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Organisation benefits of training your users

Now that your organisation has decided to go to SharePoint / Office 365, does that mean that all your users can just go ahead and start working with the new tool? Just like with any other application, your users need training and coaching to make sure they know what they are doing, and that they … Read more →

5 tips for planning your fileshare migration

September 23rd, 2017 | Posted by Marijn in fileshare | migration | sharepoint - (0 Comments)

When organisations choose SharePoint as their new document management platform, they already have tons of documents in their old system. Most likely, some, if not all documents need to be migrated to that new platform. When organisations choose SharePoint as their new document management platform, they already have tons of documents in their old system. … Read more →

Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Cambridge 2017

Slides for the sessions delivered for SharePoint Saturday Cambridge 2017 Read more →

I spy with my little eye.. a subtle change in the nav bar

I spy with my little eye.. something new on my nav bar!! find out what! Read more →

How to work with modern News in classic SharePoint Online sites

April 27th, 2017 | Posted by Marijn in collaboration | design | Office365 | quick tip - (1 Comments)

You have been working with Office 365 SharePoint sites for some time now. Last year, the whole “modern” SharePoint was presented. You probably have your document libraries and lists set up to use these modern parts. Brilliant! Or maybe your organisation is not yet ready for these new, modern experiences. No worries! But what about … Read more →

Gray out weekends in SharePoint calendars month scope

September 7th, 2016 | Posted by Marijn in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

A quick way to show grayed out weekends in the SharePoint calendar month view; for SharePoint 2013 – 2016 – Office 365 Read more →

Limit the amount of newsfeed posts shown in a SharePoint 2013 site

December 1st, 2015 | Posted by Marijn in design | enterprise2.0 | jquery / javascript | SharePoint 2013 - (0 Comments)

An easy way to limit the amount of newsfeed posts shown in a site, in just 2 lines of jquery code! Read more →

Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.MicrofeedException. Internal error code: 28

November 19th, 2015 | Posted by Marijn in fix | information | SharePoint 2013 | technical - (0 Comments)

One of our users got this error when he tried to post something on his SharePoint 2013 newsfeed: Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.MicrofeedException. Internal error code: 28 We all have a love/hate relationship with the cryptic Microsoft error codes, but this one is very annoying as it doesn’t say anything! This error pops up when your limit for your … Read more →

Let users open a ics file on a SharePoint calendar meeting

A quick way to let users open and save ics files instead of having to sync their calendar to Outlook via calculated columns! Read more →

SharePoint 2013 End User changes when moving to ‘https’

October 26th, 2015 | Posted by Marijn in enduser | information | installation | SharePoint 2013 - (0 Comments)

You can find a lot of blogposts on how to change from http to https, but what changes for your end user? Be aware of these limitations! Read more →