Overview: Last week Microsoft hosted a Roadmap Communications discussion forum to align with the new Office 365 for business public roadmap. Panel involved experts from Microsoft and Office 365 MVP’s. I am sharing the summary here for everyone’s benefit. Specific topics: · Roadmap at a glance · General Questions & Functionality · First Release · Yammer ROADMAP […]
Posts Tagged ‘Office 365’
Office 365 – SharePoint Online Admin Overview
One of the best benefits to Office 365 is the continuous updates and improvements to the platform. We no longer need a sever release, service pack, or hotfix. We get new releases when Microsoft is ready to make them live in the cloud. Recently, we’ve gotten Document Conversations and Office for iPad; and we will be seeing Office […]
Office 365 Feature Rollout and First Release Program
Did you always feel Office 365 has been going through rapid updates and you as a customer or partner are left with no insight? Until now Microsoft has been rolling out features without regard to the tenant profile. There is generally no process for partners to get updates before or after customers. I personally know […]
SharePoint Online – When to use Content Search vs Content Query
Some of you may be doing a double take. Wait, is this post really about the Content By Query Web Part? Didn’t that die with the release of the Content By Search Web Part? In short, no! There are a few use cases where the Content By Query web part is still very useful – and necessary!! […]
OneDrive – Massive Storage Increase to 15 GB FREE!
Microsoft has done it again, raising the free storage limit for all customers on OneDrive to 15 GB!! That’s up from 7 GB that was rolled out earlier this year. This announcement is for personal OneDrive and not OneDrive for Business – which has been at 1 TB of storage since April. Comparing to the other vendors […]
What’s New in Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution. It combines core directory services, advanced identity governance, security, and application access management. Azure AD also offers developers an identity management platform to deliver access control to their applications, based on centralized policy and rules. In the last few months there’s been significant […]
Office 365 – DirSync Password Sync: Did You Know?
Microsoft added the “Password Sync” option to DirSync in June 2013 and in the past year it has become a viable alternative to AD FS due to its fewer on-premises infrastructure dependencies. The differences between Password Sync and AD FS are well documented elsewhere, the article “Choosing a sign-in model for Office 365” is a […]
Webinar: How FirstGroup Uses SharePoint Online to Collaborate
Do you know what organization transports your child to school each and every day? There’s a good chance it is FirstGroup’s First Student. Transporting more than 2.5 billion people each year across the UK and North America, FirstGroup plc is much more than yellow school buses. It’s Greyhound. It’s First Transit, one of North America’s […]
Webinar Recap: SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Scenarios That Make Sense
Cloud services like Office 365 and SharePoint Online are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to an on-premises SharePoint solution. However, many organizations are deciding that their best bet is to deploy specific solutions in Office 365, while keeping other workloads in their on-premises SharePoint environment. Certain hybrid scenarios make sense, and others don’t. This past […]
Developing for Office 365 and SharePoint
Recently I participated in a Microsoft developer discussion on the Yammer Network where some great ideas were shared. I am re posting a summary of the session posted in that group here for everyone’s benefit ——————————– Overview: Microsoft responses to questions are provided by Chris Johnson, Sonya Koptyev, Jeremy Thake, Dorrene Brown, Mauricio Ordonez, Brian Jones, Ricky Kirkham, Christophe Fiessinger, […]
Updates on SharePoint and Yammer SKUs
SharePoint SKU Retirement July 1st, the following SKUs will be retired: SharePoint Plan 1 w/ Yammer SharePoint Plan 2 w/ Yammer Office Online w/ SharePoint Plan 1 Office Online w/ SharePoint Plan 1 This retirement aligns with Microsoft’s previous announcement of OneDrive for Business and the broader SKU strategy of eliminating mini-suites. More information on […]
Congrats New Signature, 2014 Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year!
The last year has flown by for our Perficient Microsoft team – and that’s likely the case for most Microsoft partners. It seems like a mere few months ago, Perficient was both elated and humbled to be recognized as the 2013 Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year. As mentioned in this blog post, at the […]