Management Tools for Office 365
To keep your Office 365 environment secure and compliant, it is vital to manage each and every element of office 365 in your organization with utmost care and scrutiny. Microsoft provides two native Office 365 management tools which helps Office 365 admins in managing Office 365 in their organization. Office 365 Admin Center Microsoft System […]
Discontinued Site and List templates in SharePoint 2013 and above
Microsoft discontinued quite a few site and list templates available in SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 from SharePoint 2013 version onward. The following Microsoft link contains an overview of the discontinued / modified templates and features in SharePoint 2013 and above. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Discontinued-features-and-modified-functionality-in-Microsoft-SharePoint-2013-bbbb0815-2538-4f1d-b647-1f7f6d508c93#__toc382936212 In this article, I would like to focus on few of the discontinued […]
Are you migrating documents to SharePoint? Preserve user value!
This article describes the steps involved in preserving the users during SharePoint content migration using Vyapin’s XPlica product. XPlica will help you preserve the user(s), if the user(s) are still available in the organization and replace the user(s) with any other alternate user, if the user is no longer with the organization. The users / […]
Office 365 Reporting with Vyapin product suite
Your Office 365 environment is a complex maze of services accessed by all stake holders in your organization based on what business functions they are part of. From an IT management perspective, an IT administrator will need to make a choice on what level of visibility the company requires when users engage with Office 365. […]
Document set metadata update and other addition in the latest DocKIT for SharePoint
The latest version of file shares to SharePoint migration tool – DocKIT for SharePoint offers users a provision to capture the Document set version and update the description metadata for the URL column. Document Set Version Capture Whenever DocKIT creates a new document set or updates the already available document set’s metadata, it can capture […]
Export Your Office 365 mailboxes and Public Folders to PST- Why?
There are many reasons why exporting your mailbox content out of Office 365 may be necessary. Besides the obvious reason of backup and recovery, mails in Office 365 Exchange Online may need to be exported for the following reasons: To prevent mailbox bloat and cut down costs of storing unwanted mails online. To ensure availability […]
SharePoint does not permit folders with the name ‘Forms’ and folder names ending with ‘_files’
One of our customers recently encountered a couple of issues when creating new folders in the following syntax using one of our SharePoint migration products: Folder names ending with ‘_files’. Folder with the name ‘Forms’. When creating a folder with name ending with _files If you are trying to create a folder with name ending […]
The Critical Link in the Security Chain
“Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and its money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information…” – Kevin Mitnick, Computer Security Consultant, Author, Hacker A security professional […]
5 Ways to Strengthen your SharePoint Relationship
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection” – Mark Twain With February on the calendar, thoughts turn to the hearts, flowers, and romance of Valentine’s Day and the promises it brings of finding lifelong happiness in a new relationship. Similar feelings arise when customers implement SharePoint solutions. This month, we take a closer look at […]
Managing SharePoint Farms made easier
Vyapin’s SharePoint Farm Reporter has been improved to provide better, quicker, more useful reports both in interactive mode (Quick Reports) and schedule mode (Power Reports). New Features SharePoint Farm Reporter now uses a new usage data processing engine to extract relevant data from IIS logs and display it in the required format under its many […]
Using Single Sign On with Office 365
Single Sign On works in Office 365 through the Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). The AD FS is synchronized with the Office 365 environment through the Directory Synchronization process to enable Users to logon to Office 365 seamlessly. Microsoft’s Directory Synchronization Server is used to sync corporate User accounts with the Office 365 environment. […]
Single Sign On in SharePoint 2013
Single-Sign-On (SSO) process authenticates recognized users and opens access to multiple applications, to which they have been granted rights. Logging in the first time authorizes the users to access all applications and enables them to switch between them as needed. The users then don’t need to enter their password each time. This lasts until the […]
Merge / Split to create better Site Collections – Improve SharePoint content usage
The popularity & widespread use of SharePoint encourages creation of several Site Collections according to the needs of the organizations. But with time, some of these may be used less than others, unnecessarily consuming the server’s resources. This leads to a dismal situation and is of grave concern to SharePoint administrators as they need to […]
Exploiting the potential of Windows Management Instrumentation feeds to produce plentiful configuration reports and secure your network
Systems administrators and network engineers need to configure and monitor a range of logs to keep themselves updated on the status of their Windows networks. They spend hours gleaning event log, security log, application log and various others to ensure that an error does not multiply to unmanageable proportions crippling their networks. Windows Management Instrumentation […]
