Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
Yesterday Paul Thurrett posted a great blog Office 15: The Mile-High View discussing some of the new features and architecture of Office 15. Of particular interest to me was the following information regarding Outlook 15 and Office extensibility through Agave. Outlook 15 Hundreds of millions of users live in Outlook each day, making it the... Continue Reading →
The following information appeared in an article written by Tom Warren on The Verge: Microsoft is planning to allow developers to create "Agaves" web extensions to bring third-party functionality to Office clients. Web developers will be able to create an area within an Office application that lets webpages interact with documents and augment content with... Continue Reading →
This new video is a great starting point for getting the most out of OnePlaceMail if you are looking to store related Email and Documents in Documents Sets in SharePoint 2010. The video shows SharePoint 2010 Documents Sets being used as a container to store email messages and documents for projects/tasks. The screencast shows interacting... Continue Reading →
What is MDS and how does it effect the SharePoint browser experience? There is very little documentation around regarding MDS (which stands for Minimal Download Strategy). It appears to be a technology that Microsoft is introducing with the next release of SharePoint (SharePoint 15 / SharePoint 2013). I make this wild assumption as I’ve not... Continue Reading →
The following image (courtesy of Buddy Media) show the current landscape of social media marketing. It’s no wonder so many companies struggle with a strategy to harness social media as an effective marketing tool. Click image to view at full size. I’m not here to guide you in the right direction – I don’t know... Continue Reading →
I'm a little pressed for time to write my own blog pulling together the snippets of info that have been circulating related to Agaves and the new development opportunities that Office 15 will bring with it. Until I get time to blog here's a great primer (all credit to Learning SharePoint for this information) “Agaves”... Continue Reading →
After years of sending and receiving lots of great ideas, tips, problem solutions related to the OnePlaceMail product and SharePoint in general this week saw the launch of the OnePlaceMail User Community Site. Engage now with other OnePlaceMail users in the community, ask questions, provide enhancement suggestions, report problems and importantly - if you love... Continue Reading →
I was just reading an article on SPTech by David Rubinstein written yesterday which is hinting the SharePoint 15 public beta will line up with the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas in November - makes sense to me. Rewind the clock to the SharePoint conference in Vegas (2009) when they pulled the covers off SharePoint 2010.... Continue Reading →
One major shift from SharePoint on-premise to SharePoint via Office 365 from an Administrators point of view is that you now don’t get a chance to test/evaluate enhancements and the impact they will have on your users / applications that you have built on top of SharePoint. With SharePoint on-premise you could always apply the... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 