A Transformed IT Organization Can Contribute Positively to an Adoption Plan for Office 365

Does a successful campaign to persuade enterprise users to adopt Office 365 depend on a new type of internal IT organization? Industry experts like Dux Raymond Sy, a SharePoint MVP, and Cyrielle Simeone, a Product Manager at Microsoft believe this transformation is a necessary, highly positive step. Dux and Cyrielle present a case for why […]

Structure SharePoint Capabilities to Provide Users with a Platform they can Adopt

SharePoint, one can argue, falls into the category of a feature-rich office automation computing platform. Perhaps feature-rich is an understatement when one considers the panoramic range of functionality SharePoint is capable of supporting. But this expansive range of capabilities can, and often does run counter to stakeholder efforts to hasten user adoption, and with good […]

A Method of Measuring Performance of an Adoption Plan is also an Essential Component of the Plan Itself

For readers generally unfamiliar with IT project planning, it may seem curious to learn the role played by a method of measuring performance of the plan, itself. Performance measurement is actually a core component of the plan itself. Cyrielle Simeone, a Product Manager at Microsoft and Dux Raymond Sy include “Measure and Grow” as the […]

Microsoft Begins to Expand the Features of Enterprise Search for SharePoint Online, and for Office 365

Organizations with a SharePoint Online, Office 365 subscription may have noticed a new, amber colored query symbol on the top left of the pages served with results from a SharePoint search. This writer found this icon when he ran a search with the SharePoint Online query box. When he clicked on this new query symbol […]

Understanding the Potential of OneDrive for Business for Enterprise Document and Content Management

OneDrive for Business is not simply another cloud storage offer. It is a combination of features enterprise business will likely want to explore to ensure optimum value is captured from implementing this cloud offer. Microsoft provides a lot of this information via several articles on its Technet website. In Plan for OneDrive for Business in […]

Our Scheduled Online Class on Making Enterprise Social Real in Your Organization with Yammer will be Led by Naomi Moneypenny, CTO of Synxi

On August 21, 2014, SharePoint-Videos will host an online class titled Making Enterprise Social Real in Your Organization with Yammer. This class will be led by Naomi Moneypenny, CTO of Synxi. Anyone visiting Synxi’s web site will note the company’s one sentence slogan: “Machine Learning Recommendation Engine for Enterprise Social SharePoint 2013”. “Machine Learning” is […]

SharePoint Designer 2013 is Also the Best Tool Available to Work With Custom CSS and Master Pages for SharePoint Online, Office 365

The job of linking a custom CSS file to a Master Page for SharePoint Online, Office 365, becomes easier, as Yaroslav Pentsarskyy points out in a video tutorial titled Linking CSS from Master Pages. In fact, it is entirely possible to use SharePoint Designer as the editor to create a custom Style Sheet. Perhaps an […]

Consolidated Looks, Color Pallets, and Master Pages are Design Assets of SharePoint Online, Office 365

SharePoint Online, Office 365, like its on premises sibling, offers users an opportunity to create a custom look for branding sites. A quick way to build a custom look, as Yaroslav Pentsarskyy demonstrates in an exclusive video tutorial available on SharePoint-Videos titled Creating a custom look for SharePoint Online sites, is to edit one of […]