SharePoint Services

SharePoint Simplifies Online Storage Management

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When OneDrive for Business upped user’s storage allotment to 1 TB and removed the quota management tab from the Online Administration Center, the experience of using SharePoint’s many features became easier. Now, a new storage model based on usage will make it even easier to manage storage availability across your team sites.

What The New Model Means For You

First, you will notice that you can reclaim much more SharePoint Online pooled storage capability with the new system. Reserved storage now applies only at the tenant level and does not tie up blocks of reserved storage; only actual use counts against your total.

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SharePoint’s Great Features

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We can hardly say enough about SharePoint because every time we talk about one great feature, two more seem to pop up! Here are some great features of SharePoint that you may not realize you can incorporate into your own business management.

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SharePoint Allows Instant Collaboration

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One of the best features about SharePoint, and one that makes it useful to thousands of business owners who are struggling to find good collaboration software, is the fact that with the new updates users can collaboration in “real time” on documents and save changes without emailing back and forth.

Even Dropbox and Google Docs, which were once hailed for their cloud-based collaboration capabilities, do not share documents in the way that SharePoint is capable of doing. While it is true that both Dropbox and Google Docs allow users to access documents from a number of locations, they do not share the same type of “real-time” collaboration capabilities that are evidenced in SharePoint.

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SharePoint Solutions For Your Business

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Would you be surprised to learn that in a recent Microsoft class, most of the students had no answer for the question, “What is SharePoint?” Actually, most people learn about the benefits of SharePoint when they encounter it at work after someone else has chosen to implement this useful Microsoft platform, either in its online … Read More

Tibbr Links to SharePoint, Outlook

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More companies than ever are discovering the benefits of collaboratively linking to SharePoint, including Tibco, the company that promotes its Tibbr enterprise social networking suite. Tibco recently announced that it will aim for deeper SharePoint integration to target customers who are using the Microsoft platform in its self-contained format. Tibbr hopes to capitalize on the … Read More

SharePoint Drives Social Communication

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Microsoft SharePoint is not only a program that offers convenient document storage in a cloud base. This incredible program also offers one of the newest and most interesting forms of communication available for a data sharing program: social communication. What Does Social Communication Mean? In the past, workers communicated by email or other methods that … Read More

SharePoint and Yammer: A Match Made In Heaven

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Microsoft has made it clear: Yammer will be the social collaboration vehicle for SharePoint from now on. According to a recent report, Office 365 is the first program to benefit from Yammer, but SharePoint is not far behind. Future service packs will feature out-of-the-box social collaboration through Yammer. However, there has been concern that Microsoft … Read More

SharePoint Conference Available Online

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The 2014 SharePoint Conference which was held March 3-6 in Las Vegas, Nevada, featured several important speakers as well as more than 230 breakout sessions for developers, IT professionals and others who were interested in finding out more about how SharePoint could help their businesses. Now, all of these sessions and speakers are being offered … Read More

SharePoint Rolls Out OneDrive Changes

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The SharePoint Conference 2014 in March announced some exciting changes to OneDrive for Business in Office 365, part of the entire SharePoint experience. Those changes are beginning to take shape now, and innovations such as Simple Controls, Site Folders, Smarter Search, and more have users buzzing. Most of these changes are designed to make common … Read More

SharePoint Makes Managing Metadata Simpler

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Metadata is the term used to describe the large amounts of information that routinely flow through some businesses. Depending on the type of company you operate, you might see thousands of emails, blog posts, spreadsheet entries and other forms of data per day. Metadata refers to the overarching “umbrella” that covers all forms of data … Read More