SharePoint & Cloud

My experiences with SharePoint and Office 365.

My last post on msdn blog. New posts @ https://sharepointwithme.wordpress.com

Hello All, This is my last blog post on msdn. Going forward all my new blog posts will be available...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 05/02/2013

InfoPath 2010 with SharePoint 2010

Recently I was working with a customer where we were auto populating AD attribute values into...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 01/29/2013

SharePoint Timer Job to get weekly updates

Timer Jobs are jobs that run periodically at specific time (scheduled times). Recently I worked on a...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 01/13/2013

SharePoint 2013 onpremise edition comparison chart

Version comparison chart for all the features for an on premise install of SharePoint 2013...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 01/09/2013

Where is "Sign in as Different User" in SharePoint 2013

One of features used in testing of permissions in SharePoint is "Sign in as Different User" which...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 12/19/2012

Form based Authentication using SQL provider in SharePoint 2013

We know that SharePoint is used to share information internally to users who are part of the...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 12/16/2012

SharePoint 2010 Solution : Getting items from any list between two dates

One of the common requirement for most of the customer is to get a list of items from a list between...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 10/31/2012

Steps to Setup SharePoint 2013 Development Environment

The most important change in SharePoint 2013 for developers is the introduction of SharePoint apps....

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 10/15/2012

How to calculate Throughput and Peak Throughput for SharePoint

While doing capacity planning for SharePoint, Throughput and Peak Throughput are two very important...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 09/21/2012

Guidance on Latency and Bandwidth for SharePoint 2010

When planning for a SharePoint deployment one of the key aspects to consider is network latency and...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 09/19/2012

Search TIFF files in SharePoint 2010

Recently one of my customer had 5 million invoices and he wanted to have them scanned and stored...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 09/19/2012

Some resources on Office 365

Service Descriptions https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13602 Deployment Guide and...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 09/17/2012

Summary on Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

We have two ways to upgrade from MOSS 2007 SP2 (64bit) to SP2010. ( It doesnot talk about...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 03/25/2012

Lower prices for Office 365 starting today.

Microsoft has announced today lower prices for Office 365 offers. These lower prices are due to a...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 03/15/2012

Configure Federated Search to get results from remote/another SharePoint 2010 Farm

Federated Search was introduced with an infrastructure update in MOSS 2007. Federated Search...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 03/12/2012

Searching PDF files in SharePoint Foundation 2010

SharePoint Foundation has a search scope that is limited to a site collection and also it can search...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 03/10/2012

Change web application port number in SharePoint 2010

Recently, one of my partners came with a request of changing his web application port. After digging...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 03/03/2012

How to make sure Office 365 Users get MOP in their preferred language.

NOTE : This Article is only useful if you are using Directory Synchonization to sync. users from...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 03/03/2012

Important facts about MySites in SharePoint 2010

Each User My site is made of 2 site collection: the My Site host site collection and the user's...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 02/25/2012

Upcoming features in SharePoint Online

You will soon receive a notification for planned maintenance upgrade to Service Update 2. This...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 02/22/2012

BPOS to Office 365 Transition

BPOS subscribers are being moved from BPOS platform to Office 365 and I have seen/spoken with lot of...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 02/20/2012

Sandbox Solution - Learn in a Snapshot!!

Earlier this month SharePoint Product team released a chart or a diagram that talks about the...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 02/09/2012

Content Type Publishing in SharePoint Online

Content type publishing is a feature that will allow you to publish content type to other site...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 01/27/2012

Office 365 Partner Access License Details

One of the most interesting feature in Office 365 is the ability to send out invites to people who...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 01/26/2012

Office 365 Certification... Coming soon!!

Wanna show the world you are a pro in Office 365, below certification will help you get that status...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 01/13/2012

Send Holiday Request to your reporting Manager for Approval

Its a common ask from a lot of organization who use SharePoint Calendar, to send the Holiday request...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 01/05/2012

Web Analytics in Office 365 : SharePoint Online

Since the introduction of External Sharing feature and Simple Public facing site in SharePoint...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 12/21/2011

Change SharePoint Online Public Site to look like a SharePoint 2010 Site

In Office 365 : SharePoint Online, with all plans, we get a public facing http site. In P Plans its...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 12/21/2011

Achieving FBA with ADLDS & SharePoint 2010

FBA or Form Based Authentication is a method used when user/s who are not part of your company, such...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 12/19/2011

SharePoint 2010 Search can search multiple location. One of those location/content source is...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 12/14/2011

Steps to configure Single Sign On for Office 365.

Most of the organizations who use Active Directory (AD) will like to us Single Sign-On with their...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 12/06/2011

How can we set custom domain name for SPO public site

In Office 365, you can host your SharePoint Online public website on the same domain as Exchange...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 12/02/2011

CREATE Documents in SharePoint Online

One of the most awaited feature is available in SharePoint Online now. We can now create documents...

Author: Roshan N Y Date: 12/01/2011