The Problem

Many times, customers reach out to know more about Excel workbooks. Presently, SharePoint online offers a script editor or content editor to make users display Excel workbooks in an iframe. It is quite possible to write a jquery code within the script web part and dynamically set the excel workbook to iframe’s src. This comes with an issue that continuously displays the O365 Global Suite Navigation bar of the Excel web app. There was no way to hide that with the help of CSS or jquery while loading Excel web parts dynamically until the following solution came up.

The Solution

The solutions use Excel Web Access Web part and list view web part. These two web parts are connected So the list view web part sends the URL to view into the Excel Web Access Web part with a filter via the JSLink. The steps to follow are as follows:

1. Create a Document Library and a View named MyExcelFileView. Add various fields including “Created By”
2. Create a web part page (You can also use any existing Wiki page), edit it, and add 2 web parts.
3. Upload javascript files to the SiteAssets library.
4. Edit List view web part. Under Miscellaneous option, set JSLink;
5. Set desired Appearance layouts and select what to display. The field “Created by” must be a part of the view
6. All the workbooks of the logged-in user will be filtered.
7. While the page is in Edit mode, you need to add Excel Web Access web part from Business Data
   1. Goto Connections> Get Workbook Url from -> A popup will load. Select Field Name “Document URL” and save the excel web part.
   2. Uncheck the box “Title Bar”
   3. Save Web part, page and publish

You can now see excel is already loaded in the excel web part.

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In the past couple of years, having a centralized server and managing documents and collaboration was considered a more tech-savvy approach. However, with the rapid adoption of the cloud, more cloud-based collaboration platforms have emerged. These are adopted by companies at their own pace.

SharePoint Online is the tool of the future

If there’s one capability that SharePoint has: It can transform the way you do business. It provides the resources needed to create websites with pages on the company’s intranet so that critical cloud-based business information is organized, stored, and easily shareable and accessible.

What are the Microsoft SharePoint online benefits for business?

Let’s have a look at SharePoint online benefits for cloud-based business:

• Improve data management

With SharePoint, you get a golden ticket to modern data management approaches. Today, employees have to deal with data, all the time. May it be checking and responding to emails, or dealing with customer support requests, generating marketing reports or meeting minutes. SharePoint provides the gateway towards a more organized data management approach. Plus, sharing the data with others on a team, or across the team isn’t much of a problem with SharePoint.

• Simplify business functions

The typical business functions include activities like collecting feedback, tracking issues, routing documents for approval, and many more. SharePoint provides out-of-the-box approaches and workflow designs that automate these processes. They can be integrated into web browsers for consistent user experience.

• Regulate Compliance and Security

Compliance regulations and security is a thing of today. While companies grow, there are more compliance requirements and security methods that need to be kept under check. Consequently, you can’t just trust any new software in the market. But no, SharePoint Online is secure and it has been around for a long time, thus, fully trustworthy for business use.

• Optimize Content Delivery

While companies look for new ways to optimize content, that continues to grow at a high pace, they also look for solutions that perform document tracking, keep revision histories, and provide a robust content control. All of it comes with SharePoint. SharePoint online benefits include Content approval, editing, maintaining and publishing is a smooth process now.

• Increase Productive

Apart from a Centralized Administration, there are many more content management methods that make you increase productivity and provide benefits for business. Manager can keep their SharePoint Site organized so that they can have a quick look at the content before making a decision. When content is organized, you get more time stuff other than just hunting down your systems for data.

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MachPanel automation module for Microsoft SharePoint

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Flexible SharePoint hybrid deployments

Since SharePoint 2016 was launched, the option of Hybrid became more widespread. Since there was no firm restriction to opt for SharePoint cloud or SharePoint Server, business can opt to approach SharePoint Cloud at their own pace based on various scenarios. The “Site and Search” deployment scenarios gained popularity where organizations can select the location of sites according to their convenience. Files like media assets that require more space can be hosted in Cloud, or files that contain sensitive information can be hosted in the server and it’s needless to shift them in the cloud until the organization is fully ready for it.

SharePoint Hybrid with Office 365

The harmony between SharePoint hybrid environment and other Microsoft technologies has proved to be a productive for cloud businesses. Microsoft service like Power BI, Office 365, Yammer, Planner, Exchange and many more are compatible with SharePoint Hybrid environments and provide all the functionality available in the cloud.

The Hybrid search experience

Hybrid search is one feature that makes SharePoint Hybrid a win-win for cloud business. With hybrid search, content from the Cloud environment and on-premises is readily available because it enables a unified search index.

More security and control

In a SharePoint hybrid environment, since you are more in control of your Cloud, things are more secure than you’d expect in a complete Cloud or complete on-premises environment. More certainly, you can’t expect to implement, while deploying SharePoint hybrid, the level of security Microsoft or other Tech giant implements in their Cloud and offers to its customers.

Hybrid auditing

This feature in SharePoint allows SharePoint Admins to push the audit logs of the company from On-Premises to the Office 365 Unified Audit Log. In this way, there is a single location from where you can view audit log that comes from both on-premises and SharePoint online.  However, this feature is yet available in SharePoint Server 2016 and at the time of this writing, the audit log feature is in public preview for SharePoint Server 2019. Once the feature is releases for SharePoint 2019, you can experience the unified Audit log experience for SharePoint Server 2019 as well.

Hybrid Business Connectivity Services

In order to have a secured view of data from external systems, you can make use of the Hybrid Business Connectivity Services. Data can be imported as a SharePoint List in Office 365 from systems like SQL Server Database and users can edit and view the data remotely. No on-premises connection is required for the purpose of accessing data.

