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 […]
Changing the Theme of a Team Site in SharePoint 2010
Changing the theme of a team site in SharePoint 2010 is easily accomplished with a few clicks by a SharePoint administrator or site collection administrator. Asif Rehmani points out that out of the box SharePoint 2010 includes 20 themes in a video tutorial titled Changing the Theme of a Site. To change the theme of […]
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 […]
Creating Managed Accounts for SharePoint Server 2010
Any web applications or service applications running on SharePoint server 2010 require a managed account. The SharePoint server will allocate services to the managed accounts assigned to these processes. SharePoint administrators can save time by creating these accounts and configuring them before they are required. In a video tutorial titled Configure Managed Accounts, we demonstrate […]
Using Lookup Columns in SharePoint 2010 to Access Information Related to Specific Data
This is a concluding blog post on a video tutorial for SharePoint 2010, Configuring Lookup Columns authored by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT. By configuring the “Customer Name” column to “Allow multiple values” it is possible, as Asif Rehmani demonstrates in this video tutorial, to display one customer along with a purchase history. The […]
Using the Lookup Column Feature of SharePoint to Add Information From One List to Another in SharePoint 2010
A lookup column can be successfully used to automatically add information from one list to another in a SharePoint Server 2010 computing environment. We demonstrate the techniques required to populate a contact list with information retrieved from a customer list in a video tutorial titled Configuring Lookup Columns. The first step is to click on […]
Outfit SharePoint Central Administration with an Encrypted Web Page
It’s possible to expose Central Administration features for SharePoint Server 2010 to no more than a select group of authorized users with an encrypted web page. A number of companies offer SSL certificates, which, for a price, can be used to add the encryption method. But for testing purposes why not build a certificate at […]
Using Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 to Locate Documents
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a video tutorial set on the Term Store, Metadata Tagging and Taxonomy for SharePoint 2010. In a separate video titled Use Managed Metadata for navigating Documents we demonstrate some of the management techniques of this feature at the site collection level. The intended audience for this video are either site administrators […]
Setting Up a Portal Site Collection, SharePoint Server 2010
Private cloud computing is a viable option for enterprise business in 2013. SharePoint Server 2010 offers a portal site capability. Many organizations in the market for a private cloud may want to consider SharePoint Server 2010 as the foundation for a solution. When site collections are connected via a top level portal site collection, the […]