BCS

Business Connectivity Services Retirement Lightning Tools was formed in 2007 as a company promoting its first-ever tool, BDC Meta Man,…

Within this webinar, Brett Lonsdale of Lightning Tools (Author of Developers Guide to Business Data Catalog 2007 and SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services) will introduce BCS and the benefits of using SharePoint to work with your external data.

Brett Lonsdale from Lightning Tools demonstrates how you can connect to External Data from both SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises using Business Connectivity Services.

Office 365 Business Connectivity Services

NOTE: Business Connectivity Services is now Deprecated – An alternative is to use Lightning Tools Data Viewer Business Connectivity Services…

Business Connectivity Services: End User Implications; Part Three: External Content Type Authorisation Errors

Introduction In the first part of this article we covered implications of external system throttling thresholds for users of Business…

Finding External Lists using Windows PowerShell®

This blog post provides sample Windows PowerShell® scripts that displays information on external lists in your Microsoft SharePoint® on-premises environments…

Business Connectivity Services: End User Implications – Part two: Changing External System Throttling

Introduction In the first part of this article we covered implications of external system throttling thresholds for users of Business…

Business Connectivity Services: End User Implications – Part Zero: Why this blog series

Once an external content type is created then they can be used in Microsoft SharePoint® solutions to expose the data…

Business Connectivity Services: End User Implications – Part One: Threshold limit Errors

Introduction Once you have created an external content type, content owners, business analysts and site owners will create Microsoft SharePoint®…

BCS Stored Procedures – Specific Finder and IdEnumerator in SharePoint 2013 using Meta Man

In this walkthrough we will be using Microsoft SQL Server Stored Procedures to add a Specific Finder and IdEnumerator operations…

Data Viewer Web Part and Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2013

Business Connectivity Services improved a lot in SharePoint 2013 mainly with the support for OData as a supported external data…

SharePoint 2013 Secure Store Service and MS SQL

In this walkthrough we will show using SharePoint 2013 Secure Store Service in Business Connectivity Services for integration with MS SQL…