Sharepoint-Online

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 create a PowerShell script, but that does not work with our farm because of the discovering of the ADFS settings. I created an issue for this on GitHub (https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP/issues/1118). So for the console app I used the OfficeDevPnP core Nuget package (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/officedevpnp).

The last few of weeks I got a requests to create list views that where a bit nicer than the default views. Some requests were to display a certain text as a hyperlink or hyperlinks to display as a certain image, but I also got the request to make a view that did not look like a list view anymore. My colleague jumped on this to create a custom webpart to display this. After showing what the Client rendering could do he was convinced to do it with the client rendering.

I was triggered to write this blog because of a question on Facebook about changing the title of a content type in the content type hub.

I was able to answer this question because I found the same issue a while ago when I was working with the same thing.

The question was: When I create a content type in the content type hub and publish it, the content type is pushed down to all site collections and there you can use it in your lists and libraries. Now if we change the content type’s title or description and republish it, the changes are pushed down to the level of site collection but not to the content types associated to a list. When we create a new list the changes are visible for that new list.

Within SharePoint it is by default possible to open a list form in a dialog by just changing 1 setting on that particular list. This can be done by going to the settings of the list and choose for ‘Advanced settings’. Here you find the option ‘Dialogs’ where you can change this.

This is nice but sometimes you want that new form or some other page also in a dialog. That can be done with a little bit of JavaScript on the page where you want it.

For all the people that used SharePoint online knows that when you start using you get 4 site collections or is it 5? I have been using my environment for some time now. Let’s find out.

First start with the browser:

The sites in the red are the default sites. The one with the full domain name is the public and is by default http://-public.sharepoint.com

Let’s see if we can get some more sites with PowerShell.

?A few weeks ago I was asked to create a solution to copy a document in SharePoint to another system. This other system had the ability to receive documents and their metadata thru webservices. We have a policy that we only use Out-of-the-box solutions or the app model.

I knew that SharePoint 2013 Workflow no has the option to use webservices so I thought this is going to be an easy one. After some researching and trying I found out that the webservice actions in SharePoint Workflow can only handle REST webservices and not SOAP webservices.

At one customer we have a SharePoint 2013 environment with ADFS 3.0 as the main authentication provider. I wanted to create a SharePoint Provider hosted app to do a Proof of Concept. I had configured everything to get started with apps and build a SharePoint hosted app to prove that my settings on SharePoint are correct.

I did the SharePoint configuration with the help of the following 2 blogs: Mirjan van Olst and Wictor Wilén These 2 blogs provided the information and settings that we need to get SharePoint hosted apps to work.

Today I did a presentation at Portiva’s SharePoint & Sushi about PowerShell for IT Pro. In this presentation I told the public about PowerShell en how the IT Pro can use this in his daily work. The presentation is in Dutch.

20140429 - PowerShell for IT Pro—Arjan Cornelissen

This week I listened to a session from the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas about ‘Site provisioning techniques with SharePoint apps’. This session was all about how to use the app model to provision sites, libraries and everything else you need in SharePoint. The had a lot of examples how to do this and what is changed in both SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013 SP1.

The overall point the made is that with the use of an SharePoint app you can make a template that will work both on premise and online without the use of web templates and sand boxed solutions A other benefit of this is that you can use one of the default templates that Microsoft supplies and you only have to change what you want to be different instead of creating complete new templates.

All the sessions of the SharePoint Conference 2014 are now available on Channel9.

Like many other people I like to watch some of the sessions I missed during the conference. I also do not like to watch this from my laptop so I wanted to download the sessions I would like to see.

After a few hours of trying myself I found on Yammer that there were many others trying the same thing and 1 had created and shared a really nice PowerShell script to download everything. This script can be downloaded and used from here. For me the script did not work so I have updated this to use ‘Start-BitsTransfer -Source $url -Destination $dest -TransferType Download’ instead of the WebClient.DownloadFile()