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Link team site documents via the public website in SharePoint online

December 12, 2011 by Aryan Nava 2 Comments

How to edit public facing web site in Office 365 and adding documents as a link from documents folder?
How to add documents to SharePoint Online site and link to site as a link?

1. Login to your Office 365 site and edit

2. Click All Site Contents in your left hand side of your site screen

3. When you go to All Site Contents, you may see several folders. Click on Documents folder to upload your documents (it can be MS office, PDF or any other format) to add this to your SharePoint online web site.

4. Once you click on document folder, SharePoint online will allow you to add single or multiple document. Click add document to upload your files to Office 365 web site. You need to browse and select the files

5. When you finished uploading your documents to SharePoint online site, this is what you will see.

6. If you want to find out about the URL for this document, Right click on the document and go to properties

7. You want to copy the URL of the documents which you uploaded to SharePoint online site

8. If you want to insert documents to SharePoint online or Office 365 site, please follow see following instructions
Edit the page which you want to insert documents in Office 365 site

9. In above example, I am adding a document called Testing Document to page in Office 365 site

- Highlight Testing Document
- Click Hyperlink to insert the document as a link
- Select Link to from my documents

10. Select the documents which you want to link and click OK. This will insert the link for the title. When user click on this link in your Office 365 site, the document will open from this location.

11. Office 365/SharePoint online site allows you to upload multiple or single documents to folder and allows you to link each documents to your SharePoint online pages.

Office 365, SharePoint Online

Hybrid SharePoint Environments with Office 365

October 12, 2011 by Aryan Nava 0 Comments

Hybrid SharePoint environments combine on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with Office 365 — Microsoft SharePoint Online

Overview

Hybrid environments enable organizations to achieve a higher degree of flexibility than forcing a choice between either an on-premises or cloud model. Organizations can start to achieve the benefits associated with the use of cloud computing coupled with the customization flexibility and tight data governance of an on-premises system, while delivering a consistent experience to users.

Download Designing Hybrid SharePoint Environments Document

Office 365, SharePoint Online

Customizing SharePoint Online with SharePoint Designer 2010

August 29, 2011 by Aryan Nava 0 Comments

By using Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, you can customize and build solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Online, such as powerful workflows and robust data views.

SharePoint Online

Extensibility Overview between SharePoint Online/On-premises

August 24, 2011 by Aryan Nava 0 Comments

SharePoint Online and Office 365 standard compared to SharePoint 2010 On-Premises

Area	SharePoint 2010 (on-premises)	SharePoint Online (multi-tenant)
Sandboxed Solutions (Partial-trust code)	yes	yes
Farm Level Solutions (Full Trust Code)	yes	no
Silverlight Web Part (.XAP files)	yes	yes
BCS (backend LOB integration)	yes	no
SharePoint Designer 2010	yes	yes
Client Object Model	yes	yes
Web Services	yes	yes
OOB Browser Configuration (Web parts, Theming)	yes	yes
Visual Studio 2010 (SharePoint Tools)	Yes (Farm and Sandbox)	yes (sandbox only)
InfoPath forms	Yes (Admin and Sandbox)	yes (sandbox only)
Workflows	yes (custom and declarative)	yes (custom activities in sandbox and declarative)

Office 365, SharePoint Online

Sandbox Architecture for Back End and Front End

August 24, 2011 by Aryan Nava 1 Comment

Sandbox Architecture for Back End and Front End for SharePoint Online.

SharePoint Online

Office 365 custom login page

August 15, 2011 by Aryan Nava 4 Comments

Customizing Office 365 login page for your business. By changing the sts.contoso.com url to your custom domain name, will take your customer customers to Office 365 Portal Page, SharePoint Online or MS Outlook page.

Or you can add this link https://login.microsoftonline.com/ from your web site so that user can click on this go to Office 365 login page.

I used second second method to redirect users to Office 365 login page where they enter user name and password to login to Office 365 portal.

