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Using SharePoint Groups
What is a SharePoint group? A SharePoint group is a group of users which can be used to permission a site. Groups can be re-used around the site collection and can be used to permission, sites, lists,...
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Adding a custom tile to the app launcher in Office 365
The Office 365 app launcher is a great way of getting easy access to single sign-on applications within Office 365 and externally. Recently Microsoft introduced some functionality to allow users to...
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Creating a simple SharePoint Workflow to send an email
I have made the video below on how to create a basic SharePoint workflow to send emails. This could be used for sending out remittance advice (like in the example below) but it could also be used with...
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Class site templates in SharePoint
As part of my work for Cloud Design Box, I have been working on class templates for student and teacher collaboration in SharePoint. My templates are using lots of display templates and are provisioned...
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How to render display template on a list view
This blog post is a bit more technical than my previous entries. Just recently, I was required to show two different views of a list on the same page (both styled with JS Display Templates). It’s...
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How to embed a Twitter widget on a SharePoint page
Many schools and businesses are using twitter as a social communication platform to send out news and information to users. How to embed twitter feeds on SharePoint intranets and public sites has been...
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Using PowerShell to find last DirSync
When troubleshooting DirSync issues with Office 365, it is sometimes difficult to know if the DirSync successfully applied to Office 365. There is a quick way to check this and it provides the data...
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Using the SharePoint recycle bin
I’m often asked about restoring deleted documents, where the recycle bins are and how long they are kept there for. Hope this post will be of use to some of you. SharePoint’s powerful document...
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How to stop using custom master pages when branding SharePoint
With the rise of Office 365 and SharePoint online, the ancient practice of using a custom master page to brand a SharePoint site is coming to an end. SharePoint online has many incremental changes,...
View ArticleDeleting all navigation nodes using CSOM PowerShell
It’s fairly straightforward to enumerate nodes in an array, in this example I’m deleting all the top navigation menu nodes in a SharePoint site. This is how I would normally loop through the top...
View ArticleAdding SharePoint Online navigation from XML using PowerShell CSOM
The following PowerShell scripts were created to enable me to deploy a custom navigation across multiple site collections. You can use managed metadata navigation as mentioned in my previous post....
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Editing Office Documents Collaboratively in Office 365
If you are new to office 365 or are not aware of this, editing documents simultaneously is a great feature and surprisingly easy to use. You may be used to collaborating on documents using Office on...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to add a list or library WebPart to a SharePoint publishing...
Thought I would share this as I struggled to find a complete article online how to do this. First of all, the code below is based on José Quinto’s post USING POWERSHELL TO ADD WEBPART TO SHAREPOINT...
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Adding subtitles and captions to Office 365 video
I’ve created a quick video guide on how to add subtitles in Office 365 video. It consists of first creating a VTT file containing the subtitles data and then uploading it into the video settings inside...
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The future of SharePoint
The future of SharePoint event took place last night live from San Francisco. It was a live online event open to all which was watched by thousands of SharePoint fans across the globe. Microsoft...
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How to show SharePoint list data in a pivot table
List data inside SharePoint can be pulled into Excel as a data source which can in turn be embedded on a SharePoint page as a graphical representation of the SharePoint list data. Great way to spice up...
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Issues with the new SharePoint interface for document and picture libraries
Let’s start with the positive aspects of this new interface. It’s responsive and integrates really well into the OneDrive app for mobile devices. However there are currently a number of setbacks for...
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How to setup a class in Microsoft Classroom
In the video below, I go through the simple steps of setting up a class in Microsoft Classroom. It’s straightforward but does require teachers to manually setup and keep class membership up-to-date....
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Managing assignments in Microsoft Classroom
I’ve created a quick video to show the ease of setting and managing assignments in Office 365. My overall impression of assignment setting in Office 365 was good, however as you see in the video there...
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Tag people in Office 365 videos
A new feature is available in the Office 365 video portal to tag people in videos. Not quite sure what this will be used for at the moment but I’m guessing that Delve will certainly be impacted by this...
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