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Long Company Names make Sean Sad in OneDrive for Business
I’m more than a little surprised there was nothing out there for the following issue already. So I took it upon myself to provide a solution (and a recommendation, which is “avoid this early in your tenancy and OD4B and SharePoint sync rollout”). What I didn’t like that when I connected OneDrive for Business to …
Read onCalgary Zoo – Office 365 and Yammer – Working Out Loud
Lions, Tigers and Bears … Oh My One of the projects I had the pleasure to be involved with was working with the team at the Calgary Zoo on a project delivered through Softchoice. This Case Study outlines what took place over the short project. My own memories include flying to Calgary, hanging with Penguins, …
Read onAdd Document, Access Denied and the Content Organizer
WHAT Troubleshooting a SharePoint site for a customer today. Users with even up to Full Control on a library (nevermind simple contribute access) couldn’t upload documents to a document library. The system page would give an “Access Denied” response when choosing “Add Document”. While Publishing was on and was my first suspicion, the user had …
Read onDisabling Syncing of SharePoint Libraries with OneDrive for Business
I was a little surprised to not find a simple overview of how one would disable Syncing (at the library or site level) of files between SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. Particularly right now while there is a gap between what SharePoint can do and what the OneDrive for Business Next Generation client can do …
Read onGallery: Swag Store
This week we have added the Swag Store to our Gallery. itgroove created this solution for a business that had multiple people in different departments purchasing company “swag” (shirts, pens and other branded goodies). Their process was admittedly clunky; employees would place orders either in person or through email, leaving the manager of these goods …
Read onGallery: Project Registry
Our latest Gallery release is a solution that we initially developed for our portal. I had been thinking that we needed something like this – and as it turns out, we’re not the only ones. After implementing this for a few client portals, we decided to make the Project Registry available on the Gallery. The …
Read onGallery: Blog/Announcements Rollup
Well, would you look at that. The itgroove elves keep delivering Father Christmas more and more goodies. Another blog-related solution has hit the Gallery this week… the Blog/Announcements Rollup. This solution rolls up content from a search query. You can grab that content from multiple lists and site collections. The rollup has space to show …
Read onGallery: Blog Tiles for SharePoint
The itgroove team has added Blog Tiles to the Gallery. These blog tiles take the out of the box SharePoint blog pages (which, let’s be honest, can be a bit boring) and turn them on their heads. For the layout of our Blog Tiles solution, we were inspired by the popular website Pinterest. The tiles …
Read onGallery: Flexi Tiles solution for SharePoint
Excited to announce this week’s Gallery release… the Flexi Tiles solution. What it does is treat your Web Parts as tiles. These tiles fit onto a grid where they can slide around and rearrange depending on the size of your screen, the number of Web Parts, and the content of your Web Parts. We show …
Read onOffice 365 – What’s New and Changed – January 2016
Special thanks to Alec (check him out over here – Alec’s Blog) for delivering this presentation today while I stay at home and nurse an epic man cold. Every Victoria Office 365 User Group, we recap/highlight what’s changed (’cause stuff is always changing) and this was my slide deck. This is an embedded Microsoft …
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