To access the Office 365 portal in Office 365, use one of the following URLs:
- https://sts.contoso.com/adfs/ls/?wa=wsignin1.0&wtrealm=urn:federation:MicrosoftOnline
- https://login.microsoftonline.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&whr=sts.contoso.com&wreply=https:%2F%2Fportal.microsoftonline.com%2FDefault.aspx

To access Microsoft SharePoint Online, use the following URL:
- https://login.microsoftonline.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&whr=sts.contoso.com&wreply=https:%2F%2Fda365%2Esharepoint%2Ecom%2F%5Fforms%2Fdefault%2Easpx
To access Microsoft Outlook Web App to connect to Microsoft Exchange Online, use the following URL:
- https://login.microsoftonline.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&whr=sts.contoso.com&wreply=https:%2f%2foutlook.com%2fowa%2foffice365.com%2f?exsvurl=1&ll-cc=en-US

Office 365, SharePoint Online

Email Forwarding in Office 365

August 11, 2011 by Aryan Nava 0 Comments

How to enable email forwarding to other Email accounts in Microsoft Office 365?

Here is a Situations

Say that you have Office 365 accounts for your small business and your email address is starting from onmicrosoft.com and you want to forward
these emails to your business.com email address.

In this blog, I am going to provide all the steps you needed to forward your emails from Office 365 account to other email accounts.

1- Log into your Microsoft Office 365 account and under Outlook click on Option.

If you don’t see options beside below Outlook
Go to Admin | Manager | Users | Licenses | Make sure you have Exchange Online selected

2. In Outlook Options, Click on Forward your Email

This will open Connected Accounts. If you scroll down, you will see Forwarding : Forward my e-mail to: This is where you need to put your email address which you want to
forward all the emails from Office 365 accounts and click save.

To test your forwarding works for not from Office 365 accounts, just click on your Email and send a test mail to you. This will forward your office 365 emails to your business accounts.

I send a test email to my Office 365 accounts and it left a copy in Office 365 inbox and the other copy came to my business account.
This is how you can forward your office 365 emails to your business email address

Office 365, SharePoint Online

Office 365. SharePoint Online

Adding and inviting External users to SharePoint Online Sites

August 4, 2011 by Aryan Nava 4 Comments

How do I add external users to my SharePoint online site? How to invite external users to my SharePoint online site to view my documents?

It’s possible to invite external users to SharePoint online by enabling allow options in Site Collections area and activating External Users Invitations features

1. Go to SharePoint Online | Administration Center | Site Collections |
Click on Settings | Manage External Users

2. Choose whether people outside your organization can be invited to access SharePoint Online as external users. External users can be granted access to any SharePoint Online resource.
Allow people outside your organization to be invited to access SharePoint Online.

3. The next most important step is to active your external users invitations features in Site settings | Site Collection Administration | Site Collection Features

4. Now Click on Site Actions | Share Site

5. Share your SharePoint Site window will pop up.
Browse for users to add to your site or type their e-mail address into the field provided. Separate multiple users with semi-colons.

Other then Hotmail or Live accounts may not work.

Now click on Share. This will send Share Your SharePoint Site notification to the user

SharePoint has sent invitation e-mail to the users.
The following user or users have been invited to the site. They will be added when they accept the invitation:

6. Login to your Hotmail account and you will see the invitation from SharePoint Online site. Click on Accept your invitations

The message you may get

Welcome to SharePoint Online
To accept your invitation, sign in with your Hotmail account OR Microsoft Online Services ID

Since I have Windows Live Hotmail account, I go head and click on Hotmail account and it logs me in using my Hotmail account

This is how you can invite or add external users to your SharePoint online site.

SharePoint Online

Adding External users, SharePoint Online

Download Office 365 Developer Training Kit

August 3, 2011 by Aryan Nava 0 Comments

Where do I download Office 365 training kit? What is it contain in Office 365 developer kit?

