Understanding the basics of Active Directory (AD)
One question that often comes up when looking at SharePoint is: what is an Active Directory? According to the “Glossary for SharePoint 2010” published by Microsoft Office Dev Center an Active Directory is: “A general-purpose network directory service. Active Directory also refers to the Windows implementation of a directory service. Active Directory stores information […]
The Basics for Users of SharePoint
Are you a user of SharePoint who still has trouble understanding what SharePoint really is? This is a daunting question as there is no right answer to what SharePoint is. Everyone has their own perspective and this leads to even more confusion about what SharePoint is. What is SharePoint? According to Microsoft SharePoint 2013 […]
Migrating Your Email to Office 365 part 2
Migrating email to Office 365 can be a daunting task. But with some preparation and planning you can easily migrate your email to Office 365. Here are three more vendors you can look at to help you migrate your email to Office 365 successfully. CloudMigrator by CloudSolutions essentially helps you move all messages, appointments, […]
Migrating Your Email to Office 365
Migrating email to Office 365 can be a daunting task. But with some preparation and planning you can easily migrate your email to Office 365. The first thing to know is that the Exchange server for the online version are almost the same as your own servers but with the added benefit of less cost […]
The Happy Times or Doom and Gloom of Cloud
Cloud this, back up that. You hear it all the time. Everyone says you should just put your information in the cloud, or maybe just back-up to the cloud. It can be great if you need to back-up a few not so important things or be able to get at some items from just about […]
European Office 365 Connect 2014
European Office 365 Connect 2014, a conference brought to you by the people who will be bringing you SharePoint Connections Amsterdam 2013, will bring together Microsoft and independent speakers to demonstrate how Microsoft Office 365 can deliver “the power of social collaboration, email, and unified communication.” Using real-life experiences, speakers will illustrate how “you […]
Branding in SharePoint: Public-facing websites that use SharePoint
In SharePoint you will at some point hear about branding. You can say that there are two types of branding, one for your internal intranet SharePoint that you will use within your organization. The second is branding that will occur for you public facing internet site. Should you brand? For intranet sites, I personally think […]
How to install BoostSolutions Foundation
When you first download and install BoostSolutions products onto your server you must first install BoostSolutions Foundation. This component is essential to managing licenses for BoostSolutions products in a centralized location. Foundation comes prepackaged with BoostSolutions products and will install automatically if you do not already have it on your server. But you also have […]