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I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at Boston Code Camp 28! My goal was to showcase the awesome work done over at the Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices initiative. This project provides real value to developers aiming to expand into the Office 365 space. We covered PowerShell and JavaScript libraries, reducing our development... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
This is Part 7 of my series on 'My Users Don't Like SharePoint...' As your SharePoint matures and grows, it can get considerably larger and complex. Content databases can grow to hundreds of gigs, search indexes grow larger, users rely more on Excel services, additional external business data is pulled in, some custom functionality is... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Knoots for suggesting the idea for this post, from a comment on Using PowerShell to play with SharePoint Items.Using PowerShell, we're going to walk through handling a Choice field in a list. Specifically, this is a calendar list using the Category field. This may come in handy if you want to automate changing... Continue Reading →
I was handed a SharePoint 2010 farm with some weird issues going on, specifically around PowerPivot. First thing I checked was the status of any updates. Sure enough, there was an upgrade available (as seen in Central Admin > Manage Servers in this Farm). My continual troubleshooting of PowerPivot is in this other post. I... Continue Reading →
I recently had a battle with a SharePoint 2010 farm and PowerPivot. Customer reported "weird things are going on", and that was an understatement. This blog post is a transcript of the errors and what I did to resolve them. I hope this helps someone else in the future. First off, I checked the server's... Continue Reading →
In this post I am going to dive into some of the basics of accessing your SharePoint sites using PowerShell. This is a pretty basic concept, but something that I think is worth knowing. Understanding the basics allows us to dive deeper into the more complex stuff. So let's start! On one of the SharePoint... Continue Reading →
One of my biggest headaches with developing and testing in SharePoint is my lack of test data to work with. Sometimes I need to generate a load of test data so I can perform searches or test performance on custom code. Like in this blog post, I needed to load up a bunch of fake... Continue Reading →
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