SHAREPOINT COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER - The holidays are coming!

Hi everyone,

The holidays are coming and the Geese are getting fat (and so will I be with all the fun and food of the season). If you are celebrating this time of the year then ....HAPPY HOLIDAYS... from all of us here :)

So what do we have in store for this week's Newsletter?

We've been really busy getting phase 1 of the brand new community ready, so keep reading to find out how to access 500+ hours of SharePoint and O365 Videos!

The Ultimate Business Decision Maker’s Guide to Hybrid SharePoint - Nick Brattoli

Check out this amazing article from Nick Brattoli, who gives a great insight into everything you need to think about when deciding if SharePoint Hybrid is something you should consider. The article also covers the main issues you should think about if you are considering to go 100% on-premises or fully into Office 365. - Read More..

[SPONSORED LINK] - **NOW Available** Deploying SharePoint 2016: Best Practices for Installing, Configuring, and Maintaining SharePoint Server 2016

Are you a SharePoint Admin that wants to learn how to properly deploy SharePoint 2016? In this book, SharePoint MVPs Vlad Catrinescu and Trevor Seward will teach you how to install and configure SharePoint 2016 in depth, and how to optimize your environment based on real world best practices. Readers will benefit from the most stable and performance driven SharePoint 2016 environments possible. Order the eBook or your hardcover copy today!

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Collab365.Community - This month's most popular Videos!

We are moving ever closer to the full migration of the SharePoint Community site over into the new Collab365 Community site, and expect to fully migrate in January next year. In the meantime, we wanted to share with you some of the fantastic content that is already in place on the new site with this month's most popular videos:

1) ** Laura Rogers ** covers the creation of flows in Office 365, with integrations and specific examples of translating business process from Designer to Microsoft Flow - Here

2) ** Bill Ayers ** brings us - Git, Gulp, Grunt, Node and Code: Making Sense of the Modern SharePoint and Office 365 Development Toolkit. A fantastic title to this great session which will get you up to speed on the modern development toolkit. -Here

3) ** Richard Harbridge ** and the The Top 10 Ways To Improve Office 365 & SharePoint Adoption. Richard shares industry leading real world experience, advice and activities that other customers are leveraging to get more from O365 and drive meaningful adoption. - Here

4) ** Mark Kashman ** with SharePoint and OneDrive – reinventing content collaboration. . Mark shares mobile-first and cloud-first updates for SharePoint and OneDrive. Loads of news and demos. Take a look -Here

Are you looking for great SharePoint Intranet Templates?

Are you looking for great SharePoint Intranet Solutions ('Intranet In a Box') either for on-premises or online?...turnkey solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, 2013, 2016 and online?. The Intranet templates listed here offer a range of features including company news, mobile access, multi-lingual, forms, people directory, social collaboration and much more. Take a look - Here

Where to find the Best Office 365 and SharePoint Admin Tools?

IT Administrators will find the best tools here to help with SharePoint, Azure, Office 365 and Exchange and SQL Administration. - Find out more

** Save 40% on Microsoft Press books! **

Just in time for Christmas, save 40% on some amazing Microsoft eBooks! Pssst. Hurry though, as this offer ends December 31, 2016.  - Redeem Here

That's all for this week folks, hope you enjoy all that fantastic content. Watch this space for the community migration updates as we get the community fully up and running on the new Collab365 Community site early in the New Year.

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

SHAREPOINT COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER - News and the Great Community Survey

Hello everyone,

Merry Christmas, or thats what it feels like I should be saying with all the Christmas TV adverts I am already seeing. Well not to worry, in this newsletter we will steer clear of Christmas and just focus on blogs, news and discussions from across the community. 

[Sponsored] - Prepare for your SharePoint & Office 365 Certifications with FREE Study Guides

Are you planning to pass a Microsoft Certification before the end of the year or is it one of your goals for 2017? Check out those free study guides by SharePoint MVP Vlad Catrinescu that include Books, Training Videos and links to TechNet, Blog Posts and everything you need to get ready for your exam! Study Guides are available for the following exams:

• 70-346: http://spvlad.com/70-346StudyGuide

• 70-347: http://spvlad.com/70-347StudyGuide

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• 70-339: http://spvlad.com/70339StudyGuide

The Great Community Survey - Your Chance to win $100 Amazon Voucher

Following the success of our previous global surveys we are keen to find out how much has changed over the last year. There have been so many announcements and new developments this year that it can be hard to keep up. We'd love to know more about how you and your organisation are operating in this ever changing environment. 

