18 07, 2016

User Experience Improvements Come to SharePoint

2021-01-21T10:02:35-08:00July 18th, 2016|

Microsoft SharePoint can do awesome things, but its interface can be quite unintuitive at times. The result has been that while the number of SharePoint licenses has increased rapidly year-over-year, end-user adoption rates have not followed suit. By contrast, the Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools has evolved into a leader in intuitive, user-friendly [...]

15 06, 2016

Have you heard about Microsoft Flow and PowerApps?

2021-07-01T10:41:03-07:00June 15th, 2016|

The new SharePoint Development Framework was not the only news to come out of San Francisco at Microsoft's Future of SharePoint event last month -- Microsoft Flow and Microsoft PowerApps also made their appearance. These new tools are aimed at increasing business efficiency, particularly in terms of automation. Going with the Flow Microsoft Flow [...]

2 06, 2016

Microsoft Introduces new SharePoint Development Framework

2021-01-21T10:17:12-08:00June 2nd, 2016|

What is the new “SharePoint Development Framework” that Microsoft talked about at its Future of SharePoint event May 4th? What value does it bring to SharePoint development – and ultimately, to businesses that use SharePoint? Many Technet and blog articles delve into the programming particulars of this new framework, and we will leave them [...]

18 05, 2016

Office Graph Takes Center Stage

2023-07-13T13:27:24-07:00May 18th, 2016|

On May 4th, Microsoft hosted the Future of SharePoint event in San Francisco, which coincided with the general release of SharePoint 2016. The overall purpose was to highlight what users can expect in SharePoint's future and to get them enthused about the overall direction of SharePoint. Office Graph Moves Front and Center One key [...]

11 05, 2016

SharePoint On-premises: Here to Stay!

2021-05-20T11:04:11-07:00May 11th, 2016|

“We remain committed to our customer’s on-premises and do not consider SharePoint Server 2016 to be the last on-premises server release.” -- Bill Baer, SharePoint Senior Product Manager blog post, May 4, 2016. With the release of SharePoint 2016 last week, Microsoft confirmed its commitment to providing a powerful and innovative on-premises SharePoint platform. [...]

4 05, 2016

“Future of SharePoint”: What You Need to Know

2021-05-20T11:03:33-07:00May 4th, 2016|

There was so much covered in Microsoft's Future of SharePoint presentation today! Here are the key takeaways, from our perspective: SharePoint On-premises Is Here To Stay Microsoft is committed to maintaining and improving SharePoint on-premises. Coming in 2017, Microsoft will release feature pack updates for SharePoint Server 2016. Feature packs will take a subset [...]

13 04, 2016

Reach for the Cloud with Microsoft Azure

2023-07-13T13:29:08-07:00April 13th, 2016|

Microsoft Azure allows businesses to easily offload on-premises IT functions to the cloud, helping move them towards becoming truly cloud-based enterprises. Since Azure dwells within the Microsoft ecosystem, it also tightly integrates with other Microsoft solutions, such as SQL Server, Office 365, and SharePoint. In future articles, we will address some of the common [...]

17 03, 2016

New in SharePoint 2016: MinRole Servers

2022-03-23T16:55:18-07:00March 17th, 2016|

If you’ve read anything about SharePoint 2016, you’ve probably heard about MinRole. But what is MinRole? How will it help your business? Bill Baer, Senior Product Marketing Manager for SharePoint at Microsoft, puts it this way: “MinRole is designed to transform guidance into code, simplifying deployment and scale with SharePoint ensuring a request is [...]

11 03, 2016

Data Loss Prevention in SharePoint 2016 & Office 365

2021-11-05T13:52:47-07:00March 11th, 2016|

Recently, we posted about how Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 are “particularly well-suited” to managing user access requests and other critical security needs, such as security policy management and employee training. In this article, we highlight a security feature Microsoft has built in to both SharePoint Online (Office 365) and the new SharePoint 2016 release: Data [...]

9 03, 2016

Using SharePoint for Security Management – More Ways to Protect Resources and Ensure Compliance

2021-01-21T10:34:54-08:00March 9th, 2016|

Last December, we posted a blog article about how Microsoft SharePoint is “particularly well-suited” to manage user access requests. With the right enhancements and configurations, SharePoint can give teams the power to regulate access to physical and digital resources and thereby protect their organization's security. Controlling who has what access to data and systems is [...]

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