Blog Archive

  1. Creating a Simple Workflow in SharePoint 2013

    Jeffrey Woltz

    SharePoint document and list item workflows are an excellent way to automate repeatable business processes with SharePoint 2013. Workflows allow users to create a model of how a business process should be carried out, and then to automate and audit that business process. There are several different ways to create SharePoint Workflow. The easiest way to create workflows…

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  2. How to Create Cross Site Collection Global Navigation in SharePoint 2013

    Jeffrey Woltz

    Consistency always plays a vital role to managing sites and subsites in SharePoint. One of the best improvements in SharePoint 2013 was the expanded managed metadata servcie. Now the best practice to managing cross site collection navigation is to use the Managed Term Store as your global navigation tool. Global navigation brings ease to SharePoint…

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  3. How to Create an Enterprise Wiki in SharePoint 2013

    Jeffrey Woltz

    With the tremendous increase in knowledge sharing and management in the businesses world, the need for central information repositories and real time communication can be a confusing landscape. SharePoint has proved itself to be one of the best collaboration platform and is probably already in your IT environment. If you have access to SharePoint, I…

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  4. Implementing a SharePoint Permissions Plan in 5 Steps (Part 1)

    Edward K. Wells

    For the uninformed, SharePoint’s massively configurable permission schema can be overwhelming. If you have recently taken on the responsibility of administrating your team’s SharePoint site and know very little about SharePoint permissions then this post is for you. SharePoint security is endlessly customizable and the user interface stinks, but with a little patience you can…

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  5. Minimize storage consumption with SharePoint

    Jeffrey Woltz

    Minimize storage consumption in SharePoint One of the biggest rising issues in the information technology world is the exponential growth of user driven data demands. Due to the boom in technology the need for memory has consistently increased exponential and shows no signs of slowing. Both small and large organizations are seeing their users consume…

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  6. Data Duplication and Resource Management

    Jeffrey Woltz

    Turbo Boost Your SharePoint Adoption As more and more companies move their intellectual knowledge towards SharePoint we are see a growing SharePoint adoption problem. SharePoint gets set up, files get moved over, communications and user accounts are sent out, and yet people continue to use SharePoint like a network drive. Part of the problem…

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  7. Secure your messaging and attachments with SharePoint.

    Jeffrey Woltz

    Securing your communications around SharePoint information. Over the past few years the trend to migrate field to the secure and collaborative information sharing environment of SharePoint has been increased tremendously. SharePoint is currently being used by more than 78% of Fortune 500 companies. With the adoption of Microsoft SharePoint in the business world increasing at a greater rate than…

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  8. Site Mailboxes vs. EasyBox 2013

    Edward K. Wells

    Site Mailboxes vs. EasyBox 2013 With SharePoint Online comes a heavily advertised feature called Site Mailboxes. Does this mean SharePoint is merging with Outlook? Not really. Site Mailboxes simply allow emails to be sent to a SharePoint document library, the same as the Email Enabled Document Libraries of 2010. The problem is that, as…

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