As the Digital Workplace Conference comes to a close for another year I'd like to reflect on what a great event this is for the Office 365 and SharePoint community in Australia and thank the people behind the organisation of the conference, in particular Debbie Ireland and Mark Rhodes. This year I was fortunate enough... Continue Reading →
Wonder what a Microsoft 1:1 hackathon looks like? OnePlace Solutions Teams/Graph Engagement Experience
I was fortunate enough to be involved in a 1:1 hack engagement with Microsoft recently where OnePlace Solutions hosted some eager Microsoft engineers for a week long engagement. The intention was to see how we could harness some of Microsoft's new Teams extensibility options and the Graph API, and for Microsoft to identify limitations or... Continue Reading →
How to Inspect Dynamic HTML Elements (that keep disappearing!) in Chrome
I still find styling HTML elements difficult at times, trying to figure out where the styling is being inherited from and exactly which elements I need to apply styles to. The Developer Tools in Chrome go a long way to assisting with this. For this tip I'll assume you are familiar with Chrome Developer Tools... Continue Reading →
Primer for Modern Office Development – start your journey here
Lets start with a little bit of history, the year was 2008, Windows PCs and Microsoft Office had been entrenched throughout organizations around the globe. We saved all our files on a network drive (if we were smart), or SharePoint if we were really smart and had a dedicated engineer that could keep up with... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Insider Dev Tour – Sydney 2018
The Insider Dev Tour is such a great event for Microsoft developers, you get the key announcements and latest news that came out of the Build Conference, delivered locally in a more intimate and interactive environment. Best of all it's a free event put on by Microsoft. I was very grateful for the opportunity to... Continue Reading →
View My Office 365 Apps (add-ins) and remove consent
If you would like to see what add-ins and other apps you have consented to (and what permissions you have granted) you can visit this magic URL https://myapps.microsoft.com You should see a list of all add-in and apps from where you have the option to 'Remove' or 'Get Info'. Selecting 'Get Info' lists all... Continue Reading →
SharePoint Conference NA – The photos and my takeaways
SharePoint returning to Vegas, would it work like the days of old? There is certainly something special about the SharePoint community and this conference had that tight knit community feel to it. Vegas amazes me at the amount of people it seems to just be able to soak up without really skipping a beat, making... Continue Reading →
SharePoint Conference North America – The Sessions that Interest Me
I'll be attending the SharePoint Conference North America conference, being held in Las Vegas next week. OnePlace Solutions are a proud sponsor and if you are attending I'll be spending most of my time at the OnePlace Solutions booth in the expo hall so please come and say hi. I was looking through the sessions... Continue Reading →
How to fix mouse cursor disappearing on Remote Desktop
I wrote a blog post a while back about the disappearing mouse cursor in Visual Studio on virtual machines that I'd connect to using remote desktop. It seems the problem is more widespread and affects most input or editing controls across many applications in the remote desktop session. For example the mouse cursor disappears in... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Teams Call Analytics Portal in Office 365
I was having a look at the new Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center that is currently rolling out to Office 365 tenants. If available for your tenant it will be accessible at https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/ I was particularly impressed with the depth of information available in the call analytics portal. From here you can drill down... Continue Reading →