The Transition to Modern Office Add-in Development Microsoft SharePoint is developed by the same team responsible for the Microsoft Office desktop applications. There has always been a strong connection between these products. Up until recently, developers who wanted to integrate Word, Excel, PowerPoint with SharePoint would use the COM add-in model. But now Microsoft has... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando – My top picks and tips
Microsoft’s premier technology conference Microsoft Ignite 2017 is quickly approaching and it’s set to be the largest Ignite conference yet (rumoured to be around 24,000 attendees). OnePlace Solutions – Products that rock this world I’m excited to be attending again with some of the awesome OnePlace Solutions team. OnePlace Solutions is again a sponsor and... 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 →
European SharePoint Conference (Vienna, November 14-17)
I'm excited to have to opportunity to attend the European SharePoint Conference this week (November 14-17) in Vienna. Since the amalgamation of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference into the Microsoft Ignite Conference the last 2 years, I'm really looking forward to a dedicated SharePoint conference again. The SharePoint community has always been such a bright, vocal... 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 →
2 Simple Techniques for Creating SharePoint Views Grouped by Date Columns
Here are 2 techniques for creating views in SharePoint when you want to group on dates. Throughout this article I'll be using the example of email that have been saved to SharePoint where the email date has been stored in a SharePoint column called "Email Date". The Email Date is saved with both a date... Continue Reading →
Working with Non-Office File Types in SharePoint & Office 365
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 →
Does Microsoft have an InfoPath Forms Replacement in the Works
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 →