Fill in the survey to be in with a chance of being that one lucky name that we will draw out of the hat to receive a USD $100 Amazon voucher. The Survey only contains 15 questions so should only take a couple of minutes and we will look forward to sharing the results with the community soon. 

Take the Survey HERE

More Office365 functionality with Outlook Customer Manager

Could this be a new service to help all you ISV's out there?. A CRM system that is already there in your Outlook, is it too good to be true?  Take a look HERE

Bots In Azure

The Bots are everywhere and will soon take over!! - Microsoft Azure Announces Industry’s First Cloud Bot-as-a-Service.  Find out more HERE

SharePoint Community Relaunch

Coming soon!!.... We can't tell you much about it right now, but needless to say the team are working hard on the site, and are getting very close to bringing you all the Community features and much more beside in a new nicely packaged format!!...Watch this space for announcements on the new Collab365 SharePoint Community site. 

Questions from the Community

As always I am sure our community members would really appreciate and assistance that could be given on these points: 

• Wallace wants some help around document duplication within SharePoint -HERE
• Mark has some authentication challenges on apps from app store. -HERE
• Arun is interested in advice on integrating JRIA with SharePoint Online. -HERE
• A question on SharePoint Online log-in Audits and how to do them from Paul -HERE
• Conditional Formatting in SharePoint list - Is it possible? -HERE

That's all for this week, thanks for reading !!

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

SHAREPOINT COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER - US election is not the only news!!

Hi everyone,

As ever we have some fantastic news and links from around the community. Other than the US election result, the recent launch of Microsoft's Teams is getting a LOT of headlines. We've shared some below :)

[Sponsored] SharePoint Permissions Management Tool Certified for Code Quality

DeliverPoint by Lightning Tools is a SharePoint Permissions Management Tool for SharePoint On-Premises and SharePoint Online. DeliverPoint allows Site Owners and Site Collection Administrators to report and manage permissions with ease. The reporting is accurate and shows everyone who has permissions even if they were granted through Active Directory Groups. Management features allow for Copy, Transfer, Delete, Clone, Revoking of permissions along with Dead Account Removal, Auditing of Permissions and Alerts. We are proud to announce that DeliverPoint for SharePoint On-Premises and the Add-In for SharePoint Online has now also been awarded the code quality certification by Rencore. Find out more

[Sponsored] Are You One of the 17.4% with a Data Breach? How Do You Know?

17.4% of content uploaded to Office 365 contains a security exposure. The problem is finding what’s inside your content, where standard descriptors aren’t available. Using conceptClassifier for SharePoint or conceptClassifier for Office 365 means you have a 0% likelihood of a data breach. Define the phrases or descriptors that you want identified and protected, and classify your content as it is created or ingested. Automatically identified exposures will be routed to a secure repository, and prevented from being downloaded. You are safe. Read about it here. 

Introducing Microsoft Teams—the chat-based workspace in Office 365

Hot news of the Microsoft Teams launch and a good overview to introduce you to the concept. - Read more 

Dear Microsoft: I’m Confused. Can You Help Me Collaborate Well?

A great post from Marc D Anderson explaining how he generally loves MS Teams but also finds the communications story still a little confusing. - Read more

FAQ about Microsoft Teams

We took MS Teams for a test-drive last week and loved it. At Collaboris, we currently use Slack and if the story for external users improves, we'll be making the switch. With Teams, Microsoft are finally pulling all their Office 365 tech together under one 'collaboration roof'. However, the more you 'play' the more questions you start to have, so here is a good set of FAQ's from Microsoft. - Read more

SharePoint Server 2016 Feature Pack

We don't want to make this all about MS teams. Here we have a great post about the roll out of the first feature pack for SharePoint Server 2016.- Read more

Questions from the Community

Can you help with any of these questions from the community?

• Help on SharePoint 2016 web address creation - http://sharepoint-community.net/forum/topics/sharepoint-2016-2
• A web part error in SP 2013 - http://sharepoint-community.net/forum/topics/web-part-error-in-sp-2013
• SharePoint 2016 - Apps challenge for authentication - http://sharepoint-community.net/forum/topics/sharepoint-2016-apps-challenge-for-authentication

Thanks for taking the time to read the newsletter, that’s all for this week

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

SHAREPOINT COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER - Prepare your Toolbox for SPFx

Hi everyone,

Welcome to this weeks SharePoint Community newsletter!!

