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I wanted to create an autocomplete textbox in a SharePoint app recently by using terms from the term store. Since retrieving items from the term store can be a bit involved I wanted to show you the steps involved. This solution make use of...
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I have a session coming up at SharePoint Summit Toronto this year about the many different ways you can query search. Whenever I am working on a new talk, it is customary for me to write blog posts about my examples so here it is. :) I first...
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The Office Developer Tools team snuck a new feature into the RTM version of the tools for Visual Studio 2012. This new feature allows you to deploy apps and actually alter the search schema on the host web . That’s right. You can deploy...
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I’ve always founds IRM quite fascinating and the nice thing about Office 365 is that it is really easy to configure and use. There are a few steps involved, but I managed to figure them out without having to go read a heap of documentation. ...
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With the combination of analytics and search in SharePoint 2013, there is a heap of new features to help determine which content is actually being used. No longer is this information buried in reports for administrators, but it in fact is available...
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If you haven’t heard, Microsoft released a new site recently that allows you to create a new Office 365 tenant that is pre-populated with users, content, and social data. It even comes with demo scripts that you can use to walk users through the...
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Why Backing up my SharePoint on Office 365 just became more IMPORTANT! This last week I received my email from Microsoft about the update to wave 15 of Office 365 for our SharePointEduTech tenancy which you can see the text below:- “The Office 365 team...
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Restore a deleted Site Collection in SharePoint 2013 or 2010 If you have deleted a site collection and you want it back again it really is quite straight forward. It’s the same process for both SharePoint 2010 and 2013. If you are using Office 365 then...
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Subject Glossary Part for SharePoint Such a simple idea but one that every school department using SharePoint will want to make use of. A great tool to support student learning but also one for ticking those ISI or OFSTED inspector boxes. SharePointEduTech...
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Embed a video in Sharepoint 2013 One of the things we have been asked time and time again is for the ability to easily embed video in Sharepoint. Well with 2007 and 2010 not so easy to do this with SharePoint 2013 it is a breeze, in fact in the video...
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If you have tried to do any work with SharePoint 2013 Client Web Parts with the Office Developer Tools Preview 2 in Visual Studio 2012, you know it’s an exercise in frustration. It literally locks up every three or four lines of code you try to...
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By now you may have noticed that Search has changed quite a bit in SharePoint 2013. The ResultScriptWebPart powers most of the magic behind the Search Center. It replaces the CoreResultsWebPart that we have been using since SharePoint 2007. ...
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If you know me then you know I’ve been doing a lot of work with apps lately (SP2 – link , twitter ). I started developing primarily with an on-premises virtual machine running SharePoint 2013, but I have recently switched to using SharePoint Online...
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I recently spoke about PowerShell at SharePoint Conference 2012 ( SPC195 ). It turns out PowerShell support slipped into SharePoint Online Preview without a lot of people noticing. In my session at SPC12, I walked users through a lot of common...
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In the past, licensing for Extranets proved to be quite confusing. Many people including myself weren’t always sure what to recommend. I found this useful information in the slide deck for SPC181 and I thought it was worth sharing since I...