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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint 2013’
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, […]
Yammer 101 Series – Groups
What are Yammer Groups? Groups are logical containers for sharing conversations, files and notes in Yammer based on a single business purpose or goal. What are the benefits of Groups? Groups are the foundation for organizing content in Yammer networks, providing immediate business value when collaborating. Some of the benefits include: 1) Targeting your message […]
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 […]
Webinar: SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Scenarios That Make Sense
As many organizations are in the process of moving to the cloud, or even considering a move, and a large portion of those organizations use SharePoint, it can be difficult to determine if and when a SharePoint on-premises and a SharePoint Online hybrid solution will provide value. This isn’t surprising, given the fact that questions […]
SharePoint Online Content Type Hub
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 […]
Yammer Roadmap and Work-like-a-network
So much is changing each day with Office 365 suite of services and applications, that it’s hard to keep up. This post is an attempt to get you up to speed with the exciting new features on Yammer roadmap slated for this year. Work Like a Network If you are asking yourself what is this, then […]
Power View Differences between Excel 2013 and SharePoint 2013
I knew that there were differences between Power View in desktop Excel and Power View as run from SharePoint. But I recently felt the impact of this for the first time. The first confusing point I found was, the Export to Power Point function only works for reports created in Power View in SharePoint Server. […]
Is Your SharePoint Ready for Yammer?
Whether your organization is experiencing rapid growth or you simply need better collaboration, enterprise social is the key to your needs. I gave an overview of the latest services offered in Office 365 in my blog post here and for the purposes of today’s article I will focus on the enterprise social networking (ESN) product, Yammer. […]
SharePoint or Office 365 – OneDrive for Business fits All
SkyDrive or OneDrive, SharePoint, Yammer, lync – where to start? what to install for users? Which to use when? Many of us go through these questions when facing customers or when looking to provide the best service to our internal users. So much information is flowing around the web but its always tough to assimilate in one place […]
SharePoint Hybrid Architectures Introduction
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 […]
Office 365 – What’s the Best Plan?
Didn’t you always wonder which plan to pick in the O365 family? So many different SKU’s providing distinct features, storage capabilities, tools, etc. I know while talking to customers one of the initial and biggest question has been around which plan is perfect for them and can they downgrade or upgrade from there. Looks like Microsoft […]