Posted on September 17, 2020
We’ve all been in a situation when there’s a need for you to work on a specific document but you don’t have a desktop or a laptop near you. This is where Office 365 comes in, allowing you to operate a plethora of Microsoft applications from any device that has an internet connection, including your...
Posted on September 15, 2020
Microsoft Teams is an extensive communication platform that offers a variety of useful functions from the get-go, from video meetings and team chats to file storage, and more. But there’s also one other feature of MS Teams that is really useful, and it’s application integration. Features of Microsoft Teams It’s important to mention that Microsoft...
Posted on May 28, 2020
How to use a SharePoint Calendar in Teams? We made it simpler with a new update of Virto Calendar!
Posted on May 18, 2020
Virto SharePoint Alerts allows you to automate your business processes as you wish. But it also integrates perfectly with Microsoft Teams!
Posted on May 11, 2020
Learn more about improving the efficiency of your marketing department with an innovative Integrated Marketing calendar from VirtoSoftware.
Posted on April 23, 2020
Imagine a huge IT company rapidly transferring all business online. All business, all the business units. Including all those who did not work from home before.
Posted on April 20, 2020
Task Management with a Microsoft Teams Kanban Board Have you ever had a situation where a team has worked so hard, but the result is not as good as expected? No one understands what the cause is, the team is burnt out, but you don’t see the results you expect. You try different training...
Posted on March 24, 2020
Virto SharePoint Calendar for Office 365 displays multiple categories from Outlook, has an option to select data storage location, get attachment support, and option to copy a data source.
Posted on March 20, 2020
Virto Kanban Board for SharePoint 2019/2016/2013 comes with labels feature, charts upgrade, task and board history, and other features.
Posted on March 20, 2020
Virtosoftware contributes to the global fight with coronavirus and helps companies to stay efficient while working remotely. That’s why, starting from 23rd of March 2020 VirtoSoftware offers an unprecedented 99% discount for the 6-month Virto Kanban Board for Office 365 license.
Posted on March 12, 2020
Every project manager values the specialized project management software. For the project managers, this software is a science, an art, an ambassador of His Majesty Control. And every project manager is in an under-cover resistance with the rest of the company. Because it’s not just the project manager.
Posted on March 12, 2020
We’ve added an ability to change data storage location (default is West US) on Virto Kanban Board.
Posted on December 14, 2019
Virto Kanban Board for Office 365 comes with performance optimization, labels feature, charts upgrade, tasks cloning, swimlanes sorting, task and board history, custom choice values fill-in, and image preview on task body.
Posted on November 6, 2019
Virto Kanban Board for SharePoint On-Premises was updated with a scroll for columns, interactive search feature, swimlanes sorting, a user mentioning in comments, image preview on task, and tickets cloning.
Posted on October 29, 2019
Virto Office 365 workflow activities were expanded with a copy/move folder action.
Posted on August 28, 2019
Office 365 workflow activities kit by Virto was expanded with new actions. We added actions for images processing in SharePoint Designer.
Posted on August 28, 2019
We added functionality to import and export an alert from Office 365 Alerts app to another site collection.
Posted on August 14, 2019
Virto SharePoint Kanban for SharePoint 2013, 2016, and 2019 comes with dramatically boosted performance and centralized settings on board and farm level.
Posted on June 28, 2019
Virto Kanban Board Office 365 was updated with boards Recycle Bin, user mentioning in comments, and comments’ content in e-mail notifications.
Posted on June 6, 2019
SharePoint Calendar app by Virtosoftware was extended with new features for multiday view: event types color coding, ability to select font size and weight, option to select left column width.
Posted on June 6, 2019
Office 365 Alerts and Reminders App was updated with Alert Owner Groups, ability to copy alerts, and more features for message view.
Posted on May 28, 2019
Virto Office 365 Kanban Board comes with scroll for columns, search and filters for all boards, notifications by role, and new date picker options.
Posted on May 14, 2019
Dear customers and prospects, It has been already 2 weeks since the IT security experts from Canada and Saudi Arabia began to warn SharePoint users about the attacks to Microsoft SharePoint servers using the known CVE-2019-0604 vulnerability. According to Microsoft security notice this vulnerability allows the execution of any particular code in the context of...
Posted on May 7, 2019
Virto Office 365 Calendar app can display Internet calendars and has option to show additional fields on events in day, week, workweek, and multisource views.
Posted on May 7, 2019
Office 365 Alerts app was updated with daily, weekly, and monthly reminders, search features, and ability to change “Change Type” of existing alerts.
