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Nintex for the Win – Wiki Page Templating
If you know me at all, by now you’ll know I’m a big fan of SharePoint and Nintex. I’m also a fan of leveraging existing investments in technology and tools and repurposing them. For me, Nintex remains the ITTT (if this, then that) of the SharePoint World. The other day, a customer came to me …
Read onNote: Auditing Settings between SharePoint 2013 on Prem and Office 365 Differ
This has been something I have been meaning to point out for a little while and it came up in conversation today which prompted me to take the 10 minutes to share it. There are some limitations to emerging Cloud technologies, some which may never get addressed. In this case, I’m not sure if auditing …
Read onOffice 365 Observations from a grizzled veteran of the SMB Space
As a big SharePoint fan and recently self-diagnosed Bob Ross of SharePoint, I’ve been watching and actively participating in Microsoft’s swift transition of key software and services into the Cloud. While BPOS was great, the name didn’t exactly mean much to customers. But with the words “Cloud” and “Office 365”, interest is increasing rapidly and …
Read onOh Man. Connect to Outlook is disabled/unavailable
Ran into this the other day. “Connect to Outlook” was unavailable (greyed out/disabled) in a new SharePoint 2013 farm. Often you’d see this if you are using an unsupported browser in previous versions of SharePoint (Firefox, Chrome, etc. was an IE ‘only’ thang). The quick solution in our case was to deactivate the “Minimal Download …
Read onMy SharePoint 101 for the Busy Project Manager Slide Deck is available
If you missed my presentation last week at the Vancouver SharePoint Summit, you can download it here: slidesha.re/19k793w
Read onSweet. Content Search Web Part will be in Office 365 shortly
Search innovations for site and portal design in SharePoint Online Yes, finally we have the power of the Content Search Web Part (cswp) coming to our office 365/SharePoint online tenancies. I must admit I was pretty disappointed not to find it in my tenancy 18 months ago although I understood why we had to delay …
Read onTECH TRENDS COME AND GO, ITGROOVE IS HERE TO STAY
Victoria, BC – This year marks the 10th anniversary for local Victoria technology firm, itgroove Professional Services Ltd. From its inception as a one-man home office business to its present status as a growing team of technology professionals, the one constant has been delivering technology support that works for its customers. With 20 years in …
Read onNintex Workflow for Office 365 is here!
Those of you that know me, know I love me some Nintex. And I’m very excited to share that Nintex Workflow is now available in Office 365. No, not as the preview that’s been there for more than a year, this is the real deal. I just wanted to take a few moments …
Read onRemoving a SharePoint Tasks List Project Site from Project Server 2013
Whew, that was harder to figure out than I think it should be and I’m only 99% sure that I’m doing it right so feel free to pipe in, in the comments if you have something to share. What We have Project Server 2013 (PWA, Project Web Access). We have a number of projects on …
Read onI aspire to be the Bob Ross of SharePoint
I can hear Darren’s eyes rolling from here… Egad, what now Sean? I always liked how Apollo Creed of the Rocky Movie franchise had a bunch of cool nicknames, like The King of Sting, the Master of Disaster, the Count of Monte Cristo. I’ve been searching for my own (I needed/wanted something to make what …
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