Using SharePoint Document Library as a Network Drive

Applies to SharePoint 2010 and Office 365 SharePoint document library.

How to use SharePoint Document Library as a Network Drive

1. Copy your SharedPoint document library URL for example, http://sumon-pc/sites/dc/ts/Shared Documents

URL of the SharePoint document library to be mapped

2. Open Windows Explorer, right click My Computer and select Map Network Drive

Map network drive

3. Choose drive letter that you want to use, then enter the URL that you copied in step 1. Then click finish. If prompt for username and password enter your SharePoint login username and password

map network drive choose drive letter and enter url

4. Now users can access SharePoint document library from Windows Explorer but they need to have privilege to the relevant document library that you mapped.

mapped network drive in Windows explorer – SharePoint document library

Hope this helps.

Office 365 Task list Integration with Outlook 2010 and Filtering

Applies to Office 365 SharePoint list and Outlook 2010.

How to Integrate and Filter an Office 365 Task list with Outlook 2010

1. Navigate to the task list you want to integrate with Outlook and click Connect to Outlook from the ribbon control.

office 365 connect to outlook

2. Click “Allow” and “Yes” consequently and finally the list will be shown in Outlook.

Now if you want to filter this list for example you want to see the task that is assigned to you or a particular name only then follow the following steps to achieve this.

Right click to the task list on Outlook and then select “View Settings…”

Office365 task list on Outlook view settings

3. Click Filter… and then From Filter window go to Advanced tab. Click Filed>Frequently-used field

outlook-advanced-view-settings-add-filter

4. Now go to Advanced tab and Enter the User name that you want to filter the list. Click Ok and exit the filter windows.

outlook-advanced-view-settings-add-filter

5. Now if you see the list at Outlook it will find the tasks only assigned to the user you have entered before.

filtered task list on Outlook

Hope this helps.