In a video tutorial titled Advanced Options for External Content Types, Raymond Mitchell presents some additional configuration options afforded to users who avail of SharePoint Designer 2010. The opening example in this 8 minute video demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 to control the resource usage demand on external data sources. As Raymond Mitchell […]
On Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to Create External Systems for Business Connectivity Services
In a video training course, Creating External Systems Raymond Mitchell demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 to create External Systems for Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Edition. It is important to note that the point of adding external systems is to establish a data connection that meets security (meaning authentication) requirements […]
Creating External Content Types is a High Value Feature of SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
Rehmani Consulting, Inc offers a set of video training content on Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Edition. This set of video training content includes a video course on external content types, which is titled An Introduction to External Content Types. As an entry to the MSDN Library, How to Create an External […]
Exposing External Data as a SharePoint 2010 List
In a video titled External Lists, Raymond Mitchell presents the technical procedure to expose external data to SharePoint 2010 users as a SharePoint List. This video course is available for unlimited viewing by anyone with a subscription to our web site content. As well, this video is included in our SharePoint 2010, Business Connectivity Services […]
SharePoint Designer 2010 is a Useful Tool to Exploit Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 Presentation Requirements
This post follows our current thread on Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. Rehmani Consulting Inc offers video training content on BCS through a variety of content that is available for purchase on SharePoint-Videos dot com, including: a DVD of the entire BCS set of training content (1.5hrs spread over 11 video training topics) […]
Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 can be a Catalyst of Change
This is the second in a series of posts on Microsoft’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. A comprehensive set of video training content (approximately 1.5hrs of training spread over 11 topics) on Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services is available for purchase on SharePoint-Videos dot com. Each video included in this […]
Successfully Implementing Business Connectivity Services is a Key Contributor to Better User Adoption for SharePoint 2010
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a unique set of video training content on Microsoft’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. This set, SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services, includes approximately 1.5 hrs of technical training content on 11 different topics. The target audience for this training set are SharePoint Administrators, Developers, Architects and Information Workers. Either […]
Building Line of Business Dashboards with Business Connectivity Services
As noted on MSDN, a basis for visually presenting Line of Business (LOB) performance is to find “related or complementary information for a specific business entity” and to associate these streams of information into a composite view accessible via a web browser; for example, historical order history by sales territory. In sum, publishing LOB specific […]
External Lists and External Content Types are Essential Components of Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010
In an MSDN article titled “SharePoint Lists vs. External Databases” the point is made that there is little to be gained by replicating external data within SharePoint 2010 document libraries. Rather, the article makes the case that “there are very few circumstances in which there will be benefit in replicating large amounts of data to […]
Using Business Connectivity Services with SharePoint Server 2010 to Produce Web Page Content can Produce Substantial Cost Savings
In 2012 enterprise businesses and other large groups of users in the public, the non profit and the the not-for-profit sectors are emphasizing the importance of collecting meaningful metrics on business activity, performing related analysis, and publishing information on web pages in the form of charts, scorecards, and dashboards. Acquiring and maintaining web browsers constitutes […]