Building a Tool Set to Brand SharePoint Online, Office 365 Sites

SharePoint Designer 2013, a free product, is the primary branding tool for SharePoint Online, Office 365. As Yaroslav Pentsarskyy sums it up in a video tutorial titled SharePoint Online sites branding tools, “it’s essential that you have SharePoint Designer”. Another very useful tool, this time for debugging challenging issues, is a “developer toolbar” for each […]

Streamlining the process of customizing a public site in SharePoint Online, Office 365

In a video tutorial titled The basics of SharePoint branding Yaroslav Pentsarskyy aptly sums up the opportunity represented by the out-of-the-box “Change the Look” feature included with SharePoint Online, Office 365: “There’s quite a lot of them — but there isn’t quite a lot of them”, meaning the range of out-of-the-box “looks” appears to be […]

Some Characteristics of the User Experience of Public Sites in SharePoint Online Office 365

Public sites in SharePoint Online, Office 365 are also referred to as Publishing Sites. With SharePoint Online, a public website is generated once a subscription is activated and has the the domain extension “-public.sharepoint.com” (Office 365 tenants can replace the site name with one incorporating what Microsoft refers to as a “custom domain”, meaning a […]

Microsoft Simplifies Onboarding Process for Office 365

In a short video on MSDN Channel 9, titled Get your Office Tenant on, FastTrack Deployment of the New Service, Microsoft® demonstrates how enterprise businesses looking to add Office 365 computing can plan on a short implementation process. The video presentation is led by Jeremy Chapman (one of the Channel 9 hosts) and Keith Laborde, […]

Geolocation columns can be added to SharePoint 2013 On Premise lists and libraries with a web browser

In a webinar titled Webinar – No-code tools and solutions for SharePoint 2013 on-premise and online, Asif Rehmani and Mark Gillis (a writer at Microsoft) present a number of no-code solutions targeted to SharePoint Power users. This class of SharePoint user is defined by Mark Gillis as entirely consistent with a profile created by Gartner, […]

Asif Rehmani Shares Some Thoughts on the Evolution of SharePoint, the SPTechCon event, and What are the Pressing Near Term Challenges facing SharePoint Proponents

In an audio recording of an interview with Clark Buckner of TechnologyAdvice, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP, MCT and CEO of SharePoint-Videos, shares some thoughts on how SharePoint has evolved since 2001, SPTechCon as an annual event, and some of the pressing, near term challenges facing anyone advocating SharePoint. This recording can be found in a […]

Why Adoption Remains a High Value Objective for Organizations Planning a Mission Critical Role for SharePoint

There are a number of ways stakeholders can create a mission critical role for SharePoint for an organization. But without user adoption of SharePoint computing, any/all of these methods can actually become difficult obstacles to ongoing successful business performance. The features of this conundrum are spelt out in a new white paper, from SharePoint-Videos, titled […]

On Browsing User Profiles, and Managing Storage Quotas in SharePoint Online, Office 365

SharePoint Online is just another version of Sharepoint, which means most users will require a detailed set of “how tos”, in order to extract optimum value from an investment in a business subscription to this online service. Take, for example, the “User Profiles” service. The best method of quickly finding users, for anyone administering a […]

Open Shared Document Libraries in SharePoint Online With Explorer to Move Files from OneDrive for Business

For organizations with a presence on Office 365, and SharePoint Online, Microsoft’s recent announcement of 1TB of storage, via One Drive for Business, for any/all Office 365 tenants, may provide cause for concern. Users may be challenged to correctly implement a governance plan built around SharePoint document libraries and lists should they neglect to move […]