SharePoint & Cloud

When planning for a SharePoint deployment one of the key aspects to consider is network latency and bandwidth. These two parameters have to be examined wheather you are looking at a centralized deployment or distributed deployment. So what is bandwidth...

Version comparison chart for all the features for an on premise install of SharePoint 2013 SharePoint Foundation Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Available Developer ...

FBA or Form Based Authentication is a method used when user/s who are not part of your company, such as business vendors or customers, would like to access your SharePoint Site and you want some kind of authentication for them. We can use SQL database...

Recently, one of my partners came with a request of changing his web application port. After digging around, I found an article that explained how to change Central Administration port number using stsadm.exe . I was sure that there should be a way to...

Each User My site is made of 2 site collection: the My Site host site collection and the user's individual site collection. The My Site host site collection is a special site collection that hosts My Newsfeed and My Profile sections of all users' My...

Wanna show the world you are a pro in Office 365, below certification will help you get that status :) Exam 70-323: Administering Office 365 intended for IT professionals who administer Microsoft Office 365 in an environment that may include Microsoft...

Since the introduction of External Sharing feature and Simple Public facing site in SharePoint Online, many of my partners and customers are asking questions on report that give details on no. of times a site is accessed, no. of unique users/visitors...

Most of the organizations who use Active Directory (AD) will like to us Single Sign-On with their corporate credentails in Office 365. This artcile takes you through the steps of achieving it. First, do remember the following points if you are going...

Federated Search was introduced with an infrastructure update in MOSS 2007. Federated Search basically uses the index created by other search engine ( in our case index created by SharePoint 2010 Search). It supplies the keyword that you entered and gets...

SharePoint Foundation has a search scope that is limited to a site collection and also it can search Office client file types such as .doc,. xlsx, .ppt , txt etc. But can we search PDF file types in SharePoint Foundation?? The answer is YES. Most of...

Its a common ask from a lot of organization who use SharePoint Calendar, to send the Holiday request for approval to their reporting manager. It is not possible out of the box, but can be achieved by writing a custom workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010...

One of the most interesting feature in Office 365 is the ability to send out invites to people who do NOT have an Office 365 account. These people can be your customers, busniess partners etc. Click here , the link that talks about how we can configure...

We know that SharePoint is used to share information internally to users who are part of the organization. When internal users want to access a SharePoint site, they use windows authentication (AD authentication). This is the way most organizations work...

You will soon receive a notification for planned maintenance upgrade to Service Update 2 . This update brings 4 important features to SharePoint Online. They are 500,000 AD objects Site Collection Recover Recycle Bin Better experience for...

SharePoint 2010 Search can search multiple location. One of those location/content source is Exchange Public Folders. This article talks about steps that are required to search public folders in Exchange 2007 SP2 or later (which includes Exchange 2010...

Content type publishing is a feature that will allow you to publish content type to other site collections in SharePoint Online. So you need to create the content type just once and then just publish it so that rest of the site collections can make use...

While doing capacity planning for SharePoint, Throughput and Peak Throughput are two very important parameters that later help you decide on the number of servers/hardware required for your SharePoint implementation. Lets start of by looking for Throughput...

The most important change in SharePoint 2013 for developers is the introduction of SharePoint apps. An app for SharePoint is a small and isolated application that provides a specific bit of functionality. SharePoint apps can and have to be added to or...

Timer Jobs are jobs that run periodically at specific time (scheduled times). Recently I worked on a project where we need to get weekly updates of the Wiki Pages created and modified in a SharePoint site. So we created a timer job that runs a CAML...

One of features used in testing of permissions in SharePoint is "Sign in as Different User" which allows you to log in as an another user. With SharePoint 2013 this option is missing. To get this feature back follow the following steps : Locate...

On 16th July, Microsoft announced the new Wave of Office 365 currently known as Office 365 Preview. The Office 365 Preview will include all the latest products such as Exchange '15', SharePoint 2013 , Lync '15' and Office 2013 in the cloud. It will also...

In Office 365 : SharePoint Online, with all plans, we get a public facing http site. In P Plans its already created and in E plans its not created by default. You can given an option to create it. But once the site is created/ready you will realise...

We have two ways to upgrade from MOSS 2007 SP2 (64bit) to SP2010. ( It doesnot talk about customization upgrade, This article primarily talks about what happens to SSP ) Inplace upgrade Database attach and upgrade Inplace upgrade in detail...

Microsoft has announced today lower prices for Office 365 offers. These lower prices are due to a high customer adoption and so a better efficiency to run Office 365, so Microsoft has decided to decrease Office 365 prices. NOTE not all Office 365 offers...

NOTE : This Article is only useful if you are using Directory Synchonization to sync. users from your local AD to cloud. When user access Microsoft Online Portal it is displayed in English (unless they have made changes in their IE options). ...