MSDN article on Customizing SharePoint Online using SharePoint Designer 2010: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh428136.aspx Why use SharePoint Designer to customize SharePoint Online? In a nutshell, you only have 3 choices: Browser – limited amount of solutions can be created directly through the browser (can’t do things such as powerful workflows, BCS, data views to database data etc.) Visual Studio – within the enterprise, this is a very powerful tool for developers. However, in SharePoint online space, you can only use VS to create sandbox solutions or use the client object model. No farm based solutions SharePoint Designer – This is where the story […]

The much anticipated Office 365 was finally made available at the end of June 2011. It provides a great turn-key solution for organizations to provide all sorts of services like messaging, collaboration, online conferencing and document management to their personnel at an amazingly low price. Take a quick tour around the Office 365 interfaces by watching this video. The collaboration piece of the Office 365 pie is SharePoint Online. It’s basically SharePoint 2010 trimmed down to run ‘in the cloud’. Within your SharePoint Online environment, you can create multiple site collections for projects, departments, regions, business units or areas delegated […]