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September 30, 2015

Example: Office 365 Video REST API & Script Editor webpart

Here is an example of how to embedding a video using a Script Editor webpart and the Office 365 Video Portal REST API within SharePoint Publishing site.

August 18, 2015

Deleting SharePoint Online Root Site Collection

Apparently Microsoft Support resolves the issue by deleting the Root Site Collection from the “Farm Recycle Bin”, another level up (and out of sight of Tenant Admins)…

June 18, 2015

Virtual Machine: SharePoint failing to create a Web Application

So your Virtual Machine doesn’t quite have enough resources to create a new Web Application using Central Admin, then you have two choices PowerShell or the workaround I’m going to describe today.

October 14, 2014

Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 3

In this post I want to talk about Fixtures and a major pitfall I’ve found when working with Chutzpah Test Adaptor for the Test Explorer.

September 15, 2014

Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 2

Last week I wrote about how to configure Jasmine to run within Visual Studio using Chutzpah Test Adaptors. However since then I’ve run into a number of issues for which I will share my thoughts in this post.

September 15, 2014

Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 1

This blog does not describe how to perform JavaScript TDD (test-driven development) or BDD (behaviour-driven development). It does however describe how to set-up Visual Studio and configure an App for SharePoint project to get you started.

September 8, 2014

Client-side Development Techniques with CQWP(s) and JavaScript…

The other day I was talking to one of my colleague John Holah about retrieving large amounts of data from a SharePoint 2010 Lists using “client-side” v “OOB” techniques for a particular client, who has set use a number of challenges/limitations: Our access is limited to Site Collections We cannot deploy server-side code Internet Explorer…

July 11, 2014

Useful UI Branding tools for SharePoint 2013

Just thinking about branding my website and came across a tool by Microsoft called Color Palette Tool SharePoint 2013 which downloaded from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16806.color-palette-tool-sharepoint-2013.aspx And if you require inspiration for your theme one of colleges (Matthew Holden) pointed me in the direction Adobe Kuler https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

August 5, 2013

SharePoint Online Public Site: adding JS & CSS references to a Master page

I’m not going to describe the process of creating a custom master page from end to end, as there are plenty of good articles and blogs out there already. I just want to share one possible pitfall that I fell into… As any owner of a website might, I decided to create a new master…

July 6, 2013

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