On September 1, 2014, a successful hack of a celebrity’s iCloud account was heavily publicized. In the aftermath of this type of event, it is normal for consumers of similar services from other ISVs, most prominently, Office 365 from Microsoft, to look for assurance from their IT department of the comparative security of their online […]
Microsoft Joins in the Effort to Hasten User Adoption of Office 365
Microsoft recently announced its decision to directly participate in the process by which larger organizations, and their partners, in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors implement Office 365. This participation includes direct management of Office 365 on boarding for organizations purchasing at least 150 related SKUs. Of particular interest to this writer is some information […]
Comments on Office 365 Network Architecture for Sites and OneDrive for Business
Over recent posts to this blog, this writer has explored OneDrive for Business as a uniquely featured SharePoint Online document library. An effort has also been made to report on some of the special features of this component of Office 365 and some methods of automating some tasks, associated with OneDrive for Business, likely to […]
More on Quick Steps for OneDrive for Business, Office 365
An entry to the help section of Microsoft’s Office web site titled “Automate common or repetitive tasks with Quick Steps” presents this new feature of OneDrive for Business, as originally introduced with Outlook 2010. As the article makes clear, Quick Steps were intended to reduce the repetitive nature of performing tasks, for users, with automation […]
How to Move Items from OneDrive for Business to Document Libraries in SharePoint Online, Office 365
End users with a need to move items out of OneDrive for Business and into document libraries in SharePoint Online, Office 365 can be challenged. It is not easy for them to find a simple method of successfully completing this task. There are even issues using Windows Explorer to accomplish this task. So this writer […]
Microsoft Announces Matter Center for Office 365 and for SharePoint 2013 On Premises
On August 18, 2014, Microsoft announced the availability of Matter Center for Office 365. Together with improvements in eDiscovery, which were implemented earlier this year, this new addition may contribute to the attractiveness of Office 365 for law firms. According to the promotional content on the web page introducing this feature, Matter Center works with […]
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 […]
Use Yammer to Support Users As They Migrate to Office 365
Perhaps there is no more universal application for a social media feature like Yammer than to provide a forum for users as communities migrate to Office 365. Regardless of the hierarchical structure of an organization, implementing news feeds for this purpose should return positively in the effort invested to implement this service. Yammer has risen […]
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 […]
A Transformed IT Organization Can Contribute Positively to an Adoption Plan for Office 365
Does a successful campaign to persuade enterprise users to adopt Office 365 depend on a new type of internal IT organization? Industry experts like Dux Raymond Sy, a SharePoint MVP, and Cyrielle Simeone, a Product Manager at Microsoft believe this transformation is a necessary, highly positive step. Dux and Cyrielle present a case for why […]