MachPanel Automation module for SharePoint Hybrid

MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Operations Management and Orchestration Solutions Platform designed for easy automation and management of Microsoft services in cloud business. The automation module for SharePoint makes the selling of SharePoint services manageable as a hosted cloud solution. It makes CSPs in control of their cloud whether it is SharePoint Online for which they are opting for or SharePoint Server 2019, 2016 and 2013. By easy billing, provisioning and management through built-in multi-tenancy and segregation for Microsoft SharePoint 2019 and previous versions, CSPs stay ahead of the curve with their cloud offerings in their cloud business.

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The need for backup is critical than ever before.  Microsoft Applications like Office 365, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for business have a distinct way of storing data. And hence for all the companies out there who want their data preserved, must not rely on Cloud data only; Data backup is a must-have. For the decision of choosing a backup solution, there are two basic questions that need to be answered: First, whether the data can be entrusted to a third party? Secondly, can the company afford to comply strictly with the data protection regulations?

The Native Approach

Primarily, there are no backups in the Cloud in SharePoint Online. However, there are ways to recover deleted site collections in Microsoft SharePoint online. Other than that, there are two approaches, which are ‘thought of’ as a native backup solution. These approaches are:

• Retention Policy: it allows retaining deleted items. In case of SharePoint, it is present for chosen sites. Under this policy, Preservation Hold Libraries are created which retain deleted data for a specific amount of time.
• Litigation hold: this is an Office 365 eDiscovery tool. Primarily, this tool is used to hold content in case there are any legal actions to be taken. Since it prevents deletion in entirety, it is used as an alternate to backup.

The Solution

Backing up SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business is offered by many third-party providers. They provide backup for Private Site Collections and OneDrive for Business Sites, Public Site (and all sub- sites), SharePoint Online Team Site (and all sub-sites). You can also protect your customers and promote customer retention. Further, Lists are maintained, file versioning is performed and maintained, Folders, Sites and subsites are backed up. Same is the backup case for OneDrive for business; your full account, Folders and Files are backed up with proper versions. These services provide up to 6 backups each day and take snapshots to make sure the backups keep up with customers.

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MachPanel Automation Tool for SharePoint Server

MachPanel provides reliable automation and caters for you SharePoint needs like no one in the market. It is a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) that is trusted by Providers globally. MachPanel is where you can send Sell Active Directory Objects as a Hosted Service. With the latest support of SharePoint Server 2019, MachPanel is gaining popularity amongst SharePoint Online users. MachPanel offers Automated Backups and easier installation and up gradation.

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Companies still tend to keep their data inbound and hence prefer to go for SharePoint on-premises. Microsoft has known it for a long time and now it has finally announced many benefits for on-premises users in the upcoming SharePoint version which were initially available for SharePoint Online or Hybrid users only. Yet again, migration has been made easy in SharePoint Server 2019 and so users from SharePoint 2010, 2013 or 2016 will be looking forward to upgrade to get the new feel on the UI improvements, the modern sites, integrated support for libraries and most importantly they are eager to get their hands on the improved support for their business processes with Microsoft Flow and Microsoft Power Apps. With Microsoft SharePoint 2019, customers will be able to handle mission-critical workloads in a much reliable manner. With enhanced support collaboration the feature for better automation of business processes is also introduced, making SharePoint 2019 tentatively the most compelling and collaborative experience for users.

All these business incentives make Service Providers eager to begin offering the latest SharePoint Release and facilitate their customers from the features in a profitable manner. Not only SharePoint manages businesses in a modern and automated fashion but the chances of businesses to flourish by availing SharePoint on premises features are much high.

Let’s have a look at the features of SharePoint Server 2019 (on- premises) that make Service Providers consider offering SharePoint as a hosted service.

What’s New in SharePoint Server 2019

NextGen OneDrive Sync

With this feature available for on-premises users, much of the work flow of users will get easier. For Example: Documents from Emails will directly be saved to the relevant folder in OneDrive on the basis of user preference making workflow less tedious. In simple, SharePoint server 2019 will bring OneDrive features to the on-premises world and this will also include the Sync Client as is in Office 365.

PowerApps integration

With PowerApps being made available for on premises users, they will be able to change the way incidents are managed. With pre-built templates that reduce development time of business apps, which also doesn’t require much coding knowledge, business apps will be available for multiple mobile platforms.

Microsoft Flow

This feature allows for creating a flow of tasks or actions across different Microsoft applications. This makes workflows between Microsoft programs smoother and easier. Availability of Microsoft Flow automates commonplace recurring tasks and saves time.

A different User Experience

UX and UI improvements have been necessary for a better user experience. The UX improvements in document libraries and navigation methods that have been proved successful in Microsoft Office 365 have been introduced in SharePoint 2019 too.

Team News

Collaboration between teams is improved by announcing news to all team members. With Microsoft Teams integration with SharePoint, working in a team and collaboration has become much easier by the feature of Announcement for users of web and mobile.

Communication sites

This feature is much needed for communication and sharing of knowledge between teams in a more engaging and compelling format. With this feature available for on-perm users, anyone can make beautifully crafted content for example wiki pages that look visually appealing.

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MachPanel and SharePoint

MachPanel is a multi-cloud service Orchestration and Delivery Platform that provides automation to your SharePoint Deployments securely. It is a trusted hosted solution that simplifies scalability. Its business automation flow makes processes and end-to-end management easier.

MachPanel gives you the benefit of managing users; perform site management, self-service tools, multiple hosted and dedicated platforms. With MachPanel, you can gain a competitive edge in the market and stay ahead of the line. MachSol offers a full set of services that facilitate Service providers and make deployments an easy task with its post-deployment support.  Since it ensures maximum uptime, MachPanel is a promising automation control panel having all the features of a trendy Control Panel in 2018.

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