Category: SharePoint

  • Replicate SharePoint Hub site navigation to other Hub sites

    Replicate SharePoint Hub site navigation to other Hub sites

    I have been working with a large government department where Microsoft Services helped them transform their intranet to SharePoint Online leveraging all the modern capabilities available as well as rethinking what an intranet was. This work included envisioning to fully exploit all of Office 365 and a crucial Information Architecture (IA) design which also mapped…

  • PowerShell to manage the modern SharePoint Footer

    PowerShell to manage the modern SharePoint Footer

    So I’ll start by saying how bowled over I am by the engagement I’ve had after posting a tweet sharing that I had programmatically updated the new footer. For this, thank you, this kind of engagement and praise is why I love the community and contributing to it. I want to share some numbers with…

  • Switch between modern SharePoint homepages using PnP PowerShell

    Switch between modern SharePoint homepages using PnP PowerShell

    I’ve been working on a modern intranet project amongst over projects for the last 12-months. This has been more about the transformation of content and business processes, rethinking information architecture and reimagining a modern intranet than it has been about custom development. I’ve been working on a modern intranet project amongst over projects for the…

  • #MSIgnite sessions available in a single spreadsheet

    #MSIgnite sessions available in a single spreadsheet

    Update (31/01/15): Session spreadsheet updated and now includes 275 sessions. Those involved with SharePoint, Office 365, Yammer, the communities and the wider industry will already know about the Ignite conference Microsoft has planned for May this year. Microsoft published the conference sessions on the Ignite website this afternoon, introduced through this Office Blog post. The…

  • What types of email does SharePoint send automatically?

    What types of email does SharePoint send automatically?

    Update: After reviewing the SMTP logs, on a very active SharePoint 2013 environment and some further research, I now have an extensive list of the types of emails SharePoint sends. Most of these now include an example image of the email that is sent. I recently responded to a question posted to Twitter using the…

  • Event Receiver to Remove “Recent” from SP2013 Quick Launch

    Event Receiver to Remove “Recent” from SP2013 Quick Launch

    I’m sure removing the Recent heading from the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2013 has been talked about a million times over since SharePoint 2013 was launched. It’s been solved in this way and that way, by hand, with javascript and programmatically. In this post, I share the code to remove the heading with the ListAdded…

  • Long live the best SharePoint ULS Viewer

    Long live the best SharePoint ULS Viewer

    Update (15th June 2014): We may see a return of the SharePoint ULS Viewer very soon. Jeremy Thake and Office Dev indicated it is coming back to life very soon.   @jamescallaghan its coming very very soon back to life officially ;-) — Jeremy Thake (@jthake) June 15, 2014   @diverdown1964 @jthake We’re going to…

  • Provide feedback directly to Microsoft about Office 365

    Provide feedback directly to Microsoft about Office 365

    I have just discovered that you can give feedback about your experiences using Office 365 directly to Microsoft using their online feedback form (http://msft.it/o365feedback) thanks to a Tweet from Jennifer Mason. As someone who has multiple @Office365 logins I find it impossible to be able to switch as quickly as needed between them :( — jennifermason (@jennifermason) April 29,…

  • The Deployment Guide of all SharePoint 2013 Deployment Guides

    The Deployment Guide of all SharePoint 2013 Deployment Guides

    Let me introduce you to the Deployment guide for Microsoft SharePoint 2013. Anyone deploying, installing or configuring SharePoint 2013 absolutely must read this! This particular Deployment Guide is 674 pages long and like no other. It was published by the Microsoft Office System and Servers Team at Microsoft back in October 2012. It is such a great guide and…

  • SharePoint Site folders coming to SharePoint 2016

    SharePoint Site folders coming to SharePoint 2016

    This post is part of SP14 Keynote highlights series where I provide some highlights of the next version of SharePoint. These highlights are from the SP24 Conference Keynote that Bill Baer delivered. SharePoint Site Folders How many occasions have you tried to access a document in SharePoint, but end up having to click through a long set of links…

  • OneDrive for Business to store Outlook Attachments

    OneDrive for Business to store Outlook Attachments

    This post is part of SP14 Keynote highlights series where I provide some highlights of the next version of SharePoint. These highlights are from the SP24 Conference Keynote that Bill Baer delivered. OneDrive for Business to change the way we distribute and store Outlook attachments We all do this. We need to send a file to someone via…