I had the awesome privileged of speaking at this years SharePoint Saturday New England. It was a great event, and huge thanks to the organizers and sponsors! I presented on the Office Dev PnP PowerShell initiative. This is a great open sourced framework to help expedite a lot of SharePoint related tasks like site management,... Continue Reading →
SharePoint Hybrid Search and Crawled Properties
Hybrid search with SharePoint and Office 365 is key. It's an integral piece in any large migration strategy as well as creating an enterprise search experience by letting users search for on-prem content in O365 when setup correctly. Hybrid search has been out for quite some time now, but it appears a problem, new or... Continue Reading →
PowerShell isn’t just for Developers, IT Pros can rock the awesomeness in Office 365
I had the pleasure to co-present PowerShell and Office 365: ITPro #Awesomesauce with my friend and colleague Mike Dixon at the Boston Office 365 User Group yesterday. It was a great session with a lot of good questions. It was recorded so I'll share the link to the video once it's available. Big thanks to Hitachi... Continue Reading →
How to work with large lists in Office 365 SharePoint Online
What's a large list? Anything over 5,000 items. Why is this such a low limit? Great question, and Microsoft does a good job explaining it in their help documents: To minimize database contention SQL Server, the back-end database for SharePoint, often uses row-level locking as a strategy to ensure accurate updates without adversely impacting other... Continue Reading →
Customizing SharePoint’s Modern Lists’ Forms
Ya know that awesome new interface we get in Office 365 called Modern Lists? Ya know how that's not editable, or customizable, or extensible? Well, ya know it right! It's not. However... Above is a typical modern list, in all of it's glory. Pretty right? But I want to add some of my own code... Continue Reading →
Embedding your JavaScript into a SharePoint page
A very typical approach for client side development in SharePoint is to throw the code onto the page where you need it. You can alternatively put into the master page, but generally speaking, most code doesn't need to run on each and every page. The following describes my preferred, tried and true, method of handling this.... Continue Reading →
SharePoint Online’s Public Website Doesn’t Allow Users to View Display Forms
If you're used to SharePoint, and the display form on lists, you may be thinking you can use that on your SharePoint Online Public Sites as well. Sadly, by default your anonymous users cannot access the display form of a list item. Instead, SharePoint Online prompts the user to login. Annoying? Yes. It is due to... Continue Reading →
New to Office 365 SharePoint – Open This Link On A Phone
I found a new update on Office 365 today! This comes as a surprise since it wasn't mentioned anywhere else yet, even in the message center (see my other post on 2 other recent Office 365 updates, one of which I have not seen yet). I've confirmed this update is available in another tenant, not just... Continue Reading →
2 new updates to Office 365/SharePoint, did you know?
Quick Rant: We've all heard the wonderful things about Office 365 and the frequent updates that should be pushed out to it. These updates will hit O365 and SharePoint Online first and eventually, if decided, will reach on-premises. These updates are supposed to occur more frequently, per SPC14, and I of course ask the silly question... Continue Reading →
SharePoint Script: Hide, Disable and Format your fields
last updated 10/7/2019 This one has been on my list for a while. I've used a collection of JavaScript methods to help streamline customizing forms in lists. I have created and compiled this little collection starting probably 5-6 years ago, and over time I'm constantly updating, tweaking, enhancing it, especially more so as of late... Continue Reading →
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