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Few Things About SharePoint 2013 All IT Pros Should Know SharePoint, for Microsoft, has grown into a billions-of-dollars-a-year sort of business that increases its market share in the double-digit range each year. Not to put too fine a point on it: SharePoint is a beast in its space. Companies are adopting it worldwide to centralize knowledge, increase collaboration, develop applications on top of it and realize actionable intelligence about their overall business health. However, SharePoint 2013 represents a major new release in the lifecycle of the product, and that may cause you to wonder what it is, what it can do for you and what your organization needs to know before considering and deploying it. Here's a brief SharePoint 2013 cheat sheet to help you sort out with some of those concerns. SharePoint 2013 Highlights: Better BI, Mobile, Public Website Support What are the big points Microsoft wants to sing about when it comes to the SharePoint 2013 release? While there...

SharePoint Implementation Pre-proposal assessment questionnaire Organization Name   Website   Total Users   List down all Departments   Total # of Offices   IT Head / IT Manager / CIO Name and Contact Information   Other Key Stakeholders for this implementation   Is your IT Strategy moving towards cloud or will it remain On-Premise   Connectivity between the Offices   Please provide details of your current applications and your current IT Environment Do you have an Intranet Portal currently? If yes, which software do you use for the same?   Do you currently have a Document Management System?   How are interactions / information exchange happening within employees of your organization?   Do you have an Instant Messaging tool like Lync?   Do you use MS Exchange?   Do you use Network Share Folders? If so describe the purposes, the size and also the various stakeholders who use it?   Do you share content with external partners, customers, stakeholders? If yes, how do you do it?   How do em...

Company Name   Company Locations   # of employees   Do you currently have SharePoint or not   What are the key objectives for which you are going for SharePoint?   You would like to go for SharePoint On-Premise or SharePoint On-Demand (Office 365)   If Office 365, what is the plan you would like to go for   Would you be using SharePoint only for Document Storage and Sharing?   Do you have any electronic Forms / Workflow requirements?   Do you have any Document Workflow requirements?   Do you have any Business Intelligence Dashboards requirements?   What are your Search requirements?   Are you ok with the default look and feel / User Interface provided by SharePoint / Office 365 or you would like it to be custom branded?   What is the amount of data storage that will growth month by month or year by year?   Would you like to integrate – Pull or Push data between any other external systems?   Would you like to migrate data or documents from external file shares or any other locations?   ...

Current SharePoint Version Current SharePoint Edition Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Online # of Web Applications # of Site Collections # of Content Databases Total Size of Current SharePoint Content # of WSP Customizations # of SharePoint Designer Workflows Whether any Custom Branding (Custom User Interface) has been applied (Or it just follows the default look and feel) Do you want any new features in SharePoint 2013 to be configured or implemented OR Do you want the current SharePoint 2010 environment to be upgraded to 2013 – as it is? Do you want any new customizations to be developed? Are there any issues in the current environment which need to be fixed before doing the upgrade? Does the current environment have any BCS (Busin...

External Sharing of SharePoint Online - Clarifications https://support.office.com/en-in/article/Manage-external-sharing-for-your-SharePoint-Online-environment-c8a462eb-0723-4b0b-8d0a-70feafe4be85 In the above link, it clearly states that – External Users can View / Add / Edit documents. Also in the below link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/b95d72bf-206f-4c26-a53d-ba61ff73605c#bkmk_ExternalSharingExternalAccess It clearly states the below. It does say – that, you can very well do External Sharing with Customers or Clients or even Vendors. Also in the below link, https://support.office.com/en-au/article/SharePoint-Online-software-boundaries-and-limits-8f34ff47-b749-408b-abc0-b605e1f6d498 It also states, there is no limits on the # of External Users you can share your site with.

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