Diwug presentation
This week I did my first presentation for DIWUG witch was a great success. The presentation can be viewed below. 20160128 – Diwug Azure AD en SharePoint (Online), en hoe doe je dat precies—Arjan Cornelissen
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Moved my blog from SharePoint Online to WordPress
Last weekend I moved my blog from SharePoint Online public site to WordPress. The reason for this move is that Microsoft abandoned the SharePoint Online public site. For those who have a public site can use it at least until March 9 2017 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3027254). So the first thing for me was where to host this?…
Continue ReadingOffice UI Fabric, Microsoft’s bootstrap?
Microsoft has released a new framework for developing an awesome front-end called Office UI Fabric. So the big question is why did Microsoft created this framework? We already have a ton of different frameworks for front-end development like Bootstrap, Semantic UI, 960 Grid System and many more. The short answer is that we did not…
Continue ReadingHow does the Custom SharePoint retention Policy work
Some time ago we created a custom retention policy for a customer and last week I had to give some support. I had to dive in it again because I forgot all about it. Why did we build this? We build this custom retention policy to move a document to the record center when a…
Continue ReadingSkype for Business 2016 client with an older version of Lync / OCS server
This week Microsoft released the new version of Office (https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/22/thenewoffice/) and with that came a new version of Skype for Business. I installed this on all of my machines including 1 of my customer, they use an older version of Lync and I got an message that the server version is not compatible with the…
Continue ReadingHow to get the geolocation column
There are a number of blogs already written about how to get the Geolocation column on your SharePoint site, but a lot of sites use the wrong syntax for the field XML. Even the MSDN site for adding the geolocation column to your site is incomplete. The correct XML to use is: The important part…
Continue ReadingSharePoint monitoring with Microsoft Azure
After reading this blog of Matthias Einig about using Azure Analytics for your Office 365 portal. I tried this on an clients SharePoint 2013 farm. But I didn’t want to create an app to deploy the JavaScript so I created an Console app to deploy this to the specific site collection. I first wanted to…
Continue ReadingOffice 365 Custom theming
As an administrator of your Office 365 tenant you have the ability to set a theme for everyone in your organization. But when an user signs in for the first time the have the option to change their theme to something else like kittens As a company this is something that you want to prevent…
Continue ReadingOffice 365 delegation of control
This week I was asked about the possibilities of delegation in Office 365, so what kind of options do we have to give certain people the rights to manage parts of Office 365. This client has multiple ICT offices with their own people to manage their own services. They now going to one Office 365…
Continue ReadingAzure Resource Manager
Microsoft is developing a whole new portal for Azure which has been in preview for a while now. You may have noticed that within this new portal everything is a resource. With the Azure Resource manager you can bundle different items like websites, databases and storage, or virtual networks and virtual machines. Currently there is…
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