Month: April 2015

From Pushing to Networking - Do Companies Understand the Nature of Social Media?
From Pushing to Networking – Do Companies Understand the Nature of Social Media?
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My name is Noora and new to European SharePoint Community blogs. Happy to share my ideas in this forum I would like to dig into the topic of social media. Not only due to the fact that I am writing a book about social recruitment, has the topic got me puzzling from time to time. My work consist of building and developing online and digital solutions for internal and external customers, but communications and social media are close to my heart as well.

Universal App Development Using Office 365 API
Universal App Development Using Office 365 API
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The office 365 API has a REST service that helps to access the data from the subscription. The office 365 subscription includes the Exchange, SharePoint and AD services. Office 365 API gives access to all those services via REST methods. The authentication to the service happens via the Azure AD. The single sign-on with Azure AD to authenticate your users, and let them access email, files, calendar, and user information, and the petabytes of data that are stored in Office 365.

Current Yammer Integration Options in SharePoint
Current Yammer Integration Options in SharePoint
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In June 2012 Microsoft announced they acquired Yammer. This caused a lot of confusion at first; how about SharePoint social features? How do these compare to Yammer? Should I even be using SharePoint social now? How do the two integrate?

Office 365 Monitoring and Alerting, for Free
Office 365 Monitoring and Alerting, for Free
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As you all know, a frustrating problem for cloud customers is that you are at the mercy of Incident Notifications from the Service Providers to know of any outages. The Service Provider may not know of an outage affecting your tenancy, may not post notifications on their Service Portals timely or frequently enough – and you are helpless fielding calls from frustrated users. I have seen this happen at multiple customers during recent outages.

SQL Optimization and High Availability (Always-On) for SharePoint
SQL Optimization and High Availability (Always-On) for SharePoint
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SharePoint Always-on deployment strategy is an important requirement to achieve high-availability within an organization. SharePoint has broken the barrier within an organization for collaboration, communication, and social network, but the large amount of data analysed and consumed, along with our culture of always-connected has posed a challenge to keep our infrastructure up and running.

Turning SharePoint into a DAM (Digital Asset Management System)
Turning SharePoint into a DAM (Digital Asset Management System)
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SharePoint has many virtues and capabilities but it is not a DAM, MAM, ECM or any other acronym for organising your digital content. Due to the volume of digital content we are creating today and the demands to deliver that content to more platforms, the need for a way of managing this data is essential. Just buying DropBox storage is not the answer and many SharePoint customers end up looking for solutions that are external to SharePoint that do not work with it, or they have to create bespoke integration which costs time and money.

What are Delve and the Office Graph?
What are Delve and the Office Graph?
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If you’ve somehow missed the intense buzz around Delve and the Office Graph over the last year you may have been surprised to find a new application in your Office 365 (O365) app launcher in the past couple of weeks. While Delve has been available to those opting into the first release program it has finally begun being released to everyone with qualifying O365 subscriptions over the past couple of weeks.

Gamification vs Rewards
Gamification vs Rewards
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A recent enterprise social chat on Twitter sparked an interest in the differences in gamification and rewards. It’s also interesting to see how they are used across SharePoint, Yammer and other social networks in some of the same ways.