While working with a colleague on some search issues in office 365, we noticed something that seems to be a marked departure from SharePoint 2010 and the behaviours around documents tagged with Managed Metadata. In SharePoint 2010, the default search experience was to display a Tags or Keywords refiner in the refinement panel whenever a …
Category: Office 365
Mar 10
SPC14 – Las Vegas – Wrap Up
The conference is over for another year and I must say I was really glad that I decided to go to this one. The energy and enthusiasm that was missing from SPC12 seemed to be back, and whilst we didn’t have a new version to shout about, there were plenty of announcements coming throughout the …
Jan 16
Using Fiddler to develop SharePoint 2013 Display Templates locally
One of the more powerful features of Fiddler is the ability to intercept a call to the server and replace the response with a response of its own. This becomes a very powerful tool especially when you have existing display templates that you wish to edit, without affecting the live service. This becomes especially handy …
Dec 13
I’m speaking at SharePoint Saturday Stockholm – Jan 25th 2014
A few weeks ago the speakers list was announced and sadly I wasn’t one of the lucky few to get chosen to present at SharePoint Saturday Stockholm, which wasn’t surprising given the number of submissions and vast talent and expertise that was available. Disappointed but not deterred I still booked my travel to attend and …
May 31
Office 365 SharePoint Online Licensing Issues
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 …
Oct 12
Office 2013 reaches the RTM milestone
I woke this morning to read a very exciting update on the Office blog that Office 2013 aka Wave 15 has been signed off internally and has reached RTM! This is a great milestone and one that myself and a lot of other active members of the user community didn’t think would happen until during …
Oct 04
SPC11–Keynote overview and a few thoughts thrown in.
I first attended a Microsoft Conference in Las Vegas 2 years ago. It was the launch of Office 14 and Steve Ballmer bounded out onto the stage to lots of whoops and hollers. That particular keynote was all about the whizz and bang that Office 14 was brining to the party. This years keynote didn’t …