Your Guide to Office at Build 2017

The Office Team has a summary blog post about announcements at Build 2017 [https://dev.office.com/blogs/guide-to-office-at-build-2017]. Most noteworthy: * New and Updated Microsoft Authentication...

Using Office 365 Groups / Teams and Webhooks to Monitor Systems

One of the benefits of Office 365's Incoming Webhook feature is the ability to send notifications about systems/processes in your organization. And, since...

Singleton object in JavaScript

I developed a set of components that all read from the User Profile store. They are each designed to be independent, but are likely to be...

SharePoint Saturday - Los Angeles

Due to an unexpected shift in projects, I am delighted to be able to present at SharePoint Saturday Los Angeles. This promises to be a terrific...

SharePoint Framework reaches Release Candidate status

The SharePoint Framework that was announced last may is nearing release. Microsoft has a blog post on their Office Developer site with all the details: https:...

Query variables in SharePoint Server 2013

Posted here for easier retrieval: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj683123.aspx...

RIP - SharePoint Online sandbox execution environment

We all knew (or should have known) that this day was coming, but Microsoft has finally turned off the SharePoint Sandbox execution environment [http://dev.office....

SharePoint Framework - How we got here

I was one of the privileged few developers who were invited to Microsoft's Dev Kitchen for SharePoint and played with an early version of...

Map a crawled property to a refinable managed property in SharePoint site collection administration

After struggling with this for almost a day, I'm posting here for future reference: > When you search for a crawled property, you may...

I'm speaking at Live! 360 Orlando

I'll be speaking at Live! 360 Orlando, November 16-20. Surrounded by your fellow industry professionals, Live! 360 provides you with immediately usable training and...

MVP Friday Five: Sharing Content in SharePoint Online

Sharing Content in SharePoint Online from MVP @paulschaeflein [http://twitter.com/paulschaeflein] http://t.co/iHL7zKeIR8 #MVPBuzz [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MVPBuzz?src=hash] #FridayFive [https:...

Who is managing Windows Update for your SharePoint farm?

Microsoft announced this week, via a blog by Senior Escalation Engineer Stefan Goßner that SharePoint CUs will be included in Windows Update [http://blogs.technet.com/...

Secure storage of credentials in PowerShell

If you search the internet, you will find many different blog/forum posts that show how to store credentials for later use in PowerShell. Most of...

Microsoft Azure IaaS Goverance, Provisioning and Desired State Configuration

I have a confession to make…for the last six months, I have been working as a SharePoint architect in an infrastructure group. Yes, I had...

Troubleshooting S2S Configuration

I was working on a project recently with an interesting issue. The organization has an on premise SharePoint farm. They are developing Apps for SharePoint that...