On Wednesday morning, March 5, Eric Riz, SharePoint MVP and Executive Vice President of Concatenate, led a session on Governance. The title of Riz’s presentation was A Strategic and Pragmatic Conversation on Governance. The session was well attended. Riz sprinkled his presentation with a number of one-liners. I thought the common theme behind many of […]
Microsoft Offers InfoPath Consumers a Glimpse at the Future of Forms for SharePoint
On the second day of SharePoint® Conference 2014, in a session devoted to InfoPath forms, Greg Lindhorst and Sonya Koptyev, Senior Product Marketing Manager, both of Microsoft®, offered consumers of this popular SharePoint feature a glimpse at the roadmap for the near term future for SharePoint forms. The title for the Koptyev and Lindhorst session […]
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 […]
On the Importance of Best Practices to Successful SharePoint Implementations
The front page of SharePoint-Videos.com has been recently updated to include an important new image — a picture titled “Experts”, which depicts som of the experts who have authored video tutorial content offered on the site. This image should be a welcome addition for SharePoint stakeholders. A crucial component of any successful implementation of SharePoint […]
An Optimum Solution for SharePoint Training Should Include In-Person and On Demand, and In-Context Components
On Monday, March 3, 2014, at SharePoint Conference 2014, SharePoint-Videos.com and Critical Path Training will announce a joint effort — Full Life-Cycle SharePoint Training. This program is an example of what I would call an optimum solution for SharePoint training, meaning one which combines an in-person component, along with an appropriate set of video training […]
Build a Return on Investment Strategy for SharePoint on a Foundation of Realistic Expectations
In a free webinar titled Webinar – No-code tools and solutions for SharePoint 2013 on-premise and online, Asif Rehmani presents a potentially promising new feature of SharePoint 2013 — Geolocation Site ZColumns. As Asif explains, these columns can be added to any site collection located in a SharePoint 2013 farm. Simply put, the open an […]
The New Geolocation Columns Feature of SharePoint 2013 Adds Power to No-Code Solutions
As Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates in a free webinar recently published on SharePoint-Videos.com, titled WEBINAR – NO-CODE TOOLS AND SOLUTIONS FOR SHAREPOINT 2013 ON-PREMISE AND ONLINE, the new Geolocation Columns feature of SharePoint 2013 can be exploited by communities of SharePoint users to add power to workflows. Asif Rehmani defines “Geolocation” as […]
An Overview of No Code Solutions for SharePoint 2013
On Thursday, February 20, 2014, SharePoint-Videos.com hosted a free-of-charge webinar on no-code solution options. As I’ve written recently in this blog, large communities of SharePoint 2013 users can avail of these approaches to attempt to capture substantial return on their investment in SharePoint. The no-code development tools included with SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint Designer 2013, browser […]
Revisiting Early Assumptions About How Enterprise Data Centers Would Have to Change for On Prem SharePoint 2013
Enterprise IT organizations, and their counterparts in the public and not-for-profit sectors, need detailed migration plans when they decide to either implement a new computing platform, or migrate from an earlier version to a new release. SharePoint server 2013, the latest on premises version of the software computing platform, is no exception to this rule. […]
No-Code Solutions are an Important, Value-Packed Reason to Implement SharePoint
Bolt-on systems development, otherwise known as “no-code” solutions, are an important reason to implement SharePoint. Perhaps no other method of application development offers as rich an opportunity for Line of Business (LoB) users to participate, directly, in the development of computing solutions to satisfy their unique needs. SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, and Online can all […]