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New technologies to learn:

SharePoint Online  SharePoint Hosted Apps Provider Hosted Apps App Parts SharePoint Online PowerShell Pulling Data from SPO User Profile into SharePoint App Part / Customizations  Hosting a App in the App Store (SharePoint App Store) Custom Authentication (Possible?  MS Office Add-Ins  Workflow Related Creating a drag and drop interface which creates the activities automatically  Services related REST Services Web APIs differences between both SharePoint 2016 What is new in features What is new in capacity development  What is new development  .Net Development / Others What is new in VS 2015 What is new in latest .Net Framework?  MVC, MVVM Angular JS HTML5, CSS3 TFS (Team Foundation Server) - Configuration Management ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) XAMARIN - Cross Platform Mobile Development  BI SQL Server Integration Services SQL Server Analysis Services Power BI Power BI R Script  P...

Power BI Salient Features

PowerBI is certainly raising up the ranks with key differentiators as below: 1.      Updates almost every week from Microsoft 2.      Integration with SSRS 2016 3.      Custom Visuals ( www.powerbi.com/visuals ) where you can write your own visuals and render your business data on it 4.      Excel Add-In for Power BI (Add your Excel Pivot Tables, Charts into Power BI Dashboards) 5.      PowerPoint Add-In for Power BI (Embed Power BI Visuals into your slides) 6.      Quick Insights Feature 7.      Ever growing content packs (more than 59 as I am writing this) 8.      Third party providers for Content Packs and Connectors like Theobald software 9.      Yammer Embed Option – with the ability to have a live conversation with your colleagues along side a Power BI Dashboard 10.   Video E...

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/