SharePoint & Office 365 The notion of Cloud computing brings with it many appealing aspects:  Those Green Shades love to see hardware, warranty and maintenance costs dissolve; HR gets to reduce personnel budgets/headaches (often by trimming the most disgruntled staff); and IT gets to shelve concerns like “whose got the backup tape from last Tuesday”.  But beyond all of those concerns of the functional worker lives the greatest promise of the Cloud, the tools offered to the new type of producer:  The Conceptual Worker.  At last we have a true collaboration work space that can function independent of location, connectivity and platform.  Properly planned and deployed, the SharePoint platform can dish up simple to complex documents and workflow tools, key abstracts and valuable information, in a secured and controlled environment.    The strength of this platform is based on its ability to expand and encompass, offering:    attract ...

Here's the link to the Lunch and Learn conducted on September 29th, 2011.

Leveraging SharePoint Lunch and Learn

If you have any questions please email them to our Director of Operations, Roz Gompers.

Any SharePoint list or library can be connected with Outlook. This can be done by going to the specific list and selecting “Connect to Outlook” option in the ribbon bar.

 

Click Allow and then click yes on the next Dialog box that appears. You should now be able to see the library listed on the left navigation bar on you Outlook.

 

Connecting a SharePoint Calendar to Outlook:

Go to the specific calendar and select the “Connect to Outlook” option. You should now be able to see the SharePoint Calendar like any shared Calendar on your Outlook. Synchronization is both ways, so you can add a new item to the SharePoint Calendar from within Outlook and the changes would be reflected in the SharePoint site.
You can also overlay multiple SharePoint calendars if you are involved with multiple SharePoint sites.

Though SharePoint 2010 is cross browser compatible, and renders fine on Firefox or Safari, there still are a few limitations.

• Datasheet view requires ActiveX control that is not supported.
• Explorer view requires Internet Explorer.
• Edit in Microsoft Office Application requires a browser plug-in that is installed with Office for Mac 2011.
• File upload and copy requires an ActiveX control that is not supported on this platform.
• Microsoft InfoPath 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, Slide Library and PowerPoint 2010 integration requires ActiveX and hence are not supported.

MOSS 2007, as you know has its limitations, but Microsoft tried to improve them with SharePoint 2010, by not just fixing the issues, but rewriting it entirely taking into consideration all the complaints. Look and Feel: The 2010 UI includes the Ribbon tool. The navigation is simpler with the ribbon bar the modal popups. SharePoint is now cross browser compatible. SharePoint 2010 has a Rich Media Support with much better image and video libraries and web parts compared to MOSS 2007. SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Taxonomy management: Setting up metadata to enable better tagging of documents and files within lists and libraries is a lot easier. This yields in better search results and list filtering capabilities. Audience Targeting: This is one of the significant features of SharePoint 2010 that helps target users/groups to specific pages, web parts, documents etc. This essentially means that any content within SharePoint can be targeted to a very specific audience. My Sites: My Sites i ...

Making the Best of SharePoint Collaboration in Global Organizations.
Using Microsoft OneNote to lessen the impact of low bandwidth infrastructures.

         Often we hear from clients in a state of panic about some recently manifested computer glitch and frequently there is a tone of doom and paranoia to their call: “It was working fine and all of a sudden everything is locked up, deleted and gone, I must have a virus or I’ve been hacked!” As trained network and security professionals we will be the first ones to say that networks are hacked, viruses do exist and malware is definitely out there.       But we use a theory called “Horses Not Zebras” which goes like this: If you are asleep one night and you hear the sound of hooves beating past your window, in most parts of the world you can assume it is the sound of horses and not zebras. Only if you live in Africa, and then only in certain parts of Africa, would it be logical for you to even question it if might be zebras.  The same holds true for most network issues, unless you have a specific rea ...

Cloud Commander The Cloud Commander (CC) is envisioned to assist in Planning and Migration of business systems to Cloud environments, and then as a life-cycle system continuing to Monitor and Manage Cloud applications and performance by providing Quality of Service (QoS) operations across all commercial Cloud environments.  The reporting features of the QoS will allow clients to balance their usage requirements, and effectively report on application and provider SLA metrics, possibly allowing for cost recovery.  CC will essentially allow clients to know what they are paying for. The CC main service sets consist of the following aspects: • Planning for Cloud Migration:  Most organizations will move their operations to Cloud based infrastructure in stages, and as such the elements involved in Planning will remain with an organization until all services are rendered remotely.   Experience suggests that the first business application to move will be Email, but this may ...

For the most part, we are concerned about laptops stolen with the potential for the exploitation of data. 

So I’m tired of seeing Exchange servers fail because they aren’t maintained properly and we get called in to be firemen.