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Sep272016 by adminNo Comments

Sync SharePoint sites with the new OneDrive sync client – Preview

Applies To: OneDrive for Business With SharePoint document library sync, you can sync the contents of a document library to your personal device. You can now do this with the OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client.With this preview build, you can do the following: Navigate into a folder or subfolder and click Sync. No need to sync the entire document library. Change the folders that you're syncing directly in the sync client. Realtime coauthoring is supported with Office 2016 (C2R build 16.0.7167.2xxx or MSI build 16.0.4432.100x). (more…)

Apr42016 by adminNo Comments

SharePoint Co-authoring: It’s a date

Home Page, SharePoint

Ever been cursed with this pop-up? On a Friday afternoon, right before close of business, when you need to get your TPS Report submitted to upper management, this can be the most horrifying message a computer can send you. (Well, maybe just after the newly designed blue screen of death.) And, oh joy, Word gives you three options: 1) save a local copy of what’s likely an outdated file, 2) get a notification when the person gets back (after the weekend, amirite!?), or 3) give up all hope and press ‘Cancel’. I can’t think of a better example of a lose-lose-lose situation. So, why does this warning come up? Well, if you store a file—Word doc, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation, etc.—in a shared drive or on older (or non-updated) versions of SharePoint, the…

Jan212016 by adminNo Comments

Microsoft SharePoint vs Google Docssites

Google Apps for work, Home Page, SharePoint

I recently fielded a question from a potential client who wanted to know if Microsoft SharePoint or Google Docs with Google Sites was a better fit for their organization's document management and collaboration needs. Although this question is pretty straight-forward, the explanation can get a bit complicated. The short answer is Google Docs/Sites is great tool if you do not have an enterprise collaboration platform at your disposal, and you need to to get a document sharing site up quickly. However, Google Docs/Sites falls way short in providing the breadth and depth of features that Microsoft SharePoint offers. SharePoint is a true enterprise platform with capabilities that extend beyond document management and collaboration (e.g. Search, Workflow, and KPI Dashboards. If you have a dozen or more computer users in your…

Nov122015 by adminNo Comments

Microsoft to open UK datacentre

CRM, Home Page, O365, SharePoint, Strategy

After a year of constant and often surprising announcements from Microsoft, the key news this time is that they are to open a UK data centre next year, hosting Azure and Office 365. The new UK-based datacentre is said to be opening from late 2016, though it sounds like the MoD will begin using it sooner than that. O365 and Azuze UK data centre coming 2016 At his keynote speech at the Future Decoded event in London yesterday, CEO Satya Nadella stated that customers in the UK would at last be able to store data within the country, allaying fears (even I not actual legal impediments) around governance and data protection. In addition to Microsoft Azure and Office 365, the UK datacentre will support Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online sometime afterwards. Microsoft…

Nov62015 by adminNo Comments

Microsoft empowers business transformation

CRM, Home Page, O365, SharePoint, Strategy

ATLANTA — March 16, 2015 — Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the availability of new products and services designed to enable people and organizations to put data to work, driving better results for business of all sizes. The announcements were made at Convergence 2015, Microsoft’s annual conference for its business customers. “Businesses are hungry to seize new opportunities using technologies like machine learning and predictive analytics,” said Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft. “Only when businesses create a culture that empowers everyone to have access to data and insight that drive action will they be positioned to truly transform.” Nadella demonstrated products and services built by Microsoft to empower industries, organizations and individuals to drive insight and action from their data. “Microsoft Azure IoT services combined with Windows 10…

Aug192015 by adminNo Comments

Why SharePoint is the last great ‘on-premises’ application

Home Page, SharePoint

While it seems like almost every piece of IT is moving to cloud these days, there are still plenty of reasons to keep SharePoint in your server room – where it belongs. At the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) last month in Orlando, we heard many of the same grumblings we’ve been hearing about Microsoft for years now: They don’t care about on-premises servers. They’re leaving IT administrators in the dust and hanging them out to dry while forcing Azure and Office 365 content on everyone. They’re ignoring the small and medium business. It’s hard to ignore this trend. It’s also true that the cost-to-benefit ratio continues to decrease to the point where common sense favours moving many workloads up to the cloud where you can transform capex and personnel expense…

Aug182015 by adminNo Comments

SharePoint Online customisation – or not !

Home Page, O365, SharePoint

Are You Are Planning A Move To SharePoint Online, If So, Have You Considered Your Customization Strategy? With the release of SharePoint online the way in which you customize your SharePoint implementation has changed. With the back-end being in the Microsoft cloud, the need for back end coding has now diminished. Microsoft are actually doing this to make your implementations more secure, as if there is no customised back end code the chance of your environment breaking Is greatly reduced and your eventual migration path is much easier. SO HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR SHAREPOINT BESPOKE? Despite what many think Microsoft don’t want everyone to conform to the SharePoint that comes out of the box and recommend trying the three below methods for customization: - Browser based customisation (Using the site settings…