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VIDEO – Populate Word DOCX with PowerShell

By  Jeff Jones  on 19-Sep-2017

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Recently I found a way to dynamically update Microsoft Word text placeholders with PowerShell script.  Because DOCX files are ZIP archive we can extract to a TEMP folder to update the internal...

VIDEO – Populate Word DOCX with PowerShell

By  Jeff Jones  on 19-Sep-2017

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Recently I found a way to dynamically update Microsoft Word text placeholders with PowerShell script.  Because DOCX files are ZIP archive we can extract to a TEMP folder to update the internal...

Using base64 encoded images as the web part icon in SPFx

By  Elio Struyf  on 19-Sep-2017

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Web part icons help you to distinguish your web part between all the others. SharePoint Framework provides use two options at this moment of specifying an icon: Office UI Fabric font icons (officeF...

Improve Dynamics 365 and submit your ideas

By  Joris Peolmans  on 19-Sep-2017

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Microsoft recently setup a new channel to submit your ideas to improve Dynamics 365 – go check it out on https://ideas.dynamics.com/ . Some development teams at Microsoft, definitely take the feedb...

Take control of your personal brand with Office

By  Office Team  on 19-Sep-2017

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These days—with so many social media channels competing for our attention—creating a personal brand is the best way to stand out from that vast crowd vying for attention online. According to Mel Ca...

Introducing a generic (mostly) all purpose extensibility schema for the Microsoft Graph

By  Mikael Svenson  on 19-Sep-2017

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If you’ve followed my blog lately you know I’m experimenting with using Graph Extensions from the Microsoft Graph to persist metadata for resources in the graph, more specifically I’m storing metad...

Quick Tip: Microsoft Word: Keyboard Movement and Selection

By  Robert Bogue  on 19-Sep-2017

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Keyboard shortcuts are a well-known way to reduce the amount of times you move your hand from your keyboard to your mouse and vice-versa when you’re editing your document. However, there are ...

Devon Energy uses Microsoft 365 to maximize productivity in a commodity business

By  Office Team  on 18-Sep-2017

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Today’s post was written by Matt Harper, director of information security and infrastructure at Devon Energy. The oil business is a tight market because we get paid the same amount for a barrel of...

Event planning made easier with Office

By  Office Team  on 18-Sep-2017

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If you’ve ever had to plan an event, you know how tricky getting all your ducks in a row can be. Chiara Adin of the NA Collective—a New York City–based event agency that creates memorable experienc...

Learn SPFx with me at the European SP Conf Dublin

By  Sahil Malik  on 18-Sep-2017

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Monday November 13nth, I’ll be conducting a day long workshop on SPFx.I also have a session on cross platform O365 dev on Wednesday.More information at https://www.sharepointeurope.com/Learn SPFx w...

New Pluralsight course: Office365 webhooks and connectors

By  Sahil Malik  on 18-Sep-2017

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Office 365 is certainly very useful, but it is not the only application users use. Frequently custom business applications want to push information into Office 365, or be informed by Office 365 at ...

Book Review-The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t (Predictions)

By  Robert Bogue  on 18-Sep-2017

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People make predictions all the time. They predict that their team will win the Super Bowl, or they’ll win the lottery. These predictions are based on little more than hope. The Signal and th...

You don't need a CDN

By  Waldek Mastykarz  on 18-Sep-2017

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Many articles about building SharePoint Framework solutions mention uploading your files to a CDN. But are you sure you actually need one? What is a CDN Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a system...

How to Re-Order Content Types in SharePoint Office 365 Programmatically using C# Patterns and Practices PNP

By  SharePoint Pals  on 17-Sep-2017

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Sometime back, we saw how to add content types to a List/Library. I met with a requirement to re-order the Content Type as well. Let me explain in detail with the screen shots. 1. I have a List cal...

How to Delete/Update List/Library View in SharePoint Office 365 Programmatically using Patterns and Practices PNP

By  SharePoint Pals  on 16-Sep-2017

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In the earlier article, we saw, how to Create a List View. In the same manner, we may come across a scenario to delete/update the existing views. The below snippet will be handy for the developers....

Article: The Actors in Training Development: Instructors

By  Robert Bogue  on 15-Sep-2017

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If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, did it really make a sound? This question is at the heart of the need for people who help training reach students. It’s only by helping students th...

How to Create View in SharePoint Office 365 Programmatically using Patterns and Practices PNP

By  SharePoint Pals  on 15-Sep-2017

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A small code snippet to create View for a List or document library in SharePoint Office 365 using Patterns and Practices Programmatically. 1. Create a List called “Test List” 2. In that list, I hav...

Configuration of NHibernate through app.config file

By  SharePoint Pals  on 15-Sep-2017

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Hello everyone, in this article we will see how to use Nhiberate in you C# code. Before going deep into NHibernate I would like to give some basic information about this magical DB connector. NHibe...

SharePoint Framework code coverage reports for unit-tests

By  Elio Struyf  on 15-Sep-2017

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A while ago I wrote an article about writing unit tests for your SharePoint Framework components. One of the missing things was a code coverage report to check how well you unit-test your codebase....

Dynamics 365 monthly reading September 2017

By  Joris Peolmans  on 14-Sep-2017

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Technical topics (Configuration, customization and extensibility)Everyday I’m Shuffling – an alternative approach to DevOps for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Channel 9 00:54:20)Microsoft flow – Create re...