Category Archive: SharePoint 2013

Mar 30

Bypassing the Content Organiser in SPO

I haven’t had to work with the content organiser since SP2010, but just recently I was working with a client that wanted to re-create some of their on-prem 2010 configuration in SharePoint Online. One of these items was the use of the Drop-Off library to allow third parties to add documents into their libraries, whilst …

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Dec 26

Rendering People or Group fields in Custom JSLink Display Templates

When working with Display Templates in SharePoint 2013, you quite often want to provide a similar user experience within your templates to ensure that user adoption is achieved swiftly and simply. One of the key elements to this is to use the out of the box rendering methods where possible. One of the field types …

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Dec 16

SharePoint–Outbound Hybrid Search and web proxies

I’m currently working with a client to implement hybrid search between their on-premises environment and Office 365. This is generally done in two stages, with the outbound (usually the simplest) being done first by following this technet article (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dn607305.aspx) Unfortunately simple was not the case in this instance and when we went to create the …

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Oct 11

SharePoint Saturday Munich 2015 & the London SharePoint Social

SharePoint Saturday Munich 2015 I’ve just come back from the inaugural SharePoint Saturday Munich and I have to admit I had a blast! The event was exceptionally well organised by Matthias Einig and Monika Baur from Rencore and from a speaker point of view it’s probably one of, if not the best SharePoint Saturday events …

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Jul 12

SharePoint Saturday London – Imperial College

I had the distinct pleasure of speaking at a much closer SharePoint Saturday to home than all of the others I’ve attended in the past. This was the turn of SharePoint Saturday London at the Imperial College in Kensington and although I’m good friends with both Seb and Peter who ran the event, that doesn’t …

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Jun 01

My first article in print! – DIWUG Magazine 15

I’m really pleased to see the publication of my first print article in the latest edition of the DIWUG (Dutch Information Workers User Group) Magazine. Although produced in Holland by the DIWUG team, this excellent DIWUG Magazine carries articles by some great authors from around the world and has a readership in excess of 10000 …

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May 29

5 Minute Fix – Lookup Column Links

A colleague of mine (Thank you Iain!) posed a question to me today of how to remove the links that appear whenever you use a lookup column to another list. Sometimes this behaviour doesn’t make any sense and just confuses the end user. (Microsoft.. please add a tick box when creating lookup fields to remove this!) …

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Jan 18

A slow blogging end/start to the year

In this post: And ending and a beginning A  new workshop! Speaking at Evolutions 2015 and all that entails And ending and a beginning Well I didn’t finish 2014 and start 2015 quite as I intended with regards to my blog as the posts all dried up. Not due to lacking content by any means …

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Nov 23

I’m speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK 2014

Due to being rather busy recently, I’ve been remiss in posting about SharePoint Saturday UK 2014, and the fact that I’ll be there presenting an End User session on building an FAQ in Office 365/SharePoint 2013. If you’re in SharePoint in the UK (and if you’re reading this blog, I can only assume that you …

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Sep 30

SharePoint Saturday Jersey – Round up

I had the great pleasure at speaking at the inaugural SharePoint Saturday Jersey in the channel islands this past weekend. Gus and Mark picked an excellent venue and whilst attendance was lower than expected thanks to the glorious weather, we still had a good bunch of SharePoint people with a thirst for knowledge! I was …

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