Last weekend I presented at SharePoint Saturday Redmond (SPSRED). My two lightning talks included Advanced Scenarios with External Users in Office365/SharePoint Online, and Cleaning Out Your IT Closet – Offloading Infrastructure (and Headaches) to Windows Azure IaaS. Following are my presentations:
Working with Apps and the REST API in SharePoint 2013, you’ll at some point come across the need to check if the current user has a particular permission level. In CSOM/JSOM, the API is pretty straightforward, but in the REST API, the approach is a bit backwards. Read on to see how to do it… Continue Reading →
According to official documentation from Microsoft, external users in Office365 tenants are not supposed to be able to edit their own profiles (and pictures). With just a flip of a few administrative levers however, you can enable profiles for your external users. Continue Reading →
I bet big on the Microsoft Masters certification. I put my job and reputation on the line to pursue a certification that was described as the pinnacle of Microsoft’s learning efforts. I convinced my employer that it was worthwhile to spend $20,000 to distinguish itself from other SharePoint consultancies. I signed agreements with my employer to foot the bill for retakes if I failed ($2,500), on a program that was so rigorous that normally less than half passed the first time around. I stuck my neck out FAR for the Masters program. So it certainly came as a shock (and a punch in the gut) when I got this email Saturday morning announcing the cancellation of the program:
When debugging a SharePoint 2013 App project in Visual Studio 2012 or 2013, the default web browser set for Windows will be opened. Often you may want this to be changed to a different browser for a better and more streamlined debugging experience. Read on to see how to change this… Continue Reading →