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Change control can be an issue if you’re managing a project largely using email. SharePoint Online contains robust out-of-the-box change control capabilities to help you keep project documentation manageable and clean.

Dashboards are a pretty hot topic these days in online applications. Dashboards let you place frequently accessed information all on one single page and lend themselves particularly well to placing graphical info about your project in one place where it affords your team and senior stakeholders the ability to grab visual info quickly.

You may not be as familiar with OneNote as you are with Outlook. OneNote is an app that lets project teams take notes (including multimedia entries, like pictures), then share them on a common project site.

In this latest installment in my series showing how to use Office 365, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Windows Phone 7.5 technologies to put together a streamlined, standardized project management system, we will continue exploring methods of centralized information sharing.

We all lean heavily on email in the course of our work, but email can be messy: not everyone has access to every relevant thread and relevant threads get lost among other emails in the inbox. In this sixth entry in my series, we will look at how to improve communication through discussion threads.

Microsoft has found itself a big market for cloud services in India's national government. Starting this year, the Indian government will deploy Microsoft Software-as-a-Service solutions to about 7.5 million users in the education market.

What is the first rule for administrators of a SharePoint environment?

Always backup your implementation. With no backup and recovery plan, you are setting yourself up for failure.

In previous articles, you’ve learned how to set up your project site, created a document library, learned how to collaborate on project documentation in real-time, and linked your document library to Outlook to further facilitate collaboration. Now it’s time to delve a little more deeply into the project management side of things, apart from basic collaborative efforts.

This week, Zoho announced that it was expanding its portfolio of mobile applications including Zoho Docs, OpenText extended the reach of its enterprise CMS for SAP, we took a look at whether Office 365 is good for your business, Cabinet NG releases WebSync and NovoDynamics launches NovoDocufier.

We're in the middle of a series showing how to create a streamlined, standardized project management system with Office 365. In last week's post we created a document library on a project site accessible by all team members. Today we'll see how to add your document library to your team’s Outlook clients.

You may recall earlier in the month that Microsoft announced that it was making Office 365 cheaper by up to 20%. With low-level entry barriers for its competitors such as Google and Zoho, it’s not unlikely that those prices will drop again, especially as Microsoft says it is cutting internal costs. But even with the reduced pricing, is Office 365 – and, in particular, SharePoint Online -- really for you.

Continuing our series showing how to use Office 365, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Windows Phone 7.5 technologies to put together a streamlined, standardized project management system, today we will look at how to project documentation can be worked on collaboratively.

As the trend to move off the desktop continues, Microsoft is reducing the pricing for its web-based Office 365 suite to enterprises with various packages down between 10% to 20% with storage slashed to cents per GB.

This is the second in a series designed to show how to use Office 365, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Windows Phone 7.5 technologies to put together a streamlined, standardized project management system.

As the tech world takes to the skies on their way to Austin, TX to sample the bbq, music and information insights that #SXSWi brings, our experts reminded us this week that technology is only one piece of the puzzle. At the end of the day, it’s about the people, both those outside the enterprise and those doing the day to day work.

Businesses were put on warning that the end of metrics and the sales funnel is here, that social tools for social’s sake within the workspace just won’t cut it if there isn’t a clear benefit and reason for using them, and we were shown how an information architect is like the manager of a large office block.

Intrigued? Read on and save some bbq for me!