Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 has introduced a new concept called Site Mailboxes to help bring together Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange content within Microsoft Outlook 2013. SharePoint Site Mailboxes provide many benefits and also have their limitations. This White Paper: SharePoint 2013 Site Mailboxes - Overcome their Limitations looks at Site Mailboxes and how they can be... Continue Reading →
In a recent blog post Dan Theobald (Business Analyst, HP Information Management team) details the use case of OnePlaceMail in a SharePoint/HP TRIM environment for achieving records management of email records. Dan continues to explain in detail how HP are internally using OnePlaceMail in a collaborative Help Desk solution built on SharePoint. In this solution... Continue Reading →
Having gone through the pain twice now (you’d think I’d learn the first time) I’m going to punch out a quick blog post for future. The Scenario My development machine is in our corporate domain (corpdomain.com) and I’m doing development against Exchange 2013. I’ve setup an isolated domain with it’s own Active Directory server and... Continue Reading →
US based SharePoint Solution provider Techsol (MS Gold Certified Partner) has made a series of SharePoint 2010 templates available for free download. These templates are focused on the Government and Health industries. http://www.techsolutions.net/SharePointSolutions/Health.aspx http://www.techsolutions.net/SharePointSolutions/Government.aspx In their own words: These templates are provided “as is”. The templates demonstrate the application building power of SharePoint as... Continue Reading →
The worldwide SharePoint Conference for 2012 (SPC12) is almost upon us. We are expecting this years conference to be massive with the new Wave 15 of technology having now having been release to manufacture by Microsoft. So we go into this conference with SharePoint 2013, Office 2013, Exchange 2013, Windows 8 all ready for production.... Continue Reading →
I’ve recently run into performance issues with my new SharePoint 2013 Preview development environment. A quick investigation in Task Manager highlight Memory usage as my issue. The culprit processes are Microsoft Office 2013 component. I see SharePoint 2013 is somehow behind my issue. What are these Microsoft Office 2013 components and why are they consuming... Continue Reading →
Scinaptic OnePlaceMail Release 6.3 has been launched this week with both the Enterprise Edition and free Express Edition now available to download. The focus of this release has been delivering greater performance, and improved usability and tighter integration with business workflows and line of business systems. New features include; Performance: increase of up to 95%... Continue Reading →
External content types are defined through XML files referred to as “BDC metadata models”. These BDC metadata models can be created in both SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio. The technique used to create the BDC metadata models determines the technique used to export it. Models created using Visual Studio can be exported directly through the... Continue Reading →
I was recently investigating some of the options with External Content Type (ECT) filters that you can setup in SharePoint Designer. In particular, the following 2 settings did not appear to make any difference if I enabled or disabled them. Is Default Use to create match list in external item picker At first I thought... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 