Organizations planning to implement Office 365 need to provision resources for crucial components of a successful effort in this direction. In a video tutorial titled Managing Office 365 Identities and Services: (01) Preparing for Office 365, which is authored by Jeff Koch of Microsoft Learning Experiences. The training presentation is led by Anthony Steven, Principal […]
Microsoft Focuses on SharePoint Online, but are Enterprise Organizations Ready for the Cloud?
The biggest impediment, for most enterprise businesses considering Office 365, can be found in public discussions about online security. Office 365 is a suite of computer applications delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). Ostensibly the same well-publicized vulnerabilities endemic to an ever growing set of SaaS offers (including Amazon.com, and even Apple’s iCloud, albeit […]
Microsoft Implements Context Sensitive Help for SharePoint Online
SharePoint-Videos has championed the usefulness of in-context, on demand technical help for SharePoint users across the full spectrum of skill levels, and rationales for using SharePoint. Our Group ID and Multi-User subscription offers can serve this purpose when pages of links to our content are included within a SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, or even SharePoint […]
Implementing SharePoint 2013, On Premises, for Enterprise Document Management
SharePoint® 2013, on premises, is, perhaps, a less expensive option for organizations to implement than most dedicated Enterprise Document Management (EDM) applications. SharePoint-Videos.com offers a lot of video training content on the topic, including a set compiled from an online course we held recently, which was led by Chris McNulty, a widely recognized subject matter […]
Using Reporting Services to Collect Business Intelligence with SharePoint Online, Office 365
A combination of an implementation of SQL Server Reporting Services for SharePoint, successful creation of external content type; and, finally, building a set of useful tags for SharePoint’s Managed Metadata Service (MMS), can deliver substantial returns for communities of SharePoint users subscribing to SharePoint Online, Office 365. We offer specialized training sets on each of […]
Microsoft Focuses on SharePoint Online
A recent video interview with John Thompson, Microsoft’s new Chairman on Bloomberg TV, captures Mr. Thompson’s sharp attention to Office 365 as “one of the most successful new products in Microsoft’s history” (quoted from the interview). Mia Saini, who led the interview, set the stage for Mr. Thompson’s comment when she noted the explosive sales […]
SharePoint Online Becomes More Useful for End Users when an In-Context On Demand Help System is Added to It
When I logged in, recently, to our SharePoint Online computing environment I noted something new. A rectangular shaped box popped up on the upper right hand corner of my computing screen, with an arrow pointing to the question mark character to be found at the end of the ribbon. The message in the box is […]
A Useful Pair of Video Tutorials on the Role of Taxonomy in SharePoint
Mike Doane, an acknowledged subject matter expert on SharePoint, Managed Metadata Services (MMS), the Term Store, and taxonomy authored a pair of video tutorials for SharePoint 2010 demonstrating how to build taxonomies in SharePoint 2010. The first of these is titled Building Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010 – Part One. Any subscriber to SharePoint-Videos.com can access […]
Software Built with Microsoft’s Office Cloud App Model can Make Multi-Tenant Public Cloud Offers More Useful for Enterprises
In a video tutorial set titled SharePoint 2013: Beginning Development, Steve Fox, a Director at Microsoft® Services presents the Office 2013 Cloud App Model, in detail. Enterprises interested in exploring the comparatively less expensive option of using multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) offers like Office 365, should also explore whether it makes sense to […]
Use the Open Data Protocol to Include Data from Business Silos in SharePoint Online
The OData Protocol is defined as ” . . . a standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs. OData builds on core protocols like HTTP and commonly accepted methodologies like REST. The result is a uniform way to expose full-featured data APIs.” This definition may be useful for software developers. Steve Fox, a Director […]