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Gallery: 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 …

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Gallery: 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 …

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Gallery: 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 …

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Gallery: 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 …

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itgroove – Cloud Friendly, Office 365 Ready – Now in Canada, eh?

Well, we’ve been building up our team to this and knew it was coming. Today was the day.  Microsoft Datacenters, in Canada.  This was the final roadblock for many in order to start to the path towards fixed costs for Email, File Sharing, Teleconferencing and just about all your team needs.  Office 365 and Azure …

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Office 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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Windows 10 Edge now supports browser drag and drop

Well, look at that. I discovered (purely by accident, I was dragging and dropping *I thought* into IE11 but no, it was Edge!) that Windows 10 EDGE browser now supports drag and drop. I couldn’t find much out there in regards to an announcement (Sneaky, I guess while we the public test it ;). But …

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SharePoint Online Access Denied in MasterPage Gallery

We came across an issue today in an Office 365 tenancy where Site Collection Admins were getting “Access Denied” errors when they tried to work with assets in the MasterPage gallery. This was happening for any Site Collection administrator. Tracked the issue to this to a line in the “check permissions” that was explicitly denying …

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Office 2016 and the mystery of the missing Document Information Panel

Doing a quick scour of the Interwebs, it seems nobody has really posed this question or answered it. A little surprising too… So let’s do this… What The Document Information Panel (DIP) is missing/unavailable/gonzo/absent/gone/AWOL in Office 2016. Yep, it ain’t there. Usually Microsoft “deprecates” this functionality and provides some time to get used to the …

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