SharePoint 2016 – Aaah, SharePoint Designer workflows!
Over the last year or so I’ve only really looked at the bleeding edge technology released by Microsoft. Microsoft Teams,…
Microsoft Forms – Quizzes the full starters guide, create a quiz
In Microsoft Forms it is possible to create Quizzes and Forms. In this series of posts, the full starters guide…
Microsoft Teams, Forms and SharePoint all in one.
After a bit of a quiet week so far on my blog, now a post that hits multiple Applications. Microsoft…
Office 365 – Moving from TLS 1.0/1.1 to TLS 1.2
Today I noticed one of those action required Looking at the content of this message, this might be a warning…
Microsoft Teams – Stuck in an account and no way out?
Yesterday, my account was added to an external team to another tenant and ever since I’m struggling to switch between…
Microsoft Teams – Integration with Visual Studio Team Services using PowerApps.
Within Microsoft Teams it is possible to create PowerApps by adding a new tab and then select the PowerApps Icons.…
Microsoft Teams – How do you control client updates?
Today I was asked how you control updates being installed for the Microsoft Teams client. Well, you don’t. Why would…
Office 365 – Admin Center uses your local language and will end up doing your building work!
Most of my posts are directed at anybody in the world in any location. This time I’m going to have…
Office 365 – Are you on First Release? Not anymore!
Microsoft have changed the name of First Release, to Targeted Release. Where in the past first release would get things…
Microsoft Whiteboard, the next new thing in the Office 365 family
Today I noticed a message in the Message Center Microsoft Whiteboard is a freeform digital canvas where people, ideas, and…
Install PnP PowerShell using InlineScript within a release definition in VSTS
Today I tried to install PnPPowerShell within an Azure PowerShell Environment. In the past I tried just to copy all…
Office 365 – SharePoint Online – How to waste some space on your pages.
The modern pages in SharePoint online look absolutely great! With the additional web part that are added to the available…
Office 365 – SharePoint Online – Dirty form protection with SPFx
Within an SPFx web part I’ve got a form that is completed by a user. To make sure that the…
Log in to Microsoft Teams, log-out and log out again
All these log in windows in Microsoft Teams can be very confusing. As you use the windows app, a browser…
Office 365 – SharePoint online – Content approval gives too many warnings
For one of my customers I enabled content approval on a list. This should all be quite easy. I simply…
Office 365 – SharePoint Online – Compare different versions of a document.
Most likely you are aware that it is possible to have version control on SharePoint libraries. Most likely you will…
Visual Studio – Git failed with a fatal error: repository ‘xyz’ not found
Today in Visual Studio I tried to clone a repository and I got : Git failed with a fatal error:…
Microsoft Teams General channel settings
Recently I noticed a new settings in the Member permissions related to the Microsoft Teams General channel. Compared to all…
Office 365 – Create a new SharePoint Online team site and …. I’m lost in a black hole!
Today I tried to create a new team site and I first noticed a slightly different message once my site…
Create a feedback form with SharePoint Online and Microsoft Forms
After my last week’s post Feedback is important, but please don’t bother my users, I thought about creating a feedback…
Office 365 – Updates to team sites, Is Microsoft trying to deliver end solutions or a framework?
Today, Microsoft announced some changes to the modern team sites. Over the last few months we all got used to…
Office 365 – PowerApps is the new InfoPath, at last
For many years I’ve disliked InfoPath. (I always start a blog post on a positive note). Today, modern lists have…
SharePoint – Cloud vs On-Premises
Just a few years ago if you had asked me which I preferred Office 365 or SharePoint 2013? I would…
Office 2016 – The Document Information Panel has been removed, but it is back now!
You might have noticed that The document Information Panel was removed in MS Office 2016. Or more likely you probably…
Office 365 – Compliance Manager, no time to waste!
Microsoft has announced the all new Compliance Manager public preview.I had already seen Compliance manager at quite a few Microsoft…
Microsoft Bookings – Yet another baby added to the Office 365 family
Today I noticed the following in my Message Center in the Admin Center of Office 365: Microsoft today announced that…
SharePoint – Are you ready to migrate from Office 365 to Office 365?
Within SharePoint Online many things have changed over the last year. It is very likely that if your users are…
Export flows and import them in Azure Logic Apps.
You can export your Flows in Power Automate and import them in Logic Apps. Export flows in Power Automate I…
Office 365 – Feedback is important, but please don’t bother my users
Have you noticed that Microsoft keeps asking for feedback? Also, the Get the mobile app is offered to you all…
SharePoint Online – Required info and Flow, is this really needed?
Recently the Attention views were introduced in SharePoint Online. This is a great feature but does this all work as…
Microsoft Flow- Do you approve?
As Microsoft Flow is replacing other workflow systems like SharePoint Designer Workflows, I’ve been looking into the options available. Over…
Office 365 – SharePoint Online – Accessibility mode or PDF converter?
Today I tried to create a new document in Office 365’s SharePoint Online. Nothing new I hear you say, you…
Office 365 – The new App Launcher has arrived.
