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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 →
Everyone once in a while you come across fantastic customer service, and I really wanted to highlight this experience. I posted: .@SpotifyCares no audio on my #Xbox, says it's playing. Just reinstalled the app. — David Lozzi (@DavidLozzi) October 11, 2017 2 minutes later, I posted: Never mind, my kid pranked me. Lowered the volume... Continue Reading →
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 →
This is not a fluff piece. I wasn't asked to write this or prompted to share my thoughts. Like everything on my blog, this is my own view and opinion. I want to share the why behind "I'm with Slalom". I'm very pleased to share I've been with Slalom for 5 years today! It's been... Continue Reading →
If you haven't heard yet, SharePoint Saturday New England is coming October 28th! Registration is now open, so get over there! Join New England area SharePoint architects, developers, and information workers for SharePoint Saturday: an educational, informative and lively day filled with sessions from other SharePoint professionals, MVPs, and Microsoft employees. SharePoint Saturday is FREE,... Continue Reading →
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 →
If you assumed that SharePoint's REST API would return the document icon for your document by default, you'd be wrong. If you don't assume that, then you're smarter than me. Come to find out there is a separate API to call to get the icon. The REST API to get the icon is https://%5Btenant%5D.sharepoint.com/_api/web/maptoicon(filename='filename.pdf', progid='', size='0')... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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