A Method of Measuring Performance of an Adoption Plan is also an Essential Component of the Plan Itself

For readers generally unfamiliar with IT project planning, it may seem curious to learn the role played by a method of measuring performance of the plan, itself. Performance measurement is actually a core component of the plan itself. Cyrielle Simeone, a Product Manager at Microsoft and Dux Raymond Sy include “Measure and Grow” as the […]

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 […]

Consolidated Looks, Color Pallets, and Master Pages are Design Assets of SharePoint Online, Office 365

SharePoint Online, Office 365, like its on premises sibling, offers users an opportunity to create a custom look for branding sites. A quick way to build a custom look, as Yaroslav Pentsarskyy demonstrates in an exclusive video tutorial available on SharePoint-Videos titled Creating a custom look for SharePoint Online sites, is to edit one of […]

Building a Tool Set to Brand SharePoint Online, Office 365 Sites

SharePoint Designer 2013, a free product, is the primary branding tool for SharePoint Online, Office 365. As Yaroslav Pentsarskyy sums it up in a video tutorial titled SharePoint Online sites branding tools, “it’s essential that you have SharePoint Designer”. Another very useful tool, this time for debugging challenging issues, is a “developer toolbar” for each […]

Streamlining the process of customizing a public site in SharePoint Online, Office 365

In a video tutorial titled The basics of SharePoint branding Yaroslav Pentsarskyy aptly sums up the opportunity represented by the out-of-the-box “Change the Look” feature included with SharePoint Online, Office 365: “There’s quite a lot of them — but there isn’t quite a lot of them”, meaning the range of out-of-the-box “looks” appears to be […]

Some Characteristics of the User Experience of Public Sites in SharePoint Online Office 365

Public sites in SharePoint Online, Office 365 are also referred to as Publishing Sites. With SharePoint Online, a public website is generated once a subscription is activated and has the the domain extension “-public.sharepoint.com” (Office 365 tenants can replace the site name with one incorporating what Microsoft refers to as a “custom domain”, meaning a […]

On Browsing User Profiles, and Managing Storage Quotas in SharePoint Online, Office 365

SharePoint Online is just another version of Sharepoint, which means most users will require a detailed set of “how tos”, in order to extract optimum value from an investment in a business subscription to this online service. Take, for example, the “User Profiles” service. The best method of quickly finding users, for anyone administering a […]

Open Shared Document Libraries in SharePoint Online With Explorer to Move Files from OneDrive for Business

For organizations with a presence on Office 365, and SharePoint Online, Microsoft’s recent announcement of 1TB of storage, via One Drive for Business, for any/all Office 365 tenants, may provide cause for concern. Users may be challenged to correctly implement a governance plan built around SharePoint document libraries and lists should they neglect to move […]

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. […]