Readers may not be aware of the special cases where Visual Studio 2012, rather than SharePoint Designer, 2013, is the best tool for building workflows for SharePoint 2013. Microsoft® provides some of this information in an entry to the MSDN Library titled Develop SharePoint 2013 workflows using Visual Studio. The version of Visual Studio, which […]
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 […]
An Example of Why It Makes Sense to Build a Governance Plan Prior to Embarking on a SharePoint Implementation
The AIIM® Organization publishes a short briefing paper, titled SharePoint for Collaboration: 3 Steps to Dynamic Co-Authoring. The briefing paper is authored by Bob Larrivee, AIIM Director/Industry Advisor, and Head of Research. The topic is a description of a computer process built with SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 to produce a co-authoring method for […]
Microsoft Virtual Academy Presents the Office 365 Fast Track Deployment Process
Approximately 25 minutes into the first module of Microsoft Virtual Academy’s detailed introduction to Office 365, which is titled Managing Office 365 Identities and Services, Anthony Steven introduces the Office 365 Fast Track Deployment Process. The objective of this method is, as Mr. Steven states, “to get the customer (meaning an organization using the Office […]
MSDN Channel 9 Offers an Office 365 Technical Primer in Video Format
Organizations planning to implement Office 365 need to provision resources for crucial components of a successful effort in this direction. In a video tutorial titled Managing Office 365 Identities and Services: (01) Preparing for Office 365, which is authored by Jeff Koch of Microsoft Learning Experiences. The training presentation is led by Anthony Steven, Principal […]
A Realistic Approach to Content Governance with SharePoint 2013
In a post to AIIM’s Expert Blogs titled Enterprise Content Governance 2014: A SharePoint Point of View, Mike Alsup, Senior Vice President at Gimmal Group draws a quick sketch of what I would characterize as a realistic view of the components of a truly useful content governance plan for an ECM effort for a larger […]
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 […]
SharePoint has All of the Components of a True Information Governance Platform, But Building a Plan is a First Step to Realize this Benefit
As I’ve written fairly extensively to this blog, SharePoint server, from 2007 to 2013, and even SharePoint Online, Office 365, offers a series of very useful features, out of the box, for either an Enterprise Content Management (ECM), or a Document Management (DM)/Records Management (RM) application. SharePoint-Videos also offers a lot of recently published video […]
Results of a Recent Study Point To Organizations Beginning to Embrace Office 365 in Meaningful Numbers
According to a survey titled SharePoint and Office 365 Metadata Survey White Paper, 34% of 396 organizations included in the survey reported using Office 365 and SharePoint Online. The survey was sponsored by ConceptSearching, and published on April 30, 2014. When we compare this claim to an earlier one on precisely the same subject — […]
Is Enterprise Business Still Moving Slowly Towards SharePoint Online?
Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings report included a claim Office 365 sales are increasing at the rate of a business with $2.5 Billion in annual sales. This figure is significantly higher than the $1.5 Billion annual sales rate claimed, in the past, for SharePoint. But what portion of all of these new customers are representative of […]