I wanted to share with you a noteworthy new whitepaper by John Liu, MVP Office Server and Services, and his colleague Bart Bouwhuis, fellow SharePoint consultant:

Preparing your Toolbox for the SharePoint Framework with Angular, Webpack and Kendo UI

The future of SharePoint development and customization – starting now, by the way – is the SharePoint Framework (SPFx), a client-side based framework that allows JavaScript customizations on top of SharePoint Online/Office 365.

This whitepaper, though, isn't just about SPFx. It is about SharePoint as a platform with AngularJS and WebPack, and having those pieces ready and aligned for SPFx. It is about a stable set of core tools that works well together. It is about a set of tools that runs today on SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online. You can already use these, without having to wait for SharePoint Framework's official release.

So download this whitepaper to:

• See a great set of tools in action
• Learn how to build a practical SharePoint business application using modern web technology
• Get excited about the new SharePoint Framework and related web stack technologies

In the words of the authors:

"The time to jump in is always now (or as soon as you can). We present two months of work representing our hardest effort to promote modern web technologies and SharePoint as a platform.

Please download our whitepaper - Preparing Your Toolbox for the SharePoint Framework with Angular, Webpack and Kendo UI, compare it to what you guys use and let us know what you like or love."

Thats all for this week folks, until next week, happy SharePointing!

Thanks

Fraser

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

SHAREPOINT COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER - Week 39

Hi Everyone,

Its SharePoint Newsletter time, we have some great learning, news from the community, and with a week to go until the BIG ONE, a little reminder to get yourselves over to the Collab365 24 Hour Global Conference.......Read on..

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Whether you are a Manager, IT Pro, DBA, or Developer, Office & SharePoint Live! brings together the best the industry has to offer for 5 days of workshops, keynotes, and sessions to help you work through your most pressing collaboration projects.

[Sponsored Link] Lightning Tools is Awarded for Code Quality by Rencore!

Lightning Tools are very pleased to let you know that they are the first SharePoint independent software vendor (ISV) to be awarded the SharePoint Code Quality certification by Rencore. Three products from Lightning Tools have undergone extensive analysis by the Rencore team for code quality which measures for Functionality, Reliability, Usability, Efficiency, Maintainability, and Portability and they are:

• DeliverPoint
• Lightning Conductor
• Data Viewer Web Part

For the past ten years, Lightning Tools has been proud of its customer support processes, bug tracking and quality of code as well as the features that their products offer. Lightning Tools became a customer of the SPCAF tool shortly after its initial release and were delighted that their code already met a high standard when it was analysed. They’ve spent the last 18 months ensuring that the quality of their code adheres to the standard expected by the team at Rencore.

Read more HERE

Don't miss the Collab365 24 Hour Global Conference next week!!

We are really close now to the 24-hour, Collab365 Global Conference which kicks off on 19th October at 7pm UTC with a fantastic Keynote from Mark Kashman.

Following that keynote is a further 23 hours of amazing content, providing some real learning opportunities. Get yourself registered, block out your diaries and we will see you there - Register Here

As if that is not enough towards the end of the 24 hours at 3pm UTC on October 20th, we have the fantastic SharePoint Tournament, your chance to compete in our multiplayer, live, head to head SharePoint quiz. There are 50 questions across 5 categories of SharePoint, with a prize pot of $1000 provided by Concept Searching and ourselves it has to be worth giving it a go....Read More

News and Posts from the Community

• An amazing way to keep informed and up to date is to visit Collab365.Today as it brings together posts from many other sites and blogs across the wider community.
• Hybrid is talked about more and more these days. Nico gives us a summary of all Hybrid SharePoint features that MS released for SP2013 and 2016 - http://ift.tt/2e8RLhK
• Fix the SharePoint Installation error 1603 with Jeff - http://ift.tt/2dIXL2O
• Stefan Bauer gives some great guidance on how to version new SharePoint Framework Projects. - http://ift.tt/2e8UNT2

Can you help our members??

• Judy to publish an Infopath form to a public website? -Here
• Emo to implement an Accordion menu in SP 2013 - Here

That's all for now folks, have a fantastic week and don't forget to join in with our journey around the globe at the Collab365 Global Conference next week.

Thanks
Fraser

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

SHAREPOINT COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER - The 24 hour Global Conference is coming!!