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced that the App Launcher would be updated. Below you can see the two options.…
Microsoft Teams – Create your own apps! Part 2
Yesterday I created a custom bot for Microsoft Teams. Today I’m going for a deeper dive. Where in yesterday’s post…
Microsoft Teams – Create your own apps!
Recently I’ve been looking into creating custom apps within Microsoft Teams. Within Microsoft Teams you can create different type of…
Microsoft Teams – PowerShell, a complete getting started guide.
With the release of PowerShell for Microsoft Teams a massive step has been taken towards an easier to manage application.…
Microsoft Teams – Get all YOUR teams using PowerShell ( Part 2) – Resolved!
After last weeks post Microsoft Teams – Get all your team sites using PnP Powershell, Now my next attempt with…
Microsoft Teams – Get all your Team sites using PnP PowerShell!
Today, I wanted to get a full overview of all the Microsoft Teams teams sites that I have in my…
Future Decoded – MVPBuzz – My first conference experiences as a Microsoft MVP
Many years, I’ve been going to Microsoft conferences, first the Evolution conferences in London and then for the last 4…
Microsoft Teams and any other Microsoft product – How Accessible are they?
Yesterday, at Future Decoded, Tom Nabarro showed us all how a disability doesn’t mean that you can’t do a job.…
Microsoft Teams – be careful with email links to channels!
Over the last few days I spent time at the Future Decoded event in London. One of the sessions I…
Office 365 – SharePoint Online – Performance, what to expect?
Recently I had a few customers with performance issues and it helps to know what to expect with performance in…
SharePoint Online – Sharing List items vs Documents
Today I had a look at Sharing Documents and List Items in modern lists and libraries in SharePoint online following…
Microsoft Teams – Search and Wiki pages
One of the features that Microsoft teams offers is Wiki pages. Wikis will typically be used as a knowledge base.…
Microsoft Teams – Is the success of uservoice killing off your voice?
I am a great fan of the Microsoft Teams uservoice site. Looking at the number of ideas that have been…
Office 365 – Are content types dead?
I noticed a while back that you can’t select content types in the views in modern lists. It seems to…
Microsoft Teams – Get your dates right – moving time zone
Have you noticed that in Microsoft Teams all dates are always in American format: This is fine when you are…
Office 365 – GDPR Activity hub – Are you panicking yet?
Many organisations are really worried about GDPR. Did you know that if you deal with any company inside the EU…
Office 365 – SharePoint Admin Center is changing
As announced at ignite this year The Office 365 admin center will be changing. Today, I found that my new…
Conversations in Microsoft Teams, plenty to talk about!
Today, I’m having a look at Microsoft Teams’ conversations. Last week, I tried to create posts within the conversation section…
Office 365 – SharePoint Online – Column formatting arriving
Today, I noticed in the Message Center an interesting new feature about Column Formatting that will arrive very soon in…
Office 365 – Major updates have arrived
Today, I noticed the first Major updates in my Message Center. As announced earlier this month, the way Microsoft announces…
Microsoft Teams – Azure Logic Apps – Don’t mention it!
Today I tried to create an Azure Logic app that creates a message in a Channel within a Microsoft Teams…
Microsoft Teams – Notifications – I don’t get it!
Microsoft Teams notifications After my previous post on Notification settings in Microsoft Teams I noticed a couple of people complaining…
Microsoft Teams – Notebooks, Sections and Pages in Education
Within the Education version of Microsoft Teams there are many locations with all sorts of Notebooks. Depending on your role…
Office 365 – Check your site for broken links in SharePoint Online – Part 2
In this post I’m continuing with the implementation of the Get-WebForBrokenLinks. Before we can have a look at finding all…
Microsoft Teams – How to create a Team when you can’t create Office 365 groups?
Within Microsoft Teams it is possible to create new teams if you have sufficient permissions to create a new Office…
Office 365 – Check your site for broken links in SharePoint Online – Part 1
On Tech Community I came across a question about how to check for broken links on your SharePoint sites in…
Office 365 – Workflow options – Azure Logic Apps vs Microsoft Flow
Within my Office 365 environment I’ve got quite a few options when I want to develop workflows. The two options…
Thank you all for your support!
Dear followers, Thank you very much for your continuous support! Last Sunday I received the email below from Microsoft. One…
Office 365 – Architecture choices for your App development
I absolutely love the speed at which Microsoft releases new pieces of functionality in Office 365. But I’m struggling to…
SharePoint – Migrations without 3rd party tools … soon
This week at Ignite 2017 a new Migration tool was announced by Microsoft. Do you have file shares or SharePoint…
Office 365 – I have found a bug! What to do now?
Office 365 is a great! An even though it is probably one of the most used products it is far…
Microsoft Forms – The hidden options of branching in Forms
So far I’ve liked the general setup of Forms.It’s a nice a light interface very good for questionnaires of up…
All 13 Notifications settings in Microsoft Teams
In my long running series about Microsoft Teams, I’ve decided to have a look at the Microsoft Teams Notifications settings…
100s of awesome Apps in Microsoft Teams, a complete overview
Within Microsoft Teams there are many apps, but what do they all do and how can they help you? In…
Tech Academy – Do you want to learn anything about any Microsoft technology?
