Understanding Usability
Usability is being emphasized more and more by companies and is being taken a lot more seriously in recent years. In this note, we will discuss and review some key concepts related to usability to help you to better understand them. Usability Basics Usability measures the quality of a user’s experience when interacting with a […]
Creating a Lightweight Timer Job for a Site Collection: Defining Custom Work Items
Creating a Lightweight Timer Job for a Site Collection: Defining Custom Work Items Timer jobs run in a specific Windows services for the SharePoint Server (please refer to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678870.aspx for more information). SharePoint provides some built-in timer job definitions for infrastructure, which provides developers a mechanism to customize jobs. These jobs allow developers to incorporate […]
How to Configure SSL for a SharePoint Web Site
SSL is a kind of security protocol that more and more web sites are using to protect their information. Similarly, SharePoint has a SSL feature that can be enabled in Central Administration. This blog will show you how. SSL Configuration: Step 1. Server Roles 1. Login to SharePoint Server as administrator. 2. Open Server management […]
Office 365: Cloud based and convenient
Office 365 is about mobility; it’s about maximization of your time; and it’s about being where you are all the time. With Office 365 you get some of the following great products to keep you connected and efficient: Microsoft Office; email and calendars; website; office web apps; file sharing and managing projects, instant messaging, presence, […]
SharePoint Conferences for 2012
The SharePoint Conference 2012 this year will be held from November 12th to 15th, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here is your chance to preview the up and coming new release of SharePoint 13 as well as have a chance to look into and discuss Office 365, within which you will find SharePoint 365. Don’t […]
SharePoint 365: Stay connected with latest software
When SharePoint was first released in 2001, it had a goal to make business collaboration easier and enable large groups of people to work together. Now in 2012 Microsoft is making a new and innovative leap with SharePoint 365, know as SharePoint Online, which is part of the new Office 365 package. In a bold […]
Dragging & Dropping between SharePoint Document Libraries
Microsoft Sharepoint’s ECMAScript (JavaScript, JScript) object model allows you to interact with SharePoint sites from scripts that executes in the browser. In this post, we will examine a detailed example of moving documents by simply dragging & dropping the files between document libraries. How it Should Work 1. Start moving the files by dragging the […]
How to Import Business Data from External Database to a SharePoint List in a Few Minutes
As SharePoint is being used in more and more organizations than ever before, it makes sense for it to be the place where you can access external data, see a KPI dashboard, reuse the data within SharePoint, or use SharePoint as the main interface to edit or add to your external data, etc. There is […]