I am not quite sure what to share first this week! There's so much! We're now speeding towards the 24-hour, Collab365 Global Conference which kicks off in under 2 weeks. As always, the worldwide community has stepped up and delivered over 120 sessions to delight you with. This makes it our largest content bonanza yet! Obviously, with such a massive amount of learning on offer, it's impossible to see the SharePoint woods for the Office 365 trees! Fear not!!! Here are some great posts to help you decide: > 5 'Red Hot' Global Conference Sessions picked by our SharePoint Experts In this post we asked our panel of community experts to pick their Top 5 sessions to watch at the conference. I really love the variety in the speaker locations - we've got such a great mix around the globe. Read more... > 7 unmissable sessions at the Collab365 Global Conference The Collab365 team asked me to choose 7 of my top sessions (from the 120+). Gulp! It wasn't easy! I am still pretty dev-focused, so there are some SPfx and Graph sessions among my top 7! Discover my top 7... > 11 more conference sessions that you will kick yourself for missing! Picking just 7 was way too hard, so I picked another 11 'must see' sessions. There are some in my list that will be really popular and some that are quite niche sessions that will give you the chance to learn technologies that you may not know about. Read More.... SharePoint Tournament Towards the end of the Global Conference, we're going to be running something that's entirely new for us. We've been busy building a new multi-player, live, quiz platform that I am sure will bring a lot of buzz! Nick Brattoli has put together 50 questions across 5 categories of SharePoint. So if you think that you know a thing or two about SharePoint Architecture, O365 or OneDrive then take part. Even if you are a relative beginner you should come as Concept Searching and ourselves have assembled a 1000$ prize pot! Read More... Summer Games now in week 3 The Summer Games is also still in full swing. If you didn't know - we partnered with Metalogix and a few community legends to bring you entertaining and insightful content. There's still plenty of time to catch up on Weeks 1 and 2 and if you complete the entire course (4 weeks), your name will go into a hat to win a $150 prize. Visit Summer Games Island... BTW - if you want to send us your "Top 5" sessions, we'll do our best to include them in the post. Please send the top 5, short bio and a picture tocollab365@collaboris.com.   Thanks P.S. We also strongly recommend that you register for free on the global Conference and attend live. The content may not be freely available on-demand afterwards.

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

SPCOM Newsletter week 37 - Collab365 Solutions Day Site opened and Summer Games is coming soon!!

Hello everyone and welcome to the SharePoint community Newsletter week 37., this week we have some details about two Collab365 events.

Firstly the Collab365 Solutions day will show you some fantastic solutions for everyday problems you may be facing within your business. Then following not far behind that the Summer games will help you keep up to date with the latest skills and techniques, all wrapped up in a fun package to help the learning process.

Collab365 Solutions Day – Conference Site is now open!!  Take a look around and get your free space now!!!

The conference site is now open, so take a look around, get more details for each of the sessions provided by our vendors. You can register or log on to view the site HERE 

By attending you will learn how to...

1. Effortlessly create powerful & dynamic forms with no technical skills required! Who said you have to be a power user to implement forms & Workflows? (KWizCom)
2. Build online processes to improve organizational efficiency and productivity in SharePoint and Office365. With speed and agility but without the need for code. (FlowForma)
3. Turn your Office 365 / SharePoint investment into a powerful Learning Management System that is designed to use proven Gamification techniques. ( MessageOps)
4. Deploy an out-of-the-box Intranet using the Office 365 Ecosystem that is 100% no-code customizable (SP Marketplace)
5. Become the master of your Office365 and SharePoint environments with all your settings and permissions in one place with Cloudkit 365. (Acceleratio)
6. Streamline on-boarding & User access requests with Crow Canyons SharePoint and Office 365 applications (Crow Canyon)

How to attend?

The event is entirely virtual and held online. To enter the event please login with your Collab365 Account and then click the link below :

Event Summary

• Event: Collab365 Solutions Day - September
• Where: Online
• When: September 14th, 16:00 UTC
• Cost: Free

TO TAKE A LOOK AROUND, LOGIN or REGISTER HERE 

Collab365 Summer Games – Join hundreds of other competitors and register now

On Monday next week (19^th September) board our ‘virtual ferry’ to the Collab365 Summer Games island and start to take part in our newest most unique, fun and challenging event yet. 4 weeks of learning lies ahead …

Find out more HERE 

Whats in store week 1...