Posted on May 7, 2019
Virto SharePoint Kanban for SharePoint 2013, 2016, and 2019 was updated with upgraded conditions, “Field is modified” notification trigger, notifications by user role, suggested cards style rules, and more fields for task title.
Posted on April 1, 2019
Virto Office 365 Kanban Board App was updated with new features. You can display 3 fields in card title, apply improved Work-In-Progress limits. And we’ve added more features and conditions to task notifications and style rules!
Posted on March 25, 2019
Virto Office 365 Calendar was updated. We’ve added calendars’ sorting and an option to display events in client’s time zone.
Posted on January 21, 2019
Kanban is known by many to originate from Toyota Production System. It was developed by Taiichi Ohno, who worked as an industrial engineer at Toyota, to improve and maintain a high level of production in the company.
Posted on December 10, 2018
Have you heard of Office 365 forms? If you haven’t, these are robust applications that can perform things like data recording, arranging quizzes and workflows. Such features make o365 forms quite popular tool.
Posted on November 29, 2018
Tired from overtasking, complex scheduling demands, biased decision making? Streamline Your Hiring Process with Kanban-Based Human Resources Management.
Posted on November 14, 2018
Virto SharePoint Calendar web part for SharePoint 2013 and 2016 was updated with new “Create event” form for SharePoint data source and changing of dates on a new form for all other data sources.
Posted on November 2, 2018
Virto SharePoint Alerts app for Office 365 was updated with an ability to change alert owner to make it available to edit and an option to send alert emails to Microsoft Teams.
Posted on November 2, 2018
Virto Office 365 Calendar app has an ability to add external users to SharePoint calendar and an option to allows access for a certain calendar to all calendars and data sources created on current site collection.
Posted on October 26, 2018
Moving an organization’s infrastructure into the cloud is something which causes sleepless nights in a lot of IT administrators. Of course, while many organizations are not afraid to take the leap into the cloud, others cannot carry out their migration process seamlessly.
Posted on October 12, 2018
The Virto SharePoint Alerts App for Office 365 was updated with detailed reports of delivered emails, new conditions, and ability to group conditions.
Posted on October 9, 2018
Great news! The VirtoSoftware team prepared a new Whitepaper about SharePoint Project Management.
Posted on October 8, 2018
Virto SharePoint Online Calendar supports images from Exchange Calendar in event description.
Posted on September 10, 2018
Virto SharePoint Forms Designer was updated to v.1.3.14. We added ability to place field name above a field value, custom format option for DateTime field, ability to reset all forms, themes for Tabs and Accordions, and CheckIn button in form for checked out items.
Posted on September 10, 2018
We improved ReadOnly view with hidden “Add new task button”, added option to collapse resource lines in chart by default, and allowed custom color-coding of tasks intersection cells.
Posted on August 15, 2018
Virto Office 365 Forms Designer app has new control “Panel” and ID field for Accordions, Tabs, and Panels usable in built-in JavaScript Editor.
Posted on August 15, 2018
The latest release of Virto Bulk Uploader for Office 365 comes with ability to add files upload settings on site level and list level.
Posted on August 3, 2018
SharePoint Kanban Board web part updated with ability to edit values from the card directly, tasks search, sorting, and more smart features!
Posted on August 2, 2018
SharePoint Resource Manager app for Office 365 is a tool for effective SharePoint project management. Add and edit SharePoint project tasks in a chart view!
Posted on July 12, 2018
Virto Office 365 Forms Designer app was updated with option to save your SharePoint forms as a draft and show preview.
Posted on June 1, 2018
Virto Office 365 Alerts allows to add user groups as recipients and receive only the last changes of a field in summary alerts.
Posted on June 1, 2018
Virto Office 365 Calendar app has option to select the first month on year view and allows to filter event by their categories.
Posted on May 24, 2018
Virto Kanban for SharePoint Online was upgraded and has a new design, multiple lists overlay ability, and updated notification email.
Posted on February 13, 2018
We have extended the SharePoint Alerts and Reminders app functionality with the number of smart email options.
Posted on February 13, 2018
The new Virto Calendar’s options may come in handy to protect your SharePoint Online calendar’s sensitive information.
Posted on February 2, 2018
If your company uses SharePoint as a collaborative platform, then you are probably using a SharePoint calendar as a meeting organiser.
Posted on January 31, 2018
Many users in a company utilizing SharePoint environment get their feet dipped into the pool of SharePoint for nothing else than managing some lists and calendars. Because calendaring is always handy on the company, department, and individual level. The SharePoint calendars are displayed as regular calendars, lists, worksheets, and charts with requiring very little or zero...
