Office365

Trials and Tribulations: Migrating My Demos Site to Office365 – Part Two

Well, it took me a while, but I solve this problem. In my first post about it, I explained how I was having trouble figuring out what features installed in my local VM were causing the problems instantiating my demo site in Office365 – SharePoint Online. I got stuck with the feature that has the…

Error: “SharePoint Foundation cannot deserialize the Web Part”

Here’s another one of those “Why didn’t I ever figure this out before?” things. Many times when I’m editing pages in SharePoint Designer and everything is going along swimmingly, suddenly I hear the Jaws theme and I get an error like this: One of the properties of the Web Part has an incorrect format. Microsoft…

InnerWorkings Adds SharePoint 2010 to Its Learning Platform in Partnership with USPJ Academy

Over at the USPJ Academy, we’re really excited to finally be able to talk publicly about the partnership we’ve formed with InnerWorkings. We’ve been working hard with them over the last few months to get our content and platform capabilities integrated with theirs to deliver our classes to their customer base. We’re proud of our…

SharePoint Is Going Away: A Compendium of Content

Unless you’ve been on vacation and disconnected or have taken a mental holiday from the SharePoint blogosphere, you’ve probably seen or heard of Steve Gaitten‘s post on the The Bamboo Team Blog called SharePoint is Going Away. I thought that I would start to collect the other posts I spot which are responses to Steve’s…

Obscure (And Not So Obscure) Bugs with Complex Dropdowns in SharePoint Forms

As I’ve written in the past, there are several types of “dropdowns” in SharePoint forms. Briefly, there are: “Simple” dropdowns – These are plain, old HTML selects; the type of dropdown you are most familiar with on the Web. SharePoint renders one of these when there are fewer than 20 options. “Complex” dropdowns – SharePoint…