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JSLink Working with URLs in SharePoint Lists
About a month or so ago we were working on a client project with the requirement to create a mechanism for displaying links to URLs that were too long for hyperlink column in a SharePoint Links List (that column has a 255 character max). The solution was fairly straightforward. We used JSLink to create a …
Read onSearch InfoPath Rules in OneNote!
I like the InfoPath Rule Inspector for showing all the dependencies on a field or control. But I’m not a fan of searching for keywords in it. So if you’re like me, then you might like my work around of printing to OneNote that does a great job of OCR and Search on the images. …
Read onSpecial Characters!
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.
Read onOffice 365 – Lync is a great tool for business
(Author’s Note: I provided this content to the European SharePoint Conference Week of Learning and it is posted here. Their main blog page is located here. My thanks to all at ESPC for graciously allowing me to repost the content and I encourage you to have a dig around their site as there is a …
Read onOffice 365 – Mobile Apps
(Author’s Note: I provided this content to the European SharePoint Conference Week of Learning and it is posted here. Their main blog page is located here. My thanks to all at ESPC for graciously allowing me to repost the content and I encourage you to have a dig around their site as there is a …
Read onOffice Web Apps Server 2013 – Machines are Always Reporting as Unhealthy
Wictor Wilen saves the day once again with a great post on how to bring your OWA servers out of their unhealthy state and back to healthy. It isn’t as easy as you might think, and you may be required to make some changes to your SSL certificate(s) or you may be missing features that …
Read onHow to get the BIOS Embedded Windows 8 SLP Key
How to get the BIOS Embedded Windows 8 SLP Key Scenario: Preloaded Windows 7 PC, downgrade rights from 8.1. Problem: You actually WANT to install windows 8.1, how do you do it? Say If you have a Lenovo they make it as hard as humanly possible. Maybe you end up with a disk/copy of a …
Read onOffice 365 – “Free” Non Profit and Charity Licensing
Microsoft has done a “really good thing” with their “Free for Nonprofits” program that provides Office 365 subscriptions (across all of the subscription plan models) for free or for a significant discount to qualifying non-profits. I really want to focus on the “for free” wording as it is very significant. Many vendors provide discount pricing …
Read onWelcoming Alec McCauley to the fold!
My friend and colleague, Alec McCauley (we are the “bookends” at itgroove – he is the youngest and I’m waaaaay over the hill) has fired up his blog, http://mccalec.itgroove.net/ and will be blogging about all sorts of interesting things. Alec is “wicked smart” and I’m looking forward to learning lots from him. Cruise on over …
Read onOffice 365–Service health and service trust
Microsoft has been accused of many things over the years but one thing they cannot be accused of is hiding the status of their online services behind walls of secrecy. In fact, if anything, they make it all very visible, warts and all. This is not at all like some of their competitors … Most …
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