This year of SharePoint Saturday's started with the one in Munich last weekend. This time there was also a preconference session on Friday. The sessions on Friday and Saturday were held at the brand-new building of Microsoft Germany. Friday session This year they organized two preconference sessions. A developer one about Office Dev PnP and an IT Pro about SharePoint 2016. I went to the SharePoint 2016 session where they talked about all the aspects of SharePoint 20116. They started with the … [Read more...]
Azure Information Protection – part two
We live in a world where information is readily available and can be shared with a simply press of a button. Protecting intellectual property (especially unstructured information like documents and emails) in this modern world is getting harder and harder for organizations. There are stories abound of employees simply copying files to an USB-stick or storing them on a personal web storage platform (Dropbox, OneDrive, you name them) or attaching documents to an email and mailing it to a personal … [Read more...]
Azure Information Protection – part one
We live in a world where information is readily available and can be shared with a simply press of a button. Protecting intellectual property (especially unstructured information like documents and emails) in this modern world is getting harder and harder for organizations. There are stories abound of employees simply copying files to an USB-stick or storing them on a personal web storage platform (Dropbox, OneDrive, you name them) or attaching documents to an email and mailing it to a personal … [Read more...]
Term store import file conversion
This week I was working with the term store and had to create and import a big chuck of data in the term store. We all know that we have multiple options here Just enter them one by one in the browser (great for a few entries) Use the csv import Use CSOM Use Office Dev PnP PowerShell This post will address the csv import. Getting started with the csv For the csv import we have a sample that can be downloaded from the term store … [Read more...]
Office UI Fabric, Microsoft’s bootstrap?
Microsoft has released a new framework for developing an awesome front-end called Office UI Fabric. So the big question is why did Microsoft created this framework? We already have a ton of different frameworks for front-end development like Bootstrap, Semantic UI, 960 Grid System and many more. The short answer is that we did not have a framework for creating Office or SharePoint add-ins that integrates with the looks of Office applications. Since the introduction of SharePoint 2013 and … [Read more...]
Skype for Business 2016 client with an older version of Lync / OCS server
This week Microsoft released the new version of Office (https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/22/thenewoffice/) and with that came a new version of Skype for Business.I installed this on all of my machines including 1 of my customer, they use an older version of Lync and I got an message that the server version is not compatible with the client. I had this before with the previous versions of Office so I headed over to the blog of my colleague Albert Hoitingh who had a registry key for the … [Read more...]