Yammer is rolling out an exciting new feature which will provide the ability to add external collaborators to new conversations, existing conversations, and private messages within the Office 365 network. This will be first released for beta testing (for verified and registered admins). The Office 365 community hosted an open discussion around this new feature led by Microsoft […]
Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint Online’
Perficient Assists Global Health Efforts with Office 365 Solution
Last week, Michael Novinson from the Channel Company published an article on its IT Best of Breed website around Perficient’s work with Partners In Health to deliver cloud communication capabilities to workers in remote locations. The full article is available here. From the post: The St. Louis-based company, No. 66 on the CRN SP 500, […]
Gear up for 2015 with these Microsoft productivity tools & tips
We’re one week into the new year, and I’ve yet to make a resolution. Given the success rate of most resolutions and my personal history with outlandish goals that last a couple of weeks at best, I’d rather not set myself up for failure. Even more than that, I like to identify things that are […]
10 Best Microsoft Office 365 Features For 2015
As we end 2014, I wanted to look back at some of the great Office 365 feature releases of 2014. Not all of these features are fully rolled out, some are still in preview, while others we will see in early 2015. Earlier this year, Microsoft finally gave us the Office 365 Roadmap where we can now […]
Perficient’s Top 5 SharePoint Blog Posts of 2014
As 2014 comes to a close, we’re taking a look at our most popular blog posts of the year. Here are the top five SharePoint related posts, in no particular order: SPC 2014 Roadmap Updates – SharePoint 2015 Announced! While attending SharePoint Conference 2014, Joe Crabtree summarized Microsoft’s goals for Office, which Jared Spataro shared […]
Office 365 – SharePoint Online Public Sites – Changes Coming!
Are you a small or medium sized business using the Office 365 SharePoint Online Public Websites feature? If so, there are some important changes coming to the service. Starting in January 2015, Microsoft is making changes to the SharePoint Online Public Website feature. Customers who currently use this feature will continue to have access to […]
Video How-To’s in Office 365
Video Portal was announced back in November with initial push to “first release” customers and a global deployment available by early 2015. This portal powered by Azure Media Services provides adaptive streaming optimized for video playback for the device it’s being viewed on. Leveraging Office Graph, simple drag and drop interface, discover ability across enterprise search […]
Getting Started With Power BI, pt. 2
Last week, I posted part one of our Power BI Primer series discussing access and basic administration. This week we’re bringing you Part Two. If you are an Office365 customer, then you have almost certainly heard about (if not seen) Power BI. The cloud-based analytics and collaboration platform from Microsoft has some pretty amazing features, […]
Perficient & Partners In Health team up to implement Office 365
Today, Perficient announced it has been working with Partners In Health, a Boston-based nonprofit that delivers high-quality health care and serves impoverished communities around the world, from Haiti to Rwanda to Siberia, to deploy Office 365 at cost. From the Press Release: Founded in 1987, Partners In Health works to strike at the root causes […]
Site Mailbox – A New Way to Collaborate
What’s a Site Mailbox? Site Mailboxes provide a consolidated view of site content stored within SharePoint and Exchange from within Microsoft Outlook. Site Mailboxes help team members share and archive important emails related to a specific subject, instead of losing those emails in individuals’ inboxes. It can be especially helpful resources for new team members […]
Getting Started with Power BI, pt. 1
If you are an Office 365 customer, then you have almost certainly heard about — if not seen — Power BI. The cloud-based analytics and collaboration platform from Microsoft has some pretty amazing features, and really extends the Microsoft BI platform not only into the cloud but into a more self-service oriented mode. However, one […]
Mac Solution for OneDrive For Business
I was recently involved in a discussion about the capabilities of OneDrive for Business for Mac, with my co-worker, Michael Toole. One of his customers was in the process of migrating network shares over to SharePoint. Majority of their user base was on Mac, and had very little experience with the web UI’s, so OneDrive […]