Microsoft® provides SharePoint administrators with a set of six video presentations on the subject of installing Workflow Manager 1.0 for SharePoint Server 2013. As we just wrote in the previous post to this blog, SharePoint administrators for on premises SharePoint Server 2013 may want to skip this installation for several reasons: The organization already has […]
Modifying SharePoint 2013 Master Pages Part 2, Working with Master Pages with SharePoint Designer 2013
SharePoint Designer 2013 is the preferred method of customizing master pages for publishing sites in SharePoint 2013, on premises, or SharePoint Online, Office 365. In a video tutorial Making Changes to Master Pages, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, SharePoint MVP and published author demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer, 2013 to build a custom master page for a […]
Modifying SharePoint 2013 Master Pages Part 1
Master Pages for publishing sites in SharePoint 2013 can be modified by administrators and designers with a set of new methods. In a video tutorial, Making Changes to Master Pages, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, SharePoint MVP and published author demonstrates how to add a custom CSS to a master page template, and, thereby, create a custom master […]
Understanding the Look and Feel Options for Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2013 part 3
This is our third and final commentary on a video tutorial just published on SharePoint-Videos.com, Site level branding customizations for team sites. The previous two posts to this blog present the rest of our comments. “Navigation” presents the navigation settings for a site. As Yaroslav Pentsarskyy explains “In SharePoint 2013 there are two types of […]
Understanding the Look and Feel Options for Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2013 part 2
Publishing sites in SharePoint 2013 are highly customizable. As Yaroslav Pentsarskyy explains in a new video, Site level branding customizations for team sites, the new “Page Layouts and Templates” feature included in the “Look and Feel” section of SharePoint 2013 “Site Settings” provides ” . . . a way for an administrator of a developer […]
Understanding the Look and Feel Options for Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2013 part 1
With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft introduces a new section, “Look and Feel” to the Site Settings menu for administrators. In a video tutorial titled Site level branding customizations for team sites, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, SharePoint MVP, and published author, provides SharePoint administrators, designers, developers and architects with a brief tour of each of the features included in […]
Creating Globally Reusable Workflows for Other Site Collections and Other SharePoint Farms
Many of the procedures we’ve presented in the last couple of posts to this blog hold for either SharePoint of SharePoint Designer 2013. We wrote these posts on procedures presented by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT, in two video tutorials: Creating a Workflow on a List Using SharePoint Designer 2010 and Publishing globally reusable […]
Building Globally Reusable Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010
Organizations opting for globally reusable workflows in a SharePoint Server 2010 computing environment can reduce the cost of systems development by eliminating the chance of duplication of effort. It’s a lot less costly to simply inform parallel organizations of workflow availability than to produce the same process several times. A video tutorial on this topic, […]
Gain Familiarity with InfoPath 2010 Controls to Extact High Value from this Tool
InfoPath 2010 is the preferred method of building electronic forms in a SharePoint Server 2010 computing environment. This tool set includes an extensive set of point and click functionality, including a rich set of controls. These controls can be inserted within custom forms for a wide range of purposes, all the way from permitting text […]
Use Workflows to Migrate Automated Processes Into SharePoint
SharePoint stakeholders require high levels of user adoption to achieve meaningful return on investment. Building workflows to migrate business processes into a SharePoint computing environment is a valuable method of achieving this goal. When expense reporting, document archiving, team calendar maintenance, and other day to day business procedures are all dispatched within SharePoint, the task […]