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Back to SharePoint Basics: Part 3–Working With Views
It’s been awhile but I am back to continue on my SharePoint Basics series for SharePoint. Let’s see where we are: Part 1 – What is SharePoint? Part 2 – Creating Content Part 3- Working with Views...
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Why Collaboration?
There is a lot of discussion about collaboration in the workplace, but little explanation as to why it is becoming increasingly important. This infographic explains the four primary business-drivers...
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How to Selectively Sync Folders to OneDrive for Business
While recently working with some users who are migrating to OneDrive for Business for SharePoint 2013, I was in a discussion about how to use the OneDrive for Business client. After walking through...
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Collaboration at Microsoft Convergence
This week C5 Insight is attending Convergence – Microsoft’s conference dedicated to their business applications such as the Dynamics product line (CRM, AX, NAV, GP), Office365, Yammer, SharePoint and...
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4 Reasons Why You Should Use Excel to Create a Survey
Maybe you didn’t even know, but if you are using Office 365 or OneDrive, you can use Excel to create a survey, share it with others and easily get the results. There are many tools you can use to...
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Microsoft Ignite 2015–Day 1 Recap
It’s still spring time here in Chicago, but it’s also time for Microsoft’s first ever all-in-one product conference named Ignite. Throughout the rest of this week, I’ll do my best to share with you...
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Microsoft Ignite 2015–Day 2
In today's tales from the field, I take you through each session of my day, but also give you a quick look back at something I omitted from the day 1 keynote. The sessions cover the gamut from...
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Microsoft Ignite 2015–Day 3
Well this was the day I had been waiting for. If you’ve wanted to get more information on SharePoint 2016, today’s recap is for you! I’ll briefly review some tips from the great duo of Todd Klindt...
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Microsoft Ignite 2015–Day 4
As we near the end of Ignite, day 4 was still filled with some great technical sessions. I’ll give you a rundown of everything from SQL High Availability, best practices for branding and page design...
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Microsoft Ignite 2015–Day 5
We’re at the end of day 5 here in Chicago, home of the Microsoft Ignite conference 2015. It’s been a packed week, and in this final post of my daily recaps, we’ll validate the awesomeness of Visio for...
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Measuring Enterprise Social Collaboration
Enabling our teams to work together better – to collaborate and engage – might be the competitive differentiator of the 21st century. The days of the production-line worker, the inbox/outbox process...
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2 Easy Ways to Calculate Working Days Inside a SharePoint Workflow
I’m in the midst of two different major workflows for clients right now, one of them being an HR New Hire Onboarding request and approval process. One small but critical requirement of the process...
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Resolve Stubborn Missing Reusable Workflows in SharePoint Designer
Recently I went through a multi-month ordeal with Microsoft support in trying to resolve a tough issue with workflows, so I definitely want to share the simplistic resolution with others. I’m not...
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Forget Technology, Focus On People
A few years ago I decided that it was time for me to spend more time exercising at home. I love riding my bike, but it’s not always convenient and with a 3 year old, it’s often dark outside before I...
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Using AutoSPInstaller to Build a Three-Tier SharePoint 2013 Farm – Part 1
If you’ve ever installed SharePoint before (and especially 2013), you know what a joyous amount of fun it is to do it all by hand. If you had a bit more experience, then you knew you could (and did)...
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Using AutoSPInstaller to Build a Three-Tier SharePoint 2013 Farm – Part 2
Welcome back to part 2 of my short series of using AutoSPInstaller to build a 3-tier multiple server SharePoint farm. Last time we looked at all of the work we needed to do to get setup and discussed...
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What’s Missing from the SharePoint 2016 Preview?
If you keep up with SharePoint news at all, you have very likely heard that Microsoft recently dropped the beta 1 build of SharePoint 2016 (or more affectionately called the IT Preview) to much...
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Seminars or Snippets - Are You Training Your End Users Wrong?
I’m curious…when was the last time you went into one of the large bookstore chains and bought a reference book, took it home or to the office, and read through it to “get up-to-speed” on a topic?...
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I’ll Be Online Next Week At Collab365 Delivering The Deadly Sins of SharePoint
One of my favorite topics on which to speak is SharePoint failure - and collaboration failure in general. Over the last 5 years, the C5 Insight team members have become experts in struggling SharePoint...
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C5 Insight Will Be At CRMUG Summit Next Week Talking About CRM and...
Let me ask you a question – have you ever failed…at anything? Anyone? Come on, be honest. The fact is, we’ve all failed at something. And if we’re being honest, some of us more than others!...
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A Little LUCK May Be The Secret Ingredient For Collaboration Success
Great…now that I have your attention, let me explain. At C5 Insight, we talk about LUCK…a lot. No, not as something random that happens by chance, but as we define LUCK here at our organization....
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How to Migrate a SharePoint 2010 InfoPath List Form to SharePoint 2013 or...
I’ve been working with a client recently to migrate their SharePoint 2010 farms to SharePoint 2013. A lot of the data was being organized so it was quite a granular move utilizing one of the common...
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SharePoint Hosted Add-Ins : Beginners' Steps
Ready for a primer on what SharePoint Add-Ins actually are? As discussed here, they are self-contained extensions, which means that code written for Add-Ins won't stay on SP server. Well this is all...
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Use PowerShell to Call a Web Service - Don’t Reinvent the Wheel!
One habit that prevails through any vertical is to be efficient at what you do – work smarter not harder right? In the land of PowerShell (or any development for that matter) that is a vital lesson...
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Nintex in 2016: What’s New and the Road Ahead
We’re a little into 2016, and lately I’ve been working a lot with Nintex as a partner. If you’ve taken a look at their site lately, they have a lot going on! I thought I’d try and highlight a few...
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