Here is the overview of Office 365 Developer Kit
The Office 365 Developer Training Kit contains developer focused presentations, self-paced labs and links to key resources to help you build solutions that leverage SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. In Office 365, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 and Lync Server 2010 are hosted in Microsoft cloud datacenters to provide collaboration and communication as software-as-a-service (SaaS). Using this kit, you’ll learn how to build collaborative and communication focused cloud solutions that run in Office 365 using Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework.

Here you can download Office 365 Developer Training Kit

SharePoint Online

Office 365 Developer Training Kit

Branding SharePoint Online and deploying the solutions

August 3, 2011 by Aryan Nava 0 Comments

How to brand SharePoint online site and deploy?
In this video demo from Microsoft you can see how to package up your SharePoint online branding solutions and deploy it to SharePoint online via the Solutions Gallery.

Deploying SharePoint Online Branding Solutions

SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Branding

Custom Domain with Office 365/SharePoint Online using Go Daddy account

August 1, 2011 by Aryan Nava 2 Comments

How to setup custom domain for SharePoint online site if you have your domain name with Go Daddy?
In this blog, I will be showing you all the steps need to map your domain from Go Daddy to your SharePoint online site.

1. Log In to your Office 365 account and click on Domains and click on Add Domain

Specify Domain – Step 1

1. Type in your domain name in the filed and click on Check Domain

2. Check Domain will display your domain name, domain registrar and Registrant Name. If all the information are correct, click next

Verify Domain – Step 2

1. Use the table and instructions below to create a TXT record for a domain that is registered at Go Daddy.

Sign in to your account at Go Daddy.
Click the My Account tab.
In the list of domain names, click the domain that you’re verifying.
On the Domain Manager page, under DNS Manager, click Launch. The Zone File Editor page lists the DNS records associated with your domain.
Below the Text (TXT) list, click Quick Add.
In the Host box, type or paste office365point.com.
In the TXT Value box, type or paste v=verifydomain MS=ms17718044.
In the TTL box, type or paste 1 Hour.
On the Zone File Editor page, click Save Zone File.
In the confirmation dialog box, click OK.
Sign out of the Go Daddy website. Wait at least 15 minutes for the changes to take effect.
Return to Office 365 and click the Verify button below.

Specify Services – Step 3

The DNS record that you create to enable SharePoint Online for this domain by default restricts all other DNS records from working. You can configure DNS to work around this restriction so that you can use your domain with SharePoint Online together with other services. For more information, see Use SharePoint Online on a vanity domain together with other services.

Click next to continue

Office365point.com has been added to your account . You can now use this domain with Microsoft Online Services.

Next step: configure domain

To configure your domain to work with Microsoft Online Services, click Configure DNS records below. To return to this step at a later time, click Close. Learn more

Next step: Configure DNS and set up your website

To create your website, and to learn about the DNS record you’ll need to configure to route traffic to your website, go to the SharePoint Online Administration Center

Now you can see your domain is active. Just click on the domain to see DNS properties

Configuring SharePoint Online URL to Custom Domain Name

1. Go to SharePoint Online Administration Center and Click on Site Collections

2. In site collections select your domain which you want to configure your custom domain and select DNS Information

When you use your own website domain, you must update its DNS settings so the site is visible on the Internet. To do this, sign in to your domain registrar’s site and create a CNAME record for the domain with the following target address:
ProdNet11.SharePointOnline.com

It can take up to 72 hours for the new DNS settings to propagate throughout the Internet. During that time your site might not be visible to all users.

Copy ProdNet11.SharePointOnline.com and login into Go Daddy account and go to your DNS Manager

Go Daddy Says: Points to — Enter the host name you want the alias to point to. For example, type @ to map the alias directly to your domain name.
Reference: Add a CNAME Record

Click on Save and accept all the changes.

Setting up custom domain to your SharePoint Online Site

1. Go back go SharePoint Online Site | Administration Control | Site Collections

2. Select your Domain and click on Web Site Domains

Select a domain name from the list. To add new domain names to the list, go to Microsoft Online Services. Verified domains appear in the list when they are not in use by any other sites or services.

