When you’re developing web parts and on demand solutions, in other words: you’re working on an individual component rather than a whole portal, you’re bound to run into this issue. Scenario: you’re creating a web part for a client who runs existing SharePoint 2010 or 2007, or even 2013; also, let’s assume your web part uses jQuery to do something fancy – it’s hard not to use jQuery these days. If you client’s portal already [...]

When working with SharePoint’s UI, it is often difficult to work out where in the URL structure you are. You may for instance be working at the root of a site collection, but that itself may be several layers deep. Take the following example: You have a site collection for your company, but each team maintains its own site collection under the managed path (with wildcard inclusion) /teams. Some of the team sites use a [...]

Today I had a need to run all health analyzer jobs to make sure everything was good after a clean install of SharePoint 2010. Of course I knew there had to be a quick PowerShell approach to this. I did a quick search and found a few different variations of the same basic code, so I took what I liked and made it into a simple function that I will store in the profile on [...]

There has been some buzz about SharePoint 2013 design manager and what is possible and what isn’t. In this 7 minute video I’d like to demonstrate some of the basics of what you can do with the design manager. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hoPEI-Fatc This article was originally posted here.

Just a quick note to say that this blog (and the Scribble Agency – Copy writing services for Microsoft partners) is off to the Microsoft World Partner Conference (WPC), to be held in Houston in July. One of our key aims is to take Scribble and see if we can spread the word about the great copy writing services we offer. But we also intend to blog regularly from the show, bringing you first hand news on lots of [...]

Lets Collaborate has been using Office 365 for a year now – and we’re loving it! Having a small geographically dispersed, virtual team means we have to have an online environment where we can collaborate on and share information.  It may not look gorgeous, but it works!  For us that’s more important right now, along with lots of storage space. Our team consists of 3 permanents, 2 part timers and an accountant who need access to our intranet. [...]

Continuing with the theme of “what may seem like an oversight might actually be a good thing,” our project brought us to the finer nuances of the SharePoint calendar this week. As I mentioned last week, we discovered that a calendar was a good way to represent the access paths to the content we are storing. This is because much of the content is associated with an event. Using the calendar not only lets us [...]

Good news, everyone! While previously we had to use a fairly long URL name for IMAP, POP, and SMTP settings on clients, Microsoft has now provided a standardized set of URLS for Office 365. In most cases, the client (e.g. Outlook) provided auto discover of the URL, however In some cases it still had to be entered manually. Instead of having to look up the correct URL for a given tenant, one can now use [...]

I recently stumbled across a great blog post by Wictor Wilen on how to customize the Suite Bar Branding Element HTML on the Central Administration Web Application in SharePoint 2013. If you’re not familiar with this, we’re basically talking about the area at the top left of the SharePoint 2013 user interface: By default, it will just say “SharePoint”. While that’s fine for out of the box folks, this can be a great spot for a little [...]

This isn’t very complicated, but I just created it and someone might be able to use it. Based (heavily I might add) on the SharePoint 2010 original by James Sturges - here is a SharePoint 2013 document library Balsamiq file.  Download here