Office 365 Planning Guide: SharePoint

by Stefan on 26 Jan 2012

So you believe Office 365 is a good idea for your (big, small, tiny) company? great. And you believe it’s almost the same as having SharePoint on your old inhouse server? well, almost.

Office 365 is somewhat different, and it makes sense to spend a few minutes on planning to prevent head-aches down the road (they might come anyway for other reasons). To make it a bit easier for you, Microsoft has released a planning guide for setting up your move to an infrastructure that is built on Office 365.

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Branding SharePoint – Why?

November 6, 2011

These days when searching for SharePoint Branding on Google you will find a lot more articles than one or two years ago. Unfortunately I have seen and heard crazy stories about big amounts of money paid for branding (reminds me of the early days of the web when only somewhat big companies could afford a [...]

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Welcome Windows 8 – RIP Silverlight … or not?

September 15, 2011

In his article Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins Jonathan Allen argues  that Microsoft has effectively made a decision against Silverlight (as well as Flash and every other plugin running in Internet Explorer today) by announcing yesterday, that Internet Explorer 10 (*) on Windows 8 will not run any plugins – in Metro [...]

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Branding SharePoint – 15 Tips & more

September 3, 2011

Branding a SharePoint Site can be pretty tricky and time consuming. If you want to give it a try, check out Celina Baginski’s 15 tips on branding SharePoint over on SharePoint Pro Magazine. If you are even more serious, a friend of mine recommends Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wrox). Be Sociable, [...]

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Office “15″ in its Making

August 21, 2011

A bit more than a year after releasing Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010,  Microsoft is getting ready to hand out early versions of the next big version of Office along with SharePoint and Exchange to customers and partners. From what I was told, the programs start in November 2011. Microsoft has set up three distinct [...]

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Eric Swift is Moving Into a New Role

June 14, 2011

Microsoft Manager Eric Swift has taken a new role at Microsoft which is yet to be announced. We met Eric last year when he opened the SharePoint Community‘s Collaboration Days in Lucerne. We enjoyed the time with Eric and information provided by him. Jared Spataro is going to step into Eric’s position. We wish him [...]

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Resources for Learning SharePoint Server 2010

June 5, 2011

Mike Gannotti has compiled a great list of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Resources For IT Pro, Developer, And End Users. This list includes reading material as well as video and software (like labs and a ready to run server setup). So if you are new to SharePoint 2010 this is a fabulous entry point. Be [...]

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Microsoft’s Windows 8 Demo From D9

June 2, 2011

Walt Mossberg hosted an early public demo of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8. Looks like Microsoft is expecting a lot more tablet PCs in their user’s hands. … and when you look the hosts reactions on the “old” look of Office, you can tell there will be an avalanche of upgrades with a new user interface. [...]

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Microsoft TechDays, 2. & 3. May 2011

March 26, 2011

Microsoft invites the technical community to another round of TechDays in Basel (CH) on 2. and 3. of May this year. I will be at the Microsoft ‘Ask the Experts’ booth representing the SharePoint Community together with Samuel Zürcher. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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recommended Tweets

March 6, 2011

From the recommendations department: Randall Isenhour runs @sharepointdev – Official tweets from the SharePoint SDK team at Microsoft. Great resource of links to resources for SharePoint developers Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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