Public sites in SharePoint Online, Office 365 are also referred to as Publishing Sites. With SharePoint Online, a public website is generated once a subscription is activated and has the the domain extension “-public.sharepoint.com” (Office 365 tenants can replace the site name with one incorporating what Microsoft refers to as a “custom domain”, meaning a […]
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 […]
Add to the Value of SharePoint 2013 Search by Customizing How Query Results are Displayed to Users
The Search Service in SharePoint 2013 represents a substantial change from its SharePoint 2010 predecessor. Fast Search has been built into the new service. At the same time, the new SharePoint 2013 Master Pages and Page Layouts feature can be used to create custom templates for enhancing how search results are displayed to users. In […]
Microsoft Turns Up the Volume on Why Developers Should Embrace The Office and SharePoint 2013 App Model
Microsoft has started a concerted effort to persuade Office Developers and SharePoint 2013 Developers to embrace the new App model. This effort includes the launch of a Reimagine SharePoint development site, a set of videos with the same title on MSDN Channel 9, and even dedicating an Office 365 technical webcast to the topic. This […]
Points Worth Considering Prior to Implementing SharePoint 2013 as an eDiscovery Solution
SharePoint 2013 has an expanded set of features designed to add to its value as a platform for eDiscovery applications. But organizations considering SharePoint 2013 for this role should keep some points in mind. Point One: eDiscovery Features aren’t worth much, if a procedure to successfully implement them is not present SharePoint-Videos offers a set […]
IT Professionals Looking for Windows App Certification can Find Lots of Video Training On MSDN’s Channel 9
SharePoint-Videos offers three sets of video training on the SharePoint 2013 App Model: SharePoint 2013 Development SharePoint 2013: JavaScript and jQuery and SharePoint 2013: Beginning Development Any reader looking to achieve certification for “Windows 8 Apps with HTML5” should take a look at the list of video courses offered on MSDN’s Channel 9 on the […]
Build SharePoint 2013 Prototypes Quickly and At Low Cost with Windows Azure
Virtual machines provide users with a number of high value advantages, not the least of which is freedom from the burden of underpinning development efforts with otherwise costly infrastructure components. Windows Azure is available to support a wide range of virtual machines, including SharePoint server 2013. We use CloudShare‘s Enterprise plan, which offers comparable features […]
The SharePoint 2013 App Model Resets the Administration and Support Responsibilities Between IT and LoBs Within an Enterprise
SharePoint-Videos.com offers a lot of video training content on the new App Model for SharePoint® 2013. This content includes: a broad overview on beginning to implement the new model, authored by Steve Fox, a Director at Microsoft Services a set on using the new model, which is authored by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, a widely respected subject […]
Implementing Workflows, and Document Imaging, as Policies, May Lead to Substantial Reductions in Paper Dependence for Regulated Businesses
In a case study titled Bank Innovates Work Environment, Boosts Performance with Social Collaboration, Microsoft® reports on the ambitious plan of a New Zealand bank, ASB Bank, to use SharePoint 2013 workflows in conjunction with Document Imaging (and what looks to be a formal records management procedure), to reduce paper dependence. As this case study […]
SharePoint 2013 Workflows Resemble State Machine Workflows — to the Benefit of Stakeholders
Computer software, regardless of whether it’s hard coded, or produced with no code methods, must be useful if it is to deliver on a value proposition. Workflows in SharePoint 2013 are better equipped to be truly useful as the result of a closer resemblance to state machine workflows. “Useful”, of course, is an abstraction requiring […]