Long before the cloud became a pervasive part of enterprise computing, SharePoint developers had a fairly straightforward set of options for extending out-of-the box functionality – full trust or sandbox, web parts or application pages, event receivers or timer jobs, web services or server-side API’s. There wasn’t much confusion regarding the structure or composition of […]
Fellow MVP and slinger of semi-colons Andrew Connell is running a “SharePoint Framework in Your Own Words” series on YouTube, gathering opinions from various community members on the current (and future) state of SharePoint development. I had a chance to chat with AC at the SPTechCon conference in Austin, in which we discuss the benefits of […]
When Microsoft released the first developer preview of the SharePoint Framework, they took a big gamble by introducing a core dependency on modern web development tools such as Node.js, Gulp and the Yeoman Generator. Such tools are largely unfamiliar to many classic ASP.NET developers and, by extension, most of the SharePoint development community. Although learning […]
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the SharePoint Framework, a new development model for the creation of custom solutions within Office 365. The SharePoint Framework, also known as “SPFx”, provides customers with a way to extend the platform for Intranet and collaboration scenarios with a “pages and parts” model that is lightweight and easily […]
When: April 2nd – 5th, 2017 Where: Austin, Texas Spring is coming and that means another trip to the great capitol of Texas for SPTechCon 2017. The BZ Media folks do a fantastic job putting this show together – many of your favorite speakers, lots of vendors giving out free prizes, tons of great content […]
When: May 29th – 31st, 2017 Where: Zagreb, Croatia We’re back!. Join myself and many of your favorite globe-trotting speakers in picturesque Zagreb, Croatia, for European Collaboration Summit 2017. This is a tremendous event run by the community for the community. And you absolutely cannot beat the location (or the food)! Trust me, you don’t […]
When: Saturday, March 4th, 2017 Where: Microsoft Germany HQ, Munich Attention European SharePointers: another fantastic and completely FREE event is happening in March. Join us at the Microsoft headquarters in Munich for SharePoint Saturday on March 4th. We have a great roster of speakers and tons of good information to share. I’ll be presenting two […]
When: 17 Jan 2017 18:00 Where: Microsoft Campus, Las Colinas, Texas Introduction to Microsoft Office365 FastTrack: A Customer Success Service for SharePoint Cloud, cloud, cloud. If we’re not there, we can be pretty sure we’ll be headed that way at some point. Cut through the unknowns of moving to Office 365 with Microsoft’s FastTrack Program. […]
One of the biggest advantages of cloud services is the pace at which new features are delivered and adopted. Microsoft has readily embraced the rapid release cycles made possible by their robust cloud infrastructure, releasing new and updated features for SharePoint Online and other Office 365 services on a monthly (and sometimes weekly) basis. While […]
One of the most significant new improvements in SharePoint 2016 is the MinRole funcionality. Any SharePoint administrator who is responsible for maintaining a farm consisting of more than three or four servers can attest to the difficulty of maintaining the proper allocation of services on each server. In a properly distributed farm architecture, each server […]