Last 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 CmdLets to do this. http://michaelwasham.com/windows-azure-powershell-reference-guide/copying-vhds-blobs-between-storage-accounts/

Just saw on the settings page of the SharePoint admin portal within Office 365 that the video portal is coming to my tenant J It is enabled by default. I could not find a site or a template to create the video portal yet. To get more information what the video portal is: Update 18-11-2014: There is an official announcement that it is rolling out: http://blogs.office.com/2014/11/18/introducing-office-365-video/

A new feature in Azure Active Directory (AAD) is ‘Applications’. With this you can give users a single location to sign-in to more than 2100 cloud application. You can even add your own cloud apps. Your users can use this site to access the applications that they have access to: http://myapps.microsoft.com. There are enterprise apps but also consumer apps like Spotify. To have a single-sign on experience there is client that needs to be installed to make it work.

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.

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.

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.

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 got the question to change the default title of SharePoint at the top of the page They wanted this default text “SharePoint” to be the title of the site they are. This text is inside a delegate control called “SuiteBarBrandingDelegate”. Now we can create a delegate control that changes the text and install this as a solution to our farm. But we have the goal to have as less as possible solutions to our farm.