Joe Crabtree

Welcome back to Perficient’s Yammer 101 Series. This is Part 2 of the series. If you missed Part 1 – Introduction, please have a look. In this post, we will take a dive into the world of Posting – How to Post, Types of Posts, Topics, Mentions, and Best Practices for Posting. How to Post Starting […]

First, you will notice that I titled this post Microsoft Azure and not Windows Azure as Microsoft announced this change in late March. At TechEd North America 2014, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Networking enhancements, compute-intensive A8 & A9 Virtual Machines, IP Reservation, Import/Export Service, Managed Cache Service, Traffic Manager support for […]

Governance is an essential part of any SharePoint deployment. Any organization that has tried to implement SharePoint has undoubtedly asked the question, “How do we effectively manage our SharePoint environment?” Governance is that answer.  Governance is a set of policies, procedures, roles, and responsibilities that control how your business teams and IT teams work together […]

  In SharePoint 2010, Microsoft introduced a great new feature for publishing and subscribing to content types called the content type hub. If you’re unfamiliar with the feature, read this. With SharePoint 2010 or 2013 on-premises, you would create a new site collection, turn on the features and configure the managed metadata service. Easy! When you […]

Earlier this month I reported that SharePoint SP1 had been pulled off the market due to an issue with the update package. This has now been resolved. According to Bill Baer from Microsoft: Customers with Service Pack 1 Deployed For customers who have previously deployed Service Pack 1, download the updated Service Pack 1 and […]

As Microsoft continues to improve its cloud offerings, there has been a stead stream of updates to the product lines. Since there is so much to keep up with, I wanted to collate all of these updates together for you! Below you’ll find information and links to all the recent updates to Office 365, Office […]

Hybrid SharePoint environments combine deployments of SharePoint on premise with SharePoint Online. There are many different flavors of hybrid scenarios. In this post I will walk you through some of the terminology and explain the different options. The goal of any hybridization is to leverage the strengths of both parts, while minimizing the components’ weaknesses.  Hybrid […]

Notice from Microsoft today – “We have recently uncovered an issue with this Service Pack 1 package that may prevent customers who have Service Pack 1 from deploying future public or cumulative updates. As a precautionary measure, we have deactivated the download page until a new package is published.” This was posted on the SP1 […]

On Jan. 31, 2014, Microsoft announced the end of InfoPath Forms. This is not totally unexpected as InfoPath is an older technology that relied on programming methodologies long antiquated in a client side, HTML 5, mobile world. Since the announcement, the community has been waiting for more information from Microsoft. Some information was relayed at SPC, but nothing […]

Finally, Microsoft has delivered an Office App for iPad! You can get it today in the App Store. This is a HUGE announcement. Over a billion people on the planet use Microsoft Office to get more done at work and at home. Whether you’re creating an Excel spreadsheet on your tablet, authoring a Word document […]

On April 8, 2014 Microsoft will officially end support for Windows XP and Office 2003. This means all software updates, security patches, and technical assistance will no longer be provided. Most of you will say, hey, big deal! We applaud those customers who have already adopted Windows 8.1 and Office 365. For those who haven’t, we […]

Here are 6 workload scenario examples for Windows Azure. If you have any questions, please contact us and our certified cloud specialists can help you deploy Azure today!