SharePoint Online is a great option for those enterprises that do not want to keep a difficult-to-manage SharePoint Server infrastructure on their premises. This subscription based service eliminates the requirement for heavy capital investment required for on-premises deployment. SharePoint Online, empowered by Microsoft administration and support, has turned out to be a reliable choice for
Introduction Permissions act as the gateway and firewall to your SharePoint objects. The fact that SharePoint is (generally) available to all your staff in house and via the Internet is good news for ease of access, but would be bad news for data security if permissions aren’t set properly. Permissions can be one of the
I am a SharePoint architect\developer currently employed by a global manufacturing company that has close to 10k SharePoint online users. We are 100% in the cloud with Office 365 and do not have any on prem SharePoint servers. I often get asked how to “spruce” up the look of team and project sites. Here are a few
I was recently stuck with an annoying error in the solution that uses SSRS. We have a SharePoint application with SSRS report infrastructure – reports library, shared data sets library, shared data connections library. After several deployments and migrations of report files between environments I started getting an error “The report server cannot process the
After my recent switch over to Mac as my main laptop for O365 / SharePoint development, Finally I got an IOS native app running using the O365 IOS SDK and Swift. Nearly after 15 years of development using Microsoft Technologies and Tools, the mobile app development using XCode and Swift rekindles my memory of learning
Introduction SharePoint 2010 Workflow includes an action called Lookup Manager of a User. This action was not included in SharePoint 2013 Workflow. The purpose of this blog post is to show how that action can be achieved in a SharePoint 2013 Workflow. To do so, we will make a call to the REST endpoint for
I recently had to prototype an event receiver that I wrote in my development environment designed to trigger on the migration of data from SharePoint 2007 to 2013 using DocAve Migrator. Since I don’t have DocAve running on my laptop, I basically wrote a couple of PowerShell scripts to simulate what it does. The starting
Having a disclaimer popup in SharePoint is something that is necessary for many businesses and their internal external web sites. This is usually a mandate for legal requirements for tracking legal agreements. Recently we had to add a disclaimer that upon agreement granted you access to the existing extranet site. After reading the disclaimer users would either press ok
After working with Microsoft for over a month to try to resolve an issue where Open with Explorer does not work when access externally through WAP (Web Application Proxy), we finally have a workaround/resolution. The issue comes down to a hand off of authentication between protocols/services. This works properly for almost everything once you have
If you are building a SharePoint 2013 Apps you will need at some point in your development lifecycle to do load testing for your app to see how it will behave under big user load especially if you are building LOB application that you expect to have a big load. This is great but the
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