Get your Office Web Apps icons in SharePoint Online

Often times I get asked how to provision a document library in SharePoint Online to expose the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote icons in the document library ribbon to allow users to fire up one of those document types right from within the document library. There is two approaches – one of which is code … Continue reading Get your Office Web Apps icons in SharePoint Online →

Quick Tip: How to list all user profiles in SharePoint Online

To list the user profiles of all SharePoint Online users in your tenant you can follow these steps Navigate to the User Profiles tab in the SharePoint Administration Center and click Manage User Profiles In the "Find profiles" text box type i:0#.f|membership Click the Find button to see the list of all user profiles … Continue reading Quick Tip: How to list all user profiles in SharePoint Online →

Handpicked Recordings – Office 365 on TechEd 2012

In case you missed TechEd 2012 North America last week - or had to prioritize sessions - here is a list of some of the recorded Office 365 sessions I'd recommend. Just click the link to see a streamed recording of the session and/or download the recording and the slides (may not be available for all sessions) if you … Continue reading Handpicked Recordings – Office 365 on TechEd 2012 →

Workflows in SharePoint Online

SharePoint workflows are pre-programmed mini-applications that streamline and automate a wide variety of business processes — from collecting signatures, feedback, or approvals for a plan or document, to tracking the current status of a routine procedure. Built-in workflows The following five workflows are pre-programmed (built-in) in SharePoint Online for Enterprises. Approval (route a document or … Continue reading Workflows in SharePoint Online →

Understanding the Administrator Role in SharePoint Online

When you sign up for an Office 365 account, you automatically become an Office 365 global administrator and a SharePoint Online Administrator. This global administrator is added to the team site that is automatically created for you during your Office 365 account setup (for example, https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com), and is assigned the site collection administrator role. One … Continue reading Understanding the Administrator Role in SharePoint Online →

Understanding the “Your session has exceeded its limits and has been closed” error in Excel Web App

The Office Web App Service Description lists a max file size of 10 MB for Excel Web App. If you ever tried to upload an Excel workbook to SharePoint Online, even if the file size is smaller than 10 MB you might have encountered the error “Your session has exceeded its limits and has been closed“. … Continue reading Understanding the “Your session has exceeded its limits and has been closed” error in Excel Web App →

Put managed metadata to work in SharePoint Online

Say you require your SharePoint Online users to enter information about the intended audience for the document they are about to upload to a document library. If you leave it up to the user to come up with a term for audience of the document, you might end up with a bunch of documents intended … Continue reading Put managed metadata to work in SharePoint Online →