The SharePoint Dev Ecosystem hosts monthly community calls that are not to be missed. The February 2018 Community call was no different. Fortunately for those of us that are busy, we always have the recorded video's to queue up on demand. What I … [Continue reading]
Blockchain – Hype or the Next Internet?
Part 1: Blockchain – Hype or the Next Internet? Part 2: Blockchain – Hype or the Next Internet? Part 2 Part 3: Blockchain – Hype or the Next Internet? Part 3 Now that the top was blown off the top of cyber currencies such as bitcoin, Ethereum, … [Continue reading]
SharePoint Conference North America 2018 @SPConf #SPC18 – May 21st through 23rd, 2018
On the off chance you've not yet heard, there is in fact a SharePoint Conference returning to Las Vegas, this May 2018. For those of you that have missed the large yearly SharePoint-focused conference hosted by Microsoft that once was SharePoint … [Continue reading]
Conditional Load of External Library such as jQuery in SharePoint Framework Solutions
When a SharePoint Framework based use-case arising that includes conditionally loading an external library such as jQuery, an option exists that includes looking to see if a library has already been loaded, and then conditionally loading additional … [Continue reading]
PnP PowerShell Upgrade Error – “Authenticode issuer” certificate invalid
With the December 2017 release SharePoint PnP PowerShell, if you update the PnP PowerShell commendlets using "Update-Module" via PowerShell, you might receive the following error. [cc lang="html" lines="9" tab_size="3" line_numbers="true" … [Continue reading]
European SharePoint Conference 2017 – November 13-16 – Dublin Bound!
European SharePoint Conference 2017 (ESPC17) is only a few months away, and the countdown has begun for Europe’s largest SharePoint, Office 365, and Azure Conference! This year's ESPC is taking place in Dublin, Ireland, November 13-16th. I am excited … [Continue reading]
Permanently Remove a Site Collection from SharePoint Online Admin Recycle Bin
When deleting a site collection from your SharePoint Online tenant in the SharePoint Online Admin Center, by default a deleted site collection will stay in the recycle bin for 30 days. This is great as a retention policy for many reasons, but there … [Continue reading]
SharePoint Framework Extensions Milestone – Release Candidate 0 Available
We are one step closer to the highly anticipated release of SharePoint Framework Extensions. Microsoft announced yesterday the release of SharePoint Framework Extensions RC0. My obvious questions are, what does this mean, what is different, how do I … [Continue reading]
SharePoint Search – Querying Private Groups and Documents Within Private Groups
Since private Groups were provided in Office 365, we have had a need to surface private groups and private group content in SharePoint Search. A while back many quickly found that the "WebTemplate" for Groups was simply "Group", thus we could add the … [Continue reading]
#SPFx Extensions Dev Preview Drop 1 Breaks Placeholder Control
The SharePoint Framework (#SPFx) Extensions Dev Preview Drop 1 utilizes a new version of one of the core node modules, sp-webpart-base v1.1.1. This module removed, possibly by accident, a particular TypeScript definition file, Placeholder.d.ts found … [Continue reading]