Author Archives: Paul Gilbride

12 Gmail Plugins to Boost Productivity

What’s your favorite Gmail plugin or service to increase email productivity and efficiency? 1. Rapportive I love using Rapportive to get some (publicly available) background info on the person who has just emailed me. With so many colleagues, clients and contacts, it’s great to place the email with a name, face, business and social mediaContinue reading “12 Gmail Plugins to Boost Productivity”

Tutorial on using SharePoint Workspaces 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNUxYjFJEs4

Work where you want when you want with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint opens locally on your PC, enabling you to sync your folders and work on or offline. Collaborating as a team is easy with SharePoint technology. Find SharePoint Workspace on Facebook for support, tips and the latest news: http://on.fb.me/97Jm3i

Host your own e-mail server

E-mail is more pervasive these days than the business letter was just a couple of decades ago. Having a reliable e-mail server is crucial to most businesses. However, many companies—particularly smaller ones—have not taken the next step to host their own mail servers. Some rely on their local ISP to provide e-mail services, while othersContinue reading “Host your own e-mail server”

SharePoint 2010: Inviting External Users to your Site.

External Users will need to be invited to one of two default groups, Site Visitors, or Site members. If a user is not being added from a Microsoft email address, they will need to visit https://signup.live.com, and set their email address up with a live ID. Once the users have completed this step, and they’veContinue reading “SharePoint 2010: Inviting External Users to your Site.”

Adding Additional Default Doc Types to a Document Library

This is a quick blog post on document library behavior for SharePoint 2010. By default, when you create a new document library you are asked which document type you want to make “Default” for your list. However, what if you want all four Office document types to show up? Here’s what we’re going to walkContinue reading “Adding Additional Default Doc Types to a Document Library”

How to add loads of folders at once using Microsoft Excel !

Instructions Using a Batch File Arrange your folder names in a single column. Click on the column’s header and type “FOLDERNAMES” in the name field beside the formula bar. Add a blank column to the left of the “FOLDERNAMES” column by right-clicking the column header and choosing “Insert.” Highlight the first cell in the blankContinue reading “How to add loads of folders at once using Microsoft Excel !”

Useful sites for SharePoint – Office365

SharePoint Online Administration Guide in Office 365 for enterprises :- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg132908.aspx Learn More About SharePoint Online for Office 365 :- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/gg144571 Synchronize SharePoint content with SharePoint Workspace:- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/synchronize-sharepoint-content-with-sharepoint-workspace-HA101967275.aspx Workflow:- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-foundation-help/about-the-workflows-included-with-sharepoint-HA102420739.aspx SharePoint online Extranet Invites:- http://blogs.technet.com/b/nitinsha/archive/2011/04/05/office-365-sharepoint-online-extranet-invites.aspx Suggestion:- http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Microsoft%20%20Online%20%20Services/Feedback.aspx?formID=210 That’s Why I Use SharePoint:- http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/iusesharepoint/landing.aspx

Freeing up space for downloading documents to SharePoint workspaces

In this article About SharePoint Workspace download limits Freeing up space by deleting SharePoint workspaces Freeing up space by disconnecting from document libraries Freeing up space by discarding documents in document libraries About SharePoint Workspace download limits You can store approximately 10,000 documents in SharePoint Workspace. Once you reach the limit, only document properties suchContinue reading “Freeing up space for downloading documents to SharePoint workspaces”