Many organizations with a commitment to SharePoint 2010, on premises, permit their communities of SharePoint users to consume full trusted solutions.. These custom processes are both a plus and a minus for the organization, as Thomas Mechelke, a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft’s Office Developer Platform team spells out in a video tutorial on MSDM’s […]
Microsoft Virtual Academy Offers SharePoint Administrators Short Video Presentations Of Features of SharePoint Online and Management Options
In a two part Office Guide, Microsoft Virtual Academy Offers IT Pros (including SharePoint Administrators) a short overview of features of SharePoint Online and management options. The Office Guide is titled Office Guides: SharePoint Online Overview for IT Pros. The time required to watch the two modules in this guide is approximately 20 mins. Some […]
Use Yammer to Support Users As They Migrate to Office 365
Perhaps there is no more universal application for a social media feature like Yammer than to provide a forum for users as communities migrate to Office 365. Regardless of the hierarchical structure of an organization, implementing news feeds for this purpose should return positively in the effort invested to implement this service. Yammer has risen […]
Project Siena, a New No-Code Solution for Building Apps for Office 365 and SharePoint 2013
Anyone paying a recent visit to the Business and Productivity homepage of Microsoft’s MSDN content site will notice a mention of Project Siena, a mobile app builder for enterprise class organizations. This development tool can be downloaded as an app to any computer running Windows 8.0 or 8.1. Best of all, it appears to be […]
A Transformed IT Organization Can Contribute Positively to an Adoption Plan for Office 365
Does a successful campaign to persuade enterprise users to adopt Office 365 depend on a new type of internal IT organization? Industry experts like Dux Raymond Sy, a SharePoint MVP, and Cyrielle Simeone, a Product Manager at Microsoft believe this transformation is a necessary, highly positive step. Dux and Cyrielle present a case for why […]
Microsoft Debuts Server to Server Integration for Dynamics CRM and SharePoint Online Office 365
On August 4, 2014, Scott Durow, a Microsoft Dynamics MVP posted the first of 2 articles on integrating Dynamics CRM (as Durow notes, CRM2013 SP1 Online is required for the integration method to work) with SharePoint Online. This article is titled SharePoint Integration Reloaded – Part 1 and is published on the Develop 1 Limited […]
Structure SharePoint Capabilities to Provide Users with a Platform they can Adopt
SharePoint, one can argue, falls into the category of a feature-rich office automation computing platform. Perhaps feature-rich is an understatement when one considers the panoramic range of functionality SharePoint is capable of supporting. But this expansive range of capabilities can, and often does run counter to stakeholder efforts to hasten user adoption, and with good […]
A Method of Measuring Performance of an Adoption Plan is also an Essential Component of the Plan Itself
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 […]