Jun 06
Back in March of 2012, Liam Cleary wrote an excellent guide to installing SQL 2012 Reporting Services into a SharePoint 2010 farm in integrated mode. (You can find that post here.) I’ve recently been using that guide to produce a proof of concept for a client, to show that I would be able to install …
May 31
Caveat Emptor – office 365 Licensing Note: This article was written at the end of May 2013. If you are reading this anytime in the future, please make note of this as Office 365 licensing and feature availability is subject to change at Microsoft’s whim. If the Service Descriptions have changed then this information may …
May 15
Selectively preventing the ‘inconvenient’ context ribbon. Quite often I use list views to display summary data to the end users. This data often takes many forms from either a simple single list item displaying information about a site (I use this quite often in project sites.), to a full featured kpi display from multiple list …
May 04
Automating the SharePoint GUI using Scripting. My colleague Alex and I have been working on the same client project during the last 6 months and we recently hit an issue that required us to republish 150 content types in the content type hub. Due to an issue with the PowerShell publish commands not working previously, …
Apr 23
SharePoint Evolution 2013 – IW411 – Session Slides So last week saw another awesome conference from the folks at Combined Knowledge. Yes it was the London SharePoint Evolution 2013 conference and my first outing at a major conference as a speaker! I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Those of you who know …
Apr 08
SharePoint Evolution Conference 2013 Next week sees the SharePoint Evolution Conference returning to London for 2013 and as I’ve posted before, I’m speaking this time round! As a newbie to conference speaking I’ll admit to being a little nervous as this is my first proper conference session. Even though I’ve done some large user group …
Apr 07
Introducing Image Renditions In SharePoint 2013. One of the great improvements in SharePoint 2013 is the introduction of Image Renditions. This feature allows content editors to upload images that are then automatically re-sized according to pre-defined rules for use within the website. These re-sized images can then be used in document roll-ups and pages, reducing …
Feb 01
Thanks to everyone that stayed around after Dan Holmes’ most excellent Governance session last night to hear me prattle on about tuning your search environment. Just a note about Dan’s session first, I don’t really come from the ‘Business’ side of SharePoint as I’m from a mainly techy background. As a result, I sometimes find …