Enhanced Methods are Available with SharePoint 2013 and BCS to Expose OData Sources

Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a set of video training content on Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. We see BCS as a suite of important features that enable Microsoft Office applications (including SharePoint) to support enterprise users who need to work with external data sources (and external content types, or “ECTs”) within their Microsoft […]

Advanced Options for External Content Types, Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise Edition

In a video tutorial titled Advanced Options for External Content Types, Raymond Mitchell presents some additional configuration options afforded to users who avail of SharePoint Designer 2010. The opening example in this 8 minute video demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 to control the resource usage demand on external data sources. As Raymond Mitchell […]

On Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to Create External Systems for Business Connectivity Services

In a video training course, Creating External Systems Raymond Mitchell demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 to create External Systems for Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Edition. It is important to note that the point of adding external systems is to establish a data connection that meets security (meaning authentication) requirements […]

SharePoint Workspace is the Preferred Method for Daily Computing for SMBs with Office 365 SharePoint Document Libraries

Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a number of video training courses on SharePoint as offered on Microsoft® Office 365. We thought it would be useful to provide a blog post on how we found a method of maintaining persistent data communication with our Office 365 SharePoint E3 plan. In fact, we had encountered some obstacles when […]

Creating External Content Types is a High Value Feature of SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition

Rehmani Consulting, Inc offers a set of video training content on Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Edition. This set of video training content includes a video course on external content types, which is titled An Introduction to External Content Types. As an entry to the MSDN Library, How to Create an External […]

Exposing External Data as a SharePoint 2010 List

In a video titled External Lists, Raymond Mitchell presents the technical procedure to expose external data to SharePoint 2010 users as a SharePoint List. This video course is available for unlimited viewing by anyone with a subscription to our web site content. As well, this video is included in our SharePoint 2010, Business Connectivity Services […]

SharePoint Designer 2010 Provides Tools to Incorporate Most Structural Elements of External Data within SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition

As Raymond Mitchell and Asif Rehmani demonstrate in a webinar recording, Leveraging the Power of Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 offers the tools required to incorporate most structural elements of of external data into SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Edition. These structural elements — columns, tables, etc — are configured as an external […]

SharePoint Designer 2010 is a Useful Tool to Exploit Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 Presentation Requirements

This post follows our current thread on Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. Rehmani Consulting Inc offers video training content on BCS through a variety of content that is available for purchase on SharePoint-Videos dot com, including: a DVD of the entire BCS set of training content (1.5hrs spread over 11 video training topics) […]

Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 can be a Catalyst of Change

This is the second in a series of posts on Microsoft’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. A comprehensive set of video training content (approximately 1.5hrs of training spread over 11 topics) on Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services is available for purchase on SharePoint-Videos dot com. Each video included in this […]

Successfully Implementing Business Connectivity Services is a Key Contributor to Better User Adoption for SharePoint 2010

Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a unique set of video training content on Microsoft’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. This set, SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services, includes approximately 1.5 hrs of technical training content on 11 different topics. The target audience for this training set are SharePoint Administrators, Developers, Architects and Information Workers. Either […]