​What to do when you have a spare night in London after the Unity Connect conference? You get the SharePoint UK User Group gang together for a social event, that’s what! If you are around the greater London area the evening of October 14th, please drop by and join us for a pint or two […]

​Ther​e is a lot of discussion lately in the SharePoint community regarding the future of pure client-side applications (meaning those comprised entirely of HTML and JavaScript). Most of the posts I see are negative, with complaints centered around the lack of compiled code, complexity of app webs, perceived security weaknesses and inability to support forms-based authentication. […]

​If you are a SharePoint developer then you have probably resigned yourself to the fact that most conferences offer little in the way of actual content for programmers. More often than not, there are four or five tracks of IT professional, information worker and business sessions with only a single track talking about actual code. […]

There are a lot of SharePoint related conferences going on these days, from free local events like SharePoint Saturday to gigantic marketing shows and everything in between. They all offer value in one way or another but nobody has the time or resources to attend more than a few. So how do you choose? I’ve […]

The latest guidance from Microsoft suggests that the use of client-side API’s is now the preferred technique for customizing the user interface in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online. This is a distinct departure from the tried-and-true approach of using custom master pages to create a branded SharePoint experience. Naturally, this has stirred up quite a […]

​It’s back! SharePoint Saturday 2015 will be held at the Microsoft campus in Las Colinas on March 7th. As always, the event is free for attendees and we will have a full roster of deep-dive sessions from MVP’s, Microsoft personnel, community members and other subject matter experts. It will be full day of education education […]

Many organizations have a governance policy in which certain individuals are granted Full Control permissions of individual sites, usually after completing some training or demonstrating proficiency in site administration skills. In such a scenario, it is quite common for a number of different users to be site owners throughout a wide or deep site hierarchy […]

It’s strange how things in your career come together over time. Way back in 2008 I was attending TechEd in Orlando, Florida (as documented here). We had a booth the first week to lauch our Sonar product (which eventually became part of SharePoint Diagnostic Manager​) and I was lurking about the Office kiosks the second week answering SharePoint […]

One of the most common requirements in any SharePoint environment is the aggregation and summarization of content across lists, libraries, sites and site collections. Administrators could not easily achieve these requirements without custom code until the introduction of the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) in SharePoint 2007/2010. The CQWP gave administrators a useful out-of-the-box method […]

This past weekend hundreds of SharePointers descended upon the wilds of Branson, Missouri for SharePointalooza. Despite being in the exact center of absolutely nothing we sill managed to have a good time, deliver some SharePoint knowledge, and listen to some great music. This was a labor of love and devotion to the community by Mark Rackley […]