To rename your Website, select a new domain name from the list, and then click OK. After the name is changed, the DNS settings must be updated. To learn more about updating DNS settings, see DNS Basics .
Renaming the Website may change its functionality.

Once your DNS changed from Go Daddy, your new domain will resolve your SharePoint Online Site.

Office 365, SharePoint Online

Go Daddy, SharePoint Online

Custom Domain Name to SharePoint Online Site–Step by Step instructions

July 31, 2011 by Aryan Nava 0 Comments

How do I add my own custom domain name to SharePoint Online site which I created?
If you have SharePoint online site and want to add a custom domain name to your site, the process is easy.

Under Management click on Domain
- Add a Domain

Specify domain

You can only add domain names that you own. If you don’t already own a domain name, you can purchase one from a domain registrar, and then return to add it to Microsoft Office 365.

Type your domain name in the filed and click on Check Domain

Verify domain

Before we can add your domain name to Microsoft Office 365, we must verify that you are the owner of the domain.

Sign in to your domain registrar’s website, and then select the domain that you’re verifying.
In the DNS management area for your account, choose the option to add a TXT record for your domain. ( In this demo I am using eNom Central)
In the TXT box for the domain, type or paste YourDomain.com.
In the Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or Points to box, type or paste v=verifydomain MS=ms95651193.
Save your changes, and then sign out of your domain registrar’s website. Wait at least 15 minutes for this change to take effect.
Return to Office 365 and click the Verify button below.

Step 2: Verify Domain

Once you make all the changes to your Domain name wait for 24 to 72 hours. Go to Office 365 administration and verify click on verify your domain
Once verified your status will be Active

If you want to change your SharePoint address to your custom domain, click on Change Address. You should see your domain name listed in Select Domain.
Select your domain name and click OK

You will get a message saying Address Changes in Progress

Step 3: Edit Records

Click on your Custom Domain and go to Domain properties. In domain properties click on DNS Manager

You will see your DNS records for your domain. Take this information and added to your domain name.

In this demo, I my domain name is in eNom and this is how I changed the DNS settings

After all these changes, Whey I type in my custom domain, it takes me to SharePoint Online Site.
Here is the end result of all theses works

Office 365, SharePoint Online

Custom Domain, SharePoint Online

Customized SharePoint Online Navigation Sample and Source code

July 31, 2011 by Aryan Nava 0 Comments

How to change the look and feel of default SharePoint online navigation?
Here are the steps I went through to change the look of SharePoint online top navigation and the end result after making the changes

1. I added two background images to site images folder.

2. I made changes to PrimaryNavFrame in theme.css files. The background images are coming from url("../SiteImages/blue.jpg").
The end result in the navigation which you see above. If you want different color, all you have to do is to change the background images and play around with the css files to make a unique top level navigation for SharePoint online site.

.MSC_PrimaryNavFrame
{

    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    list-style-type:none;
    width:auto;
    position:relative;
    display:block;
    height:40px;
    text-transform:uppercase;
    font-size:13px;
    background:transparent url("../SiteImages/blue.jpg") repeat-x top left;
    font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;
    width: 100%;
    margin: 1px 0px 5px 0px;
    text-align: left;
}

.rtl .MSC_PrimaryNavFrame
{
text-align:right;
}

.MSC_PrimaryNavLink
{
    color:#ffffff;
    font-size:13px;
    text-decoration:none;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavLink:hover
{

    background:transparent url("../SiteImages/black.jpg") repeat-x top left;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavLink:visited
{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 13px;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavLinkFrame-On
{
    background: url(‘../SiteImages/black.jpg’);
    white-space: nowrap;
    padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavLink-On
{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 13px;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: bold;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavLink-On:hover
{

background:transparent url("../SiteImages/black.jpg") repeat-x top left;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavLink-On:visited
{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 13px;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: bold;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavLeftSpace
{
    width: 1px;
    white-space: nowrap;
    background: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 1px;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavRightSpace
{
    width: 1px;
    background: #FFFFFF;
    white-space: nowrap;
    font-size: 1px;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavTopSpace
{
    height: 1px;
    background: #FFFFFF;
}
.MSC_PrimaryNavBottomSpace
{
    height: 1px;
    background: #FFFFFF;
}

