SharePoint 2013 on-premises provides an excellent Web Content Management System (WCMS), with significant improvements and features in 2013. However, the Microsoft-hosted SharePoint Online which comes as part of Office 365 has always had a reduced feature set and is somewhat limited by comparison. This does not mean you can’t build a great Public Facing Website [...]
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Word experienced an error trying to open the file
The Problem Opening a Word document from Office 365 using Word 2010 or 2013 results in the following: The Cause There cause is actually Word’s default security settings… probably a good thing! The Solution You can resolve this issue in at least two ways: 1. Disable Protected View (not recommended…) You can disable protected view [...]
SharePoint Evolution 2013 – #COM716 Slides
Last week was another excellent conference – SharePoint Evolution is one of these environments where you will see a bunch of other speakers attending sessions and taking notes, learning from each other’s real world experience. In particular AC’s (Andrew Connell) session on Single Page Applications using a host of open source JavaScript libraries to build [...]
Speaking at the SharePoint Evolution Conference
I’m humbled and honoured to be speaking at Combined Knowledge’s SharePoint conference again this year – the list of speakers really reads like a who’s who in the SharePoint world. It’s a fantastic conference with great real world content from speakers who have been there and done it, but also a few additional things [...]
SharePoint Saturday UK Slides – SharePoint & SQL BI
Thanks to everybody who came to my session on BI for the Masses… in the last 24 hours I built a fresh SharePoint 2010 farm and all the SQL BI stack demonstrated including Reporting Services, Tabular Analysis Services, PowerView, Power Pivot and various other steps. Not out of choice, but the hosted environment I had [...]
Balsamiq vs PowerPoint storyboarding with VS 2012
I couldn’t fit my response to a brief discussion on Twitter regarding wireframing/storyboarding options into 140 characters… so following are some useful links and background on what may work for you to illustrate your amazing new app/solution/product. Balsamiq I love Balsamiq. I use it for nearly every proposal to illustrate effectively what kind of deliverable [...]
CRM 2011 & SharePoint 2010 Actions Dropdown Missing
The Problem You have configured CRM 2011 (online or on-premises) to store documents in SharePoint (online/Office365 or on-premises). Maybe you followed this excellent guide (SharePoint online) or this guide (SharePoint on-premises). Whichever way, you will have downloaded & deployed the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 List Component for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. However, you find that, [...]
Collaboration is the key to successful business
For anybody lucky enough to be flying wonderful Blue Islands in the near future (no credit card fees, free name/ticket changes, free baggage!) you get a bonus if you pick up the Blue Islands in-flight magazine as you get to read about the wonderful world of SharePoint and how it can positively affect your business! [...]
International SharePoint Conference Slides
A great three days at the International SharePoint Conference in London – lots of great content and good to see a lot of the usual faces, always love meeting more of the SharePoint Community. Serious props to Steve & Zoe and the rest of the Combined Knowledge crew for such a well organised conference. Here [...]
Office 365: The server block is not well formed
A curious error occurred on Office365 the other day… nobody was able to access a document library on SharePoint Online – the helpful error message was “The server block is not well formed”… Without access to the server logs I raised a service request and after trying loads of things that didn’t help I was [...]