Over the last few months, SharePoint-Videos has released 3 new versions of its award-winning help system for SharePoint 2010, 2013 and SharePoint Online, VisualSP™. On September 4, 2014, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP, MCT, and founder and CEO of SharePoint-Videos will provide anyone interested in VisualSP with the information they require to select the best solution […]
SharePoint-Videos Publishes a Set of Video Tutorials on External Data, BCS and Workflows for SharePoint 2013
Organizations in need of proven methods to surface external data in SharePoint 2013, and to work with it via no-code process development approaches, should consider a new set of video tutorials on BCS, External Data, and Workflows, led by Fabian Williams, SharePoint Server MVP. The set has just been published by SharePoint-Videos. A review of […]
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 […]
A Practical, Hands On Demonstration of How to Visualize Excel 2013 Data with Power View and Store It with SharePoint Server 2013
In a short, six minute and 39 second video tutorial titled Visualize your Excel data in SharePoint using Power View, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP, MCT, and CEO of SharePoint-Videos demonstrates how to transform numbers on an Excel 2013 spreadsheet into a useful visual presentation — in chart form –via the Power View feature of Excel. […]
Exploring Tagging Options for Newsfeeds in SharePoint 2013
In January of 2010 FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 10-06. The intention of this regulatory notice, as presented elsewhere on the FINRA web site, is to provide reporting guidelines for “communications to the public to social media sites”. Heavily regulated financial businesses with an implementation of SharePoint 2010, or 2013 already in place, may want to […]
Microsoft Partners Working On a Collaboration and Content Competency May Want to Study Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
In a post to the U.S. Partner Team Blog on Technet, titled ‘Build your SharePoint business with the Collaboration and Content competency’, Diane Golshan of Microsoft writes: ‘implementing business-critical solutions with line-of-business (LOB) data coming from disparate systems surfaced in SharePoint’ is an example of one of the ‘tremendous opportunities’ in front of U.S. partners […]
OData Support is an Improved Feature for SharePoint 2013 for Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
With the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) component behind Office, and SharePoint 2013, better support is available for services running the Open Data (OData) web Protocol. This new BCS component complements the Office, and SharePoint 2013 App Model, both of which, in turn, are very deeply based on web development tools — HTML and JavaScript. […]
Microsoft Turns Up the Volume on Why Developers Should Embrace The Office and SharePoint 2013 App Model
Microsoft has started a concerted effort to persuade Office Developers and SharePoint 2013 Developers to embrace the new App model. This effort includes the launch of a Reimagine SharePoint development site, a set of videos with the same title on MSDN Channel 9, and even dedicating an Office 365 technical webcast to the topic. This […]
Microsoft Adds Another Reason for Organizations to Choose Office 365 – Document Conversations
Microsoft acquired Yammer in June, 2012. But to date, Yammer appears to have exclusively appealed to organizations with a deep commitment to nurturing collaboration. Some organizations fit this model, while others clearly do not. One can argue this ‘on off’ characteristic of consumer appetite for Yammer presents both a challenge, and an opportunity for Microsoft […]
Points Worth Considering Prior to Implementing SharePoint 2013 as an eDiscovery Solution
SharePoint 2013 has an expanded set of features designed to add to its value as a platform for eDiscovery applications. But organizations considering SharePoint 2013 for this role should keep some points in mind. Point One: eDiscovery Features aren’t worth much, if a procedure to successfully implement them is not present SharePoint-Videos offers a set […]