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 […]
SharePoint Designer 2013 is the Preferred Tool for Working with Master Pages with SharePoint Online Office 365
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Microsoft Provides a Lot of Information About the Data Center Strategy Supporting Office 365 on the Global Foundation Services Team Web Site
Microsoft’s Office 365 public cloud service is hosted on Microsoft’s Data Centers, which is managed by the Global Foundation Services (GFS) Team. So any organization looking to review the mission-critical support capabilities of Office 365 will want to focus on Microsoft Data Centers and the GFS Team. A highly detailed set of content on these […]