“Imagine what’s possible”, a statement by Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, during the Day 1 Keynote, set the tone for this year’s Build 2016 taking place this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. This is my first Build event and let me say, this is not like a SharePoint conference. There are plenty […]
Company Collaboration: The Leading Force of Success
March 22, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Recently Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) asked me and a few others to help collaborate on a community-based survey on measuring collaboration. One might ask, how did our collaboration measure? Pretty good I think, the survey, “Measuring Collaboration Success“, was recently completed and published online. This survey aims to help answer three points, how do we as […]
SharePoint 2016 RTM Announced – General Release Early May 2016
March 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment
I guess the rumors of March 14th and SharePoint 2016 were in fact true. Today marks another milestone we have been eagerly awaiting, the official Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of SharePoint Server 2016 is finally here! With its cloud-based infrastructure and user-centered approach, SharePoint 2016 will open amazing possibilities for a variety of audiences. IT […]
Yammer Rolls Out Seamless Activation in Office 365
February 4, 2016 By Leave a Comment
This last Monday, Juliet Wei, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Yammer at Microsoft made an important announcement for all Office 365 tenants with a Yammer subscription. Yammer will be automatically activated without any assistance required by their tenant’s administrators. If you are already a member of the Yammer Office 365 Network, you can read Juliet’s […]
Debugging Legacy Core Search Results Web Part in SharePoint 2013
January 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Another in my series of past SharePoint adventures, and lessons learned, that finally gets to see the light of day. A while back I helped migrate a client’s SharePoint 2010 site collection to SharePoint 2013. After we re-attached the content database in the SharePoint 2013 farm, we did not upgrade the site collection to the […]
California has a new Microsoft MVP!
January 1, 2016 By 2 Comments
2016 is going to be a great year. I had a fun, quiet evening last night and woke up feeling as I have many January 1st’s. Another day, another year. But not this year. This year, this 1st, is different. Like most others, I have the day off so I slept in past 7, grabbed […]
Move the SharePoint 2013 Notification and Status Bar in HTML Master Pages
December 30, 2015 By 3 Comments
A while back I wrote a series of posts on customizing the modern SharePoint Ribbon (SharePoint Online, SharePoint 2013 and now SharePoint 2016). Let’s continue this series after a long break with a look at the notification and page status bars (notification bar). The notification bar is included by default in the Seattle and Oslo […]
Twitter Bootstrap 4 and SharePoint – An In-depth Preview
November 4, 2015 By 10 Comments
What is that groundswell you are hearing? Is it the most popular and widely used responsive framework is getting an overhaul? As many of you are likely aware, I am a big proponent of responsive frameworks as a rapid development tool for building responsive SharePoint sites, and in particular I have been a supporter of […]
SharePoint 2016 Preview and Version 16 Branding Elements
August 27, 2015 By 9 Comments
About once every three years we SharePoint geeks get an odd kind of gift that we get in an odd kind of digital package. Just like a child waiting for days, weeks or more, looking at that shiny new gift under the Christmas tree, we eagerly await the next version of SharePoint. Remember when we […]
SharePoint 2016 Preview Released – A First Look at Branding
August 26, 2015 By 3 Comments
Exciting news on the SharePoint 2016 front, Microsoft announced the availability of the public preview for SharePoint 2016 yesterday. Check out Bill Baer’s post on the Office 365 blogs regarding the release including where you can go to download the preview if you want to learn more. Wait, why should you need the download link? […]
