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 →
Integration: Salesforce Files Connect using a SharePoint Library
A basic approach to displaying files from SharePoint in Salesforce.
Integration: Uploading files to SharePoint tightly coupled to Salesforce metadata
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 →
Integration: Case management in Salesforce, documents in SharePoint
We created a folder creation process to store case files in SharePoint and giving users the full breadth of document capabilities of SharePoint.
Your intranet needs more than SharePoint
I recently wrote an article for the Slalom Technology blog. In it I discuss some of the lacking capabilities of using SharePoint as your only platform for your intranet. SharePoint Online and Office 365 are awesome, provide rich collaborative capabilities, but still pretty basic on the intranet front. “Today, employees face a technology experience at... Continue Reading →
Create your personal list mailer with Microsoft Flow
I had a need and all I needed was more Flow! In a communications site in SharePoint Online, I have a list of contacts for my committee, something like: This list is great, it lets everyone see who's who across the committees. Now I want to email them, sometimes just the Liaisons, sometimes just the... Continue Reading →
My Slides and Scripts for IT Pro intro to Office 365 Dev PnP PowerShell
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 →
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 →