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…
On Jul 28, 2015, I posted a little item in SharePoint UserVoice: Enable support for lookup columns in other webs in the REST API. It actually seemed like a pretty simple idea, especially since this used to work in earlier versions of SharePoint. Fast forward to this week, and the UserVoice item got the wonderful Boom! It’s…
PowerApps is really cool, and I really mean it. Unfortunately, it’s been moving forward so fast that it’s really hard to find clear information about how to do things. Examples you may find from just a few months ago may not look at all like what you see on your screen. (This post may be…
This is a quick one, but if it has the potential to bite you, you’ll thank me for it later. I use AngularJS generally these days when I want to write solutions in SharePoint, whether on premises or in SharePoint Online. Yes, that’s the older version of Angular, meaning versions in the 1.x range. When…
It’s not at all unusual to want to send an email from some page in SharePoint where there isn’t a native capability available. While there are lots of external services which can send email for us – like SendGrid – we usually want to keep the email “in house” in an enterprise environment. (In fact,…
It’s almost the normal course of events that we SharePointilists have to bend SharePoint’s capabilities to our whim to accomplish business requirements. This post is about one of these sort of bastardizations of the platform which allow us to get something important done. I’m writing it up because it’s what I do, but also to…
Another day, another promise from the Ignite conference fulfilled. It’s great to see so many fantastic new capabilities rolling out to Office 365 – and quickly. At Ignite, the Product Group really seemed to focus on near term enhancements and improvements, which makes this last part of the year a fertile one for new goodies….