Balestra - A leap forwardBalestra

Office 365 Distilled ep6: groups, groups and groups!

January 15th, 2019 | Posted by Marijn in Office365 | podcast | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

Welcome to another episode of Office 365 distilled, the first one in 2019 where we talk groups, groups and groups. How was 2018 treating us and what will 2019 bring? Marijn got into a lot of travel and got awarded as MVP! Expect to see him at a number of conferences in 2019! Steve is …
Read more →

Microsoft Service Adoption specialist course (Edx)

I just completed the “Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist” course on Edx. (with a nice 90%!!!)As I have been speaking in the past about change management and getting your users up to speed, I was really curious to see what Microsoft ‘s official take on it was. And boy, was I in for a treat! As …
Read more →

Office 365 Distilled Ep5.1: Most important questions for a rush greenfield project

December 21st, 2018 | Posted by Marijn in Office365 | podcast - (0 Comments)

This episode is called 5.1 … Because we had some technical issues on the first one.. Remember boys and girls… Windows Inside Preview is not recommended to run on a production machine 😉Although.. The good thing is we now have to taste this delicious bourbon once more 😉 We are back from the last conferences …
Read more →

Made easy: formatting columns in SharePoint lists and libraries in design mode

As announced at Ignite 2018, Microsoft is rolling out an easier way of formatting your lists and libraries columns. Until now you had to do this in Json script, which was very hard for end users or power users to do. Luckily, Chris Kent has a great webpart to make it easier, but that still …
Read more →

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 →