Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
This may just be the smallest and yet most appreciated new features of Outlook 2016. The attach file ribbon button has a dropdown that lets you select recent files saved from any other application. Sounds ridiculously simple, but in practice it is a real time saver. Here’s the use case. I’m working on a file... Continue Reading →
Office 365 and SharePoint work quite nicely when you are working with Microsoft Office file types. Things like Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Once you really start using SharePoint however, you want to store many more types of files in SharePoint. This is natural and you can actually get the files into SharePoint without too... Continue Reading →
It’s been one of the most asked questions since the death of InfoPath; What is InfoPath's replacement? There are some great 3rd party forms products that have been around for a long time now (namely Nintex and K2). Microsoft has been keeping very tight lipped on any official replacement to InfoPath and Forms in general... Continue Reading →
With the recent launch of the OnePlaceLive product, I’ve commenced writing a series of articles on the OnePlace Solutions website. This series of articles is designed to introduce the OnePlaceLive product and show to power that Solution Profiles can deliver in real world business scenarios such as using SharePoint/Office 365 for Projects Management, Legal Matter... Continue Reading →
As the dust settles on the first Microsoft Ignite conference and the tech crowd disperses from Chicago I look over these photos and think I’ll remember this conference as much for the character of the city of Chicago as I will the Ignite conference itself. From the fantastic aromas wafting from restaurants, the bars that... Continue Reading →
The excitement is starting to build as the Microsoft technology conference of the year is almost upon us. I feel this year is going to be a first time experience for all attendees. We've got many individual conferences combined into one, even the old timers that have been attending these individual conferences year after year... Continue Reading →
Some of the more elegant and powerful solution built with SharePoint have some level of personalization for the user. Here are some example CAML queries that allow you to query a SharePoint list and return items where the current user is listed in a Person column or explicitly in a Person/Groups column and even if... Continue Reading →
After experiencing some intermittent “path not valid” and very frustrating errors trying to open different types of files from my SharePoint server I’d had enough. I had to know what was going on. Here’s the behaviour I was seeing. I had used a certain machine to edit SharePoint files in applications such as WordPad and... Continue Reading →
I’ve found Office Lens to be an awesome app for Windows Phone. Recently the app was enhanced to allow for the specific task of scanning business cards. So how does it work? Simply fire up the free Office Lens app on your Windows Phone and tell it you want to scan a business card. Take... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 