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I was recently trying to replicate some functionality I’m used to with InfoPath, but this time using a PowerApp. I was looking for a way to get parameters from outside into a PowerApp, and surprisingly this is really not well documented, but actually really quite easy to do. I’ll walk you through the process below. …

What We Did I was recently involved in building a Project Registry solution to help a local registered charity with managing their multiple cross-department projects. The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society’s Executive Director, John Hughes, asked itgroove to help him prepare the organization to manage their project portfolio, which was growing significantly over the next …

I put together a presentation on the new Microsoft Stream App in Office 365, and presented it on Aug 8, 2017 at the Sydney Office 365 User Group in Sydney, Australia.  Feel free to check it out and let me know if you have any questions.  🙂 Microsoft Stream – The Video Evolution from Colin …

I recently put together a presentation on the new Microsoft Forms solution that came out in Office 365 (in public preview).  I’ve presented the below presentation at the Sydney (Australia) SharePoint User Group on July 18th, 2017, and again on Aug 4th, 2017 in Adelaide, South Australia.  Please check it out below. Microsoft Forms 101 …

I recently put together a presentation on my experience in New York / New Jersey over the course of a 9 (or maybe 10) month project trying to migrate SharePoint data from one company to another, and then into the cloud. I gave this presentation at the Office 365 Saturday event in Sydney, Australia on …

June 13th 2017 Outlook updates break search indexing I have run into this with a few clients with large PST mailboxes and Outlook 2010 to be specific, but also on Win10 machines with Office 2010. They get: “search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed. Click here for more details”     …

I’ve always struggled with the “MECE” (mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive) promises of taxonomies. It can be easy to confuse a Department in the HR reporting structure called “Logistics” with the corporate Function for “Logistics”.  In my practical experience the Function of Logistics is useful where staff from other business or administrative groups may be …

Very recently I had to change a bunch of accounts from one domain to another in SharePoint. Rather than doing this piecemeal for each individual account, I decided to write a simple script to do this for me. Since I couldn’t find this online, I figured I’d demonstrate how I did it.     Start …

A while back I was trying to install SharePoint 2010 and was receiving the following “Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly component”. I was also getting this issue when trying to install SharePoint Designer 2010.     Initially I tried the following link, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/926804, but that did not resolve my problem. …