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Office 365 Distilled ep3: Baseline governance, PROSCI ADKAR and a whiskey

November 16th, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in Governance | podcast - (0 Comments)

Welcome to another laid back, chill, distilled conversation about Office 365 and end with a nice irish whiskey! This episode we talk about baseline governance and share what we are doing and pondering about. Contents of Office 365 Distilled ep3 Learnings from this week Microsoft wanting to send end users mails tips and trics (but they … Read more →

Office 365 Distilled ep2: Microsoft Teams & a nice bourbon

October 29th, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in Microsoft Teams | Office365 | podcast - (0 Comments)

Welcome to another laid back, chill, distilled conversation about Office 365 and end with a nice Bourbon! We had an awesome turnout for our first episode, over 85 plays! Let us know what your thoughts were about our first episode and this second one in the comments, or talk to us on twitter: @marijnsomers and … Read more →

Office 365 Distilled podcast: Distilling Office 365 with a little barley

October 11th, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in podcast - (0 Comments)

What if you take the 2 things you love in this world? For us, it is Office 365 and its ability to connect collaborative people. Combine that with a nice glass of single malt and you connect collaborative people… Just the location changes. The result is “Office 365 Distilled”! Get 30-40 minutes of Marijn and … Read more →

Fix issue with iPads not landing on SharePoint homepage

June 21st, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in PnP Powershell | PowerShell - (0 Comments)

At a customer, we saw an issue with iPads browsing to a site were not arriving at the homepage of the site. they were landing on the site contents page. To fix this issue, you need to disable 2 site features: mobile browsing minimal download strategy You can do this manually, for all sites necessary. … Read more →

List all external users on all SharePoint sites with PowerShell

April 6th, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in PowerShell - (0 Comments)

I was having a conversation with a client this morning who was concerned around GDPR, which is ofcourse a hot topic now. This client is doing projects together with external consultants and they wanted to get an overview which externals had access to what sites. I couldn’t immediatly find something like that online, so I … Read more →

Basic PnP Powershell SharePoint Site Collection creation script

March 21st, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in PnP Powershell | PowerShell - (0 Comments)

At a customer we recently created a new script to create project sites. Here is a simplified version of the code, mainly for myself for re-use in the future. Let me start with a disclaimer: I am sure the code could be improved a lot, but I like the simplicity and readability of it. If … Read more →

Infopath 2013 – mandatory lookup fields in provisioned sites

March 16th, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in fix | infopath | SharePoint 2013 - (0 Comments)

For a current project, I am back to wonderful world of SharePoint 2013 and InfoPath! I was amazed at how easy it all came back and how working and publishing forms could be so easy. Nevertheless, I was confronted with an issue I didn’t know how to resolve. This title might be slightly cryptic so … Read more →

Nakijken of je email adres een gekend Microsoft account is

Indien je gaat samenwerken met een organisatie die bijvoorbeeld Office 365 gebruikt, dient je email adres een gekend Microsoft account te zijn. Dit kan je heel eenvoudig nagaan, en indien het nog niet gekend is eenvoudig aanmaken. Ga hiervoor naar: https://login.microsoftonline.com (in een incognito scherm), voer je email adres in en klik op “Next”. Indien er … Read more →

Drag and drop migration: the good, the bad and the ugly

When your organisation is moving to a new platform, all (or at least a part) of your data needs to be moved as well. There are many ways to tackle this, like buying or building a migration application, but sometimes it can pay off to leave it up the users to migrate their files. When … Read more →