Showing posts with label SharePoint 365. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint 365. Show all posts

Sunday 23 February 2014

SharePoint Online Random Tips

1.> SPO and PowerShell:
To connect and use SharePoint online you cannot have a small business plan (P).  The Medium and enterprise Office 365 plans allow the SPO PowerShell scripts to run (very few so far).
Steps to use PS against SPO:
1.1.> Download and install the SharePoint Online Management Plugin
 1.2.> Add the snap-in/module to your PowerShell (or use the console with the snap-in already loaded)
 1.3.> Connect to your SharePoint site and validate it works.

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2.> OOTB SPO Workflows:
P Plan only has three state workflow
E Plan has 5 basic workflows: signature, 3 state, approval, ..

Sandbox does not support Visual Studio based (code) workflows but you can create declaritive workflows via SPD.

SharePoint 365 Workflow Creation Process:
  • Prototype in Visio 2010 by using the SharePoint specific workflow, this can be demonstrated with the end user as they understand Visio workflow diagrams to explain there business process.
  • Export Visio 2010 diagram to SPD
  • Implement the workflow using SPD can integrate InfoPath forms
  • Custom actions are created using VS and can be deployed, the custom actions can be integrated into the SPD created workflow.
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Sunday 4 March 2012

SPO 2nd update Statement

SPO made it's 1st update statement in October 2011 which allows BCS (web services) on SharePoint Online.  This is the 2nd change to the SP2010 online version (Feb 2012),
Ability to scale up to 500K users was 20k.
Site Collection Recycle Bin - ability to self restore includes a full site collection restore.
Ability to invite non-domain users  - Simplifies Collaboration with partners, customers, etc as they can use their own email adrs.
Changes to how your browser handles to PDF files - use to have to download and then open the pdf document.  Now will open pdf reader once clicked.

Tuesday 2 August 2011

MSOCAF

Overview: Microsoft SharePoint Online Code Analysis Framework (MSOCAF) is used by companies or people writing custom code solutions for SharePoint online to help them validate the code meets minimium coding requirments to be deployed to SharePoint 365.  Using MSOCAF code on a local SharePoint 2010 farm can be used evaluated the custom code before it is submitted to MS for approval on SharePoint 365.  Additionally, MSOCAF can submit the custom code to SharePoint Online and perform roll back functionality.

Using MSOCAF:
Installed MSOCAF applicationb on my development machine. 
Opened MSOCAF > Analyze


More Info:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rmeure/archive/2011/05/13/want-to-have-sharepoint-code-approved-by-microsoft.aspx
Writing solution validators  -http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee335711.aspx