SharePoint Online Document Library versioning video

Each SharePoint Online Document Library supports the ability to have versioning enabled. Once enabled this automatically creates a new version of each document in that library every time a document is edited. This is really handy if you potentially need to recover a previous version of the document. Also using the ability to enable minor or draft versions of a document you can also control who can view any drafts.

This video will give you an introduction to versioning in SharePoint Online Document Libraries. You’ll see how to enable it as well as how to configure the different options. You’ll also see how versioning works between two users with different rights to the document.

You can find further information on SharePoint Online versioning here:

How does versioning work in a list or library?

Enable and configure versioning for a list or library

All template lesson suggestions receive a reward

You might be aware that I have created a Getting Started with SharePoint team site template that can be added to any Office 365 tenant that includes SharePoint. It is designed to help new users get up to speed with SharePoint. The template includes 23 lessons with downloadable documentation, training videos and further resources on each topic. There is also a free version that includes the basic content.

I have also now created a dedicated SharePoint templates page on my web site with more information. However, this is where I need your help. I am currently developing the next template which will be aimed at providing tutorials on SharePoint for intermediate users and I’d like to know from people what lessons they’d like to see appear in this intermediate template.

As an incentive to provide me with some feedback I’ll give everyone who sends me an original suggestion for a lesson with a discount code that provides a AU$25 discount off the cost of the Getting Started with SharePoint team site template. Importantly, any submitted suggestion must not already be something I have covered in the original template (so the hint there is to take a look at what the existing template covers before submitting your suggestion).

So, putting your thinking caps on and send me your ideas via email (director@ciaops.com) or via @directorcia on Twitter. I look forward to hearing from you.

Need to Know podcast–Episode 69

I am joined again by Tas Gray from AxiomIT to talk everything Office 365. We talk about the different plans that are available and what represents the best value. We also a deeper look into the specifics of each plan as well as answer some specific questions when it comes to Office application. You’ll also find some discussion around Azure, network social and the new business model the cloud bring for IT resellers.

You can listen to the episode at:

http://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-69-tas-gray/

or subscribe to this and all episodes in iTunes at:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/ciaops-need-to-know-podcasts/id406891445?mt=2

The podcast is also available on Stitcher at:

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ciaops/need-to-know-podcast?refid=stpr

Episode resources

The RDS world changes again – https://blog.ciaops.com/2014/10/office-365-rds-world-changes-again.html

Office 365 plans – https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans

Installing Office Pro Plus on RDS server – http://blog.powerbiz.net.au/office-365/installing-office365-proplus-on-a-rds-server-terminal-server-using-shared-computer-activation/

MVP for 2015

I am happy to report that Microsoft has again recognized me as a Most Valued Professional for 2015. That is now four years! My, how time flies.

It is a great honour to be recognised in this way by Microsoft as well as the support and opportunities they have provided me as an MVP over the last 12 months. I humbly thank them for this.

I will also take this opportunity to also thank everyone else out there that continues to support and recommend what I do and especially readers of my blog. Without you I certainly don;t believe I’d be recognized in this manner.

So it is onwards and upwards into 2015. I look forward to another exciting year with Office 365 and the opportunity to share with you all the product has to offer for your business.

Free SharePoint documentation

Around 2006 I started to document everything I could about SharePoint on Small Business Server, simply due to a lack of information from other sources. This grew into documentation about Windows SharePoint Services v 3.0, SharePoint Foundation 2010 as well as most SharePoint versions. The focus remained on the Foundation product rather than the full server versions and especially how SharePoint integrated with Small Business Server (SBS).

In 2007 I started to offer my document via a subscription known as as the Windows SharePoint Services Operations Guide or WSSOPS for short.

In 2014 I announced that I would no longer be taking new subscribers and in 12 months would be shutting down the Guide completely. The reasons for this are many but mainly I saw the fact that less and less people were working with SharePoint on premise and even fewer where utilising SharePoint Foundation 2013. The focus was now Office 365.

However, much of the information I have accumulated about SharePoint over the years in the Guide still is not readily available or in an easy to understand format. With the closure of WSSOPS and the migration of my documentation to Cloud Business Blueprint I have decided to make available for free a large majority of the information in WSSOPS. You can find this available for download at:

http://www.ciaops.com/wssops

and is made available under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike-4.0 Internation license. In essence means it free to distribute but can’t be resold.

Given the years of hard work invested in the Guide (over 1,000 pages is available for free download now) I’d appreciate the purchase of any of my publications or a donation if you find what I have made available helpful to you.

To join my new Cloud Business Blueprint community and gain access to all the documentation and training material I am now producing for Office 365, Azure and more please visit:

http://www.cloudbusinessblueprint.com/members-sign-up/

I am very proud of what I created with WSSOPS over the years and thank anyone who was a subscriber. I hope people continue to receive benefit from what I created for many years to come.