Yup, I’ll admit it: I’m confused. The launch of Microsoft Teams last week is what’s done it. First of all, from everything I’ve seen of the new tool, it’s really cool. I had some trouble getting my head around how to get it up and running in our Sympraxis Office 365 tenant, but now Julie…
At Microsoft Ignite in September, as group of us talked to Laura Rogers (@wonderlaura) about some top of mind topics. It was in the context of the harmon.ie Top SharePoint Influencers festivities, which meant that there were a bunch of people standing around with very strong opinions about pretty much everything. We answered questions like:…
By far the coolest thing I saw in the launch of Microsoft Teams yesterday was the Who-Bot. .@Microsoft Teams has a bot called WhoBot that acts as an expertise locator. That's YUGE! Classic KM problem – solved? Still need good data. pic.twitter.com/l0VmZDEBj1 — Marc D Anderson (@sympmarc) November 2, 2016 It seems to address the…
Those of you who know me realize that I can be a grouchy, cantankerous old cuss.:) But every once in a while, I have a good experience that I really should share so that people don’t think I can only be grumpy. Today is one of those days. But it’s a bit plus and minus….
With the new world of branding a tenant on Office 365, styling the suite bar and using a theme (aka Composed Look) can take you pretty far toward improving the user experience. A Composed Look is made up of (potentially): A master page – generally either Seattle or Oslo Theme URL – the spcolor file to…
Part of a good user experience with software is feeling that it is our own. When it comes to SharePoint, which for many people is their Intranet or at least an important work environment, we almost always do some level of branding. It’s hard to keep up with how we are supposed to brand our…
Thanks to everyone who attended my session at SharePoint Saturday Boston on ‘Best Practices for Small-Scale Client-Side Development in SharePoint’. I’ve posted my slides on SlideShare for everyone’s enjoyment. Be sure to follow my series on Sympraxis Client Side Development Pipeline for more details on some of the approaches and methods I demonstrated in the session. [slideshare…
I’m working in a SharePoint 2013 on premises installation, and I needed to get the ContentType back from a REST call. Content Type is often the most important piece of metadata in a list or library, with the detailed metadata for the Content Type coming in as secondary. It certainly matters which Content Type you…
As I mentioned in my previous post, when Julie Turner (@jfj1997) joined Sympraxis, we quickly realized we needed to get smarter about managing our code and our overall development process. One of the first things Julie and I discussed was where we should store our code. Even way back before SharePoint entered my life, I’ve…
There’s no official blog post to point to yet (I’ll add it when it appears later), but today is a big day for SharePoint! The new SharePoint Framework is ready for its developer preview. UPDATE: Here’s the REAL post. I’ve been watching the Twitter feed from SharePoint Fest Seattle, and Jeff Teper (@jeffteper) announced the…