Once you modify the changes, add your custom css files to your site

Reference Images

SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online Navigation

Uploading a custom header to SharePoint Online Site

July 31, 2011 by Aryan Nava 0 Comments

How to upload custom header to SharePoint online Site?
Here are the steps to add custom header for SharePoint Online Site

Choose the "No image" in Theme dropdown.

Choose the 3rd style from the bottom from Styles dropdown list

Remove any header text and click on Logo tab. Now upload your new header image. Make sure the image width is 978 (Default size)

When you upload the image, make sure you uncheck optimize my image. If optimize image selected, you image will be uploaded as small image

Once your image is uploaded select your new image as header

Your new header should look like this in SharePoint Online site. This is how you upload custom header to SharePoint online Site

SharePoint Online

Custom Header, SharePoint Online

Secondary Top Navigation for SharePoint Online sites CSS Reference

July 30, 2011 by Aryan Nava 1 Comment

CSS reference for customizing Top Navigation for SharePoint Online sites for secondary site. Starts at line 242 and ends at 327 in themes.css file located at resources folder

.MSC_SecondaryNavFrame
{
    background:#E3FAE7;
    width:100%;
    text-align:left;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavLink
{
    color:#325884;
    font-size:10pt;
    text-decoration:none;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavLink:hover
{
    color:#325884;
    font-size:10pt;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavLink:visited
{
    color:#325884;
    font-size:10pt;
    text-decoration:none;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavLeftSpace
{
    font-size:1px;
    background:#003366;
    width:1px;
    white-space:nowrap;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavRightSpace
{
    font-size:1px;
    background:#ffffff;
    width:1px;
    white-space:nowrap;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavTopSpace
{
    background:#003366;
    height:1px;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavBottomSpace
{
    background:#ffffff;
    height:1px;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavLeftFrame-On
{
    padding:5px;
    background:#ffffff;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavLinkFrame-On
{
    white-space:nowrap;
    padding:5px;
    background:#ffffff;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavLink-On
{
    padding:5px;
    font-size:10pt;
    font-weight:bold;
    color:#325884;
    text-decoration:none;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavLink-On:hover
{
    padding:5px;
    font-size:10pt;
    font-weight:bold;
    color:#325884;
}
.MSC_SecondaryNavLink-On:visited
{
    padding:5px;
    font-size:10pt;
    font-weight:bold;
    color:#325884;
    text-decoration:none;
}

SharePoint Online

Link team site documents via the public website in SharePoint online

Hybrid SharePoint Environments with Office 365

Customizing SharePoint Online with SharePoint Designer 2010

Extensibility Overview between SharePoint Online/On-premises

Sandbox Architecture for Back End and Front End

Office 365 custom login page

Email Forwarding in Office 365

Adding and inviting External users to SharePoint Online Sites

Download Office 365 Developer Training Kit

Branding SharePoint Online and deploying the solutions

Custom Domain with Office 365/SharePoint Online using Go Daddy account

Specify Domain – Step 1

Verify Domain – Step 2

Specify Services – Step 3

Configuring SharePoint Online URL to Custom Domain Name

Custom Domain Name to SharePoint Online Site–Step by Step instructions

Specify domain

Type your domain name in the filed and click on Check Domain

Verify domain

Step 2: Verify Domain

Step 3: Edit Records

Customized SharePoint Online Navigation Sample and Source code

Uploading a custom header to SharePoint Online Site

Secondary Top Navigation for SharePoint Online sites CSS Reference

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