Posted on January 31, 2018
SharePoint Calendar is a smart and multi-purpose tool capable of solving most of the organizational and collaborative matters which every team faces. We are going to overview two ways of creating a SharePoint calendar for teams – using SharePoint OOTB options and Calendar Overlay Pro by Virto.
Posted on January 30, 2018
SharePoint Calendar helps keep companies organized and informed of what is going on inside its walls. Many organizations use SharePoint shared calendars for managing their conference rooms and other resources, such as equipment and transport. So, let’s explore how to share a calendar in SharePoint Online step-by-step. Before you start: Before you start configuring a group...
Posted on January 29, 2018
It takes only seconds to sync an Office 365 calendar with Outlook so that you can view SharePoint and Outlook calendars combined in one place. And with Calendar Overlay Pro you can extend the functionality of your calendars with color-coding, recurring events and finally, overlay as many calendars as you need.
Posted on January 29, 2018
The SharePoint platform allows us to connect a SharePoint calendar to Outlook, and manage the imported calendar in the Outlook interface as easy as in the native environment.
Posted on January 29, 2018
SharePoint is known for its powerful collaboration opportunities, and effectively adding and managing calendars is essential for companies using SharePoint. Calendar Overlay Pro for SharePoint allows users to combine several calendars, Microsoft Planner tasks, and much more in a single view.
Posted on January 22, 2018
Microsoft Office 365 provides a better solution for displaying a conference room calendar: you do not have to create and configure a company shared calendar to make that happen.
Posted on January 21, 2018
If you want to share your Office 365 calendar with your co-workers or, say, customers, you can perform that within the Exchange Online or Outlook calendar interface.
Posted on December 8, 2017
In order to differentiate various list items and highlight key items, there can be applied a method of SharePoint list color coding.
Posted on November 21, 2017
The Virto Kanban Board for SharePoint Online comes with a new list filter functionality. The option is handy when you manage multiple SharePoint lists on the Kanban board. You can create a condition filter and color-code tasks for a certain SharePoint list.
Posted on November 17, 2017
The Office 365 Calendar app by Virto has gained an ability to color code Outlook meeting rooms. With the previous Virto Calendar version, the imported Exchange calendars had default colors.
Posted on November 17, 2017
The Virto Office 365 workflow activities kit was extended with 11 new actions. We have added new workflows for list processing, date and string processing, administration and permission management actions.
Posted on November 17, 2017
The Office 365 Kanban Board app was enriched with new functionality which makes your SharePoint task routines more pleasant.
Posted on October 23, 2017
Meet our new component for SharePoint Online, which allows you to backup and recover your valuable SharePoint content from site-collection or separate site!
Posted on October 19, 2017
The Virto Forms Designer allows you to create complex SharePoint list forms, enjoying the user-friendly app interface with a rich set of customizing features.
Posted on October 6, 2017
Take a quick start guide to fully utilize the Virto Calendar app handy features. Now, you can manage every calendar list across your SharePoint site collection in a single view.
Posted on October 3, 2017
Virto Office 365 Alerts and Reminders app was improved and extended with new functionality. We have performed the code refactoring to optimize the app and added the following features:
Posted on September 27, 2017
Conceptually,SharePoint workflows are used to automate and simplify different work processes, such as document approval, user permission management, reports generating, and many other specific business processes and recurrent daily tasks.
Posted on September 19, 2017
We have good news for you! The last update of Virto Office 365 Kanban comes with a bunch of amazing features and you will want them right now.
Posted on August 25, 2017
Office 365 Workflow Activities Kit allows you already to work with site and item permissions. Now, we have added 6 new actions for folder permissions processing,
Posted on August 9, 2017
Virtosoftware’s SharePoint Related Items Field for SharePoint 2013 and 2016 allows you to create repeated rows (related items) in the item and display it in a convenient view.
Posted on July 31, 2017
SharePoint Forms have been serving as an outstanding collaboration and management tool for many years. Using this tool, one can process corporate data of all types, volumes, and purposes.
Posted on July 21, 2017
We are glad to inform you about the fresh release of Virto SharePoint Kanban Board web part for SharePoint 2013 and 2016.
Posted on June 29, 2017
The Microsoft SharePoint platform is a unique software-based solution, initially designed to provide employees with thorough and efficient cooperation.
Posted on June 15, 2017
Undoubtedly, SharePoint Online is an amazing product affording many opportunities for businesses to organize and improve their workflow.
Posted on March 7, 2017
In this article, we will discuss the difference between SharePoint workflow types and create a SharePoint 2013 reusable workflow.
