Office 365 Distilled EP52: The Big Three Adoption Propositions

You might think this episode is all about Formula 1, but it is actually all about adoption; more specific about the biggest 3 adoption propositions that we can think of in Microsoft 365. This means, going through the core applications (Outlook, SharePoint and Teams) and talking about what feature gives us the best value! Adoption …


Get / Set the SharePoint UI language code via jQuery / Javascript

I was searching around how to get and set the SharePoint UI language for a user (the language of SharePoint when a user is logged in) for a multilanguage project. John Liu helped me out on the msdn forum: To set the language for a user (make sure you have the required language packs installed) – …


Hide SharePoint WebPart header menu dropdown arrow and selection checkbox

Working on a dashboard page for users with limited possibilities, I had to disable the close and minimize webpart functionality. Instead of just hiding the functions, I chose to have a minimalistic view and hide SharePoint WebPart header menu dropdown arrow. The webpart header consist of following parts: tr class =ms-WPHeader (which is the header) td …


Hide the SharePoint Search field

If you want to hide the SharePoint search box on a specific page, you can add a content-editor webpart to the page with following code.


Fun and clear movie about SharePoint Governance

The people from 21Apps just released this fun movie. It takes about 6 minutes and it explains the 5 key pillars of SharePoint Governance


SharePoint adoption: Team SLA’s

A post about the idea from Susan Hanley about micro strategies for SharePoint adoption, and how they seem like Service Level Agreements for team members.


Book review: Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Unleashed

5 tips for more efficient jQuery selectors at sitepoint

The people at Sitepoint just posted this great post about writing more efficient jQuery selectors.


Get or set a SharePoint multiline textfield via jQuery

If you want to get or set a SharePoint multiline textfield in SharePoint via jQuery it is no big deal. Just use this code: Set a SharePoint multiline textfield Get a SharePoint multiline textfield


Prepopulate fields with the SharePoint Form Field Assistant

I have already covered a great script by Paul Grenier about how to prepopulate fields in SharePoint forms with values from the url.
Christian Dehaeseleer from U2U told me this morning about another codeplex project from Paul Grenier that is called the “Form Field Assistant”.


Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs Review

Yesterday at Biwug (I know, this sounds a lot like “this one time at bandcamp”) I got this really cool prize for being the first one to register: a copy of the book “Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs” by Wrox. It is a part of the “Programmer to programmer” series and …