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SharePoint Classic vs. SharePoint Modern: A Kiefer Assessment (Part 1)

Microsoft SharePoint supports two basic User Interfaces (UI) designs; The “Classic” experience, and the “Modern” experience.  The “Classic” experience is a highly customizable user interface that integrates SharePoint lists and libraries.  The “Modern” experience is mobile ready, (currently) limits the visual customization that can be done, makes the creators’ experience more intuitive, and makes the user’s experience more collaborative. Many clients have asked us if they should use SharePoint “Modern” instead of “Classic”?

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Vision 2020 and the focus on the future: Our thoughts on CDT’s strategic plan.

Next year, Kiefer Consulting will be celebrating 30 years of successful project delivery.  Over the last 29 years, we have had to stop from time to time and think about the company’s direction and strategy.  2017 was one of those years.  We took inventory of our portfolio and our partnerships, and we identified the “in-demand” solutions that would be critical to our 2018 and 2019 business plan.  It appears that we are not the only ones taking a hard look at our business.  The State of California is also working on a strategic vision.

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Cool new stuff in Office 365: The @ mention in Outlook 2016

Our Director of Operations, @Ben Cox, discovered this “easter egg” in Outlook 2016 and thought it was pretty cool. So, we thought we’d share! Have you ever sent an email or meeting invite to a group of people with specific instructions to one of the recipients in the body of the message or meeting invite? You think to yourself… “Will they see that they are mentioned in the message? Will they see there is something that pertains to them specifically?”

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Cool new stuff in Office 365: The Activity Button

Office 365 continues to be updated with new features! We wanted to start a blog series to share features that were either “new” or “newly discovered” by members of the Kiefer team. Hopefully, this blog is helpful in assisting you in gaining a better understanding of the capabilities of Office 365.

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Using SharePoint to improve business processes and workflows

For years, experts in the SharePoint world have long touted the platform’s virtues that are related to how quickly information workers (users) can find their content start working on their content faster by using a number of SharePoint tools including Search and Document Library views. While the Out-of-the-Box tools are great to utilize for streamlining the findability process, they are not in any way connected with the quality of the final content of the documents.

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