OneDrive for Business vs Office 365 / SharePoint 2013 – Synchronizing folders...
When I use OneDrive for Business to synchronize document libraries in my SharePoint libraries I have found some differences between Office 365 and SharePoint on-premises. OneDrive When I look in my...
View ArticleOffice 365 – Which version have I got?
Microsoft releases updates all the time. how do you know if two environments are the same? Today I'm trying to use PnP PowerShell to check the version of my SharePoint farm in Office 365. Two simple...
View ArticleOffice 365 – PnP Provisioning Engine – Making external lists work
The current version of the PnP provisioning engine doesn't like external lists. hen exporting a template external lists are included in the PnP templates, however some of the information needed to...
View ArticleOffice 365 – Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate : Exception has been thrown by the...
Quite a while back I experienced the following error generated by the Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate Cmdlet. Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Today I received the same error...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – Create your own Contact list
SharePoint has it's own Contact list with its own content type, Contact. But what if you want to customize this list. What should you do? A couple of common customization that you might want are:...
View ArticleOffice 365 – Office Dev PnP PowerShell – Mixing up releases
It's not often that I work with SharePoint on-premises anymore, but recently I had a look at PnP PowerShell for SharePoint 2013. Today I switched back to SharePoint Online. I started to export some...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – New-PnPWeb : Provisioning did not succeed. Details:...
Today I tried to create a site using New-PnPWeb and I received the following erro message: New-PnPWeb : Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to initialize some site properties for Web at Url:...
View ArticleSharePoint – Nintex – Request Data vs Nintex Forms
Currently I'm implementing an appraisal process for one of my customers using Nintex Workflow and Nintex Forms. My initial thought was to create an appraisal form and then create a workflow with a...
View ArticleOffice 365 / SharePoint 2013/2016 – Moving sites around
Have you ever tried to migrate a site from an on-premises SharePoint environment to Office 365? Or have you tried keeping development, test and production sites in sync? Within an on-premises...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – SPFx – There was a network problem. This may be a...
In my adventures with the new web parts I ran into the following error when I added my web part to a page: Something went wrong If the problem persists, contact the site administrator and give them the...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – demos.microsoft.com – The content pack is temporary...
For quite a while I've been creating demo tenants on https://demos.microsoft.com As a Microsoft Partner it is easy to create a new tenant However today I found that the recommended QuickTenants...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – How to create forms using SPFx
The all new SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is one of the exciting new developments in the Office 365/SharePoint world. When I first started to look at SPFx, I played around with the Hello World examples....
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – How to create a form framework using SPFx – Part 2
Within this series of posts I will go through the following steps: Displaying SharePoint data in the SPFx web part Creating a clickable zone within the web part Creating a form in an SPFx web part...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – How to create a form framework using SPFx – Part 3
Within this series of posts I will go through the following steps: Displaying SharePoint data in the SPFx web part Creating a clickable zone within the web part Creating a form in an SPFx web part (3...
View ArticleTech Community is 1 year!
Once upon time there was a Yammer community then the tech community came around and ate the Yammer community. Yes it all sounds a bit like a fairy tale, but one year on we have all got used to the tech...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint Online – Creating a site collection with new style pages
After the recent additions of Modern Team sites and Community sites I’ve been missing the option to create new style site collections. Today however I managed to get this to work. I started by creating...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint Online – Performance, how to gain 3-4 seconds
Recently quite a few of my customers have been complaining about performance of their SharePoint Online sites. Where home pages take about 8- 12 seconds to load. Even Microsoft Support just tells me...
View ArticleOffice 365 – Check your site for broken links in SharePoint Online – Part 1
On Tech Community I came across a question about how to check for broken links on your SharePoint sites in SharePoint Online. So I’m first starting with the connection to a site collection in Office...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint Online – Column formatting arriving
Today, I noticed in the Message Center an interesting new feature about Column Formatting that will arrive very soon in First Release tenants. The example give by Microsoft shows a standard modern...
View ArticleOffice 365 – GPDR Activity hub -> Are you panicking yet?
Many organisations are really worried about GDPR. Did you know that if you deal with any company inside the EU that GDPR is relevant to you? Are you ready for it? In this post I’m going to have a look...
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