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If you want to delete a SiteCollection in Office 365 in order to make a new SiteCollection with the exact same name, you should can experience a halt on all creations of SiteCollections. Even if the dialog box, asks if you want to delete the previous SiteCollection, the creation of a new one never happens.…
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Users of SharePoint Online, have been heard! For a long time the users of SharePoint Online have been hammering away as Microsoft, in order to get proper pdf-handling. Anyone ever worked with SharePoint and PDF-files know that it’s not something that “Just works”. Sure, it’s semi-easy to get it to work. Just google it and…
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[ProjectCasemanagement solution] As a follow-up on my previous post, I’ve decided to make a short video demonstrating how to create a better solution. I still use the same method, but I’ve added some functions that makes it semi-dynamic. I say semi-dynamic because you’re still hardcoding the number of subfolders you want. It’s only the names of…
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Microsoft announced 2 new updates to the Office 365 platform today. 1. Password Expiration Notifications in Outlook Like most people, I don’t keep track of when my password is about to expire. using BPOS, this was not a problem. I got told 14 days before it was due. In comes Office 365 and the notification…
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I stumbled over this blog post the other day, The Secret to Crazy-Happy Blogging : @ProBlogger. I saw the video Lisa made and found it very inspiring. I never read Lisas blog before but seriously…. That is a supermom, if I ever saw one. The site looks amazing and the content is over the top. She…
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[[UPDATE: This is now part of a series of posts, where I show how to build a simple project/case management solution, with a no-code approach, using SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflows. Check out my other posts to learn more.]] [ProjectCasemanagement solution] Case I have a list with names of projects. Whenever I create a new item…
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When i come up with architectural ideas around projektmanagement i SharePoint, I very often use the CQWP to aggregate results from Content Types in lists, placed in a lot of sites. So when I had to come up with a sensible structure for a projectmanagementsystem in SharePoint Online, I turned to my trusted Content Query Webpart.…
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Microsoft announced 3 exiting updates for the Office 365 platform. User Soft Delete It happens more than you would expect. A user gets deleted by accident or a employee gets rehired. If your using Office 365, then that used to mean that you were in serious trouble. With this update from Microsoft, you now have…
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I’ve been a fan of Lync, since it was called “Office Communicator”. It’s a great tool for communication. And now it’s available i version 1.5 for the iPad. The update enables you to: view PowerPoint presentations in a scheduled Online Lync Meeting view the participants list for the meeting receive notifications regarding other types of…
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Most places on the web, you get a wrong guidance in how to enable PDFs in SharePoint. The easy and most used method is just to enable “Permissive” rights in the settings for the web application. Unfortunately that solution is a security risk. What it does is actually, enabling all filetypes in your SharePoint to open in the browser. The…
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With the new Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform, Microsoft offers you true Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service). You can now use Windows Azure for Websites, Networking, Virtual Machines and the previous Cloud Services. The new Metro styled Management Portal is a huge step up in user friendlyness and savvyness. It just looks great. Features Websites.…
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When it comes to Microsofts Cloud, called Windows Azure, I’ve been waiting and just keeping tabs on that cloud. 10 days ago, on June 7th. Microsoft launched the “New Azure”. Microsoft is opening with a new landing page and a Metro-styled management portal. Features Websites. You can build websites using Webmatrix and the publish them…
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According to this article (in danish): Webekspert: Hul i hovedet at bruge 100 mio. om året på kommunale hjemmesider | Version2, Danish municipalities uses more than 100 mill. danish krones ( around 17 mill. US dollars) a year on their websites. In Denmark, we have 98 municipalities, so it’s pretty easy to figure out that each…
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[SPvsWP]This blog has been around the block a few times. I started this blog on a hosted WordPress install at servage.net. Then, when I decided to close my account with those guys, I thought “why not a local SharePoint Foundation, hosted in my garage”? It sounded like a good idea. That only held up for…
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Funny but very wise cartoon about passwordpolitics. For a computer, a number is, by far the easiest character to brute force. Basicly you only have 10 keys with a number, whereas you have 28 (at least) letter keys. Lesson: Use more letters in your codes.
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This is a great, simple and very cheap tool for migrating files from a local network/SharePoint drive to Office 365. Office 365 SharePoint Online File Migration Tool.
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The April update fixes issues with: Problems with Juniper and Cisco clients AD lockout when Kerberos protocol is used Various issues that causes Lync for mac to crash or logout Read the blogpost from Microsoft.
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This was a pleasant surprise to wake up to. Office 365 – New Lower Prices for Office 365. My favorite Cloud servies just got a lot cheaper. Especially the SharePoint Storage. It’s down 92% in price. Thats something to note. Why is it, that Microsft, only 8 months after launch of Office 365, decides to…
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Symptoms Your are creating FBA users, assigning them the correct rights in SharePoint. The FBA users just can’t log in. You go on with your obvious checklist: Password: Correct and meets the requirements Username: Correct Rights in SharePoint: Spot on. (Hey you the admin and know what your doing.. right?) Still no login works. As…
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Great little tip for deleting all those extended sites.
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Pretty often, I have a need for editing my hosts file on my Mac. Mostly when i’m moving websites between webservers. This is not a problem on a windows machine, but on a Mac, you need to make a few more steps. To editing the hosts file you need to do the following: Start Terminal.app…
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It’s never an easy choice and I’m not about to say that either Drupal, typo3, Tangora or SharePoint will solve all your internal collaboration problems, while making coffee. It all depends on what your organisation needs. From time to time I do some consulting for people whos thinking about transferring their business/organisation to Open Source Software (OSS). Generally…
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This is a numbers game. Sometimes it can be hard to keep track of all the versions and editions you need to make your everyday work. You have Windows editions, Office editions, SharePoint editions etc. Whenever you play around with 64-bit editions of anything Microsoft-related software you have to be aware of your surroundings. My…
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In this of our time of endless heaps of information, most people have a need to process loads and loads of information. We all have a bunch of passwords, Bookmarks, tips&tricks, tons of email etc. Most people actually need their own personal intranet. This is where I should be advertising Office 365, where you actually…
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[SPvsWP] I tried. I really tried to make good use of SharePoint as my new blogging platform. after 2 months, it still doesn’t feel right. The lack of full screen editing and the feel of a concentrated blogging-platform just got to me. That and my wish for a more green profile on my hosting ad thus, not…