We have turned up the heat on new templates! We have two brand new templates that will help you get greater control over your SharePoint farms.
I have spent my last few posts on the CloudShare blog focusing on how to develop specific SharePoint artifacts to both SharePoint Online and On-Premise using Visual Studio 11 Beta (Note: You can review prior articles by accessing my profile page).
Yesterday’s pretend release was not only fun, but real. Everything SpaceBox claims to offer– accessibility from anywhere with an Internet connection and reliable data centers for your virtual machines– is all true with the grounded ProPlus product!
One of the elements of development and testing is moving structure and content to your development environment. Once you build a solution, you need to move what you built back to your production environment. In the world of SharePoint, this process, depending on what type of solution you build, can be a few button clicks, or involve some coding.
If you are serious about social business and reducing the technostress on your staff and customers, do yourself a favor and make a commitment to go on an email diet in 2012.
Need a great reason why? How about this:
33,024. UNREAD. EMAILS. My jaw hit the floor in disbelief as the number sunk in. How does one amass that many emails? Sign up for every newsletter on the planet? Play 700 simultaneous games of Words With Friends?
Welcome back everyone, as promised I am starting to populate this blog more and more and therefore onto the next installments. CloudShare is one of those fantastic companies that comes along every once in a while, you take a look sign up for a trial and then cannot put it down.
If you are looking for a virtual environment that is cloud based and do not want the hassle of building virtual machines, mounting software etc then these guys are perfect for you. Hopefully when I get their permission I will blog on how to setup your environments, give access to additional team members of guests and so the easy of the interface – even working on the iPad..!
There are two major tools that everyone seems to be talking about in the content management world- Box and SharePoint. On my drive to work on the 101 in Silicon Valley, I actually pass dueling billboards for Microsoft and Box; it’s everything. Now, stop me if you’ve heard this story before:
The SharePoint 2010 platform has all the bells and whistles to do on-site document management, records management, auditing, invoice capture, and every other cliche on the platform. If it exists in the content management world, it probably exists somewhere based on SharePoint, and the growth is accelerating.
Your users either love SharePoint so much that it has sprawled out of control across your entire organization, or they hate it so much they refuse to use it, sticking with shared drives or cloud systems instead, and making your CIO seethe with rage. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently I had to get a SharePoint Foundation environment up pretty quickly to test a branding solution that was built for a client. Kris Wagner had always talked up CloudShare, so I decided to give it a try. Easy was not the word, it was easier than easy and now I am hooked.
Our company purchased a few licenses for CloudShare and I have to say this makes life easier for our IT gurus. They were frequently asked at the last minute to build XYZ in the cloud for this demo or this project. Now they can focus on more important tasks and the developers and I can spin up almost any environment needed in minutes.
Another common request when you are working with a remote SharePoint 2010 environment (either virtualized or not) is the ability to easily create a copy of it and run it as fast as possible. Fortunately, CloudShare offering includes this capability out of the box allowing you to create a complete copy of an existing environment o another one (either new or not). The steps for cloning an existing CloudShare environment are quite straightforward:
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You love Web Access, and we made it even better!
If you are not familiar with web access let me tell you a little about it. The Web Access feature allows you to share the web application on your CloudShare Pro virtual machines to anyone without giving them direct access to the virtual machine. The way it works is for all machines that have Web Access enabled we generate a unique URL that does not change. it will look something like this: http://uvoa98dbebf6c.env.cloudshare.com.