SharePoint 2010

Part 2 or our series: “SharePoint 2010 Hosting FAQ Conversations”

Hi there! We’re back again with part 2 of our series designed to address the most common questions we’re asked about our services. In case you missed it, part 1 of this series covered many of the most common questions we hear regarding our hosted SharePoint 2010 Foundation plans.

Today’s topic is the Fpweb.net reseller program. We’ve got all the details right here for those of you who are wondering how exactly it works. However, before this post gets into specifics, taking a glance at our reseller page might be helpful.

Done with that? Great! Now onto the questions! Below you’ll see a real live conversation between a customer (we’ll refer to him as Mike) and our Fpweb.net expert (who we’ll call Tim).

With over 1,000,000 users around the world, we’re sure that hosted SharePoint is used far and wide for an enormous variety of reasons. Yet, sometimes we can’t help but wonder what features are used the most and what percent of businesses use it strictly for collaboration.

Well, curiosity has gotten the best of us. We would like to take a quick snapshot of what folks are doing with hosted SharePoint. As a matter of fact, we’re not the only ones wondering how organizations across the world are using this technology. Our good friend Mark Miller from EndUserSharePoint.com just posed the same question to the SharePoint community on August 11th. While his survey is a little more general, we’re using ours to focus on just how hosted SharePoint is used within our ever-expanding community of end-users.

Here’s the plan… you take a quick survey

We’ve set up a quick and entertaining question survey that will paint a picture for us. It should take you about five minutes or less from start to finish. However, if the questions are putting you to sleep, feel free to just send in what you’ve got. Partial responses are better than none!

If we get enough respondents, we’ll be happy to post the results in an upcoming blog.

Then, you get brownie points OR good karma!

Upon completion of our simple survey, we’ll send you 50 brownie points or 35 waves of good karma; your choice. We’ll even pair that with our everlasting gratitude!

With that said, please help out the SharePoint community by taking the survey!

The learning landscape has undeniably changed in the past ten years. These days, students all over the world are constantly in touch with technology outside of school, so it’s proving wise to integrate technology into daily school lessons to maintain students’ interest and attention levels. With the recent development of more technological and interactive learning methods like Microsoft SharePoint 2010, traditional teaching elements are starting to show their age.

Watch out workbooks and projectors; you have some competition.

With a strong social media element added into the equation, it’s becoming clearer that innovative technologies like hosted SharePoint are the way of the future for everything from school administration to student curriculum. Microsoft SharePoint can potentially benefit all facets of a school system, including students, teachers and parents – an obvious plus to anyone considering future implementation.

Getting to the SharePoint pages you visit the most can definitely steal some valuable time from your day. If you’re a member of several sites, SharePoint navigation can seem even more daunting. However, by creating a SharePoint quick list of links under My Links, you’ll be able to navigate faster to these important pages. Here’s how in just six easy steps.

Creating a list of links

1. First, go to the page in your SharePoint site you would like to create a link to.

The SharePoint engineering team at Fpweb.net is always striving to discover new frontiers. To declare that the impossible is… well, possible. Recently, we put our heads together to find a way to use both Live ID and Open ID as an authentication method for SharePoint Server 2010.

With the addition of the new claims based authentication framework in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint is now more loosely coupled to the authentication layer than ever. You’ve probably seen presentations or webinars where it was mentioned that you can use claims authentication against authentication providers such as Live ID and OpenID. However, the documentation for configuring Live ID authentication is relatively hard to come by.

Part 1 of our series: “SharePoint 2010 Hosting FAQ Conversations”

Every day, we’re honored to receive tons of questions from potential customers who want to know more about our world-class SharePoint hosting services. Just recently, we sifted through our call notes, tweets, live chat logs and emails to find out which questions are popping up the most often. Starting today, the Fpweb.net experts are dishing out answers to the most popular topics right here in our blog.

This takes us right into our first post, where we’ll be discussing the most common questions about SharePoint Foundation 2010 hosting – everything from custom SharePoint domains, flexible storage, public-facing SharePoint sites and much more.

By now, you may have heard about the new integration and web database publishing features possible with Microsoft Access 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Access Services. However, you might find yourself asking, “What about SharePoint 2010 Foundation?”

Here’s some good news. MS Access 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 have some integration points as well (these apply to SharePoint Server 2010 too). In this article, we’ll cover all of the Access 2010 Integration features as they pertain to hosted SharePoint Foundation 2010.

Your customers know right where to find you on the Web. Now, easily point them to your physical location with a Google Map located on a SharePoint Server page. Using the Content Editor Web Part, it’s easier to embed a map than you think!

This is an incredibly useful tool, especially for those of you in the real estate industry. Here’s the basic procedure:

• Define the map coordinates at the online map provider’s site
• Copy the code for an embeddable version of the map
• Paste the code into the HTML view of a Content Editor Web Part

How to add a Google Map to a SharePoint Server 2010 page

First, we need to grab the map.