The last few years have seen an explosion in the number of tools available for us to communicate not only at a consumer level, but also in the context of our workplace both internally within companies and externally between companies. I primarily work with Microsoft technologies, but even within that small sphere the options are... Continue Reading →
Vote for our app in the Office 365 Hack Productivity competition!
Microsoft is currently running a Hack Productivity competition for creating apps that leverage Office 365 Add-ins and/or APIs to deliver an app that increases user productivity. I’ve been working with the awesome dev team at OnePlace Solutions to cook up a modern Outlook Add-in that will run on any device and allow a user... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Ignite 2016 – Ready, Set, Connect
OnePlace Solutions is proud to be an exhibitor and sponsor again this year at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Atlanta. Ignite is Microsoft's premier conference this year for Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Azure, Windows and related technologies. I'll be on the OnePlace Solution booth (#563) during the conference talking about our suite of products that... Continue Reading →
Light up your Outlook Mailboxes with advanced Email Tracking features
I'm preparing to head down to Melbourne for the The Digital Workplace Conference (the new Australian SharePoint Conference). This will be the first conference since the 7.3 release of OnePlaceMail and OnePlaceLive. I'm pretty excited about the new Email Tracking features which goes well beyond simply allowing users to transfer email and attachment from Outlook to SharePoint.... Continue Reading →
Outlook Add-in Ribbon Commands: Resolution to Manifest XML Schema Errors
While taking a look at the new Outlook Addin Ribbon Commands I came across these schema validation errors trying to deploy the addin once I added the VersionOverrides element. In particular I was getting this error message: Failed to deploy the manifest file to the Exchange server. This app can't be installed. The manifest file doesn't conform... Continue Reading →
More out-of-the-box ways to get Email into SharePoint (2013 and Office 365)
This is a continuation of an article I wrote back at the beginning of 2012 Five out-of-the-box ways to get Email into SharePoint. Since then we have seen the launch of SharePoint 2013 and also more widespread adoption of Office 365 (SharePoint Online). These more recent versions of SharePoint have introduced new ways of getting... Continue Reading →
Is the SharePoint brand going away?
The big push from Microsoft over the last few years has been towards the cloud, and in the SharePoint area this means Microsoft wants you on Office 365 instead of on-premises SharePoint servers. None of this should shock you, Microsoft has been yelling it loud and clear for some time now, and the message came... Continue Reading →
Integrating Outlook Web Access (OWA) and SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 had a series of Web Parts dedicated to surfacing and interacting with an Exchange mail account directly from a page in SharePoint. Overview of the Outlook Web Access Web Parts (for SharePoint 2007 and 2010) If you are not familiar with the functionality here’s a quick overview (this info is... Continue Reading →
New Exchange Public Folders Support in Outlook Web Access (OWA)
I’ve just been reading Tony Redmond’s article on one of the new features introduced in Exchange 2013 CU1. The ‘new’ public folders are now available within Outlook Web Access (OWA). Here’s Tony’s full article and is well worth a read - Interesting approach to public folder support in Outlook Web App 2013 My main take... Continue Reading →
Exchange Server 2013 RTM Cumulative Update 2 Available
The Exchange Server 2013 RTM Cumulative Update 2 is now available through the Microsoft Download Center. Main Feature Enhancements in this update are: Per-server database support OWA Redirection High Availability Managed Availability Cmdlet Help OWA Search Improvements Malware Filter Rules For more details on the new features and how to install the update please refer... Continue Reading →