Few organizations can afford to risk exposing proprietary information to a single data storage solution, regardless of whether the solution is on premise, or in the cloud. But there is no clear, simple path to backing up SharePoint Online data, and or even Apps. Therefore, it makes sense to plan on back up before finalizing […]
Microsoft Focuses on SharePoint Online, but are Enterprise Organizations Ready for the Cloud?
The biggest impediment, for most enterprise businesses considering Office 365, can be found in public discussions about online security. Office 365 is a suite of computer applications delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). Ostensibly the same well-publicized vulnerabilities endemic to an ever growing set of SaaS offers (including Amazon.com, and even Apple’s iCloud, albeit […]
Microsoft Implements Context Sensitive Help for SharePoint Online
SharePoint-Videos has championed the usefulness of in-context, on demand technical help for SharePoint users across the full spectrum of skill levels, and rationales for using SharePoint. Our Group ID and Multi-User subscription offers can serve this purpose when pages of links to our content are included within a SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, or even SharePoint […]
Microsoft Focuses on SharePoint Online
A recent video interview with John Thompson, Microsoft’s new Chairman on Bloomberg TV, captures Mr. Thompson’s sharp attention to Office 365 as “one of the most successful new products in Microsoft’s history” (quoted from the interview). Mia Saini, who led the interview, set the stage for Mr. Thompson’s comment when she noted the explosive sales […]
SharePoint Online Becomes More Useful for End Users when an In-Context On Demand Help System is Added to It
When I logged in, recently, to our SharePoint Online computing environment I noted something new. A rectangular shaped box popped up on the upper right hand corner of my computing screen, with an arrow pointing to the question mark character to be found at the end of the ribbon. The message in the box is […]
Software Built with Microsoft’s Office Cloud App Model can Make Multi-Tenant Public Cloud Offers More Useful for Enterprises
In a video tutorial set titled SharePoint 2013: Beginning Development, Steve Fox, a Director at Microsoft® Services presents the Office 2013 Cloud App Model, in detail. Enterprises interested in exploring the comparatively less expensive option of using multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) offers like Office 365, should also explore whether it makes sense to […]
Use the Open Data Protocol to Include Data from Business Silos in SharePoint Online
The OData Protocol is defined as ” . . . a standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs. OData builds on core protocols like HTTP and commonly accepted methodologies like REST. The result is a uniform way to expose full-featured data APIs.” This definition may be useful for software developers. Steve Fox, a Director […]
On Power BI, A New BI Solution for SharePoint Online, Office 365
Up until now, the opportunities to collect and manage data with SharePoint Online, Office 365, for business intelligence (BI) objectives has been very limited. As Jason Himmelstein notes, one of the questions he grappled with as he conceptualized our course in SharePoint 2013: Business Intelligence was ” . . . how much of this is […]
How to Add an App to a Site in SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013
Microsoft has heavily promoted the availability of apps for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013. But organizations subscribing to SharePoint Online will need to familiarize themselves with a specific method of adding apps to sites. Do not try to add apps from the SharePoint Online Administrative Site, meaning https://”your domain”-admin.sharepoint.com/. Clicking on the […]
Newsfeed Options for SharePoint Online Office 365, 2013
Organizations looking to enhance collaboration between personnel on projects, or other shared tasks will want to use the Newsfeed feature of Sharepoint Online, Office 365, 2013. By implementing this feature, personnel with an interest in specific documents, spreadsheets, or other organizational assets (including web pages, slide decks, or data in any other file type format […]