SharePoint and Office 365 Architect
In Office 365 we have the option to give some of our users an administrative role, but what role(s) can we give them? This post will be an overview of the available roles within the portal and PowerShell. What roles do we have in the portal? Within the portal we have the following roles available…
Continue ReadingOn May 28th 2016 I visited SharePoint Saturday in Paris (http://www.spsevents.org/city/Paris/Paris2016/). The event was held in the Montparnasse Tower in the center of Paris on the 40th floor. We had an amazing view from that height. This article contains my notes of the day. Start of the day We had some trouble getting in the…
Continue ReadingWe 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 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 ReadingSome 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 ReadingThere 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 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…
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