Ignite 2015 – My Thoughts and Highlights, or What I Don’t Want to Forget Just...
The first Microsoft Ignite conference was huge to say the least. The count I last heard was just over 26,000 people converged in Chicago for almost a week to discuss, learn and digest a confluence of...
View ArticleIgnite 2015 Yammer Sessions
All things Yammer were discussed at Microsoft Ignite 2015 in Chicago, not to mention my session on Socializing SharePoint I presented with Naomi Moneypenny. In case you missed this session, it is now...
View ArticleJoin Me at European SharePoint Conference 2015
In case you missed it, the European SharePoint Conference 2015 program is now available and I’m excited to announce that I am speaking at Europe’s largest SharePoint and Office 365 event in Stockholm...
View ArticleWay Back Machine – Content Query Webpart Hacks – Reference the Webpart Title...
Content search in SharePoint Online (and SharePoint 2013) is powerful and all, but sometimes the good-old Content Query Webpart (CBQ) is much easier and quicker to configure, and even customize...
View ArticleContent Query Webpart Hacks – Reference the ItemStyle in ContentQueryMain
Let’s look at another Content Query Webpart (CBQ) hack, following up on my previous post on a CBQ method to access the webpart title in your XSLT. As before, this next hack will also work in SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint 2016 Preview Released – A First Look at Branding
Exciting news on the SharePoint 2016 front, Microsoft announced the availability of the public preview for SharePoint 2016 yesterday. Check out Bill Baer’s post on the Office 365 blogs regarding the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2016 Preview and Version 16 Branding Elements
About once every three years we SharePoint geeks get an odd kind of gift that we get in an odd kind of digital package. Just like a child waiting for days, weeks or more, looking at that shiny new gift...
View ArticleTwitter Bootstrap 4 and SharePoint – An In-depth Preview
What is that groundswell you are hearing? Is it the most popular and widely used responsive framework is getting an overhaul? As many of you are likely aware, I am a big proponent of responsive...
View ArticleMove the SharePoint 2013 Notification and Status Bar in HTML Master Pages
A while back I wrote a series of posts on customizing the modern SharePoint Ribbon (SharePoint Online, SharePoint 2013 and now SharePoint 2016). Let’s continue this series after a long break with a...
View ArticleCalifornia has a new Microsoft MVP!
2016 is going to be a great year. I had a fun, quiet evening last night and woke up feeling as I have many January 1st’s. Another day, another year. But not this year. This year, this 1st, is...
View ArticleDebugging Legacy Core Search Results Web Part in SharePoint 2013
Another in my series of past SharePoint adventures, and lessons learned, that finally gets to see the light of day. A while back I helped migrate a client’s SharePoint 2010 site collection to...
View ArticleYammer Rolls Out Seamless Activation in Office 365
This last Monday, Juliet Wei, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Yammer at Microsoft made an important announcement for all Office 365 tenants with a Yammer subscription. Yammer will be automatically...
View ArticleSharePoint 2016 RTM Announced – General Release Early May 2016
I guess the rumors of March 14th and SharePoint 2016 were in fact true. Today marks another milestone we have been eagerly awaiting, the official Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of SharePoint Server...
View ArticleCompany Collaboration: The Leading Force of Success
Recently Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) asked me and a few others to help collaborate on a community-based survey on measuring collaboration. One might ask, how did our collaboration measure?...
View ArticleImagine What’s Possible – Build 2016 – Day 1
“Imagine what’s possible”, a statement by Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, during the Day 1 Keynote, set the tone for this year’s Build 2016 taking place this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco,...
View ArticleXamarin Now Free with Visual Studio
This is just too hot to not share right away. During the Day 2 Keynote at Build (), taking place this week in San Francisco, Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie announced that Xamarin...
View ArticleMicrosoft Build 2016 Day 2 – Azure, IoT, Xamarin, Office Productivity, the...
Day 2 started with another great keynote, this time lead primarily by Microsoft Executive Vice President of Cloud + Enterprise, Scott Guthrie and Microsoft Executive Vice President of the Applications...
View ArticleReminder – The Future of SharePoint – An Online Event May 4th, 2016 9:30 AM PST
This is a friendly reminder that if you have any toe in the SharePoint world, you need to ensure your calendar is marked for tomorrow, May 4th, 2016, 9:30 AM PST. Why? Microsoft is presenting a webcast...
View ArticleSharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2016 is just a few days away!
SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2016 is this Saturday, June 11th, 2016 at the Microsoft Office in Mountain View and I couldn’t be more excited. If you haven’t heard of or haven’t attended a...
View ArticleThe New SharePoint Framework: A New Perspective from DevKit3
Last week I had the privilege of attending the third Developer Kitchen (DevKit3). The mini-conference, with content centered on the upcoming SharePoint Framework (#SPFx / the Framework), gave attendees...
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