I’ll be the first one to admit that I’ve had massive problems with syncing in both OneDrive for Business and OneDrive (Personal). (The branding on this drive me nuts, too, but that’s a different post.) Yesterday I learned of a page on the Microsoft site that takes you through problem-solving steps to fix (hopefully) your…
I had another Minecraft-related malware infection today (not my first). One of my hopes with Microsoft buying Minecraft is that they will clean up the installation and run process overall, including creating a good, clean catalog of mods. This time we ended up with the Trovi “search experience”. I figured out that it was there…
I am putting together a presentation talking about UI hacks that we all need to do in order to accomplish everyday UI customizations that our customers – internal or external – require. For this one I want to limit it to SharePoint 2013 and/or SharePoint Online (Office365). Another way to think of it is how…
It’s the message SharePoint gives us that we’ve learned to love or hate or be indifferent to. But it’s a message that we cannot escape if we use SharePoint even a little bit. Yes, I’m talking about “Working on it…” When I was in Stockholm this week speaking at the SharePoint and Exchange Forum (SEF),…
The SharePoint SOAP Web Services are fast. In fact, I think they are as fast as the newer REST Web Services in many cases. The old, crufty SOAP Web Services even provide batching, something that the REST services don’t yet do. (Andrew Connell (@andrewconnell) has been beating the drum about this with Microsoft for months…
Yesterday, a lot of us read about Ray Ozzie’s latest venture, Talko, in the media. The guy does know how to get the word out. That and the fact that he basically invented Lotus Notes, built and sold Groove to Microsoft, became Microsoft’s chief technical officer or chief software architect (or whatever, depending on where…
I’ve been building a lot of great stuff with KnockoutJS lately. It seems that it can enable many – if not all – of the development requirements I have these days, whether I’m building a single-page application (SPA) or just adding a snippet of content to an existing page. I can even build KnockoutJS-enabled “Web…
I have been using WordPress longer than a lot of people. I think I first moved from Windows Live’s blogging platform to WordPress around 2007. Because I’ve been here a long time, I’ve got some plugins that have been around for a long time. One of those is the Twitter Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin. The…
One of the cool things that came along in SharePoint 2013 was Geolocation fields in lists. Using Geolocation fields, we can display Map Views in SharePoint lists. This capability is an awesome way to add visualization to your UI and can really add value in many business processes. Think about it. You could show: A…
It may surprise you to know that one of my most popular blog posts has nothing to do with SharePoint, knowledge management, performance improvement, jQuery, client side coding, SPServices, or anything else you might expect. It’s one I wrote years ago (June 17, 2009, to be exact) called Harvey Balls for Office Documents. I though it…