As part of European SharePoint Training Week, we have a range of superb eBooks and insightful blogs by some of the leading experts in the SharePoint industry. Contributors include; Edin Kapic, Asif Rehmani, André Vala, Thorbjørn Værp, Geoff Evelyn, Bill Ayers, Eric Riz, Christian Buckley, Paolo Pialorsi, Mikael Svenson, Liam Cleary and Oliver Wirkus
Create live and interactive charts, graphs and other visual elements for your users using Excel 2013 Power View. This Power View can then be published to a SharePoint site for sharing the visual elements with site members.
We SharePoint developers have had a bit of a hard time. The administrators don’t like us because our solutions can be complicated to deploy and we get blamed for bringing down the farm (sometimes with justification).
Microsoft has recently rolled out new elements of their integration roadmap between Yammer and SharePoint /Office 365 (For background, here’s the announcement.) There’s a lot to it, including new mobile clients and the ability to launch new discussions directly from documents in SharePoint Online. But let’s focus on email integration and Yammer Enterprise.
As anyone working with SharePoint and trying to get people to use solutions provided will know – you simply cannot guarantee any success concerning the usage of any SharePoint solution, if the relevant support provided is not ‘good’ enough in the eyes of those using the solution.
As a SharePoint consultant I am faced with technical decisions every day. These decisions are usually centred on how we should implement a specific functionality in SharePoint or how to approach a problem from the technological perspective. Sometimes, however, I can’t resist thinking that in the overall scheme of things our technical expertise is not enough.
Amongst the several new features included in SharePoint 2013, there is one that I have unfairly overlooked until just recently and that is User License Enforcement. I say unfairly because it’s a feature that has been requested for a long time and I believe it deserves more attention than it has been receiving.
Finally, Microsoft has taken a step forward in Office 365 BI.
One of the most requested features is implemented in this brand new version: The possibility to connect on our on-premise data sources and have our excel spreadsheets updated, but not the last:
As part of European SharePoint Training Week, join MVP Liam Cleary at 3:00PM GMT as he presents a live webinar on SharePoint Authentication and Authorization.
At my first European SharePoint Conference in Berlin, I presented a session on SharePoint’s social media scorecard, discussing where the 2010 platform performed — and underperformed — around core social collaboration features in comparison to direct and indirect competitors. In the couple years since that event, its amazing to look back at how much not only the technology has advanced, but also at how the messaging around the social organization has begun to take hold. Microsoft has put social at the forefront of their strategy (along with cloud, mobile, and BI) as more and more organizations are recognizing the ability of social tools to drive adoption and engagement.
