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Power BI Clarifications - Q&A

    1.        How can we display Power Bi Visuals inside SharePoint a.        Can we display the whole Dashboard inside SharePoint Pages b.        Or can we display just one Visual inside a SharePoint Page using an App? Response : A new feature has been added to PowerBI.com which is managing of embedded codes in the Settings section of PowerBI. It was added sometime last week only. 3 rd party is available at $3 per month: https://store.office.com/power-bi-tiles-for-sharepoint-WA104379750.aspx?assetid=WA104379750&sourcecorrid=bd27d848-b8e6-4da0-a848-e81d193dd317&searchapppos=2 Also, you can embed Power BI Tiles into Office Documents: https://store.office.com/power-bi-tiles-WA104379699.aspx?assetid=WA104379699&sourcecorrid=bd27d848-b8e6-4da0-a848-e81d193dd317&searchapppos=1 2.        How can we provide security for our...

Understanding SharePoint Share Option at Site and Document Levels

The Pre-Conditions to enable External Sharing is that, External Sharing must be turned on for that Particular Site Collection. It can be turned on at the tenant level by the Office 365 Admin and then separately can turn on or off for every Site Collection.   It is important to understand the below scenarios, when Share Option is clicked at the Site Level :   When you are logged in as a User with Full Control Permissions Or you are present in the Owners Group, you can share your Site with both Internal Users as well as External Users; When such a User shares, he also will an option to select one out of 3 permissions levels: Owner, Edit or Read - so accordingly, the Owner user can assign permissions to any of these 3 permission categories.   When you are logged in as a User with Contribute Permissions (Or you are present in the Members group), you can share your Site with both Internal Users as well as External Users). A Member user cannot select the Permis...

Sharing in SharePoint 2013 - Explained well

http://sharepoint-community.net/profiles/blogs/sharing-in-sharepoint-2013-1 

What’s new in Office 2016 for developers

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As you’ve read,   the new Office is here   and for developers, this is an exciting time! The ability to insert add-ins into your documents, call new Office.js APIS, launch task panes inside your Office clients and run commands directly from the ribbon increases the productivity of your entire team! Add-ins now work across Office 2016 running on Windows, Office Online in your browser, Office 2016 on the Mac (Outlook currently) and Office on the iPad. Office 2016 on Windows introduces some new extensibility features that will roll out over the other Office clients over time. Add-in commands Add-in commands provide ways to initiate specific add-in actions from the ribbon. This lets users access add-ins in a simple, intuitive and unobtrusive way. Because they offer increased functionality in a seamless manner, add-in commands allow developers to create more engaging scenarios and add-ins. Add-in commands are declared in the add-in manifest in a new node called Versio...

Configure Free SSL with Exchange Server

Steps to configure Free SSL with Exchange Server http://www.careexchange.in/how-to-complete-a-pending-ssl-certificate-request-in-exchange-server-2013/

SharePoint Online Developer Resources including Migration from Server Object Model to Client Object Model

SharePoint Online Developer Resources First up, on Transforming On-Premise Customizations to Online ·          http://dev.office.com/training#/TransformSharePointCustomizationstoSharePointAppModel?filters=transform%20sharepoint%20customizations%20to%20sharepoint%20add-in%20model ·          http://dev.office.com/transform Homepage: Office Dev Center SharePoint Add-Ins - Apps for SharePoint are self-contained extensions of SharePoint websites that you create, and that run without custom code on the SharePoint server. Get started creating SharePoint-hosted SharePoint Add-ins Get started creating provider-hosted SharePoint Add-ins Publish SharePoint Add-ins Note: The name "apps for SharePoint" is changing to "SharePoint Add-ins". During the transition, the documentation and the UI of some SharePoint products and Visual Studio tools might still use the term "apps f...

SharePoint 2013 Permission Report: Check Access Rights for a Specific User

SharePoint 2013 Permission Report: Check Access Rights for a Specific User I’m pretty sure that by now many of the SharePoint SME’s out there would have tried the  “Check access rights script for a specific user”  . Now if you’re new to this , please take a look at the link below to understand what this script is all about .It’s a very powerful tool with some limitations.  I happened to work with this script recently and listed below is my experience with this script . https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/SharePoint-Permission-2840f327 It doesn’t get really granular and looks for all the bits and pieces and retrieve the complete information we are looking for .For instance it can’t get the permission assigned on a list item and its just stops at the list level .In addition to that it doesn’t look for the security groups too.  The script takes atleast not less than 30 mins to 1 hour to run depending upon the size of the FARM and the ...