Today, when I visited https://Techcommunity.microsoft.com I noticed a new option, Tech Academy. With the Tech Academy, Microsoft has just made…
Microsoft Teams – Do you want a demo? Don’t need to ask me!
Ok, of course you can ask me for a demo of Microsoft Teams! I’m always happy to introduce people to…
Microsoft Teams – Roles, a deep dive through Assignments
As part of my presentation Microsoft Teams through Microsoft Teams at Auburn University, I’ve looked into the different roles available…
Microsoft Teams – The application database has been wiped. this tab must be refreshed or be closed
Today when i logged into my development tenant’s teams I got the following message: The application database has been wiped.…
Microsoft Teams – Discover Bots has been replaced by Discover Apps
Last week I went through the settings of Microsoft Teams. This included the discovery of bots. Well this week it…
Office 365 – SharePoint Online – Performance, how to gain 3-4 seconds
Recently quite a few of my customers have been complaining about performance of their SharePoint Online sites. Where home pages…
Microsoft Teams – You have done it! And I know you have …
Earlier this week I noticed a message in the Message center about Auditing in Microsoft Teams being rolled out. The…
Microsoft Teams – Guest access and Apps
Dear Microsoft Teams team, Could you please test Microsoft Teams with guest access and disable all features that don’t work…
Microsoft Teams vs Classic Intranet
Microsoft is currently making a huge investment in a new style intranet, Microsoft Teams. So first of all what is…
Enable Apps in Microsoft Teams
Have you noticed the Apps option in Microsoft Teams yet? Ah, you don’t have that option? Well it is only…
Microsoft Teams – This is the limit in 2020!
Every now and then I find people asking about limitation of Microsoft Teams. In this post I’ve listed all the…
Microsoft Teams – Bots and Settings
Ok, so you’ve created your first team and now you would like to configure the team. Where do you go?…
Office 365 – Authentication – That didn’t work
After a week of many Microsoft Teams posts, this week I’m going to start with a SharePoint post. Or actually…
Microsoft Teams – Users without access to a tenant in Video Calls
Yesterday one of my colleagues logged into a different tenant using the Microsoft Teams App. All worked really well! Today…
Microsoft Teams – Assignments with guests
Today I tried out the assignments functionality available in the EDU version of Microsoft Teams. In this post I describe…
Microsoft Teams – Meetings with guest access. Did you get anyone to turn up?
I’ve now played around with Microsoft Team’s guest access and I found a few issue. Meetings with guests It is…
Microsoft Teams – is Microsoft reinventing the wheel?
With the introduction of Microsoft Teams a lot of the functionality that already has existed for quite a while in…
Microsoft Teams through Microsoft Teams
On the 3rd of October I will be speaking at SharePoint Showcase at Auburn University about Microsoft Teams. It is…
Microsoft Teams – Where do I find my guest teams?
So I’ve been using Microsoft Teams for quite a while now. I’ve got access to many internal teams and now…
Microsoft Teams – External Sharing has arrived!
Today went through some of the Teams features in preparation for my presentation at Auburn University. And I found that…
Microsoft Teams – Co-Authoring made easy
My followers will already know that I absolutely love the new features in Microsoft Teams. Every now and then you…
Office 365 – Are your safe traditional pages going to break in October?
UPDATE FROM MICROSOFT: After further consideration, we are not rolling out this change, now. Based on your feedback, we have…
Microsoft Teams – The top 10 features that are on their way
Note: This post was written in September 2017 and reflects the situation then. Ever since the initial launch of Microsoft…
How to record your Video call in Teams
A new version of the recording calls in Microsoft Teams can now be found In my other post about recording…
Office 365 – SPFx – downgrade your npm
A while back I upgraded npm to version 5 using npm install -g npm@latest or npm install -g npm@5 not…
Business vs educational tenant with Microsoft Teams
Today, I’m comparing Microsoft Teams within and Educational tenant and a business tenant. Business tenant vs Educational tenant Well in…
Office 365 – Have you created a demo or development tenant recently?
One of the major strengths of Office 365 is that it is very easy to create a new demo or…
Microsoft Teams – Where have all my chats gone to?
Microsoft Teams has a great feature for chats. You can very quickly start a chat with a colleague of multiple…
Office 365 – Is PowerApps to replace InfoPath?
I have a couple of anniversaries coming up soon. I’ve been working in SharePoint (and related Microsoft Technology) for nearly…
Microsoft Teams – How to troubleshoot the Windows 10 Mobile App
After my last two posts about troubleshooting Microsoft Teams on my PC, troubleshooting the Windows 10 app and troubleshooting the…
Microsoft Teams – Conversations around a document
With Microsoft Teams it is possible to discuss document straight from within the App. This post walks through the step…