1. In its first week, we will help introduce you to SharePoint and the varied opportunities it presents to your business. We will also be introducing some of the community members who you will hear from throughout the coming weeks. 
2. Our SharePoint Orienteering event will help answer the question “What is SharePoint?”
3. You will hear answers from community experts that may surprise you and shed new light on your use of the platform. 
4. There will be a chance to take part in the No-Code Archery where you can build on what you may have seen at the summer games and get some personal insights into ‘no-code’ shortcuts from the community members running the event. 
5. We will be setting challenges – based on the content you will hear and watch – with the ultimate goal of finding a summer games champion! (more on that during the event)

How to attend?

The event is entirely virtual and held online. To take part (and be in with a chance of becoming a Summer Games Champion) just head over to the visitors centre and sign up.

http://ift.tt/2c6cPCZ

• Event: Starting 19 September and concluding on 19^th October at the Collab365 Global Conference
• Where: Online
• Cost: Free

Looking forward to seeing you there !

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

SharePoint Community Newsletter - Week 34

Hello and Welcome to all you SharePoint Community people!!

We have some fantastic blog posts from both the community and web this week. As always, we also have a few discussions that could benefit from your expert input.

HOW I DID ‘LAZY APPROVAL’ ON SP ONLINE

The ability to approve or reject a task in SharePoint via an email is known as 'Lazy Approval'.

Larry was asked to incorporate Lazy Approval as part of his companies Travel Request and approval solution. In this blog he shows you how he did it, take a look here: - http://ift.tt/2aPLkis

IMPROVING YOUR SHAREPOINT INTRANET ADOPTION

Unless you are extremely clear as to what an Intranet is and what an Intranet is not, you will fall into creating an Intranet that looks good on screen but is actually completely ineffective when it comes to making your business more productive. An increase in productivity should be the primary goal with any enterprise software. Geoff Talbot gives some good insight into what an Intranet is and how to increase your intranet adoption rate -  http://ift.tt/2bdT9gi

GETTING STARTED WITH SHAREPOINT DESIGNER WORKFLOWS

This is the first in a series of posts from Devendra Velegandla on how to get started with SharePoint Designer workflows. The post is targeted at beginners who would like to learn how to build workflows using SharePoint 2013.

Take a look here and keep an eye out for the other posts in the series - http://ift.tt/2bjDfpG

HOW BADLY CAN AV SCANNING IMPACT YOUR SHAREPOINT FARMS PERFORMANCE?

In this post Vignesh Ganesan will be talking about an issue he recently encountered in one of his customer’s SharePoint 2010 environments….Vignesh takes you through the issue / symptoms encountered and the fault finding steps carried out and some good lessons to take note of in relation to antivirus software.

Take a look here: - http://ift.tt/2bdTLm8

FIXING APPS AFTER CONFIGURING CLOUD HYBRID SEARCH

Nico shares some useful steps and scripts to use in resolving the issue caused by the on boarding script breaking every server to server trust by changing the SPAuthenticationRealm. Nico give you two options to resolve this, take a look here: http://ift.tt/2bbI9Wz

Can you help the community by giving your valuable input to these discussions and questions?

• Call for information about YOU!....We want to meet the Community, can you help - http://ift.tt/2bdTCPM
• Can you help Stephen designing a solution in 2010 for developing a class or event and a user self-registration to go with it: - http://ift.tt/2bbIPv6
• How can we retrieve user’s posts and blogs and recent activity from Delve? - http://ift.tt/2bdTqjA

And finally – Looks what Collab365 events are coming soon – Get yourselves registered and get your free place now!!!

1. COLLAB365 SUMMER GAMES - Curated with our very good friends at Metalogix, the Collab365 Summer Games are designed to build SharePoint muscle, refine Office365 technique and build your skills to help you become a Summer Games Champion! Watch this space for more details and Get your free place now here - http://ift.tt/2aWl5ot
2. COLLAB365 SOLUTIONS DAY – September 14^th - Join us from16:00 UTC to watch demonstrations from KWizCom, FlowForma, MessageOps, SP Marketplace, Acceleratio, and Crow Canyon. – Find out more and register here - http://ift.tt/2bdU68v
3. COLLAB365 24HR GLOBAL CONFERENCE -Join the Collab365 team on the 19th - 20th October, for 24 hours of SharePoint, Azure and Office365 content. Delivered direct to your device, wherever you are in the world, when you want it and for no cost at all. Get more details and register here - http://ift.tt/2bbHswx

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

SHAREPOINT COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER - COLLAB365 SUMMER GAMES EDITION

Happy Tuesday everyone! We have a fantastic new event (and event format) to share with you today and it might just be the thing you are looking for, to really help you get to grips with SharePoint, Office 365 and everything in between.

