Help Content for The Term Store Management Tool for SharePoint Online Office 365 E3 Plans has been Improved

The help feature for the Term Store Management Tool included in the Administration Center for SharePoint Online, Office 365 E3 plans is substantially improved over earlier versions. Help content is accessed with a click on the blue circle with a question mark in the center located on the upper right of the Administration Center screen. When we clicked on the help button, all of the information that was served to us was completely specific to the Term Store Management tool. The phraseology of the written help content was only marginally more informative than what we have read in the past….
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A Look at the Business Data Connectivity Control Panel in Office 365 E3 SharePoint Online

Office 365 E3 SharePoint Online plans now include an administrator control panel for Business Data Connectivity (BDC) services. SharePoint administrators can now ” . . . create Business Connectivity Services (BCS) connections to data sources, such as SQL Azure databases or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services, that are outside the SharePoint site. Once [these administrators have] created these connections, [they] can manage or edit BCS information on the SharePoint admin center site.” (quoted from Manage Business Connectivity Service Applications, published on the Microsoft® Office web site). The admin center site even includes a point and click option to set…
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Enhanced Administrative Features for Office 365 Enterprise E3 SharePoint Online Plans

Microsoft has announced a major change in Office 365, scheduled for March 1, 2013. On February 27, 2013 we signed into our E3 Plan administration center for SharePoint and noted several new options: Manage Secure Store Service Manage Term Store Manage Business Data Connectivity Each of the above provide SharePoint Administrators with a quick, point and click configuration method. Manage Secure Store Service In the last two posts to this blog we’ve made the case for using the Secure Store Service as the recommended method of building connectors to external systems to support Excel Services for SharePoint. SharePoint stakeholders should…
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Publishing Web Applications to SharePoint Access Services for SharePoint Online

We cross checked our SharePoint-Videos tutorial, Publishing Web Applications to SharePoint Access Services to point out any anomalies that a business user may encounter should he/she apply the instruction to an Office 365 E3 SharePoint instance or to a comparable SharePoint Online instance offered by another cloud services provider. Bruce Herz opens this video tutorial on publishing an Access Database to SharePoint Server 2010, Enterprise with Access Services by summing the procedures that he has demonstrated through the first 4 videos of this 1 video set. He notes that a no-code approach has been used to create tables, macros, queries…
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Office 365 SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics Make for a Winning Combination

Microsoft Office 365 has created an opportunity for small to medium businesses to embrace SharePoint. For monthly costs as low at $10 per user per month Office 365 users obtain SharePoint and, thereby, the ability to craft highly specialized applications that promise to deliver enormous value. It should be noted that Microsoft Dynamics CRM is also available via Office 365. The combination of Dynamics and SharePoint empower users with important tools for gathering business intelligence, managing customers and prospects and, generally, offering superior service to their own markets. Rehmani Consulting Inc offers valuable instructional video tutorials for SharePoint–literally sets of…
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