What Are Multi-Choice Columns? If you have been using Office 365 or SharePoint as a data management tool or business application platform, you most likely have come across checkbox columns (aka multi-choice columns). Creating a list with multi-choice columns is effortless. As is the data entry.… Read More »How to Analyze SharePoint List Data in Python
Excel Makes Data Analytics Accessible Office 365 and SharePoint are awesome for working with structured data. All the data is at your finger tips. You just need a web browser to view and edit to your heart’s content. There are times you may need to tap… Read More »How to Export SharePoint Data to Excel
SharePoint Server Topology Primer The first step to deploying SharePoint is to determine an appropriate server topology. This decisions is largely is dictated by the number of SharePoint users. For this blog post, let’s assume that an on-premise server farm is designed for a medium… Read More »How to Select SharePoint Server Architecture for Medium Sized Business
Editing Multiple Records Simultaneously Typically when users add an item to a SharePoint list, they would have to do so one at a time. This is incredibly tedious; a quicker method is Quick Edit. Quick Edit (or Datasheet view in older versions of SharePoint) turns the list… Read More »How to Edit SharePoint List using Quick Edit
Deleting Items in SharePoint Have you ever wondered what happens when you delete material from your SharePoint? Well, it’s simple! Once deleted, documents or list items go to the Recycle Bin. That is exactly what would happen if you delete a file on your desktop.… Read More »How to Manage SharePoint Recycle Bins
Target Audience: End Users Let’s talk about SharePoint adoption for a minute. What is the number one reason that slows down the deployment of a company-wide SharePoint system? File migration! We have a couple of neat document management tricks to help address this very issue.… Read More »SharePoint Tips: Managing Multiple Files with Windows Explorer
Traditionally, the majority of SharePoint users interact with the SharePoint sites through web browsers. However, we are increasingly performing more of our work away from our desks using smart phones and tablets. While SharePoint offers a built-in mobile view, which is essentially a lightweight HTML site,… Read More »SharePoint Street Smart: Kattelo's Favorite SharePoint Mobile Apps – Part 1
Microsoft’s new Office 365 package is a (some may consider a drastic) departure from its current software offerings, giving many traditional Office users a vast array of new options. That is why we are here to help you with our SharePoint Office Hours to answer all… Read More »Kattelo SharePoint August Office Hours Announced
SharePoint Performance Tuning As your users continue to make use of SharePoint, you may notice slowdown in SharePoint performance. This slowdown is most likely the result of users storing many large files in your SharePoint server. Microsoft SQL server databases are not optimized to handle… Read More »How to Optimize SharePoint Performance
Target Audience: Site Administrators Microsoft periodically releases cumulative updates and service packs for SharePoint. Just few weeks ago, SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 was publicly released. Bookmark this TechNet page, http://klo.pm/1cuCOjN, if you have not already! Naturally, the next question is: What are your upgrade and patching… Read More »SharePoint Best Practices Primer: Deploying SharePoint Service Packs and Cumulative Updates