On December 22, 2014, a number of online commentators on Microsoft’s Office 365 product published content about Microsoft’s announced decision to remove the Public Websites feature of SharePoint Online. Readers interested in learning more about this announcement are encouraged to read a post to Microsoft’s Support blog, titled Information about upcoming changes to the SharePoint […]
A Hands On Example Using SharePoint Designer, SQL Server and the Secure Store for SharePoint 2013 to Work with External Data
In a video tutorial titled Using SQL Server to interact with BCS External Data, Fabian Williams, a SharePoint Server MVP demonstrates each of the steps required to create an external content type in SharePoint 2013. The steps are taken with SharePoint Designer 2013, SQL Server, and the Secure Store. This video tutorial is included in […]
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 […]
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 […]
SharePoint Designer 2013 is Also the Best Tool Available to Work With Custom CSS and Master Pages for SharePoint Online, Office 365
The job of linking a custom CSS file to a Master Page for SharePoint Online, Office 365, becomes easier, as Yaroslav Pentsarskyy points out in a video tutorial titled Linking CSS from Master Pages. In fact, it is entirely possible to use SharePoint Designer as the editor to create a custom Style Sheet. Perhaps an […]
SharePoint Designer 2013 is the Preferred Tool for Working with Master Pages with SharePoint Online Office 365
In a video tutorial titled
When is Visual Studio the Preferred Tool for Building Workflows for SharePoint 2013?
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 […]
An Overview of No Code Solutions for SharePoint 2013
On Thursday, February 20, 2014, SharePoint-Videos.com hosted a free-of-charge webinar on no-code solution options. As I’ve written recently in this blog, large communities of SharePoint 2013 users can avail of these approaches to attempt to capture substantial return on their investment in SharePoint. The no-code development tools included with SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint Designer 2013, browser […]
SharePoint Designer 2013 Continues to Deliver Substantial Benefits When Used Appropriately
SharePoint Designer 2013 is a substantially different product than either of its recent predecessors, for SharePoint 2010 and 2007. The biggest difference between these versions is the removal of the “design view” feature. The main benefit of this feature was its ability to provide users with a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) […]
SharePoint 2013 Users Benefit from Automating the Creation of Collaboration Documents With SharePoint Designer 2013
Organizations using SharePoint will benefit from automated processes called “workflows”. These “workflows” can be used to create high demand collaboration documents; for example, team calendars. SharePoint Designer 2013 can be used to produce “workflows”, which can be configured to automatically fill in forms, as required, as events occur. “Workflows” amount to a set of actions, […]