Imagine my pleasure to see this tweet first thing this morning from Sohail Merchant (@sohailmerchant)! I’m not sure when this actually showed up, but it’s an ask from me which goes back almost four years on UserVoice. Interestingly enough, they are still THINKING ABOUT IT. I don’t see anything obvious on the Office 365 Roadmap,…
File this under “sometimes it’s useful to be subscribed to too many things”. Yesterday I noticed in an alert from Github that Chris Kent (@theChrisKent) made a whole bunch of changes to the samples in the SharePoint/sp-dev-list-formatting Github repo. If you’re not familiar with that repo, it contains a whole pile of useful samples showing how you…
The successful approach below has made it into the official Microsoft docs in the article Customizing the “modern” experiences in SharePoint Online. tl;dr It would be great to create a modern home page for the classic root site of an Office 365 tenant. You can’t. This is another case where I would love to be proven…
IMO, this should be an easier thing to do. It’s a VERY common request from my clients, and for years we’ve had to hack this together. There are currently two UserVoice items about it that I can find – here and here – but not nearly enough votes to get on the radar of the…
I was thinking about this a while back, and I started a conversation with a few of my go to smart people, Sue Hanley (@susanhanley) and Julie Turner (@jfj1997). If you were starting today with someone on a new Intranet on Office 365 – someone who has never used SharePoint at all – where would…
As we’re moving into the “modern” era in SharePoint Online, we will need to use the Content Type Hub more and more frequently. This is due to the fact that we are moving from a subsite-laden pyramid of sites to a flat topology of sites. Where we used to build our information architecture – Site…
Lots of times as a consultant, I need to get content in one format into another format. It usually means a lot of content, stored in all sorts of ways. I cut my teeth on this kind of work way back in the 1980s when I worked at Bain & Company. Consulting teams there would…
Sessionize is a fantastic platform you can use to manage speaker submissions for an event. We used it for SharePoint Saturday New England last year and are again this year. More and more events out there seem to be turning to it to make life easier. It helps speakers a lot, too, as the site…
It was a tremendous honor to be able to speak at the SharePoint Conference North America (#SPC18) last week in Las Vegas. While Microsoft Ignite is a wonderful conference in it’s own right, it was fantastic to see the power of community in the all-SharePoint crowd. I delivered two sessions and was on a panel with…
It’s great to see the Hub Sites promised at Ignite last fall rolling out finally. Hub Sites will be the capability which allows us to associate related “modern” sites with each other. This is probably most common in Intranets, but other examples might be a set of Project sites, a multi-layered HR sites, etc. Keep…