To me, Office Web Apps is one of the coolest things to happen to SharePoint in a long time
From an overall Information Architecture as well as underlying System Architecture Governance perspective, this will help project teams and organizations draw the "line in the sand" in conversations regarding Out-of-the-box SharePoint 2013 \ Office 365 | SharePoint Online capabilities and what they may understand as a true App or something they may have seen in their browser editing an Excel document via an Office Web App (or of course a custom .NET App that may have been "home grown" over time). -- Just a day after Microsoft launched its OneDrive cloud storage to replace SkyDrive , the tech giant has announced plans to rebrand its Office Web Apps to Office online
When utilizing Office 365 ’s SharePoint Online or a stand along SharePoint Online instance, you are able to utilize a configured Web Apps Server for users to also co-author documents in Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Excel Web Apps
The simple answer is that native mobile apps offer depth while Web apps offer breadth
And Cloud-based applications are no more than Web apps. Web apps, are awesome. Why? Because Web apps are what end-users are familiar with
User permissions and related permission policies should be implemented as follows: User Permissions Permissions available within permission levels at site collection level Permission Policies Define groups of permissions (similar to permission levels) Only place with a “Deny” capability (i.e. default: deny write, deny all) User Policies Assign permission policies to users and groups for the entire web app (i.e. Deny group from deleting items within an entire web app – applicable to public facing web app) User access will be also be managed through the use of SharePoint groups Permissions will not be directly assigned to either Active Directory groups or individual user accounts A combination of Active Directory groups and individual user accounts will be utilized as appropriate for individual and specific situations and added to the SharePoint group to control permissions Overview of SharePoint’s Hierarchical Architecture Requests to access specific Site Collections should be made through the Site Collection Administrators through a built-in access request function
Most web apps only support specific browsers -- and unfortunately Safari on the iPad is not always supported. So if you have existing web apps (or even client-server apps) they wish to access via an iPad, there may be supportability issues depending on what the web app requires on the browser side or the client-server requires -- which in most cases is Windows and Internet Explorer
Last week, I was led to an article on Information Week’s site that called Microsoft’s Office Web Apps for iPad a “Game Changer&rdquo...In this case, I think that the web apps may be a game changer, for Microsoft, not for me
SharePoint Farm Resource Hierarchy SharePoint 2013 | Hybrid Office 365 Web App Resource Hierarchy Deployment Impact Examples - IIS Reset (EPC Group Example) Deployment Impact Examples- App Pool Reset (EPC Group Example) Maintenance Windows (Backup, code promotion, etc.)
So, if you are an Office 365 user, go to your Mail app and create a group, the results will be a page with the following feature set: Group conversation Newsfeed Group shared calendar Group file repository (One Drive with full Office Web Apps) Group Notebook Group’s architecture will allow us to include other tools as part of the Group page
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