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Version control in Office 365

When working with documents in SharePoint or Office 365, quite often files are named like "Project-Budget-Report-v1.55", "Project-Budget-Report-v1.56", "Project-Budget-Report-v2.0" etc. and stored in the same folder or library. This is to achieve version control from the user perspective. This is not a good idea for the following reasons: Storing redundant information Confusion which version to use when Browsing though many documents to see what information/metadata changed if required Version numbering should be automated, no time spent by the document author There is a better way to manage versions of documents and to use tools already available to us in Office 365. File name should not contain the version number in it. Every time you upload a document with the same name the SharePoint will increment the version number for you automatically in the current set up of our Office 365 site we use for customer documentation. Then to manage the
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New LG G4

Yesterday has got the new LG G4. My previous phone was HTC One (M7). It has recently got an issue with the microphone and I was not satisfied with it's camera. Therefore decision was made to get a new flagship smartphone from and Android world. After reading reviews about several phones online I have made a choice in favour of new LG G4. Here it goes:
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SharePoint 2013, Office 365, Office Delve and Training

I have just recently run a SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 training/consulting session for a company that specializes in ERP software. The feedback was: "The training was great, it really showed us the WOW in SharePoint!" Here's Office Delve which I first saw as "Oslo" at the SPC 14 in Las Vegas. In my opinion this is what really adds WOW to Office 365 and SharePoint: http://products.office.com/en-us/business/explore-office-delve
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SharePoint 4 Biz - Setting up Expense/Purchase Register

Very often we need somewhere to register purchases or expenses. There can be various reasons for that, but the main are: - store all expenses in one register to categorize, approve, review, report etc. - ability to upload scanned receipts for future claims, reimbursements, warranties etc. So here's how it can be done in SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online / Office 365. Start with creating a content type - in our case it is Receipt: 1. Go to Site settings: 2. Select Site content types: 3. Click "Create": 4. Provide content type details. We suggest to create a new Group for it and inherit from Document content type: 5. Add site columns to the content type. We think the most important would be Purchase Category (Travel, Food, Activities etc.), Vendor, Amount, Purchase Date and Warranty Date: Then we create a document library: 6. Go to Add an app:  7. Select Document Library: 8. Provide a name (Receipts in our case):  9. Go to Librar
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Major issues with SharePoint implementations

According to the recent AIIM's Market Watch Report, SharePoint: Clouding the Issues  the biggest of the biggest ongoing issues with SharePoint are: Persuading users to manage and share their content in SharePoint and not elsewhere Expanding the use of SharePoint for more business processes Aligning governance, security and usage policies with other enterprise apps Achieving uniformity of classification and metadata structures
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SharePoint consultant price

There is an interesting tweet I responded to today: I think the price doesn't matter at all in the SharePoint industry. I have got customers who were provided with assistance from a highest level - price-wise - consultants who could deliver what they promised or when their work required further re-engineering. Also there are good specialists on the market who wouldn't charge a fortune, but still are capable of delivering high-end quality solutions. As we all know very well, the price of any good or service consists of rent of the assets, cost of labor and profit. In today's rush for diminution of asset prices and cost of labor the major portion of the price is profit for the service provider which is nothing to deal with quality of service. There is another problem - not too many highly-skilled people on the SharePoint services market. However the price for the consultants is still considerably high.
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