With the sporting summer in full swing, we felt it was time for the IT Pro's, SharePoint Admins, Power, Business and End users amongst us to get a run out.

With the continued support of Metalogix, we have designed our very own, fun 'Summer Games', built to test your mettle and tune up your skills. We invite you to take a trip with us and Metalogix to Collab365 Summer Games Island where we will be hosting a huge variety of learning events.

We can't say too much right now, suffice to say we have designed an experience fun, interactive - and most importantly - designed to help boost you up the skills ladder.

WHY SHOULD I TAKE PART?

• Stay up to date. We have partnered with some great 'skills coaches' from the community covering a fantastic set of subjects with a strong focus on SharePoint.
• It's 'on the house'. - As with all our events so far, it's once again completely free so it's very easy to calculate your ROI on this one!
• It's fun - We are constantly looking for new ways to innovate and bring you the information that's important to you. However, we do realise that making it fun really helps the learning process. The Collab365 Summer Games puts you front and centre and gives a bit of interactivity that's never been seen before in our events.  

WHEN DOES IT TAKE PLACE AND HOW LONG IS IT?

The great thing about the games is that they are going to be completely self-paced. We will unlock a set of events each week (on our Island map) allowing you to dive in and access the content. You can then choose when you would like to take part.

HOW DO I SIGN-UP?

To join us at the games (starting in September), all you need to do is visit the Summer Games web page HERE, click the 'sign up' button and register.

Once our "Visitors Centre" officially opens, we will let you know and you can come inside and start your Collab365 Summer Games!

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

SharePoint Community Newsletter - Week 25

Welcome SharePointers!

This week we have some information to share about the Collab365 Global Conference ‘call for speakers’ along with the usual content highlights from the SharePoint Community and the web.

COLLAB365 GLOBAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR SPEAKERS

The clock is now officially ticking!! On 19^th & 20^th October, we have 150 sessions slots and 24 hours to fill. If you would love to speak to a global community online and share your experience and expertise, please submit a proposal now. Space is limited so please be quick.  

http://bit.ly/29hrBsB

SHAREPOINT 2013 : HOW TO ENABLE REMOTE EVENT RECEIVERS WITH EXISTING LIST & LIBRARIES

If you aren’t allowed to run server code in your Farm and need to add an event to a SharePoint List then you should consider taking a look at ‘Remote Event Receivers’. Prashant offers a great tutorial on how to get started.

http://bit.ly/29lhLoj

CONTINUOUS MAINTENANCE: DOES SHAREPOINT REALLY NEED IT?

Even when implemented according to a well-elaborated plan, a SharePoint solution can lose its popularity when a bad experience comes to the fore. Instead of waiting for the tragic end, let’s see which core SharePoint problems can cause users’ dissatisfaction and how a thought-out maintenance strategy can help to save the platform’s reputation.

http://bit.ly/29r9wKO

USER PROFILE SYNCHRONISATION SERVICE ISSUE

Struggling to get your User Profile Synchronisation Service started again?….. Krsto identifies a problem related to having the SharePoint database in the high availability group.

http://bit.ly/29lerLx 

DRIVE AWARENESS AND ADOPTION OF OFFICE365 WITH AN IT FAIR

Last month Michael Blumenthal had the honour of being invited to a local county government ran IT fair. Its aim was to raise awareness of the applications that are available to end users through the county’s Office 365 subscription. Michael tells us more about it and how these can be successful events.

http://bit.ly/29h7gX0

WHAT DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT ARE YOU USING FOR SHAREPOINT 2016 DEVELOPMENT

We've had this discussion for other versions of SharePoint so I am interested to see if it's changed now a couple of years have passed. Do you develop with SharePoint on a desktop / laptops or are you using a VM in the Azure? If you are using a physical machine what spec are you running?

http://bit.ly/29jNMNw

Can you help the community by giving your valuable input to these discussions and questions?

• Environment setup for to develop restaurant management system, can anyone help? - http://bit.ly/29dIyFP
• Any interest in a session on independent consultants at Collab365 Global Conference? - http://bit.ly/29il41P
• Can we run SharePoint 2016 sites in SharePoint 2010 mode? - http://bit.ly/29hxPbz
• SharePoint 2013 Timer Job failed due to exception? - http://bit.ly/29h8v8y

AND FINALLY - TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW COLLABORIS WEBSITE!!

