Category: General

Categories and tags are the two default taxonomies that we use at the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community website. By design, all posts must be filed under at least one category. As you can imagine, ‘General’ is where we can list almost any topics that is not filed under the other subject headings.

However, some subjects are wide and broad in subject and need to be included in our blog, but don’t quite fit under the existing taxonomies. Hence the ‘General Category’. Content covered can vary from a .NET Runtime for AOT to a SharePoint Conference North America Keynote Summary, Pulse Survey or monthly top SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure resources.

Launching Your SPO Site or Portal
Launching Your SPO Site or Portal
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In this short post I cover the SharePoint Online (SPO) Launch Scheduling Tool and why you should get familiar with it before you launch a new SPO site or portal. Getting Set To Launch Your SPO Site? I’ve noted that my style of writing tends to build the case for the point I’m going to… READ MORE

SPFx — What can it do for us?
SPFx — What can it do for us?
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This post is the continuation from my previous post “SharePoint Framework (SPFx) — An Overview”. In this post, I am going to focus on capabilities of SharePoint Framework. Basically, what SPFx can do for us? SPFx provide us with three types of components that we can build, Web parts, Extensions, and Library Components. Let’s explore… READ MORE

Conditional Rendering of SPFx ListView Command Sets
Conditional Rendering of SPFx ListView Command Sets
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) are simply put a framework that allows us to create client side extensions for Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. One of the extensions we can make is the ListView Command Set extension, which interacts with items selected in a list. For example, we can create an extension that adds a command to the… READ MORE

SharePoint admin Center: New columns on Active sites page
SharePoint admin Center: New columns on Active sites page
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SharePoint admins will now be able to see where sites were created from – be it PowerShell, via the SharePoint admin center, from Teams, from SharePoint “Create site” – and to be able to see more clearly who created the site. In the SharePoint admin center, the Active sites page will provide new information:  The “Created from”… READ MORE

Troubleshooting External Access to SharePoint Sites
Troubleshooting External Access to SharePoint Sites
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We frequently get questions about external contacts that can not access SharePoint sites that they should have access to. Well, access and permissions are troublesome in all organizations, but access issues for external users can have additional causes and solutions, so here’s an overview to help Site Owners and support and admin people (such as… READ MORE

9 Essential Problem Solving Tools: The Ultimate Guide
9 Essential Problem Solving Tools: The Ultimate Guide
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Problem solving studies have suggested that the average business professional spends 3 hours every week solving work-related problems! Problem solving may unfold differently depending on the industry, or even the department you work in. But most of us will agree that before you can fix any issue, you need to be clear on what it is,… READ MORE

Load data from SQL On-Premise to CDS (Common Data Service) using Power Platform dataflows
Load data from SQL On-Premise to CDS (Common Data Service) using Power Platform dataflows
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Let us continue our previous post about Power Platform dataflows where we created a connection to the below On-Premise SQL Server Database using an On-premises data gateway. Here we will use the Power Platformdataflows to load contact entity in CDS using that same on-prem table. Sign in to Power Apps https://make.powerapps.com/home Navigate to Data – Dataflows and create a new… READ MORE

Locked File Checking Pattern in Power Automate
Locked File Checking Pattern in Power Automate
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In SharePoint Online, whenever you create a library and turn on “Require check-out” before editing documents option or not, users are able to open files for collaboration in browsers or in their local Office clients. When they do that, the file is getting locked from access that could lead to its metadata changes. If you… READ MORE