On my travels in building an understanding of Cloud Computing and its relationship to Office365, there’s a wealth of technical information out there. However, I simply could not find a defininitve source of information until I stumbled onto this link from TechNET: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4854.aspx
This article describes the Office365 offering as a question / answer format. This is particularly useful when explaining exactly what Office365 is, what it entails, the costs and benefits.
Time for a service delivery article, looking at working with external SharePoint agencies in a SharePoint environment in BAU…
If you are operating and managing SharePoint environments for your clients, you may find that there is a business requirement for enhancements or modifications to something to take place which would alter your controlled SharePoint environment. This business requirement may be one where there is a call for the intended work to be carried out by utilising services from an external ‘SharePoint’ on a sub-contracted basis.
Hi there, just had to make a mention to this one, very funny! A good advert for the cloud from Microsoft. Here’s the description from the Youtube vid: “Some IT providers claim they have a cloud solution but they really offer something less.
A great set of guides and resources is now available on Technet here.
These are as follows:
The page describes each of the areas – Many favorites are the SharePoint Online Planning and Admin guides 🙂 :p
There’s a nifty free eBook covering the use of Office365 now available. As per the blog from Rosemary Caperton here:
“This book shows you how you can use cloud computing—and specifically, Office 365—to get more done, collaborate more easily, and work more flexibly than you ever have before. From the necessary how-tos about creating and administering your Office 365 account and working with the various Office 365 programs to sharing files with your team, creating a team site, using Office Web Apps, and holding online meetings, you’ll discover how easy it is to work online and off, accessing and sharing your files whenever you need to. After you learn about each of the core programs, you can try strategies for building successful teams, and get some good ideas on practical ways you can put all this cloud power to work.”
For those into Office365 SharePoint (like me!) there is a good section on Public Websites in chapter 12 of the eBook. Aimed at those new to SharePoint and website design, it covers themes, header styles, adding and formatting test, images, pages, and ‘gadgets’. So if you want to get your Office365 users starting to use the platform this is a good start to getting them to understand how to use Office365
Go to the link above to learn more and to download the eBook.
Microsoft Learning have a number of great courses covering implementing SharePoint solutions. If you or your team require some extra training in this area, go check these out! Each of these courses contains modules representing days of instructor led training, including video lessons and hands on labs.
Ok, so I have been working with several clients who are ‘interested’ in Office 365, particularly from a SharePoint perspective. During demonstrations of the platform with them, and through my own use I’ve come across several issues. So I’ve of course raised tickets with MS support and submitted discussion threads to cover, and the helpdesk are very fast to respond. However, some of the issues I am mentioning in this blog I would consider serious; and most relate to the SharePoint public facing site collection.
I’ve decided to list them here as I come across them. Please note, there have been some indicated third party fixes for some of these, however, I have not put them in unless anyone can confirm they work 100% of the time!
If you have anymore, please feel free to comment on them. Please note I am not representing Microsoft here, but, at least I can use this as an avenue to pass likewise issues directly to them concerning SharePoint Office365…. More blogs to follow!
06/09/11: Updated: SharePoint Blog Site and the Anonymous Authentication – update from MS Support -> Design “Change Request has been submitted to the Operations Team for this issue and we have added your Service Request information to it. Anonymous blog access has been a known global issue and Operations will be working for a Community Solution in the future. Unfortunately, there is no estimated time of arrival for a solution.”
This article describes the Office365 offering as a question / answer format. This is particularly useful when explaining exactly what Office365 is, what it entails, the costs and benefits.
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SharePoint governance is not a hardware, software, or people resource solution. It is an organizational strategy and methodology for documenting and implementing business rules and controls related to your client’s data. It brings cross-functional teams together to identify data issues impacting the company or organization.
