been a component of SharePoint server since the 2010 edition, and…
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OData Support is an Improved Feature for SharePoint 2013 for Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
With the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) component behind Office, and SharePoint 2013, better support is available for services running the Open Data (OData) web Protocol. This new BCS component complements the Office, and SharePoint 2013 App Model, both of which, in turn, are very deeply based on web development tools — HTML and JavaScript. The impact of better support for OData in SharePoint 2013 as the result of a new, and improved BCS feature is substantial. Organizations with a major commitment to Oracle®, SAP, or IBM® databases have a much better chance of successfully pulling this external data into…
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Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2013
Any organization looking to implement SharePoint 2013 as an enterprise application for document or content management, or for reporting purposes, or even for gathering useful business intelligence, will need to use solutions and features built on the Business Data Collector (BDC) and Business Connectivity Services (BCS). Despite two new SharePoint Server versions, 2010 and, now, 2013, BDC is still running, and provides the foundation for BCS. What’s important for SharePoint administrators, developers, systems designers and architects, is to understand the role BDC/BCS plays in the 2013 Server architecture for any of the “enterprise edition” features, including Excel Services, Reporting Services…
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