Posts Tagged ‘Office 365’
Office 365 Newswire: Microsoft’s secret plan for Office 365 dominance – 12.14.2011
Ty Anderson | December 14th, 2011
A couple weeks ago (actually last week), I made a passing reference to MOJO. I was speaking then of Microsoft Office 365 numbers and that it points to maybe Microsoft is starting to recapture their MOJO. But what is MOJO? I suppose it depends. I’m about to pontificate so if you want to skip to the news you can but I’ll be offended if you do... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 – Lync Online: to customize, or not to customize, that is the question
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 12th, 2011
What is Lync Online and why should developers care? Essentially think of Microsoft Lync as a combination of Microsoft Live Messenger, Microsoft Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Communicator. It is a next generation cloud communication service that is a hosted version of Microsoft Lync Server 2010... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 – Exchange Online Extensibility. What is it and what can you use it for?
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 8th, 2011
I hope by this time you have signed up for and are using Office 365. From what I've gathered from various sources on the internet and even our local radio stations it looks like Office 365 is starting to take the world by storm... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 Newswire: Is Office 365 succeeding or failing, news for developers – 12.7.2011
Ty Anderson | December 6th, 2011
I don't think I have slept this past week. No, it isn't what you might think. Despite perceptions imposed upon me as editor of the Newswire… it isn't because I have been spending all my time tracking news related to Office 365... Read the rest of this entry →
Customizing the SharePoint Ribbon: C# sample
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 2nd, 2011
If you've used SharePoint, I'm sure the first thing you would've noticed is the Ribbon UI. The SharePoint ribbon provides users with a familiar Office user interface and it is also extensible for developers. This means developers can add their own tabs, groups and controls to the ribbon... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 Newswire: Why small businesses are leaving Google Apps for Office 365 – 11.30.2011
Ty Anderson | November 29th, 2011
Everyone is spending time trying to figure out "the cloud". The big software vendors have already decided it will be a big part of our future. They are rushing to port their existing offerings to the cloud to provide more features at a lower cost while also achieving software nirvana… subscription pricing... Read the rest of this entry →
Setting up your PC for SharePoint 2010 development
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 24th, 2011
If you've been following our blog lately, you would've noticed a series of articles about Office 365. It is no secret that Office 365 will help move Office to the cloud and as developers we need to gear up for it... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Office 365 customization and setup
Ty Anderson | November 23rd, 2011
If you have been watching our Office 365 video series then you have a high-level understanding of what Office 365 is and what you can do with it as a developer. If you are looking to start building solutions with Office 365, then this video is for you.
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Video: What is Office 365 from a developer's perspective?
Ty Anderson | November 22nd, 2011
Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud offering for productivity and collaboration software. It has versions suitable for all organizations and businesses… large, medium, and small. But what does the Office 365 technology stack offer the developer? Isn't it just the usual "information worker" aspects of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 and a few others (i.e. Lync 2010) or is there more to it?... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 Newswire: Google Apps versus Office 365 – 11.21.2011
Ty Anderson | November 22nd, 2011
Over the past week I think it is fair to say there is a certain "rough and tumble" or smack down going on between Google and Microsoft over their cloud-based Office solutions. I've done my best to cull the list down to best articles... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 from a developer point of view
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 18th, 2011
In my last post we looked at what Office 365 means to end-users and companies as well as the services that are available to them. Now, I'm sure like me, a lot of developers out there are asking just what exactly does Office 365 mean to us. Also, how would we integrate with Office 365? What exactly can we integrate with? Will my existing Office add-ins still work?... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 Newswire – 11.15.2011
Ty Anderson | November 16th, 2011
Here at Add-in-Express, we have decided (actually, it was Eugene's idea) it would be a good idea to regularly share Office related news with you…our beloved customers. As you might imagine, we spend all of our free time reading about Office and what Microsoft calls "the Information Worker Platform"….which we, the non-marketing developer types, refer to simply as Office & SharePoint
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What is Office 365 for your end-users?
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 14th, 2011
Office 365 has been around for only a few months now, and it is starting to gain momentum. I'm sure like me, you must be wondering what is Office 365 and how it could benefit your customers. It isn't easy to say what Office 365 is in one sentence, but if you have to... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: What is Office 365?
Ty Anderson | November 11th, 2011
Office 365 is here and businesses (I mean the people that run them) are starting to ask: What is it? How does it work? Should we adopt it? Etc. This video is the first in a new series that will cover these questions and other Office 365 topics... Read the rest of this entry →