SharePoint and Office 365 Architect
We are rolling out Office 365 at my current assignment. Within this project we want to automate as much as possible to avoid human error and reoccurring tasks. We already used a lot of PowerShell for our current SharePoint farm, so the most obvious thing was to look at PowerShell for automating those tasks. In…
Continue ReadingSome time back we updated Azure AD Connect at a customer to the latest version. The update itself was an easy one, just next, next finish like they described on the Azure site. But what we found is that the sync engine itself was completely different. The previous version had a Windows timer job as…
Continue ReadingI’m currently working in a large enterprise where we have a dedicated team of SharePoint administrators. This team is responsible for the current on-premises SharePoint environment. The way we give this team control over the whole environment is with the option ‘User Policy’ within the web application. Here we give the whole team administrator rights…
Continue ReadingFrom the beginning of SharePoint Online we have the option to share a site or document with an external user. When you use this feature the recipient need to have a Microsoft Account to login your SharePoint environment. Because this can be very confusion for the user, Microsoft is working on a Business 2 Business…
Continue ReadingThis 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
Continue ReadingLast 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 ReadingAfter 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 ReadingMicrosoft 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…
Continue Reading?A new DIWUG magazine has just been published with an article I wrote, really proud to have my first article in DIWUG. Download DIWUG SharePoint eMagazine #15 (eReader Edition) Download DIWUG SharePoint eMagazine #15
Continue ReadingLast week I had to copy a few vhd files to another blob storage. This can be done by downloading and uploading, although I have a nice internet connection this would take a few hours, so after a quick search on the internet I found a great blog from Michael Washam that had the PowerShell…
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