The Collaboris team have been working hard to improve and migrate the collaboris website, take a look: www.collaboris.com

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

The SharePoint Community by Numbers - Revisited!

Way back in 2013 we gave a summary of Sharepoint-community.Net by numbers in this blog post by Mark Jones, (Community Co-Founder). 

Mark asked me to do some analysis and write an update (21 months later) to see where we are...so here goes:

Overview 

• We have 8,312 members, more than doubled since 2013.
• A whopping 2,118 discussions, 4 times that of 2013 figure. 
• The ever growing Blog total is at 1,155
• Yesterday (19th May) was our biggest day for traffic with over 5,000 sessions.

Breakdown of Experience

Quite a few not declaring, with a more even split between the others than in 2013... Interestingly, 'Beginners' was the largest section and now it's the smallest. Guess you have all been learning :) 

Count by Certification

The same trend is still showing with MCTS of over 1400, but now close to 200 MVPs!

Member Signups by Month

Quite steady signup rate other than the June 2013 peak.

Total Number of Members

Quite a steady growth in members over the years...

Breakdown of Sharepoint Job Role

The same two in the lead but the breaking news is that Admin has overtaken Developer.

Top 10 Countries

All pretty similar demographic since 2013 however Norway have been pushed out of the top ten by Belgium..

Our biggest day on SharePoint-Community.net (19th May 2015)

Our growth in traffic since launch

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community

Vincent Biret gives us his advice and some insight as he takes on the SPBiz Speakers Interview.

Time is ticking for SPBiz with 5 weeks to go, and time for another in our series of great interviews with the SPBiz speakers.

I think you will all agree this series is really helping to get a true insight in to the speakers their background and what makes them tick.

Please welcome Vincent Biret, our friend and Sharepoint MVP from Montreal in Canada.

SPBiz: Hi Vincent thanks for, thanks for spending the time talking to us. So you know we are looking for honest answers to honest questions so our community and conference members get to know a bit about the real Vincent Biret…..onto the first Question: 

If you had a super power what would it be? 

Vincent: I’d really like to be able to teleport myself instantaneously anyplace in the world. I love traveling, visiting new places and meeting new people and if I could do that I’d spend my life traveling. 

SPBiz: That would at least mean no more airport security. How would you best describe your day job outside of speaking at events? 

Vincent: A Lot of time spent debugging in Visual Studio… I’m a tech lead at Negotium for the products team. We build products around SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure. My role is to make sure we build them in a proper way. So yes my days are spent between outlook, visual studio and meetings. 

SPBiz: Who have you found most inspirational in the SharePoint world? E.g. who do you follow most closely? 

Vincent: I’d like to thank @jthake and @LoungeFlyZ for the work they’ve done over the past years to make SharePoint/Office 365 more web friendly, more opened to the community and so on. With them I also follow @williambaer to keep up with what’s coming next.

In the community @andrewconnell and @ScotHillier are kind of “the tech gurus” to me, they’ve a lot of great ideas about what the product should be on the technical side and impact on it. I’ve been impressed to finally meet them in person at MVP summit and SPSNYC2014. 

@GeekTrainer has done a great job adding lot of content about SharePoint/Office 365 on Microsoft Virtual Academy. 

@ngeorgeault and I have been looking forward to working together for several years now, and that’s something we’ve been doing for a year now. He has a great vision and lot of ideas. Often he pops at my desk and says “hey Vince, I’ve had this stupid idea for our roadmap, what do you think? And how long it’s going to take to code it?”. 

More recently the guys from @pimpthecloud also joined my company, check what they do (most of it in French sorry) it’s kick ass! 

SPBiz: I am sure they will be all grateful for your recognition. Ok so onto a not so serious question....EMP has hit and a society without IT is once again being created, what work would you like to do for a living in that world? 

Vincent: I used to sail boats during summer when I was young. And I miss that a lot. I’d probably be a professional skipper either to sail around rich people or to bring their boat to the right place at the right time. 

SPBiZ: Sounds blissful, I am pretty sure I would end up damaging someones pride and joy....How did you get into SharePoint? 

