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Setting up Single Sign On for Yammer and ADFS

Office365, Technology, Yammer by Adam Toth on December 4, 2013

This post will outline the steps you need to take to configure Single Sign On (SSO) for Yammer and your ADFS infrastructure. Overview Yammer offers a Single Sign On capability for its Enterprise customers. With Single Sign On in place, your organization can get the following benefits: Immediately restrict access to Yammer when you disable/delete…

Setting up Yammer Directory Sync With Office365

Office365, SharePoint, Technology, Yammer by Adam Toth on November 26, 2013

This post will outline the steps necessary to set up Yammer Directory Sync when you are using Office365 with Exchange Online mailboxes. Overview Yammer offers a Directory Sync tool as part of its Enterprise offering. With this tool in place, your organization can get the following benefits: Automatically create Yammer accounts for newly provisioned users…

The Proper Way to Create Publishing Pages in SharePoint 2013

Office365, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on November 8, 2013

There are a few ways in SharePoint 2013 to create new publishing pages in the Pages library, but some of those methods have significant side effects or problems and should be avoided. In this post, I’ll show the proper way to create a Publishing Page in 2013 (hint: use the Site Actions menu). Overview In…

Deep Dive into the Confusing SharePoint 2013 MySite Quick Launch Left Nav

Office365, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on October 30, 2013

The Quick Launch (left nav) of SharePoint’s MySite Host (profile pages area) and personal sites (SkyDrive/MySite/My Content area) is a horribly confusing animal. The navigation changes completely depending on which page you are accessing, and it isn’t entirely clear how to manage the links, or which links appear for all users or just for ME….

Adding Social Capabilities for Office365/SharePoint Online External Users

Office365, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on October 6, 2013

This is the third in a series of posts exploring the limits, boundaries, options, and possibilities with external users in Office365/SharePoint Online. In this post, I’ll show how you can use audiences to provide basic social capabilities for external users. Overview As shown in the first post in this series, you can give external users…

Creating Audiences for Office365/SharePoint Online External Users

Office365, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on October 3, 2013

This is the second in a series of posts exploring the limits, boundaries, options, and possibilities with external users in Office365/SharePoint Online. In this short post, I’ll explore creating SharePoint audiences to target external users. Overview In a previous post, I explored how to improve the user experience for external users in SharePoint Online/Office365 by…

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