If you have already read ‘Tales from a SharePoint upgrade’ blog series part I and part II, this is part III. One of the more popular upgrade scenarios is upgrading from SharePoint on premise to the Office 365 cloud. This upgrade process can also mean a migration of email systems to Exchange Online, creation of […]
Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint Online’
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 […]
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. […]
Yammer External Networks: Engage Customers/Partners Webinar Recap
On Wednesday, we hosted a live webinar, “Yammer External Networks: Engaging Partners & Customers,” where my colleague Rich Wood, Director of Web & Social Collaboration at Perficient, dug into the potential that Yammer offers when it comes to engaging those outside your company, and how it is truly redefining what we’ve come to know as […]
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 […]
Webinar: Yammer External Networks – Engaging Customers & Partners
These days, there’s much talk about Yammer, and for good reason. Microsoft acquired Yammer in 2012, and since that time, it has become the company’s direction for enterprise social, now integrating with SharePoint Online. While Yammer has clearly distinguished itself as an enterprise social network within organizations, its potential for engaging those outside company walls […]
Compelling Case for Office 365
Everyone has an opinion on “Cloud’ and its effect on the business, for some it’s scary in terms of data security and for some it’s revenue generation and cost savings. There are a number of reasons why cloud computing is so widely used among businesses today. Some of them include Reduction of costs – lower […]
SharePoint Forms – Living Without InfoPath
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 […]
Exoprise announces new CloudReady Monitor for SharePoint
Just in time for SharePoint Conference 2014, Exoprise, a provider of cloud-based monitoring, introduced its CloudReady Monitor for SharePoint. This new offering expands upon the existing Exoprise CloudReady Monitor for Office 365, giving SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online admins real-time visibility into site performance, allowing them to quickly identify and address issues. From the Press […]