OneDrive and OneDrive for Business are two entirely separate cloud storage options. But when SharePoint Online users have access to either destination from the same desktop, the chance of errors occurring is, unfortunately, high. Therefore, organizations must include a management strategy safeguarding confidential corporate information from these mistakes. It should make sense for these organizations […]
Planning a Disaster Recovery Strategy Should be a Mandatory Component of Implementing SharePoint
Any implementation plan for SharePoint should have a disaster recovery plan for SharePoint, right? But not so fast, as Paul LaPorte of Metalogix published in an article titled Shocking Truths of SharePoint Disaster Recovery on June 20, 2014 on the CMSWire web site, a very small percentage (25%) of organizations with a serious commitment to […]
Workarounds to Backup an Access 2013 Database Published as an App in SharePoint Online
For organizations choosing a public tenancy SharePoint Online solution, via Office 365, publishing Access 2013 databases as SharePoint 2013 Apps certainly poses a problem. As I wrote in a post to this blog published yesterday, once the Access 2013 database has been published to SharePoint Online as an App, the data layer will no longer […]
Carefully Consider the Ramifications of Publishing an Access 2013 Database as an App to SharePoint Online Before Proceeding
As Darvish Shadravan makes clear in a video tutorial on the Access 2013 App Model, titled Access 2013 App Model, the Data Layer of the App will be converted to SQL Server. Further, the SQL Server back end will be hosted on Azure. Organizations should carefully consider the ramifications of deciding to publish an Access […]
Exploring Tagging Options for Newsfeeds in SharePoint 2013
In January of 2010 FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 10-06. The intention of this regulatory notice, as presented elsewhere on the FINRA web site, is to provide reporting guidelines for “communications to the public to social media sites”. Heavily regulated financial businesses with an implementation of SharePoint 2010, or 2013 already in place, may want to […]
Microsoft Partners Working On a Collaboration and Content Competency May Want to Study Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
In a post to the U.S. Partner Team Blog on Technet, titled ‘Build your SharePoint business with the Collaboration and Content competency’, Diane Golshan of Microsoft writes: ‘implementing business-critical solutions with line-of-business (LOB) data coming from disparate systems surfaced in SharePoint’ is an example of one of the ‘tremendous opportunities’ in front of U.S. partners […]
Subscribers to SharePoint-Videos Can Now Track Their Progress Through Courses of Training
One of the challenges of self paced training is finding the inspiration to continue through a set of learning objectives. A lot of research has shown positive reinforcement to be the best method of providing individuals with the momentum they need to attain difficult objectives like this one. The best way of delivering positive reinforcement […]
‘Discover SharePoint’ is All About How SharePoint 2013 Features Support Collaboration
Perhaps someone in the SharePoint product management team decided the real market for SharePoint are organizations with a burning need for collaboration. Discover SharePoint, Microsoft’s promotional web site for SharePoint (which includes a set of videos which each appear to comply with Section 508 U.S. Federal regulations), does a great job of presenting these features, […]
OData Support is an Improved Feature for SharePoint 2013 for Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
With the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) component behind Office, and SharePoint 2013, better support is available for services running the Open Data (OData) web Protocol. This new BCS component complements the Office, and SharePoint 2013 App Model, both of which, in turn, are very deeply based on web development tools — HTML and JavaScript. […]
Include a Back Up Method Before Deciding on a SharePoint Online Implementation
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 […]