Moving your existing Access database to Office 365
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 27th, 2012
A few years ago I had a client who since they started their business used a Microsoft Access database to track their projects and the time their consultants worked on projects. As the company expanded the database grew up to a point where they realized an upgrade is needed. I was asked to move the database to a Microsoft SQL server backend, whilst keeping MS Access as the front-end... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 Newswire: 5 reasons Google Docs is not ready to replace Excel – 1.27.2012
Ty Anderson | January 27th, 2012
Today's newswire is brought to you by Coffee Head Coffee Company. They don't really exist but if they did, I have a logo and spokesman ready for them. As I write today's newswire, I've already had so much coffee that I feel how Mr. CoffeeHead looks. I bet you know the feeling... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – connecting business logic to Office events
Ty Anderson | January 26th, 2012
On Tuesday we published Part 3 of the end-to-end demo. Today, we have Part 4. In reality parts 3 and 4 can be taken together but we thought it's better to break them up a bit and provide a bit of a break. But we have momentum now so let's keep this train a-moving because Part 5 is almost ready for its debut as well.... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Outlook & SharePoint integration, Business Connectivity Services – 1.25.2012
Ty Anderson | January 25th, 2012
SharePoint is a 'document coffin', says IBM. In this lead new item, the author reports a bunch of words from IBM's VP of Social Software. With these words, this gentleman makes a ridiculous argument and successfully garners a few headlines about IBM's social and productivity software... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – interacting with Office object models & events
Ty Anderson | January 24th, 2012
I admit some time has passed since we produced parts 1 and part 2 of our end-to-end demo. I'll take the blame for it. It's okay. But I want you to know the remaining parts have been sitting in my Outlook Tasks folder… staring at me… taunting me.
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Office 365 – Attach files from SharePoint to Outlook E-mail programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 23rd, 2012
In my last post, Save Outlook e-mails & attachments to SharePoint Online programmatically, I showed you how you can write a Microsoft Outlook Add-in that will save all the attachments on an e-mail to the Office 365 SharePoint Online Shared Documents library. In today's post I would like to show you how to do the opposite, e.g. how to attach files from SharePoint Online to Outlook e-mail messages. This could be useful if your customer has a shared library with documents they send via e-mail on a regular basis.
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How to load your Office COM add-in on condition
Andrei Smolin | January 20th, 2012
A typical problem is: how to unload my add-in if a custom condition is met. This blog post is about how to solve this problem.... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 Newswire: Small Business Edition! – 1.20.2012
Ty Anderson | January 20th, 2012
So here I was, coffee in-hand, going through the Office 365 news from the past 7 days when it hit me… there is a theme to be found here. I love it when the content comes together!
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Office 365 – Save Outlook e-mails & attachments to SharePoint Online programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 19th, 2012
If you're following Ty's Office 365 Newswires and read this article about Microsoft already having sold five million Office 365 seats in roughly two and a half months, I'm sure you would agree with me that Office 365 is set to change, if not revolutionize the way people use and interact with Microsoft Office.
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Office Newswire: The Office Ribbon secret decoder ring – 1.18.2012
Ty Anderson | January 18th, 2012
I'm just thinking out loud here as I write today's Office Newswire. There are lots of rules I create to help me focus as I write. But one rule that is sacrosanct is that the Newswire is written in a steam-of-conscience manner. A surprising good week for Office news and opinions. I have, of course, offered my thoughts and opinions about the items below
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Office 365 – Share Outlook contacts with Lync Online contextual conversations
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 17th, 2012
At first glance Microsoft Lync can, to most people, look like just another instant messaging application. However, upon closer inspection it can mean so much more for organizations especially if they start to integrate it into their current day-to-day business systems... Read the rest of this entry →
How to navigate through the Microsoft Office Command Bar system
Andrei Smolin | January 16th, 2012
There are 4 instances of the command bar button "Save" (Id=3) in Excel. Two of them are best known: a button on the Standard commandbar and an item in the File menu. The other two instances are buried in the command bar system... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 Newswire: Who will win between Google Apps vs. Exchange? – 1.13.2012
Ty Anderson | January 13th, 2012
I didn't realize until just now that today is Friday the 13th. If this day and date alignment scares you... you suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia. Please don't ask me how to pronounce it. You're on your own there. Including today, 2012 will have 3 occurrences of Friday the 13th... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 – Exchange Online examples
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 12th, 2012
2012 is upon us and here's wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year! Last year we've taken a quick look at What Exchange Online extensibility is and what you can use it for, and in today's post we'll take a bit more of a hands-on approach and look at some examples of performing various tasks in Exchange Online using the Exchange Web Services API... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Microsoft & CES, Office on the iPad news – 1.11.12
Ty Anderson | January 11th, 2012
It seems all the news regarding Office is the result of other companies creating apps that work with Office files and run on the iPad. Mind you, these are not Office for the iPad as many of the article authors below state.
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Office 365 Newswire: Cloud war declared! – 1.6.2012
Ty Anderson | January 6th, 2012
We've been publishing the newswire now for close to two months. I don't know about you but I'm enjoying myself. You have probably deduced by now that the newswire allows me to work out some of my thoughts and issues that bounce around in my head. I have followed the Office universe for almost 25 years. I love the platform and what provides in possibilities to businesses of all sizes... Read the rest of this entry →
