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 […]
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 — […]
Microsoft Focuses on SharePoint Online, but are Enterprise Organizations Ready for the Cloud?
The biggest impediment, for most enterprise businesses considering Office 365, can be found in public discussions about online security. Office 365 is a suite of computer applications delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). Ostensibly the same well-publicized vulnerabilities endemic to an ever growing set of SaaS offers (including Amazon.com, and even Apple’s iCloud, albeit […]
Microsoft Implements Context Sensitive Help for SharePoint Online
SharePoint-Videos has championed the usefulness of in-context, on demand technical help for SharePoint users across the full spectrum of skill levels, and rationales for using SharePoint. Our Group ID and Multi-User subscription offers can serve this purpose when pages of links to our content are included within a SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, or even SharePoint […]
Using Reporting Services to Collect Business Intelligence with SharePoint Online, Office 365
A combination of an implementation of SQL Server Reporting Services for SharePoint, successful creation of external content type; and, finally, building a set of useful tags for SharePoint’s Managed Metadata Service (MMS), can deliver substantial returns for communities of SharePoint users subscribing to SharePoint Online, Office 365. We offer specialized training sets on each of […]
Microsoft Focuses on SharePoint Online
A recent video interview with John Thompson, Microsoft’s new Chairman on Bloomberg TV, captures Mr. Thompson’s sharp attention to Office 365 as “one of the most successful new products in Microsoft’s history” (quoted from the interview). Mia Saini, who led the interview, set the stage for Mr. Thompson’s comment when she noted the explosive sales […]
Software Built with Microsoft’s Office Cloud App Model can Make Multi-Tenant Public Cloud Offers More Useful for Enterprises
In a video tutorial set titled SharePoint 2013: Beginning Development, Steve Fox, a Director at Microsoft® Services presents the Office 2013 Cloud App Model, in detail. Enterprises interested in exploring the comparatively less expensive option of using multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) offers like Office 365, should also explore whether it makes sense to […]
Microsoft Offers Developers an Office 365 Development Environment
Microsoft offers developers a development environment. In a Getting Your SharePoint 2013 Development Environment Up and Running, Steve Fox, a Director of Services of Microsoft, demonstrates how to correctly set up this environment. Developers should also note a 90 day free trial offer, extended by Microsoft, for VisualStudio 2012. Steve promotes the availability of the […]
On Power BI, A New BI Solution for SharePoint Online, Office 365
Up until now, the opportunities to collect and manage data with SharePoint Online, Office 365, for business intelligence (BI) objectives has been very limited. As Jason Himmelstein notes, one of the questions he grappled with as he conceptualized our course in SharePoint 2013: Business Intelligence was ” . . . how much of this is […]