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There has been a lot of talk about forms in the last year.  Your business users need it and your developers want it too.  The current version of SharePoint doesn't offer much in this space right now.  At SharePoint Conference 2014,...
The path to SSO between Office 365 and Yammer is well underway with the new simplified login feature in Office 365.  Merging two separate identity systems is no easy task, but Microsoft is one step closer with this new level of integration. ...
After Service Pack 1 went live this week, I decided to provision a new Office 365 tenant to see if the OneDrive changes are present there as well.  It turns out that they are.  When you login, you'll see OneDrive at the top.  I really...
I mentioned last week that I was starting a travel blog.  With SharePoint Conference ( #SPC14 ) just around the corner, I thought this was the perfect time to launch it.  With people coming from all over the world, I thought it would be a great...
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With the display templates feature in SharePoint 2013, you can highly customize the look of search using HTML, JavaScript, and jQuery.  It turns out there are a lot of helper functions to make your life easier in the out-of-the-box scripts. ...
I started doing SharePoint Conference readiness checklists back at SPC11 and I wanted to continue the tradition with #SPC14.  Mark Freeman ( @SPHotShot ) has continued the tradition of beating me to it and has already put out a great guide and I...
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Today at SharePoint Conference 2014 in session #SPC3000 on Display Templates , I showed how to format your search results as a grid when using the Content Search web part. As promised, this blog post has gone live that walks you through the exact same...
SharePoint Designer is quite useful in the development cycle of display templates.  It's on the of the quickest ways to make changes.  Design Manager is probably one of the better routes, but if you have issues using it, SPD is not a bad...
Next week, I will be launching a new off-topic travel blog in the wake of the start of SharePoint Conference 2014.  There I'll cover tips and tricks that I have picked up in my days of travel.  Many of you I know are already seasoned experts...
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Last week, I was faced with the challenge of determining the URL to the site (web) when I knew the URL to a document in SharePoint.  I also happened to know the URL to the site collection, but I wanted to reliably get the URL to a web so I could...
I did a quick poll about doing ShareHofbrau again on twitter and got an overwhelming response indicating “YES!”.  Therefore, I’m pleased to announce, that we’re doing #ShareHofbrau again at Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas on Thursday March 6th at 3:30 pm. ...
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I’m excited to be returning to SharePoint Conference this year to deliver another exciting session.  I’m getting back to my roots this year and I’ll be delivering a session on Search.  If you have survived until Thursday be sure and check out...
In the last few months, I have noticed some new acronyms creep up in the SharePoint community.  What is it?  Well as a developer, it’s stuff you’re probably already doing.  You take a search in your favorite search engine and you won’t...
For many versions of SharePoint, you have been able to configure the number of days the new indicator shows up on a document in a library.  For example, here is how a new document is indicated in a document library. I’ve worked with a number of user...