Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
I'm located in Australia, yet when I first started up my Microsoft Surface I noticed that some of the standard apps had a definite United Kingdom flavour to them. My Bing News was all UK based and all the prices in the Windows App Store were shown in GBP. I had a look through the... Continue Reading →
Prior to Windows Server 2012 I had been use to installing DLL files in the Windows Global Assembly Cache (GAC) by either opening the Windows/Assembly folder in Explorer and simply dragging and dropping the file, or by using GacUtil.exe With Windows Server 2012 unfortunately it’s not quite so easy. Being able to simply open the... Continue Reading →
Let’s face it, if you are tasked with setting up the new SharePoint Site Mailboxes for a proof of concept, or in your production environment it’s not a 5 minute exercise and the official documentation provided by Microsoft at this stage is lacking somewhat in detail. Chances are that you’ve been tasked with setting this... Continue Reading →
External content types are defined through XML files referred to as “BDC metadata models”. These BDC metadata models can be created in both SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio. The technique used to create the BDC metadata models determines the technique used to export it. Models created using Visual Studio can be exported directly through the... Continue Reading →
The Problem When you are constructing xml using the classes from the System.Xml namespace you really don’t need to worry about encoding characters, you simply set the value of an XmlAttribute and the rest is taken care of for you. There are some instances however where you find yourself constructing a string representation of xml.... Continue Reading →
One question I’ve been asked countless times is the native integration options of Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint in order to save or transfer email and have it stored in SharePoint. Before I jump into the different integration options available it is important to consider that once you’ve got the email in SharePoint how easy is it... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 