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I’m getting more and more projects on the SharePoint platform. As a consultant, I’m doing more and more in the Cloud. Hence the title of the blog. I don’t belive in selling anything, if it’s not the right solution for my Client. My income is directly related to the satisfaction of my Client and their…
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I have a hunch that Microsoft is sitting in Redmond just thinking something along the lines of, “Let’s just give our customers more storage”. And so they did. The Office 365 is really starting to blow out the competition one-by-one. It will be interesting to see if Google will follow Microsoft’s lead and double their…
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To create a link manually that have the same features as the one where you click on SiteActions and then “Create New Page”, you need some Javascript and some ModalDialog functions. How to use the links the Site Actions menu, is not all that documented. I actually had to get some help in order to…
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SharePoint has always had a bit of a “Design Issue”. Let’s be honest. SharePoint has never been accused of being the hippest kid in the classroom. But the built-in design for displaying content on mobile devices is downright miserable. As a consequence I always recommend my clients to disable that and go for a responsive…
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I’ve been messing around with the new Design Manager in SharePoint 2013 lately in an effort to see if I could brand SharePoint the way Microsoft tells me, is the new black. So I created a design package and then deployed that package onto my test site. That went well. Then I would see if…
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[[UPDATE: Links updated, thank you Saiful for pointing that out]] For months, it’s been a severe problem for the bulk of SharePoint Online (Office 365) customers. If you are running on Windows 7, while using the latest and greatest Internet Explorer (IE 10), you would experience problems whenever you try to map a network drive…
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So I’m back from my vacation. And it’s all great. I see that Microsoft didn’t give it’s employees the summer off. Instead they’ve been wacking out updates like crazy in Redmond. Last time I checked up on updates for the Office 365 platform was in April. But even if I slowed my blogging down a…
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Do you get this error in your ULS-log when visiting a page with a DataViewWebPart that’s been changed via SPD? Error while executing web part: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Try and uninstall the Update: KB2844286 (Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framewok 3.5.1 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008…
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When it comes to SharePoint Backup, you should take a break from work and do some serious thinking. It’s really not all that easy as Microsoft makes it look. Don’t count on built-in backup to save your bacon. There is no Best Practice for backing up your SharePoint Farm. But I do have a few…
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I work with SharePoint On-Premise and SharePoint Online (Office 365) every day, due to the nature of my job as an SharePoint Consultant. I love what I do and I love working with SharePoint as a platform. I use a mix of Apple and Microsoft technologies, whatever gets the job done best, is good enough…
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Windows Live Messenger Transitions to Skype Microsoft is killing off Messenger. Even better. Microsoft is moving all Messenger Users to Skype. Starting up yesterday, the Messenger users will see themselves being migrated to Skype, whenever they sign-in. Most likely this will take a month or two to complete the big move across the customer base…
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If you have ever messed around with the XSL Itemstyles for use with the CQWP in SharePoint, you know how valuable they can be. Also how frustrating they can be from time to time. This is not as tricky as it may sounds. Out of the box, the Content Query WebPart (CQWP) does not support…
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I own a QNAP TS239 TurboNAS. I use it for a variety of things. One of those things is just plain storage of the Family’s documents. From invoices, to Insurance policies, I scan and archive everything. It’s a project of mine, to see how much paper binders I can eliminate. Even though I have my…
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It’s time for the yearly looking back at the past year and looking ahead at the next one. I know. I’m a little behind. But better late than never. so here is my recap of 2012 and a plan for 2013. I’ve been off the grid for a few weeks now. The site has been hurting…
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The Nielsen Norman Group publishes a report each year, in which they pick out the top 10 Intranets of the year. Now it’s time for the Best Intranets 2013. This year the trend is pretty clear. 70% of the winners use SharePoint to drive their intranet. I haven’t even read the report yet, just the blogpost…
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So a few days ago i received an email from the google apps team, telling me that the Google Apps service no longer is free for new customers. But since I’ve been with the google apps for a few years now, my service is not affected. New customers can sign up for just $5 per user per…
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Starting by the first week of December, Microsoft will raise the Exchange Online 24 hour Send Limit to 10.000 recipients. This affects all existing customers. Microsoft are performing this change in service in order to prevent SPAM. and the fact that some companies needs to send a massive amount of emails. Read more about Message…
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UPDATE: New Microsoft Online Services Modules. You now need to download the Logonassistant before you can install the Module. More than once, I’ve encountered the situation, where a client of mine, had to send out somewhere between 10.000 and 12.000 e-mails at once. It’s not like a newsletter, but just something that they needed once…
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Do you want to be a real blogger? Walk the walk and talk the.. Wait that’s for another show.. But okay – do you want to type the damn words and get paid tons of green? Yeah. I think that would be pretty cool too. But the big question is: So why don’t you? The…
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This month has introduced a bunch of new features to Office 365. Web Apps features The latest and greatest update to SharePoint Online gives you more editing and more formatting controls. With the latest SharePoint Online update, you’ll get new Office Web Apps features: more editing and formatting controls, co-authoring support across the web apps…
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When it comes to creating custom solutions (A.K.A. Sandboxed Solutions) for SharePoint Online, there are a few things you need to be aware of. One of those is the underlying architecture, that is driving the whole SharePoint Online environment. When you peel all the sales talk away, you still have to have a Big-Ass ServerFarm (BASF) and some…
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The MOSDAL tool is now published in version 4.6. If you don’t know what MOSDAL is, it can really save you some time when your stuck. This tools have saved my bacon more than once. So what new? User Interface Changes New Languages Less download Exchange ActiveSyns diagnostics Compatibility with Microsoft Office 2013 and Microsoft…
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I got this error: The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object ‘proc_putObject’, database ‘SharePoint_Config’ Solution: Assign Execute permissions on the SharePoint Config database for the user who runs the Application Pool of the site. (SP Service) Source
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Say you are a Web developer, Graphical Designer or for some reason, needs to put some stuff on the web from time to time. You don’t have a clue on how to do port forwarding, dynamic IP’s or stuff like that. Your working on your computer and maybe you have an internal web server for…
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How to be productive is a big part of making a succesful business. It doesn’t really matter if you’re a programmer, writing blogs or any other creative business. The more effective you are as a creative professional the more success you’ll eventually have. When you are a creative for a living, concentration and focus is one of your main…