Merely a minute into the third video tutorial in our SharePoint-Videos.com set on SharePoint 2013: Workflow, our instructor, Chris Beckett refers to a survey, conducted ” . . . a couple of years ago by Global 360 . . .” (quoted from a video tutorial titled “What’s new in 2013 Workflow and types of applications”). […]
A Business Case for Including a Security Plan for SharePoint 2013
No review of the business case for correctly planning for the administration of SharePoint 2013, on premises, would be complete without a look at security. In a video tutorial, nearly 9 minutes in length, titled SharePoint 2013 Security, Michael Noel makes a case for including security in an implementation plan for the computing platform. Noel […]
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. […]
Planning for a Useful Search Service for SharePoint 2013
With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft® incorporated Fast Search into the server, out of the box. In order to capitalize on this updated feature, organizations need to evaluate current hardware infrastructure and make changes, as required. In a video tutorial set titled SP13-305 SharePoint 2013: Search Video Training Course, Agnes Molnar provides some specifications useful for the […]
A Brief Glimpse of How to Use the Expanded Newsfeeds Available with SharePoint 2013
In a video tutorial titled Enterprise Social Capabilities, Dux Raymond Sy, SharePoint MVP, PMP and a widely acknowledged subject matter expert on SharePoint, recounts an interaction with an unnamed contact, probably from an IT organization, on the topic of the “social” features of SharePoint and whether or not it makes sense to permit end users […]
More Ways to Put No Code Development to Work for Your Organization
On January 23, 2014, we will host an online class, Cheap Thrills in SharePoint 2013. This course will be led by Ira Fuchs, a SharePoint Technical Specialist at Microsoft. Ira is also the author of a popular book, with the same name. Asif Rehmani, the President of Rehmani Consulting, Inc, and a SharePoint MVP has […]
Any Effective End User Training Plan for SharePoint 2013 Must Address Four Broad Areas of Interaction
As Keenan Newton, a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft makes clear in a short video, “Why Apps for SharePoint 2013?” published on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site, End Users usually interact with SharePoint at four broad areas: Sites, People, Apps and Themes. Mr. Newton also explains most software is written for user engagement around […]
Use the JavaScript Knockout.js Library to Port C# ViewModels to SharePoint Apps
Over the last 6 months we’ve released three sets of video tutorials on the new SharePoint 2013 App Model, which is a component of Microsoft’s Cloud App Model for its Office products. Our tutorials include: SP13-303 SharePoint 2013: Development Video Training Package, which is authored by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy SP13-306 SharePoint 2013: JavaScript and jQuery DVD, […]
Implementing a Project Management Methodology Still Makes Sense for Enterprises Looking to Control IT Costs
Despite a couple of highly publicized recent examples of poorly managed IT projects (the most notable of these, of course, is the first website for the U.S. Federal Affordable Care Act), which ended up costing sponsors substantially more than planned, it still makes sense for enterprises to implement a project management methodology. Fortunately, out of […]