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I got a surprise last week when I discovered that you can upload MS Word files to Office 365 SharePoint online with special characters in the file name! (NOT that I’m recommending it 😉 ) That will make life easier for business users, especially those that work in languages other than English.  

Recently we discovered that the help in our SharePoint site was not working properly when performing an online search for content. Below: 1) Enter Content then 2) Press the search icon. Note that by default SharePoint will be configured to search online first. The result we were seeing was similar to this below: The problem …

This article is a complete reprint from “SharePoint.Sharron”. As her site is now deprecated, I wanted to ensure this information wasn’t lost to the ether of the interwebs. Many thanks to SharePoint Sharron (Sharon Richardson), and I wish you all the best in your future endeavours. Originally posted here: http://www.sharepointsharon.com/2013/03/sharepoint-workflow/ Complete copy (for my own …

Note: The technique described below is designed for SharePoint 2013.  It could be adapted to 2010, but it’s not likely to work in 2010 with a simple copy/paste. Note 2: This also should work just fine in Office 365, so get ready to knock some socks off. In SharePoint 2013 we at itgroove have a …

Some experts are so bad at being experts, that calling some people an “expert” is like calling my dog a genius because he can find food on the floor.  Good dog.  So, needless to say, these statements below are often made by people with something to gain by spreading these “expert opinions” (slimy sales people …

The long awaited arrival of Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 is finally here.  What I’m really excited about is PowerMap is finally out of Beta as well, and now part of the Excel / PowerBI suite.  Also, not to be left out, Exchange also had it’s SP1 arrive today. http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2014/02/25/announcing-the-release-of-service-pack-1-for-office-2013-and-sharepoint-2013.aspx

Power BI has reached a new milestone going full plaid… err, more like General Availability.  Of course, it’s not generally useful to anyone who’s not at least partially using Office 365.  The link to the GA announcement is below.  The pricing is a bit wowsers until you start to realize what you’re getting for that …

I recently got a new Surface 2 (as an MVP, we were given an offer I couldn’t refuse), and much to my surprise, I quite like it. Leon has a great write up (below) about why he likes his, and quite frankly, I can’t say it much better. http://leontribe.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/review-surface-2-32g-why-i-am-shocked.html On final note – I got …

I made a similar post about this for SharePoint 2010, but I wanted to update it (and make it more clear) for 2013.  Using a SQL Server alias, you’ll be able to change the database server in your SharePoint farm behind the scenes, without anyone in your SharePoint universe even knowing you’ve made a change.  …

In case you didn’t already know, MS is running the “Free Second Shot” promotion again on all their certification exams, so there’s really no reason to not go out and at least “get a good look” at any of your missing cert exams (you know who you are).  The promotion can be found below. https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/offers.aspx