As Microsoft has attempted to hasten the rate at which its enterprise customers for SharePoint server, on-premises, adopt its flavorful Office 365 cloud, SaaS offer, members of its partner community have vocalized concerns. One prominent component of this adoption campaign, in particular, has come to serve (in my opinion) as a barometer built to measure […]
Microsoft shoulders the burden of hastening SharePoint developer adoption of the App Model
In the last 30 mins of the first of six video tutorials on the SharePoint App Model published on Microsoft’s Virtual Academy, Steve Walker and Vesa Juvonen use some of the techniques likely to be familiar to anyone involved in an effort to persuade people to adopt a new method of computing. The title of […]
Microsoft addresses the need to transform full trust solutions to conform with the SharePoint app model
Microsoft addresses the burning need most communities of SharePoint 2013 users will face when they consider eschewing full trust solutions for systems built with the new Office (SharePoint) App Model in a video tutorial titled Transform SharePoint Customizations to SharePoint App Model: (01) Introduction to App Model Transition Tasks. This video is led by 2 […]
While promoting the availability of Office 365 APIs, Microsoft also recently provided extensive video training on the SharePoint App Model
During the month of December, 2014, Microsoft published over 5 hours of video training content on the SharePoint App Model. This training has been packaged into 6 segments, each approximately 50 minutes in length. Each segment is led by two senior program managers who each bring extensive experience with SharePoint to the task: Steve Walker […]
Microsoft announces roadmap to Typescript 2.0
SharePoint-Videos offers several sets of specialized video training content on the Office 2013 (and, by definition, the SharePoint 2013) App Model. Just to cite one of these sets here, we have published a set on JavaScript and jQuery led by Marc D. Anderson, a widely recognized authority on his topics. JavaScript and jQuery (which is […]
Exploring How SharePoint Online, Office 365 Might Impact the Future of SharePoint Branding
Correct branding is a mission critical feature of, arguably, most, if not any successful implementation of SharePoint. In turn, adding an effective brand to SharePoint components — sites, libraries, lists, even newsfeeds — supports and hastens user adoption of the computing platform. So getting a glimpse of the likely future of best of breed branding […]
Organizations developing custom apps to surface external data in SharePoint 2013, need to follow a specialized set of procedures
In a set of video tutorials on the topic of how to work with BCS to surface external data in SharePoint 2013, or SharePoint Online, Office 365, Fabian Williams, a SharePoint Server MVP provides a set of guidelines likely to be very useful for any organizations planning on developing custom apps for similar needs. The […]
How to Migrate a Full Trusted Solution to an App for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online, Office 365
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 […]
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 […]
SharePoint Designer 2013 is Also the Best Tool Available to Work With Custom CSS and Master Pages for SharePoint Online, Office 365
The job of linking a custom CSS file to a Master Page for SharePoint Online, Office 365, becomes easier, as Yaroslav Pentsarskyy points out in a video tutorial titled Linking CSS from Master Pages. In fact, it is entirely possible to use SharePoint Designer as the editor to create a custom Style Sheet. Perhaps an […]