Check out my latest post on Slalom Technology's site. Microsoft describes Office 365 (O365) as a collaborate anywhere, on any device, solution. O365 is all about collaboration — and it’s true. The primary collaboration services in O365 are email and SharePoint, but there’s more than that. Many of the capabilities in O365 help supplement existing collaborative activities,... Continue Reading →
Tl;Dr; Microsoft’s Guidance for Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate (Flow) Governance and Deployment
Microsoft has released its guidance and best practices: PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Governance and Deployment Whitepaper. It's a great document, I highly recommend it for anyone considering PowerApps, Flow and/or Common Data Service (CDS) for their enterprise. I find that a document of this stature to be intimidating to engineers, admins, and IT pros. It's 66... Continue Reading →
SLIDES & VIDEO: Office 365 is more than SharePoint
I'm pleased to share that my slides and video of my session at the Boston Office 365 User Group are up on their website. Click below to download and watch! Office 365 is more than SharePoint on Bos365 Big thanks to TrnDigital for sponsoring, and for The Garage out of the NERD for hosting!
Speaking at Bos365: Office 365 is more than SharePoint
It's true! Office 365 is more than SharePoint, more than Exchange, more than any single service or offering it has. I'm excited to share I'll be presenting next week at the Boston Office 365 User Group, with the goal to explore more of what O365 has to offer. We won't be just talking about what... Continue Reading →
Squeezing a little more formatting out of Microsoft Forms
As it stands today, Microsoft Forms is quite limited in its customization capabilities: with changing the background to a custom image only being released in recent weeks, you can select a theme or create your own. Forms will continue to grow and adapt and will eventually offer the necessary level of customizations we need. I... Continue Reading →
Winning with Office 365: Forms, Flow, SharePoint, and PowerApps
I love these little wins that truly highlight the power of Office 365! Here's my use case: in the Boston office of Slalom, we have an annual Learning Day that everyone is required to attend. It's a fun day, and we do learn some great things from it. Every consultant and leader has to register... Continue Reading →
Integration: Enterprise search across Salesforce and SharePoint
This is a multi-part series where we discuss how to integrate SharePoint and Salesforce. There isn't a one size fits all, I will share a few of the different ways we've done it in past projects. Best In Class(es): Bringing Salesforce and Office 365 Together. Instead of forcing one platform to do it all, aim to... Continue Reading →
Using Microsoft Forms Likert questions in Flow
The Likert question type is a great option in Forms, which gives users a matrix of sorts, to provide a valuable answer. Check out this example I use for our user group's feedback survey: Some fun facts about the Likert scale on Wikipedia. Using Microsoft Flow, I'd like to perform some automation when this survey... Continue Reading →
Tips to entertain your users while PowerApps gets their data, i.e. loading screens
Depending on where your data lives, it may take a few seconds for that data to display in the PowerApp. There is nothing that drives users more nuts than just staring at a screen as it does nothing, wondering if it's frozen or broken. PowerApps does have that useless little loading dots thing at the... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Teams vs Slack: which is right for you?
I had the wonderful opportunity to write a post for a friend of mine, Mike Dixon, over at Wellington Street Consulting. I've worked with Mike over the last 4 years as we're both organizers of the Boston Office 365 User Group, so when he asked it was an easy YES! This post covers a high... Continue Reading →