Organizations looking to maximize the impact of the data visualization features of MS Excel 2013 should think about leveraging team sites in SharePoint Online, Office 365, to provide users with a unique method of consuming this information. An Office 365 enterprise subscription is required. The Power BI Sites app can be added to any Office […]
Is Power BI the ‘Must Have’ Feature Organizations need to Hasten their Pace of Signing Up for SharePoint Online, Office 365 Computing?
Microsoft’s promotional materials for Office 365 include the phrase ‘self service business intelligence’. This phrase was actually coined by Forrester Research, for The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012. To provide a summary of this concept, one result of the consumerization of IT and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomena of the […]
Learn How to Brand SharePoint Online, Office 365 Sites with a New Course from SharePoint-Videos
Office 365 is the fastest growing Microsoft product of all time. Now any organization can learn some of the most useful tools and techniques required to brand these sites via a new course from SharePoint-Videos: SP13-315 SharePoint 2013: SharePoint Online (Office 365) Branding. This course is led by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, a SharePoint MVP, published author […]
Organizations Considering SharePoint Online, Office 365 with Security Concerns Should Visit Microsoft’s Securing the Cloud Infrastructure Web Site
If your organization is seriously considering a migration from SharePoint on premise, to SharePoint Online, Office 365, and you need to learn more about the security of cloud computing for these services, you should visit Microsoft’s Securing the Cloud Infrastructure Web Site. I reviewed a short video presentation, hosted by Pete Boden, General Manager, Security […]
Include a Management Plan for OneDrive and OneDrive for Business as Two Distinct Cloud Storage Options
OneDrive and OneDrive for Business are two entirely separate cloud storage options. But when SharePoint Online users have access to either destination from the same desktop, the chance of errors occurring is, unfortunately, high. Therefore, organizations must include a management strategy safeguarding confidential corporate information from these mistakes. It should make sense for these organizations […]
Workarounds to Backup an Access 2013 Database Published as an App in SharePoint Online
For organizations choosing a public tenancy SharePoint Online solution, via Office 365, publishing Access 2013 databases as SharePoint 2013 Apps certainly poses a problem. As I wrote in a post to this blog published yesterday, once the Access 2013 database has been published to SharePoint Online as an App, the data layer will no longer […]
Carefully Consider the Ramifications of Publishing an Access 2013 Database as an App to SharePoint Online Before Proceeding
As Darvish Shadravan makes clear in a video tutorial on the Access 2013 App Model, titled Access 2013 App Model, the Data Layer of the App will be converted to SQL Server. Further, the SQL Server back end will be hosted on Azure. Organizations should carefully consider the ramifications of deciding to publish an Access […]
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. […]
Include a Back Up Method Before Deciding on a SharePoint Online Implementation
Few organizations can afford to risk exposing proprietary information to a single data storage solution, regardless of whether the solution is on premise, or in the cloud. But there is no clear, simple path to backing up SharePoint Online data, and or even Apps. Therefore, it makes sense to plan on back up before finalizing […]
Microsoft Virtual Academy Presents the Office 365 Fast Track Deployment Process
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 […]