Posted on March 7, 2017
How to create workflow in SharePoint 2013? The guide from VirtoSoftware. SharePoint Designer workflows are a great way to automate business processes. This SharePoint workflow tutorial tells about how to create a simple SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow. If you are new to the subject, this post will show you the basics on how to create...
Posted on March 7, 2017
How you can apply them to optimize your work processes? Which SharePoint workflow tools can be used?
Posted on February 6, 2017
SharePoint Workflow Scheduler by Virto with the newest update was released.
Posted on February 3, 2017
Office 365 workflow activities range by Virto has been expanded with additional custom actions. We have added actions for List, Permissions and Active Directory processing in SharePoint Designer.
Posted on February 2, 2017
SharePoint alerts can be configured to send an email or SMS when any documents or items on a SharePoint site have been changed. There are many use cases and business scenarios where you can use SharePoint alerts. You can configure instant notifications for changes and updates made to an item, list, or library to improve the...
Posted on February 2, 2017
The SharePoint collaborative platform allows users to launch quite a sophisticated notification system.
Posted on January 20, 2017
Regardless of the future of still dying InfoPath with its pro and cons, there are many other ways on how to create a form in SharePoint 2013 with other solutions. This article will help you to find out how to create a form in SharePoint 2013 easily and seamlessly.
Posted on December 27, 2016
SharePoint Kanban has the major 3.0.1 update and you can enjoy the new design and a whole bunch of new abilities that equate the SharePoint Kanban on premise and the powerful Virto Office 365 Kanban.
Posted on December 5, 2016
Need to create a SharePoint Kanban Board for a task list inside SharePoint Online? Here you can find step-by-step directions on how to do that.
Posted on December 5, 2016
For quickly differentiating tasks inside a SharePoint Kanban board you can color code them. First of all you need to choose the board and go to “card setup”.
Posted on December 5, 2016
For those who didn’t know: you can create a SharePoint Kanban board that allows you to manage tasks by users instead of priority! This can be done in two ways.
Posted on December 5, 2016
SharePoint’s Alerts and Reminders App is a great tool which allows you to send alerts and reminders from SharePoint via email, and creates a flexible notification system on your SharePoint site. In addition, it has a convenient interface and is very easy to set up.
Posted on December 5, 2016
SharePoint Event Alerts is a flexible notification system that sends alerts and reminders in SharePoint online via email. Let’s discuss how to set up a daily summary of changes made to a document.
Posted on December 5, 2016
If you want to get a notification a few days before an important contract expires or a document is due, you can make an event reminder with the Office 365 Alerts app. It is done with several simple steps.
Posted on December 5, 2016
Virto Forms app is a web based forms designer with which you can customize SharePoint list item forms and make them easier to use. Watch the video overview to learn about the Forms Designer features.
Posted on December 5, 2016
SharePoint Online Virto Forms app is a web based form designer that allows users to customize out-of-the-box list item forms making them much more user-friendly. Learn how to create a SharePoint list form.
Posted on December 5, 2016
Exchange and SharePoint calendar integration is a much-wanted ability which is available in the Virto SharePoint Calendar web part and Office 365 Calendar app.
Posted on November 28, 2016
Office 365 Alerts add-in by VirtoSoftware was renamed to Office 365 Alerts and Reminders add-in. As you might expect, we added the new functionality to our alerting solution and
Posted on November 28, 2016
Web parts are the basic building blocks of a SharePoint 2013, 2016 and 2019 Page. They help users change content and appearance of SharePoint pages directly. Web parts can be added to zones of a SharePoint page and can then be customized to create a unique page.
Posted on November 28, 2016
SharePoint web parts are intended for performing specific tasks on a SharePoint page, like displaying site content, pictures, search results, and for dozens of other purposes.
Posted on November 28, 2016
Office 365 Kanban has just received a major update, which brought changes to Settings page. Don’t worry, we hadn’t totally changed its interface.
Posted on November 28, 2016
The Microsoft SharePoint platform allows users to create intranet websites with the use of multiple templates and SharePoint web parts, which incredibly expand the basic functionality.
Posted on November 22, 2016
The university was searching for a solution that rendered SharePoint “usable” for a huge population of users.
About the author 
Tatiana Sushchenko is the product owner at VirtoSoftware. She started her IT career with the famous ABBYY Lingvo back in 2006 in Moscow. Then she moved to Microsoft performing strongly in various marketing management roles across Visio, SharePoint, Office 365 and Project for almost 10 years. Tatiana is a graduate of the Institute of Business Studies and holds a mini-MBA degree. She also graduated from Microsoft marketing excellence university.