Import Exchange folders and mail using External Data Connector for SharePoint
A new version of Vyapin’s SharePoint data import tool External Data Connector for SharePoint (v2.0) has been released. This release has two new features to connect and bridge your SharePoint content with Exchange mail content. These features help users import MS Exchange mail items from Mailboxes and Public Folders into SharePoint Lists as Items. Mail […]
How to keep your SharePoint documents synchronized with metadata from external systems
One of the major benefits of SharePoint is its ability to be used as a document repository. You can have documents from a variety of sources such as email attachments, shared folders, intranet sites and FTP sites that are brought into SharePoint Libraries for sharing and document storage. However, these documents that come from delivery […]
How to import External Data into SharePoint?
Importing external data into SharePoint to enable the right users to share and collaborate is a requirement for most companies that have business data sources that are external to their SharePoint. Such data is usually stored in Line of Business (LOB) applications or in excel spreadsheets or other databases secured by various layers of protection. […]
How to Connect SharePoint to Line of Business (LOB) applications?
Running SharePoint as your corporate data sharing platform allows you to keep your employees connected and updated. But when your data is spread across platforms, systems and applications, you need to connect to each of them, source data and synchronize as necessary. If you were storing the necessary data distributed across secured, Line of Business […]
Importing and synchronizing data from external data sources into SharePoint Office 365 and SharePoint on-premises
Corporate data consists of files, databases, data residing in line of business applications and other legacy applications. Often, you need a subset of such data to get copied to your SharePoint list, enabling your employees at various levels of the organization to share and update data. The next step would be to synchronize these changes […]
Vyapin introduces SharePoint connector to external databases
If SharePoint is your data use and sharing platform and you extract data from various external databases, applications and file servers, then it would help you immensely if you had a bridge, or a connector to all these external sources. It would fetch the required data sets, records or files from whichever system they are […]
Challenges in Importing Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet data to SharePoint
Businesses using Microsoft SharePoint technologies host loads of information that are constantly created, modified, accessed and processed by its users. SharePoint servers store this information in what are called ‘Lists’ that typically resembles an Excel spreadsheet. As you may be aware already, you can import Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet to SharePoint [In your SharePoint site, select […]
How to Import Created By, Modified By, Created Date, Modified Date fields of folders and files to SharePoint?
Two of the most common questions from our customers while migrating documents to SharePoint libraries are the following: 1. Can DocKIT import Created Date and Last Modified Date fields of files in file system? 2. Can DocKIT import Created By and Modified By fields of folders and/or files to SharePoint? Let us answer the questions: Can DocKIT import […]
