The SharePoint Search Service Application includes an enterprise search engine. How do SharePoint Administrators input information to the search engine? In a video tutorial titled Adding Content Sources and Federated Locations in SharePoint 2010, Robert Piddocke ” . . . an author of multiple Search related books . . .” demonstrates how to identify internal […]
Using the Gallery Feature of the Design Manager, SharePoint Online in a Windows 7 Local Environment
In the last post to this blog we introduced the Design Manager feature of SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013. In this post we will discuss some of the obstacles to using the Design Manager feature to access design components, in HTML, for automatic conversion to master pages for publishing sites in SharePoint Online. In a […]
Design Manager is a New Feature of SharePoint Online Office 365, 2013
SharePoint includes two different type of sites: publishing sites and team sites. Outward-facing web sites, as well as any sites planned for static content do better as publishing sites. SharePoint Online includes a new tool for building publishing sites — the Design Manager. In a document titled What’s new with SharePoint 2013 site development, Microsoft […]
Working with Master Pages with SharePoint Designer 2013 in SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013
It makes sense to use out of the box and custom master pages for team sites in SharePoint Onlne, Office 365, 2013. SharePoint Designer 2013 is a useful tool to customize these pages. Design and split view have been removed from the latest version, so any work will have to be done in code view. […]
Adding Web Page Components with SharePoint Designer 2013
SharePoint Designer 2013 neither includes Design, nor Split Views. Removing these features has created obstacles for organizations committed to SharePoint Designer, 2010, but with little interest in creating web page components with HTML, ASP or SharePoint tags. We don’t think the situation is catastrophic. Here’s why: In our video tutorial for SharePoint Designer 2010, Create […]
Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2013 for SharePoint Online Office 365
Office 365 E3 plan accounts include a paid subscription to Microsoft Office 2013, Pro. SharePoint Designer 2013, InfoPath 2013, and InfoPath Filler 2013 are all included in this set. SharePoint administrators, developers, architects and power users should familiarize themselves with the differences between the 2013 and 2010 versions of SharePoint Designer 2010. A good way […]
Working with the Quick Launch in SharePoint Online, Office 365 2013
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a set of video tutorials on the procedures required in SharePoint 2010 to build lists, add items to lists, and even to edit list items. These tutorials are included in The Basics: SharePoint End User Training for Readers, Members & Subsite Owners. One of the tutorials in this set, “Working with […]
Best Approach to Viewing Excel 2013 Spreadsheets in SharePoint Online, Office 365 2013
We spent a considerable amount of time today trying several approaches to exposing data from Excel 2013 spreadsheets on SharePoint Online, Office 365 post Office 2013 upgrade. The best method is to forget about publishing an Excel 2013 table to a SharePoint list and work with SkyDrive Pro and the Excel Web App on SharePoint […]
Using SkyDrive Pro with SharePoint 2013 Online through Office 365 or On Premises
The Office 365 SharePoint Online 2013 service includes SkyDrive Pro. We started using this service after our Office 365 Enterprise E3 service was upgraded, on April 6, 2013, to the 2013 structure and interfaces. Most organizations will need to understand the differences between this service and the free SkyDrive offer before planning to implement the […]
Metadata Tagging is More Accessible to SharePoint Online Users with the Latest Release of Office 365
We maintain an Office 365 E3 plan subscription. On April 6, 2013 our tenant on the service was upgraded to the 2013 version. We quickly updated our on premises versions of the Office Pro application suite and migrated our site collections for SharePoint Online to the 2013 architecture.. Today we uploaded an Excel spreadsheet with […]