Vincent: 7 years ago I was working as an itpro for a company designing electric plans and robots for factories. One day the CEO came and said “we have plans and documentation everywhere, we need SharePoint, here are the DVD’s, make it work”. Obviously I knew nothing about it at that time and got tricked by the patching (back these days server updates did not include foundation ones, and I did not know that). I let you imagine the disaster that first implementation was. I took that as a challenge and started studying the technology and I started to like it.  

SPBiZ: Wow thrown in at the deep end then....What is the most common business problem that you see and/or help business solve when using SharePoint? 

Vincent: Well, as you probably already know we’re building one product to manage multilingualism in SharePoint and another one to improve search (automatic metadata extraction). So that’s probably two things I already helped a lot of companies to solve.  

Other than this, I’m a very technical guy so when my boss sends me to customers most of the time it’s like “it’s broken, important customer blablabla fix it” or “they don’t know how to do that, find and explain how”. But every time I do something for a customer I try to give them as much insight as I can about what’s coming next and how they should build the thing in order to be “future proof”.  

So I’d say the most common problem I see is businesses lacking of vision about what’s going to be the product in a few years and keeping on doing things like we use to do in 2010 for example. 

SPBiz: I think that must be a common problem in most sectors....If you could tell someone to avoid ONE thing in the world of SharePoint that could be a pain for their business what would it be? 

Vincent:Only one thing? That’s a difficult question ;-) They should avoid not planning their implementations when talking about SharePoint. Way too often staff is not trained enough, sizing/load is underestimated, governance has not been even drafted and people in the company put tons of data in SharePoint. That leads to disasters very costly to fix. 

SPBiz: Music Time: What was the last Single, album or piece of music you bought or downloaded? 

Vincent: Fu Manchu – the whole discography (any SharePointer fan of Kyuss, QOTSA, Hermano, Jack White out here?) 

SPBiz: Not one I am familar with but will be my next search on spotify......Where do you think SharePoint will be in the next 3 years? 

Vincent: On a technical perspective I think SharePoint will reassembled little by little in Azure. We’ve come a long way and there’s still a lot to do but think about it a minute: isn’t a website in azure (considering slots and everything) just a V2 of the WFE role of SharePoint? Worker Roles and/or we jobs are just better timer jobs, other services (like translation, search…) in Azure are just the equivalent of service applications and so on. The only big difference is that Azure is way more well designed for the web and the cloud. We’ve already seen pieces of SharePoint going to Azure like the cache, the content databases and other things. 

On a functional perspective it’s just going to be a brand + UI + API’s for the clients. 

So I don’t expect SharePoint to become less complex in terms of number of technologies involved but easier to operate because more adapted to the web. 

SPBiz: It will be interesting to keep a close eye on in the coming years....right back to more serious questions...What day-to-day item, gadget or belonging could you not live without? 

Vincent: Probably my laptop, it gives me access to so many things, I wouldn’t know what to do all day without it. The only periods when I don’t use it for a long time are when I’m traveling. 

SPBiz: We are of course ABSOLUTELY delighted to be able to host your session during SPBiz, what do you think is the main takeaway that you want your audience to leave with? 

Vincent: Thanks for giving me this opportunity to reach the community. My session is going to be about the Office Graph and how businesses can use it to transform the way they access/store/use information in their organizations. In IT we regularly have some new game changing paradigms that kind of start a revolution in the way we work day to day. I think the Graph (not only Microsoft’s one) is one of these. 

After decades we’ve come to the conclusion that relational databases and directories are not the best answer to get answer about “connected” information. We’ve also realized that we have many places where the information is stored and it’s hard to get pieces of information spread in different systems to work together. Finally we also learnt that the “I’m going to need a nuclear power plant every night to ETL data from everywhere and be able to analyse it” paradigm is costly, not very efficient, and hard to change once in place. 

So here comes the Graph to provide you information from everywhere, that you don’t even have to search for it, in a very cheap and efficient way and so on. 

My session will explain what’s a Graph, what’s Microsoft’s implementation of it, what can you do in your company with it and provide demos (both for power users and developers). 

SPBiz: Thanks Vincent, we are looking forward to that one.  Also thanks for talking the time out of your busy schedule to answer these questions and allowing the SP Community and SPBiz attendees to get to know you a little better.  

Vincent: Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to introduce my session and interact with the community! .........I’d like to use this opportunity to interact with my audience, if you guys have any specific question before I give my session, please tweet @baywet I’ll try to take that into consideration preparing it. 

There we are another great insight, we hope you enjoyed what Vincent had to say. Keep an eye out for the next in the series of interviews.

by Fraser Beadle via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community