In Office365, it is desirable to be able to configure the look and feel, and behaviour of pages through the use of JavaScript, HTML or even PowerShell. The ability to do this is disabled by default when a new Office…
I’m Speaking
This year I have been lucky enough to have been selected to speak at the what was originally a SQL Saturday in Cambridge. Now it is the first combined SQL and SharePoint Saturday and I am presenting two sessions: SharePoint…
Holiday planning made easy with SharePoint Online
Now the new year has started, I am starting to think forward to going on holiday. We have already chosen, and booked a place to go but, as a family we like to explore the local area rather than sitting…
OneDrive vs. OneDrive for Business
Microsoft in their wisdom have chosen to name two products in a very similar way, In fact they are so similar that they are commonly mistaken for each other. So what are they? They are both combinations of storage and…
Do You Want To Save Changes to the Document Template?
Recently I started seeing the following message popping up every time I saved a Word document: I hadn’t changed anything that I thought would start prompting me in this way, but I am using Office from an Office 365 subscription…
Sideloading SharePoint Apps
When developing Apps for SharePoint it is essential to have a development site for testing your Apps. This can be done in several ways: Provision a Developer site within an Office 365 tenant with an E plan With an Visual…
Office Installation and Run
In the office recently we had a discussion about the number of ways that a user can install and run office products. It quickly became apparent that there was not a consistent understanding of all of the options. Purchase Mode…
SharePoint Tools: My Favourites
There are some great posts out there on sets of useful tools that are essential when working with SharePoint, chief among them is Tobias Zimmergren’s post Tools for your SharePoint 2013 development toolbox. Tobias’s post inspired my to do this…