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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Content Query Webpart Hacks – Reference the ItemStyle in ContentQueryMain
July 20, 2015 By 1 Comment
Let's look at another Content Query Webpart (CBQ) hack, following up on my previous post on a CBQ method to access the webpart title in your XSLT. As before, this next hack will also work in SharePoint Online, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010 (and … [Continue reading]
Way Back Machine – Content Query Webpart Hacks – Reference the Webpart Title in a XSL Style Sheet
July 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Content search in SharePoint Online (and SharePoint 2013) is powerful and all, but sometimes the good-old Content Query Webpart (CBQ) is much easier and quicker to configure, and even customize (sometimes), for certain types of content rollups. Or … [Continue reading]
Join Me at European SharePoint Conference 2015
July 10, 2015 By Leave a Comment
In case you missed it, the European SharePoint Conference 2015 program is now available and I'm excited to announce that I am speaking at Europe's largest SharePoint and Office 365 event in Stockholm Sweden from 9th-12th November 2015. This is my … [Continue reading]
