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 […]
Adding an Access 2013 App to Office 365 for SharePoint Online
Microsoft® Access 2013 Apps can be published to SharePoint Online, Office 365. Users need to activate the “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure” feature of SharePoint Online before attempting to create an App in Access. One activates this feature at the top level of the SharePoint Online farm. We attempted to activate the feature at a site […]
Help Content for The Term Store Management Tool for SharePoint Online Office 365 E3 Plans has been Improved
The help feature for the Term Store Management Tool included in the Administration Center for SharePoint Online, Office 365 E3 plans is substantially improved over earlier versions. Help content is accessed with a click on the blue circle with a question mark in the center located on the upper right of the Administration Center screen. […]
Configure InfoPath Forms Services for Office 365 E3 Plan SharePoint Online through the Administration Center
This is another post in our current series, which looks at the features included in the Administration Center for Office 365 E3 Sharepoint Online. Office 365 E3 Plan SharePoint Online Administrators can configure InfoPath Forms Services through the Administration Center. It is important to note that ” . . . configuration settings [effected through the […]
A Look at the Business Data Connectivity Control Panel in Office 365 E3 SharePoint Online
Office 365 E3 SharePoint Online plans now include an administrator control panel for Business Data Connectivity (BDC) services. SharePoint administrators can now ” . . . create Business Connectivity Services (BCS) connections to data sources, such as SQL Azure databases or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services, that are outside the SharePoint site. Once [these […]
Enhanced Administrative Features for Office 365 Enterprise E3 SharePoint Online Plans
Microsoft has announced a major change in Office 365, scheduled for March 1, 2013. On February 27, 2013 we signed into our E3 Plan administration center for SharePoint and noted several new options: Manage Secure Store Service Manage Term Store Manage Business Data Connectivity Each of the above provide SharePoint Administrators with a quick, point […]
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 […]