The modern digital workplace must focus on the user

I was recently interviewed by the team at LiveTiles to get my thoughts on the modern digital workplace. What does the digital workplace mean to me? What do I see as the benefits and challenges of the digital workplace? What trends have I seen and what do I think the future holds for the digital... 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 →

New OnePlaceLive Scenarios Blog Series

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 →

Preparing for Microsoft Ignite 2015

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 →

Running Fiddler with OnePlaceMail – Fixing “The requested site does not appear to have claims enabled or the Login Url has not been set” message

Here’s a workaround to get Fiddler working with OnePlaceMail and SharePoint 2013 where you normally get the following error message in OnePlaceMail as soon as Fiddler is enabled and capturing traffic: “The requested site does not appear to have claims enabled or the Login Url has not been set” I went investigating why introducing Fiddler... Continue Reading →

A remote SharePoint Navigation tree control designed to scale to large Enterprise environments

The SharePoint Navigation tree (for remotely browsing/navigating SharePoint) is a central component in the OnePlaceMail product. It is used in all major operations such as Save to SharePoint, Open from/Insert from SharePoint, Preview SharePoint content, Managing favorite SharePoint locations. Being able to quickly find the right location in SharePoint, directly from desktop applications, is one... Continue Reading →

Leaving Las Vegas – SharePoint Conference 2014 (SPC14) Photos

As the SharePoint community disperses from Las Vegas after another awesome conference it's time to digest the new information and figure out what that really means for you. The takeaways for each person are probably different as we all use SharePoint in different ways, although there was one very prominent message being pushed... Microsoft's forecast:... Continue Reading →

Where and why to find me at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (SPC14)

SPC is THE largest SharePoint Conference on earth, nowhere else will you find so many subject matter experts and people willing to talk SharePoint. I encourage you to be brave and speak to the myriad of Exhibitors and Microsoft people at conference. The Exhibition Hall is a lot quieter outside of the peak lunch/break periods... Continue Reading →

OnePlaceMail 6.5 – The integration between Outlook and SharePoint that Microsoft should have built

OnePlaceMail 6.5 went into public release last week and represents the biggest user experience overhaul we have ever done to the product. This is no light statement, given that OnePlaceMail is already known in the market for it’s seamless, intuitive, and slick user interface. We heard your pains in deploying SharePoint in your organization; Getting... Continue Reading →

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